Re: [IxDA Discuss] ANN: Warfel's book "Prototyping: A Practitioner's Guide" now available

Hello all, I just finished reading Todd's book. It's a great resource for learning how to use tools at hand to build interactive prototypes. (Catalyst and SketchFlow are a different conversation.) We might consider PowerPoint, Visio, Fireworks and the others (except Axure and HTML) for wirefram

[IxDA Discuss] Where to learn more about adaptive/intelligent UIs?

Hi, I just left a design review meeting in which the product owner said the design presents too much information to the user. She wants the default view (and all screens) to display only what the user wants or needs and make additional functionality available as needed. I agree with this princi

Re: [IxDA Discuss] IxDA Value and Purpose

>"...to improve the human condition by advancing the discipline of Interaction Design." That is one lofty goal (a whiff of hubris?), but I love it. I suppose if we can't end war, famine and heartbreak, or bring about universal peace and love, we can start by making the little things easier to nego

Re: [IxDA Discuss] The biggest problems

Scott Berkun wrote: >I don't care much for management - I care about power. Scott, Amen! Thanks for bringing clarity to this part of the discussion. I'm going to adopt that phrase as my mantra, though it may be a silent one for tactful purposes. Sure, many designers do not want to manage, but th

Re: [IxDA Discuss] why the hate-on User-centered Design? (UCD history lesson)

Jared wrote: >For those who care, UCD was born on the engineering side... >...UCD was a knee jerk reaction to the times... Hi Jared, Thanks for the history lesson. I am one of those that care. It sounds like you're saying the early days of UCD were a focused response to a problem ("knee-jerk rea

Re: [IxDA Discuss] Non graphical storyboards

>got any suggestions how i can do the story boards and come up with the >information in a non graphical way? tried 2 or 3 times, but still stumped? >cheers marvin. Hi Marvin, You may want to visit Boston-IA and ask your question there. Boston-IA is an information architect

Re: [IxDA Discuss] Green and not: ON and off

> Can anybody think of a case where the current on/off state of a device isn't immediately obvious? My car, at least when I'm in the driver's seat. How many of us have turned the ignition key when the car was already running? Dave Scharn ___