Re: [IxDA Discuss] Interaction Designers: What is your elevator pitch?

2008-12-26 Thread Kshitiz Anand
This is indeed a nice thread.. I help spread the smile when dealing with products and the products could range from a simple website to physical products to entire systems. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Posted from the new ixda.org http://www.ixda.org/dis

Re: [IxDA Discuss] How do you keep track of suggested changes to interaction designs?

2008-11-21 Thread Kshitiz Anand
In most of the teams I have worked in , it has been taking notes on pen and paper during the feedback sessions. somehow taking notes on comp does not work for me... Also not all places have the facility to have meetings in front of huge walls (which incidentally I love too) and / or record the sess

Re: [IxDA Discuss] UI Team Marketing

2008-11-08 Thread Kshitiz Anand
In the recent issue of Interactions magazine there is an article on Innovation. While it may not be exactly what is seeked out here, it definitely gives a good insight into what it means to be innovative and also some strategies and pointers to the company adopting that. Selling UI to the differe

Re: [IxDA Discuss] ISO: Films about interaction design

2008-10-22 Thread Kshitiz Anand
Great list of films provided here. As someone mentioned here, the films need not be about interaction design per se. The concept of user experience (or rather viewer experience) is used to its maximum in films and filmmakers know exactly how to play with the dynamics of experience when making a f

Re: [IxDA Discuss] Remote usability testing

2008-03-06 Thread Kshitiz Anand
Remote testing really becomes useful when the user-designer gap is huge gegraphically. Like when I was in India, the clients would mostly be in US or Europe. This is a pretty petty thing but one thing to make sure while doing remote user testing is that the users are taking the test in the time zo