Re: [IxDA Discuss] Golden oldies: pre-web-era book recommendations

2009-10-19 Thread Peter Boersma
> 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

Re: [IxDA Discuss] UI Performance Testing Methodology

2009-03-25 Thread Peter Boersma
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 Peter W

Re: [IxDA Discuss] The UX Challenge organizers might be insane

2009-02-11 Thread Peter Boersma
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!" :-) Peter "Sanka, you dead?" B

Re: [IxDA Discuss] Web site workflows and the IA

2009-02-03 Thread Peter Boersma
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

Re: [IxDA Discuss] Rapid Expert Design (R.E.D.)

2009-01-28 Thread Peter Boersma
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. PetEr -- Peter Boersma | Senior Interaction De

Re: [IxDA Discuss] Looking for design template samples forimagine/discovery phase

2008-11-13 Thread Peter Boersma
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 -- Peter Boersma | Senior

Re: [IxDA Discuss] UCD process diagrams

2008-10-28 Thread Peter Boersma
-2005-peter-boersma/ Van: [EMAIL PROTECTED] namens erpdesigner Verzonden: ma 10/27/2008 6:53 Aan: [EMAIL PROTECTED] 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

Re: [IxDA Discuss] why the hate-on User-centered Design? (waspractice vs. discipline & roles vs. people

2008-10-07 Thread Peter Boersma
ools > and materials. Or, in short: User Centered *Design*, not Engineering. Peter -- Peter Boersma | Senior Interaction Designer | Info.nl http://www.peterboersma.com/blog | http://www.info.nl Welcome to the Interaction Des

Re: [IxDA Discuss] Graphics to communicate usability process

2008-10-01 Thread Peter Boersma
-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 Peter -- Peter Boersma | Senior Interaction Designer | Info.nl http://www.peterboersma.com/blog |

Re: [IxDA Discuss] Big/Little

2008-07-28 Thread Peter Boersma
with the discussion :-) http://www.peterboersma.com/blog/2004/11/t-model-big-ia-is-now-ux.html Peter -- Peter Boersma | Senior Interaction Designer | Info.nl http://www.peterboersma.com/blog | http://www.info.nl Welcome to t

Re: [IxDA Discuss] Documentation

2008-02-24 Thread Peter Boersma
oersma/stux-ia-summit-2005-peter-boersma Peter -- Peter Boersma | Senior Interaction Designer | Info.nl http://www.peterboersma.com/blog | http://www.info.nl Welcome to the Interaction Design Association (IxDA)! To post to this list

Re: [IxDA Discuss] IxD(a) meetings in London

2008-02-24 Thread Peter Boersma
search/local_groups_coordinator_survey_2007.php E.g. question 6: "What is the typical format for your group's events (e.g., speaker presentations, round table, cocktail hour, salon, etc.)?" Peter -- Peter Boersma | Senior Interaction Designer | Info.nl http://www.peterbo

Re: [IxDA Discuss] IxD(a) meetings in London

2008-02-22 Thread Peter Boersma
Local Groups Director for the IA Institute ;-)) -- Peter Boersma | Senior Interaction Designer | Info.nl http://www.peterboersma.com/blog | http://www.info.nl Welcome to the Interaction Design Association (IxDA)! To post

Re: [IxDA Discuss] Tim Wong from frog design articulates what it meansto be an designer

2008-02-18 Thread Peter Boersma
ments with your design, explaining why it is a good design) but not with what I think is the second bit (the idea that only intellectuals can come up with a concept?). But maybe I misread Tim... Peter -- Peter Boersma | Senior Interaction Designer | Info.nl http://www.peterboersma.com/b

Re: [IxDA Discuss] prototypes are software and belong to engineers?

2008-02-16 Thread Peter Boersma
Social Software Services. I now wish I had patented that name ;-) -- Peter Boersma | Senior Interaction Designer | Info.nl http://www.peterboersma.com/blog | http://www.info.nl Welcome to the Interaction Design Association (IxDA)! To p

Re: [IxDA Discuss] US News thinks we have potential!

2007-12-28 Thread Peter Boersma
0." "User Experience Designer" was the third most entered answer in the job titles category. Peter -- Peter Boersma | Senior Interaction Designer | Info.nl http://www.peterboersma.com/blog | http://www.info.nl *C

Re: [IxDA Discuss] Define the "User Centered Design" process

2007-11-29 Thread Peter Boersma
t in any design decisions." (From Microsoft’s MSDN Library, User Interface Design and Development section at: http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/default.asp?url=/library/en-us/dnanchor/html/anch_uidesigndev.asp ) Peter -- Peter Boersma |

Re: [IxDA Discuss] Are required field notations really necessarywith radio button selections?

2007-11-18 Thread Peter Boersma
be seen as "filling out the form for the user" which was very much not done: tax papers were to be filled out by the user alone. Peter -- Peter Boersma | Senior Interaction Designer | Info.nl http://www.peterboersma.com/blog | http://www.info.nl _

Re: [IxDA Discuss] What tools do you use for prototyping?

2007-11-12 Thread Peter Boersma
ing I do at the very beginning of the design process with the initial team, and I use it as a design tool to get a project started." and: "I find showing end users, product managers or CEOs a paper drawing to be of nominal value, and only at the up front stages of the design

Re: [IxDA Discuss] what are your fundamental tenets of design?

2007-11-12 Thread Peter Boersma
g with [..] users": design evaluation (day 3) - "users": after every section in day 2, I ask "where are the users?" Peter -- Peter Boersma | Senior Interaction Designer | Info.nl http://www.peterboersma.com/blog | http://www.info.nl

Re: [IxDA Discuss] Where does the usability department belong?

2007-11-12 Thread Peter Boersma
worth reading, and are available at: http://finance.groups.yahoo.com/group/UsabilityInOrgChart/ Peter -- Peter Boersma | Senior Interaction Designer | Info.nl http://www.peterboersma.com/blog | http://www.info.nl *Come to IxDA Interac

Re: [IxDA Discuss] When those who know little about Usability offerUsability Services

2007-10-31 Thread Peter Boersma
tion (http://www.iainstitute.org/en/learn/) should be examples of collections of these well-documented, simplified methods. Peter -- Peter Boersma | Senior Interaction Designer | Info.nl http://www.peterboersma.com/blog | http://www.info.nl

Re: [IxDA Discuss] Desktop Wallpapers

2007-10-23 Thread Peter Boersma
lynucs.org/ (at the bottom of the rightmost column you'll see a link labeled "all screenshots" that links to a barely working filtering page. Oh, and there's this set on Flickr: transparent desktops! http://www.flickr.com/photos/w00kie/sets/180637/ Peter -- Peter Boersma |

Re: [IxDA Discuss] functional designer?

2007-10-22 Thread Peter Boersma
. What form do these refinements and understandings take? Peter -- Peter Boersma | Senior Interaction Designer | Info.nl http://www.peterboersma.com/blog | http://www.info.nl Welcome to the Interaction Design Association (IxDA)

Re: [IxDA Discuss] functional designer?

2007-10-21 Thread Peter Boersma
ftware function is called and what the parameters are, not repeat our message.) Peter -- Peter Boersma | Senior Interaction Designer | Info.nl http://www.peterboersma.com/blog | http://www.info.nl Welcome to the Interaction Design A

Re: [IxDA Discuss] Recap: Chicago IxDA's Pattern Libraryconversation

2007-10-16 Thread Peter Boersma
r go back!" he explained, "It's too discouraging." [..] In a remarkable study of fifty-eight new business buildings near London, researchers found that in only one case in ten did the architect ever return to the building - and then with no interest in evaluation.' (p

Re: [IxDA Discuss] IxD Managers (was: d schools)

2007-10-11 Thread Peter Boersma
referred a somewhat more designer-y role. Now I am a senior designer, mentor of 3 designers, and only partly responsible for managing the 10-person UX department. I feel healthy :-) Peter -- Peter Boersma | Senior Interaction Designer | Info.nl http://www.peterboersma.com/blog |

Re: [IxDA Discuss] surfacing scattered bits of information

2007-10-08 Thread Peter Boersma
cio.us (the online bookmarking system) where your system could suggest tags but the user would provide a definitive, personal set of tags. Peter -- Peter Boersma | Senior Interaction Designer | Info.nl http://www.peterboersma.com/blog | http://

Re: [IxDA Discuss] d schools

2007-10-08 Thread Peter Boersma
feeling those concepts can also be prototyped, but require skills that we designers do not possess :-) Peter -- Peter Boersma | Senior Interaction Designer | Info.nl http://www.peterboersma.com/blog | http://www.info.nl Welcome to the In

Re: [IxDA Discuss] d schools

2007-10-08 Thread Peter Boersma
cepting, or at least that the end result of design thinking is a design concept. I cannot believe you would want that idea to persist, so I am asking you to explain what you really meant... :-) Peter -- Peter Boersma | Senior Interaction Designer | Info.nl ht

Re: [IxDA Discuss] Distinguishing between Internal and External links

2007-10-06 Thread Peter Boersma
al and visual design. I'd like to hear the other arguments though. Are they about users and their ability to discern the difference by themselves? Peter -- Peter Boersma | Senior Interaction Designer | Info.nl http://www.peterboersma.com/blog |