Re: [IxDA Discuss] UML for UX?

2010-02-17 Thread Milan Guenther
Have a look at IBM's OVID method. It uses UML to model UX elements such as tasks, mental objects, views/screens etc. It's old, but has proven very useful to me to capture complex things, if not applied too rigidly. Unfortunately IBM itself took it offline some time ago, but you can trace it on

Re: [IxDA Discuss] the UX Canon

2010-02-12 Thread Milan Guenther
And one more thing: what about non-English books? My two favorites: - Systemisches Design, Cyrus Dominik Khazaeli (German) - Ergonomie Web, Amélie Boucher (French) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Posted from the new ixda.org

Re: [IxDA Discuss] the UX Canon

2010-02-11 Thread Milan Guenther
I'd throw in Dan Roams's The back of the napkin, as a general introduction to visual problem solving, and as a basis for all the boxes and arrows you draw as UX practitioner. This category would of course very much broaden the scope, and you could ask whether books on requirements engineering,

Re: [IxDA Discuss] Localized UX research in France or doing research in another country and language

2010-02-09 Thread Milan Guenther
Hi Jeremy, You may post your inquiry on the ErgoIHM mailinglist or ask one of the moderators to do so on your behalf. I think writing such a message in English is no problem. https://listes.cru.fr/sympa/info/ergoihm There are numerous companies offering what you are looking for, write me a

[IxDA Discuss] Reloaded: Forrester's Take on IA

2010-01-25 Thread Milan Guenther
I came across this free paper from Jan 13: Forrester Topic Overview: Information Architecture http://bit.ly/64LlHl Forrester begins to include the UX-related definition of Information Architecture in their own definition, and published this paper as an overview of the IA topic. Very typical

Re: [IxDA Discuss] Need for Portal Design Guidelines?

2009-11-17 Thread Milan Guenther
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[IxDA Discuss] [Event] Local Chapter Meeting D üsseldorf/Cologne

2009-09-30 Thread Milan Guenther
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Re: [IxDA Discuss] Current Design Topics

2009-08-14 Thread Milan Guenther
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Re: [IxDA Discuss] Which Job Category is Interaction Design part of?

2009-08-13 Thread Milan Guenther
to the still unsatisfactory awareness of UX in other professions and HR. The recruiter just didn't hear about IA before, though was unable to assign the correct categories. milan -- ||| | | || | || | || milan guenther * interaction design p +49 173 2856689 * www.guenther.cx

Re: [IxDA Discuss] Are We The Puppet Masters? The Ethics of IxD.

2009-07-23 Thread Milan Guenther
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Re: [IxDA Discuss] UK Interactive Recruitment Agencies

2009-07-22 Thread Milan Guenther
for the parts of Europe not being linked in :) Kind regards Milan -- ||| | | || | || | || milan guenther * interaction design p +49 173 2856689 * www.guenther.cx Welcome to the Interaction Design Association (IxDA

[IxDA Discuss] IxDA Düsseldorf/Köln Local Chap ter Meeting, July 21st 200 9

2009-07-15 Thread Milan Guenther
to touch base with (or via Xing or LinkedIn) Andree Huk @ Xing / LinkedIn German Leon @ LinkedIn Warmest Andree / German You are welcome to forward this invitation to other people in your network. Thank you. -- ||| | | || | || | || milan guenther * interaction design p +49 173

Re: [IxDA Discuss] questions about design schools and career shifts

2009-05-20 Thread Milan Guenther
like (: milan -- ||| | | || | || | || milan guenther * interaction design p +49 173 2856689 * www.guenther.cx Welcome to the Interaction Design Association (IxDA)! To post to this list ... disc...@ixda.org

Re: [IxDA Discuss] Who am I?

2009-05-19 Thread Milan Guenther
have specialists for frontend, backend, database, security etc. milan -- ||| | | || | || | || milan guenther * interaction design p +49 173 2856689 * www.guenther.cx Welcome to the Interaction Design Association (IxDA

[IxDA Discuss] mobile dashboards / bi best practices

2009-04-13 Thread Milan Guenther
or reusable patterns, on questions such as how to enable users to drill down in data using the limited screen size and interaction capabilities of the device, or how to adapt a dashboard to the mobile context. thx in advance, milan -- milan guenther * interaction design

Re: [IxDA Discuss] Some of the non-software things that interaction designers do

2009-04-01 Thread Milan Guenther
a Design school which also has a background in industrial and communication design. In France, this sort of education is being done at the Art schools. I think the nordic countries are ahead in special IxD programs, even if they are not always called like that. milan -- milan guenther * interaction

Re: [IxDA Discuss] Edge Case Design of IA vs. IxD

2009-03-31 Thread Milan Guenther
identifier for this profession, both inside and outside this community, will make the campaign a big success. milan -- milan guenther * interaction design ||| | | || | || | || +33 6 67 11 13 83 * www.guenther.cx Welcome

Re: [IxDA Discuss] Some of the non-software things that interaction designers do

2009-03-31 Thread Milan Guenther
and Design methods that makes the difference. milan -- milan guenther * interaction design ||| | | || | || | || +33 6 67 11 13 83 * www.guenther.cx Welcome to the Interaction Design Association (IxDA)! To post

Re: [IxDA Discuss] Command line or GUI

2009-03-30 Thread Milan Guenther
of the command line for all users. I also know a lot of mac users who do almost anything with spotlight, instead of using menus or icons. milan -- milan guenther * interaction design ||| | | || | || | || +33 6 67 11 13 83 * www.guenther.cx

Re: [IxDA Discuss] JJG's IA Summit 2009 Keynote

2009-03-29 Thread Milan Guenther
about the next step in that direction. milan -- milan guenther * interaction design ||| | | || | || | || +33 6 67 11 13 83 * www.guenther.cx Welcome to the Interaction Design Association (IxDA)! To post to this list

Re: [IxDA Discuss] JJG's IA Summit 2009 Keynote

2009-03-28 Thread Milan Guenther
Dalton wrote: My main takeaway from JJG's talk was that we could all be so much more effective, both internally and externally if we rallied together rather than going our separate ways. -- milan guenther * interaction design ||| | | || | || | || +33 6 67 11 13 83

Re: [IxDA Discuss] JJG's IA Summit 2009 Keynote

2009-03-28 Thread Milan Guenther
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Re: [IxDA Discuss] JJG's IA Summit 2009 Keynote

2009-03-28 Thread Milan Guenther
people working in the digital spheres never heard of UX? Let's change THAT! milan -- milan guenther * interaction design ||| | | || | || | || +33 6 67 11 13 83 * www.guenther.cx Welcome to the Interaction Design

[IxDA Discuss] The future of Wireframes (was: Joel Spolsky claims the Program Manager role does UI design... ????)

2009-03-12 Thread Milan Guenther
. Your thoughts, please! milan -- milan guenther * interaction design ||| | | || | || | || +33 6 67 11 13 83 * www.guenther.cx Welcome to the Interaction Design Association (IxDA)! To post to this list ... disc

Re: [IxDA Discuss] The future of Wireframes (was: Joel Spolsky claims the Program Manager role does UI design... ????)

2009-03-12 Thread Milan Guenther
to quickly create a rough vision of the product. Besides, imho ALL interaction designers have to learn to code to be able to produce new visions of interactions on their own, but that's another story. -- milan guenther * interaction design ||| | | || | || | || +33 6 67 11 13 83

Re: [IxDA Discuss] Joel Spolsky claims the Program Manager role does UI design... ????

2009-03-11 Thread Milan Guenther
and connecting, and thus not comparable to classic knowledge disciplines. A deep knowledge in those other disciplines involved, be it technical, user or business related, helps a lot! And for IxD, technology is something essential. milan -- milan guenther * interaction design

Re: [IxDA Discuss] Joel Spolsky claims the 'Program Manager' role does UI design... ????

2009-03-10 Thread Milan Guenther
and competency wars (noone out there understands the difference anyway) - approaching publications such as CIO and magazines related to software developments development What else can be done to raise awareness and to simplify/communicate the message? milan -- ||| | | || | || | || milan

Re: [IxDA Discuss] Web 2.0 for Banking and Insurance industry

2009-02-25 Thread Milan Guenther
) regards milan -- milan guenther * interaction design ||| | | || | || | || +33 6 67 11 13 83 * www.guenther.cx Welcome to the Interaction Design Association (IxDA)! To post to this list ... disc...@ixda.org

Re: [IxDA Discuss] Dashboard Applications

2009-02-08 Thread Milan Guenther
Have a look at these discussions in the archives: http://www.ixda.org/search.php?tag=dashboard regards, Milan -- milan guenther * interaction design ||| | | || | || | || +33 6 67 11 13 83 * www.guenther.cx Welcome

Re: [IxDA Discuss] Methods for Documenting RIAs

2009-01-10 Thread Milan Guenther
models of interaction (AJAX, Flex/AIR, etc), documenting these has become much more complex and dynamic. Would anyone mind sharing ideas or links? -- milan guenther * interaction design ||| | | || | || | || +33 6 67 11 13 83 * www.guenther.cx

Re: [IxDA Discuss] The Uncanny Valley of interfaces

2008-12-17 Thread Milan Guenther
(like in enterprises), then it will be somehow the responsibility of everyone involved, but most likely it will be the people who finally build the concrete solution who actually design it. milan -- milan guenther * interaction design ||| | | || | || | || +33 6 67 11 13 83

Re: [IxDA Discuss] Examples of sites w/ dashboard info

2008-11-22 Thread Milan Guenther
forgot to mention one important resource: there also the dashboard spy with a lot of real world examples! http://dashboardspy.wordpress.com/ -- milan guenther * interaction design ||| | | || | || | || +33 6 67 11 13 83 * www.guenther.cx

Re: [IxDA Discuss] Google goes ACD?

2008-11-19 Thread Milan Guenther
This approach reminds me of SAP's DST division... http://www.sapdesignguild.org/job_offers/jobs_dst.asp It looks like a creative bunch to change our engineering-driven corporate culture group, even though audience as a word is somewhat marketing speech. milan -- milan guenther * interaction

Re: [IxDA Discuss] Interface Design vs Interaction Design

2008-10-28 Thread Milan Guenther
communication design would be editorial design. milan -- milan guenther * interaction design ||| | | || | || | || +33 6 67 11 13 83 * www.guenther.cx Welcome to the Interaction Design Association (IxDA)! To post to this list

Re: [IxDA Discuss] Social Interaction Design Primer

2008-10-23 Thread Milan Guenther
Just a quick note on that: when it comes to online social interaction, I'd like to recommend this book: http://www.amazon.com/Design-Community-Derek-Powazek/dp/0735710759 It's old, SxD is called online community design in there, and (of course) no mention of web 2.0 - but the design principles

Re: [IxDA Discuss] Vive l'ergonomie?

2008-10-15 Thread Milan Guenther
from paris milan -- ||| | | || | || | || milan guenther * interaction design p +49 173 2856689 * www.guenther.cx On Tue, October 14, 2008 21:41, Billie Mandel wrote: Hey folks - I guess today's my day to open my trap on IxDA, which I haven't done in ages (*waving hello

Re: [IxDA Discuss] Recent research on the ROI of usability

2008-08-21 Thread Milan Guenther
://www.intranetroadmap.com/roilinks.cfm regards, milan -- milan guenther * interaction design ||| | | || | || | || +49 173 285 66 89 * www.guenther.cx On Thu, 2008-08-21 at 10:51 -0400, Kevin Doyle wrote: Hey IxDAers, I've been tasked with listing potential problems that a client might have

Re: [IxDA Discuss] Gorgeous Mobile UI eye-candy

2008-05-16 Thread Milan Guenther
there, too. milan -- ||| | | || | || | || milan guenther * interaction design p +49 173 2856689 * www.guenther.cx Welcome to the Interaction Design Association (IxDA)! To post to this list ... [EMAIL PROTECTED

Re: [IxDA Discuss] IxDA Digest Translation

2008-04-22 Thread Milan Guenther
. The question remains if the list should set the scope to address people without any English skills. milan -- milan guenther * interaction design ||| | | || | || | || +49 173 285 66 89 * www.guenther.cx Welcome

Re: [IxDA Discuss] Interaction Design in Europe

2008-04-18 Thread Milan Guenther
of communities. Two links for you: France: Designers Interactifs http://www.designersinteractifs.com/ ErgoIHM Mailing List http://listes.cru.fr/sympa/info/ergoihm Germany: User Experience Forum at XING https://www.xing.com/app/network?op=home;name=userexperience milan -- milan guenther * interaction

Re: [IxDA Discuss] Online scheduling tool?

2008-04-17 Thread Milan Guenther
hi sarah, very simple, I use it frequently and everybody I invited so far seemed to be happy with it: http://www.doodle.ch I think it should do exactly what you need. regards milan -- ||| | | || | || | || milan guenther * interaction design p +49 173 2856689 * www.guenther.cx

Re: [IxDA Discuss] Web 2 and enterprise strategy with regards to Usability/User Centered Design

2008-01-13 Thread Milan Guenther
in that environment, meaning nearly the same thing. With best regards Milan -- milan guenther * interaction design ||| | | || | || | || +49 173 285 66 89 * www.guenther.cx On Sat, 2008-01-12 at 20:24 -0500, Helen Killingbeck wrote: I've been doing research in order to provide input

[IxDA Discuss] article on interactive identity

2007-12-12 Thread Milan Guenther
topics are very much inspired by some discussions on this list, please let me know what you think. milan -- ||| | | || | || | || milan guenther * interaction design p +49 173 2856689 * www.guenther.cx *Come to IxDA

Re: [IxDA Discuss] Building portal with MOSS2007 - best practices?

2007-12-06 Thread Milan Guenther
hi frank, is it true that Sharepoint 2007 doesn't support cross-publishing? It has basic content management and workflow capabilities, but the product is designed as a portal server, not as a enterprise cms. Have a look at the features here:

Re: [IxDA Discuss] Can Contextual Design be used to define a business process

2007-11-26 Thread Milan Guenther
Hi again, I forgot to mention one more resource: there is a book from SAP about designing business apps via their xApps composite application framework, which is co-edited by Karen Holtzblatt and introduces a contextual design approach for processes. Designing Composite Applications by Jörg

Re: [IxDA Discuss] Can Contextual Design be used to define a business process

2007-11-25 Thread Milan Guenther
Guidelines http://www.ixda.org/guidelines List Help .. http://www.ixda.org/help -- milan guenther * interaction design ||| | | || | || | || designing the information workplace +49 173 285 66 89 * www.guenther.cx

Re: [IxDA Discuss] portal taxonomy

2007-11-09 Thread Milan Guenther
. It will be a hierarchical structure mainly for the portal, but also including the classic intranet and some custom apps, as well as templates for solution and role design going from the user's desktop to single content elements. So navigation schema seems appropriate to me, thanks! milan -- milan guenther

Re: [IxDA Discuss] portal taxonomy

2007-11-09 Thread Milan Guenther
On Fri, 2007-11-09 at 17:44 -0500, Bryan Minihan wrote: Apologies for the long post, Milan =]...I get started and can't stop... In fact I intended it as a compliment - I do appreciate that, it's great that you take the time for such a detailed discussion of the topic! milan -- milan guenther

Re: [IxDA Discuss] IxD for 3D / Virtual Worlds: Looking for resources

2007-11-08 Thread Milan Guenther
provided until now, it's very helpful. milan -- milan guenther * interaction design ||| | | || | || | || designing the information workplace +49 173 285 66 89 * www.guenther.cx *Come to IxDA Interaction08 | Savannah