er the longer-term implications of
their system for their users and therefore for the environment.
Sustainable design directly addresses two pillars, economic and
social. More about this years theme.
If you have any questions, do not hesitate to contact the event
coordinators:
-- Lada Gorlenko: la...@mi
Posting on behalf of the hiring manager (cc-ed).
Please reply to Lisa Lane <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> directly.
UX DESIGNER | Do you want to be a key contributor to what our 2007
Annual Report called out as the single
biggest opportunity across every one of our businesses? If so, this is
the job for y
> I'll agree that this article is way too long. It easily could have
> been edited to one quarter of the length without losing any actual
> content. I'm guessing that was on purpose!
Short articles typically aim at PROVIDING INFORMATION; long articles
often try to MAKE THE READER THINK. Atlantic i
> I do not have a particular
> strategy to make scenarios, and scenarios and tasks are the same for me.
Typically, SCENARIOS are treated as end-to-end user activities that lead
to achieving a specific user goals and TASKS are individual actions
within these activities. For example:
Goal: Feed mys
> Do you typically have the opportunity to spend several months working
> on your second round of concepts before settling on one?
Yes, and I reckon that many big companies would have at least several
weeks -- if not several months -- of design cycle on most major
projects. Of course, there are
I might be in a particularly cranky mood today, but I don't get it:
- Pickled ice cream is worth trying (and is worth making) if you ever
want to innovate and come up with a new ice-cream flavor. Plain vanilla
will still be the biggest hit because it goes with everything, but hey
-- how DO you dis
MarketShare is a good source of some recent and free statistics
frequently asked for by designers:
Browsers:
http://marketshare.hitslink.com/report.aspx?qprid=0#
Screen resolution:
http://marketshare.hitslink.com/report.aspx?qprid=17
Search engines:
http://marketshare.hitslink.com/report.aspx?q
This is an update to the original posting about Microsoft World
Usability Day conference (see the original message and the full program
at http://gamma.ixda.org/discuss.php?post=22021&search=Microsoft).
We have now opened registration for remote participants; please see
http://www.eventbrite.com/e
On November 8, 2007 Microsoft is hosting a one-day UX conference as part
of the World Usability Day (www.worldusabilityday.org)
Leading Microsoft UX professionals will discuss challenges of doing UX
in a technology-driven company and best UX practices.
The event will take place at Microsoft campu
