I loved this and that it produced the results it did was really cool.
I'm an orderly kinda guy and give me good clean lines, designs and
forms any day of the week.but I loved the conversational and
informal feel that this provides.
In short, my eye hated it, but my heart welcomed it - the resu
njoyed the experience as
much as I have, and I trust that our new and colorful collection...
http://www.flickr.com/groups/explainia/
...will continue to help people who find themselves needing to Explain IA.
Cheers!
Peter Morville
(on behalf of the IA
Does anyone have any experience with an "always there" functional
banner that is pinned to the bottom of the browser? An example of
this is at http://www.houselogic.com/
It seems of little use to me as it is redundant to
information/function that is already on the site, takes up real
estate and is
and on prime time TV. Good luck! And, thanks for playing!
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Sounds like some suits are trying to bring some cred to what is
otherwise totally street. Perfectly stated as "outside in rather
than inside out". My vote's for hip hop museum and my theory on the
acronyms are as follows.
If there is a choice between acronym or a phrase/title, from the
standpoint o
art voting for
the:
$1,000 grand prize (sponsored by the IA Institute and Endeca)
$500 best video award (sponsored by nForm)
$500 best diagram award (sponsored by Semantic Studios)
So, enter now, while you still have a chance to Explain IA.
Peter Morville
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urces interesting and valuable. Please let us know
that you think. Thanks!
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> I came across this free pape
nd, help us to Explain IA.
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> Anyone else know of some pre-web-era books related to
> communication, design, and design-thinking that might
> deserve a fresh look from people today?
How about Design Methods by John Chris Jones, originally published in
1970.
"Alongside the old idea of design as the drawing of objects that a
to get away from
words and towards pictures and other more concrete means of
expression. We typically create a "vision prototype" to embody the
vision and principles, to make tangible the strategy.
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On Oct 3, 2009, at 3:40 PM, Jim Leftwich wrote:
Here's a link to
There are also some examples/links in our search pattern library...
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...including a paper on faceted search for mobile...
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artful or
conceptual pursuit in the discipline that's not based on solving the
immediate problem?"
Worth asking the same question about IxD? Cheers!
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Mark Hurst keeps a list under the "this is broken" label...
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particular) and not enough in getting search right.
Okay, I'm going back into lurker mode now...I have to finish my book about
search :-)
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good work being done on exploratory
search...
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Exploratory_search
...which deals explicitly with cases in which users don't know what to
search for.
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ogle. This
means that every destination is also a gateway. We can enhance the value of
these findable and social objects through attention to IxD, IA and SEO. We
make this case in our new book (Search Patterns), so you'll have to wait
until January for more detail :-)
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Android, iPhone, ...)
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Contact me with your resume if you haven't already ;)
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brilliant it's user interface design.
We as designers have a lot to contribute toward th
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On Jun 13, 2009, at 4:21 PM, John Labriola wrote:
Can anyone recommend a design company that provides training or
consultation for a company looking to improve their design team a
ually think specifying activities is less important than identifying:
- a philosophy that undergirds your behavior
- a vision for what to achieve
- an understanding of what success means
If you focus too much on that collection of activities, you
potentially miss out on the need to change
You could spend tens of millions of dollars on placing advertising
that does little more than demo the product, the way Apple did with
iPhone.
(I'm only half-joking. It was a brilliant move on their part.)
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Looking for
t is on topic.
This is key. These Farms are a great idea, but if they are to become a
truly valuable, and sustained event, they need to be more selective
about the presentations.
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er appropriate products and services for emerging markets.
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Thanks David. "PIM" had crossed my mind before but I had rejected
it without looking into it because I had always associated the term
with really "personal" information management - birthdays,
contacts, etc - whereas I'm talking the the scale and type of files
for a small business. But read
What about the mechanical buttons on the current BART kiosk
machines. Would
you touch them?
I actually depress them with my tongue.
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o two things:
- I would make the floaty letters look more like the ATM-style
buttons, so that there's a clear connection between the floaty letters
and the buttons on the sides of the screen
- I would draw a bounding box to reinforce which destinations are
selected to which floaty letters
-
What the hell, I made a Google form and will open up the resulting
spreadsheet, so go fill in the form here:
http://spreadsheets.google.com/viewform?formkey=cmlpdW1mUFJ2cmY5aEFHR0JXRUxCVGc6MA..
<http://spreadsheets.google.com/viewform?formkey=cmlpdW1mUFJ2cmY5aEFHR0JXRUxCVGc6MA..>
Peter
I summarized the discussion so far here in case someone wants it:
http://poorbuthappy.com/ease/archives/2009/05/05/4597/what-is-a-mobile-phone-called
Peter
On Tue, May 5, 2009 at 12:46 PM, Peter Van Dijck wrote:
> In Belgium/Dutch, it's generally and colloquially called a "GSM"
In Belgium/Dutch, it's generally and colloquially called a "GSM" (not mobile
or cell). More official wording might be "mobiele telefoon" - I should check
on various websites.
Peter
On Tue, May 5, 2009 at 12:39 PM, Boon Chew wrote:
> "Handphone" or "hp&
I agree with Philip Hunter: the type of searches normally conducted
should (or could) play a strong role in deciding which method to
apply.
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and
Peter and others for forcing us to engage).
However, I also believe it's equally important for these two communities to
continue to grow and evolve independently. It's been wonderful to see the
IxDA community flourish in recent years, and the discussions and events and
books
"Information
Architecture for Devices" book? Or "Information Architecture for
Physical Spaces" book?
Peter Morville's Ambient Findability and Adam Greenfield's Everyware
are both largely about information architecture in devices and spaces,
n designers with chips on
their shoulders.
The field of experience design will most benefit from equal advocacy
across all its constituent disciplines, including IA, IxD, visual
design, industrial design, architecture, environmental signage, etc.
etc. etc.
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(and I mean that in a good way.)
On Tue, Mar 31, 2009 at 1:04 PM, Peter Van Dijck wrote:
> Maybe we just need a place where we can have a drunken fight once a year?
> Oh wait, wasn't that the IA summit?
> Peter
>
>
> On Mon, Mar 30, 2009 at 6:22 AM, David Malouf wrote:
&
Maybe we just need a place where we can have a drunken fight once a year? Oh
wait, wasn't that the IA summit?
Peter
On Mon, Mar 30, 2009 at 6:22 AM, David Malouf wrote:
> Joshua,
>
> It is also important every once in a while when your seaman got a bug
> up their butt to let
with superficially engaging interaction
designs that lack depth.
I return to my initial question... Where are the interaction designs
that are not closely aligned with IA outside the web realm?
--peter
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that word has been so abused and pejorated
over the last, I don't know, at least 50 years, that we can't hang our
collective hat there.
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When I said:
"Thankfully, the membership demonstrates far more sense than the
leadership."
I did not mean the current leadership of the IAI or IxDA. From what
I've seen (which, admittedly, isn't much), current leadership "gets
it"
fully, the membership demonstrates far more sense than the
leadership.
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There have been clear and consistent signals over the last year that
indicat
Baruch,
> I am talking more on the technical performance side, keeping in mind the UX
> ramifications.
Maybe a search focused on non-functional requirements will help?
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Non-functional_requirement
I agree 99.7% :)
P
On Tue, Mar 24, 2009 at 7:29 PM, Todd Zaki Warfel wrote:
>
> On Mar 24, 2009, at 2:26 PM, Dan Saffer wrote:
>
> We don't need mission statements; we need a communications strategy.
>>
>
> Agree 1001%.
>
>
> Cheers!
>
> Todd Zaki Warfel
> Principal Design Researcher
> Messagefi
fully to be honest. Other groups haven't done so well
- "Knowledge management" comes to mind - who calls themselves that anymore?
Cheers,
Peter
On Tue, Mar 24, 2009 at 5:20 PM, Peter Van Dijck wrote:
> Can everyone who doesn't care about the specific title stand
Can everyone who doesn't care about the specific title stand on the right,
and everyone who wants to define "Interaction design" stand on the left?
Thanks!
Peter
On Tue, Mar 24, 2009 at 4:21 PM, Brad Nunnally wrote:
> "Job titles and descriptions only matter to me when
allows groups to form.
- it allows these people to communicate to non-members of this group that
they're needed (note I didn't say what for).
- and there's more, but gotta run
Note you'll never agree on a definition, just like (but worse than) you'll
never agree on the
le,
iterative product development (and basically anyone
who's tasked with doing more in less time).
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chines? We've all seen that movie :)
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>
> The reason the 41 blue test is bad, is any one of us would have told
> google the right choice for FREE!
That's a false argument, because you're saying that designers should then be
trusted to know what they know and know what t
We agree then. My point is not that we don't need design. My point is that
design should be humble and listen to data.
Peter
On Sat, Mar 21, 2009 at 6:18 PM, AJKock wrote:
> @ Peter Can data-driven design predict future design? No, it can only
> measure today. Design is more than j
I think that's wrong. Why can't I continue to measure and change stuff?
In any case, data driven design doesn't mean there's no place for the
designer. Who else will come up with stuff that we can then measure?
Peter
On Sat, Mar 21, 2009 at 11:12 AM, AJKock wrote:
> The
So your point is that Wordpress has a better user experience, so we should
use it, even though the other products have more features?
Sounds fair enough, if WP actually does what we want it to do.
Peter
On Sat, Mar 21, 2009 at 10:59 AM, AJKock wrote:
> This is critique in general about peo
If the 2 versus 4 pixels thing is on a crucial page like the Google search
results or list of adsense ads, surely it's a MUST to test it and let the
data speak? No? or would you redesign the ads, see revenue go down and not
change your mind?
Peter
On Sat, Mar 21, 2009 at 7:57 AM, Dan S
I'm doing screencasts of wireframes these days.
http://poorbuthappy.com/ease/archives/2009/03/21/4499/screencasts-of-clickable-wireframes
I'll post an example soon.
Peter
On Thu, Mar 19, 2009 at 4:28 PM, Auke van Scheltinga wrote:
> Ah my extra 2 gigs memory module was broken.
As Dave M said earier - "if you want to research and derive inspiration from
> research, or research and live by the data, that is a choice, but I would
> argue that one is design and the other is not."
>
So if the data tells you something and you ignore it, is th
Does Wordpress have groups and flexible roles? I'm not sure, just asking :)
Peter
On Sat, Mar 21, 2009 at 11:29 AM, AJ Kock wrote:
> Please, I would seriously be enlightened if you could tell me what those
> features are that you can find in Drupal but not WordPress.
>
hat
design could deliver the kind of value he sought. And when it proved
successful, it opened the doors to additional value that design can
bring.
So, align your group's goals with the company's larger goals. Simple
as that.
--peter
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tool we have to spread
empathy throughout an organization. It probably shouldn't be the only
tool, but if you have time for just one, and you want to help your
colleagues achieve a visceral understanding of your customers, I don't
know of a better tool than personas.
Lancaster Uni in the UK is now offering a masters course from three
departments - design, the management school and computing. It's the
MRes in HCI. There is also an extended 4 year course which adds a phd
onto that from the same departments. Might be of interest to some.
highwire.lancaster
that
off, but only for my client, not for everyone around me. This is
particularly fun when the network goes down & I hear hundreds of doors
slamming.
Peter
Shaun Bergmann wrote:
We have the ability to change the duration/opacity of these popup windows,
but they are ALWAYS in the bottom rig
gence.
Importantly, the form of Siftables also speaks to *fun*. They’re
blocks, and, as kids know, blocks are fun. The immediate impulse of
anyone interacting with Siftables is to *play* with them..."
--peter
On Feb 21, 2009, at 6:43 PM, Ted Kilian wrote:
Lots of things get called innovative
o making stuff
http://www.maedastudio.com/index.php)
Lisa Strausfeld
Jake Barton (http://localprojects.net)
Dan Bricklin (VisiCalc)
Kai Krause (already mentioned by others)
Marc Blank, Dave Lebling (creators of Zork/Infocom)
Steve Jobs (also already
Janna,
I don't travel much for work but can put out a couple thoughts on
this:
1. Airlines and related points programs are starting to partner with
carbon offset programs, such as Air Canada with ZeroFootprint
(http://www.aircanada.com/en/travelinfo/traveller/zfp.html) or
Aeroplan points with Ca
Todd wrote:
> Especially cool payoff if you sponsor, say, a Jamaican Bobsled team:
> http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0106611/
I worked as a user experience designer in Jamaica for 3 weeks, do I qualify for
the team?
And I can spell "bacon" in Jamaican: "b-e-e-r-c-a-n!" :
://tv.adobe.com/#vi f1498v1658
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be useful too.
This blog article introduces the presentation:
http://www.peterboersma.com/blog/2005/03/my-ia-summit-presentation-stux_10.html
Slideshare has the slides:
http://www.slideshare.net/pboersma/stux-ia-summit-2005-peter-boersma
and I wrote a short article about it for the ASIS&T
That's a great list. I'll add it to my list of links. Thanks Yohan!
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m map...but, of course, I'm not a
real architect, so I could be wrong :-)
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successful past projects, I am afraid he is going to sound like a
broken record, not a broken comb... ;-)
An finally, if RED = talent + skills + experience + knowledge + client trust
but no fixed process, then I'm done listening.
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Jeffery Callender and I collaborated on this article...
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s why philosophy and vision are important -- as you change your
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prime time or woefully
behind the pack. Perhaps the single most useful technique we teach at
Adaptive Path's UX Intensive Design Strategy day is the Product
Evolution Map, which brings rationality and sensibility to the
standard product roadmap.
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in, I do think designers should also understand at least the
basic of business. That is, making money.
Peter
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> >
> > So when I ask, what should interaction designers know about strategy?
> > You respond...
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> The
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understand and get involved in how their organization operates, and
not be satisfied simply following others requirements.
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Others can debate the potential security holes opened here, but
http://swisstrains.ch/ shows the projected physical locations of
trains in Switzerland based on the published timetables. I believe
they're working on getting the actual GPS coordinates.
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
Melissa,
> Very interested in cool formats for presenting
> distilled design innovation concepts to key stakeholders.
Victor Lombardi's Concept Design Tools article
(http://www.digital-web.com/articles/concept_design_tools/) may be of use to
you.
Peter
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ciological methods, which takes us beyond tasks
and goals, and towards behavior, motivation, context and culture. This
more holistic appreciation of people ought to provide insights that
allow for superior products and services.
at everyone gets grounded in theory --
that can be stultifying. But there's no way to get anywhere with these
methodological discussions without appreciating the theory underlying
them.
--peter
On Nov 13, 2008, at 3:13 AM, Jared Spool wrote:
On Nov 12, 2008, at 5:56 PM, David Malouf wr
Hi, Gitika, I'm Peter Uchytil, the product manager for ProtoShare. I
would be happy to answer any questions you have about our product.
As far as good/bad experiences, let me say this: we have very happy
customers right now, and we have had trial users who have said it's
not ready fo
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Onderwerp: [IxDA Discuss] UCD process diagrams
I know that somebody has posted UCD processes diagrams on the web but can't
find in the ar
d the word. Thanks!
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> and materials.
Or, in short: User Centered *Design*, not Engineering.
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n UCD). But, the majority of
designers *did not*, and clearly many felt it was necessary to
distinguish their efforts from this majority.
Gah. Why am I contributing to this? Is this really the crucial topic
of our field?
--peter
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-stux_10.html
or on the IA Summit site:
http://www.iasummit.org/2005/finalpapers/39_Presentation.pdf
or on slideshare:
http://www.slideshare.net/pboersma/stux-ia-summit-2005-peter-boersma
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"What part of Google's current product offerings would lead you to
believe there's systemic consistency, cross-product cohesion and
anything but an amateurish aesthetic quality to it, especially with
regard to a comparison to Apple?
Yes there is basically no cross-product cohesion in the google wo
Sorry if I'm rehashing a conversation here, but to my surprise I
haven't seen any G1 debates coming up here from the release this week.
So I'll startOh my...what a mess. I really enjoy gizmodo's write up
http://gizmodo.com/5053734/how-many-google-phone-engineers-does-it-take-to-tell-the-
Shaun,
The election was about 37 segments, as opposed to the 37 radio signals that
might prove the existence of life outside our planet. The number might be
coincidental, unless you're a numerologist.....
Peter
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available, but I’ve been told we might have to cap registration
soon.
And then 13-16 October (note the date format!) we’re offering UX
Intensive Copenhagen, our hands-on four-day workshop on the core
elements of user experience.
http://www.adaptivepath.com/events/2008/oct/
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