e your heart desires. They'll eat it up, because they've already
seen it work on their own turf.
Consulting situations have more wrinkles than the mostly in-house advice I
offer above, but the spirt is often the right one in both kinds of pitches.
-Scott
Scott Berkun
www.scottberkun.com
ifficult than the
interaction/aesthetic design issues. Which is why I believe designers should
study organizational behavior, or least brush up on their Machiavelli.
-Scott
Scott Berkun
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Hi Chris:
Start here with the archives:
http://www.ixda.org/search.php?tag=masters
http://www.ixda.org/search.php?tag=experience
-Scott
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Bie
are used to capture the spirit of the organization for those who come
later (I think the first UI guidelines from Apple were released several
years after the first Macintosh - I'm sure someone on the list can confirm
or deny :).
-Scott
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on. The differences
between menus / text buttons / icon buttons is a blurry mess these days, as
there are various hybrid designs of these things out there and you might be
using one.
-Scott
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Absolutely. Sign me up. If anyone else is interested email me off list.
-Scott
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Elizabeth Bacon
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what this list is about.
Know of anything?
-Scott
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Sent: Thursday, March 12, 2009 4:25 PM
To: disc...@ixda.org; Scott Berkun
Subject: Re: [IxDA Discuss] How to hire an interaction designer?
Scott
y're out there.
Any recommendations?
Remember: I want something written for a manager or tech lead who knows
nothing about interaction design, but suspects he might need to hire a UX
designer.
Cheers,
-Scott
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Facebook
can be handy for this: make a "graudates of U of M HCI" group or something.
Do what you can to stay in touch periodically, meet up conferences, etc. It
might take a few years but I guarantee this network will give you advantages
in the future.
-Scott
There are several flavors of these sorts of things, but ironically setting
metrics to measure is often done without a well formed goal. Are you trying
to measure the value of your group? The value of people on your team? To win
arguments with other groups? It's usually a mistake to create metrics
ity, and will have
earned little trust. If you stay an untrusted outsider, it's impossible to
do much of anything in an environment like yours. In fact I'd say goal #1 is
to earn the trust and respect of the key people in your smallest circle of
work.
This might be of use as well: Desig
make their own
favorite look good, but done more constructively it establishes, right away,
that there are multiple directions worthy of exploration.
-Scott
Scott Berkun
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of which design decisions are
most important. If no such list exists, they should be motivated to make
one.
If power is distributed well, you're less likely to need a "method".
-Scott
Scott Berkun
www.scottberkun.com
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From: Chauncey Wilson [mailto:chauncey.wil...@g
have the power to grant this much
authority to those 3 people, my real problem is political, not the quest for
the perfect number of alternatives.
-Scott
Scott Berkun
www.scottberkun.com
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ssion of proprietary knowledge - it's just up to the candidate not to
go too far.
And lastly, this is another good reason to do pro-bono work, especially if
you are a junior designer, as it's a way to build a portfolio that dodges
the issues Will points out.
-Scott
Scott Berkun
www.scottberk
? Those are the designers tools, they're the
means, not the ends, I wouldn't ask an architect, a catereer or a hair
stylist to show me their tools, or interview them based on their tool
knowledge - instead I'd care primarily about the results they're capable of,
how reliable the
e witnessing them working, something no essay or book
can provide.
-Scott
Scott Berkun
www.scottberkun.com
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ng makes
anything important better, just different. Proof in the UX/design community
for value is not hard to find - we have all the methods in the world for
comparing two designs suited for the same task. But it's curious how little
these methods are used in conjunction with talk of revolutions,
d the
sales guy for making a stink about such things, he would have.
-Scott
Scott Berkun
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be announced this week. Thanks to all that contributed
and help spread the word.
-Scott
Scott Berkun
www.scottberkun.com
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he survey should take about 5 minutes (3 if you're smart). As prizes,
> I'll be giving away $100, $50 and $25 amazon.com gift certificates.
>
> Survey:
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> http://www.scottberkun.com/blog/2008/win-pr
ion down.
You have significant influence over the tone of what goes on here as one of
the founders of this list - but the example you've set in this thread is not
one of wise discourse, generous/careful reading of posts, or warm
leadership.
-Scott
Scott Berkun
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Hi Nasir:
Good points - but for obvious reasons while the survey is still open I'd ask
folks to either give me feedback on the survey itself off-list, or wait
until the survey is closed.
Cheers,
-Scott
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Sen
hinking & problem
solving skills.
There's a bunch of groups that run national programs with this goal, and
never use the word design:
http://www.scottberkun.com/blog/2008/teaching-kids-creative-thinking/
-Scott
Scott Berkun
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uspect stories like yours would
be quite popular. I'd certainly read/listen.
-Scott
Scott Berkun
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go for obvious reasons
- having many proficiencies can make you more valuable. But if the company
can't make 15% of its payroll for December, it doesn't matter what talent or
job title you have.
-Scott
Scott Berkun
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[ma
roles like these get a minority vote, if any, in how it's
resolved.
I can imagine it - but it's a stretch for one reason: I'm convinced the
design of most corporations is set against specialized roles holding much
power. I admit I may be wrong - in fact I'd like to be w
eing VP, or a general manager of any true
product team (e.g. including engineering), of an actual product.
-Scott
Scott Berkun
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To
rather than skimming,
scanning, marking, and tracking.
By never letting my intake get too high, I never need to worry about
designing systems for managing information overload. This strategy can be
applied with any tool, any browser, any email client and any job.
-Scott
Scott Berkun
www.scot
a move
before its in the theaters. Seems best to wait and see.
And its always curious how little attention Opera (www.opera.com) gets, as
they've been the most innovative and adventurous browser company for years.
-Scott
Scott Berkun
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Hi Todd:
I've seen many projects like this one, and there are some good patterns I
bet I and others can share.
But first: the big thing you didn't include is what the goals are. You've
mentioned a series of constraints, but not the goals. A redesign can mean 50
different things. As long as ever
as easy to make good UI as it is to make lazy UI.
A development tool that makes it easy to follow basic UI guidelines is 20
times more valuable than any book on UI design. Instead of blaming
programmers, it'd be better to aim at the programmers who make tools for
programmers.
-Scot
Way back when during my days at Microsoft, I worked on an OS project that
had the goal of eliminating all error messages in much the way you
suggested.
We found that in simple, webish, apps, this was easier to manage than say,
Excel or Word. In complex apps the amount of data entry or scriptin
ighly specialized, and specialization serves incremental change, not
innovation. One reason the big historic moves are driven by people without
our expertise is they're less likely to be bound to a prescribed set of
ideas, roles or methods in the way many of us have become.
-Scott
Scott Berk
s as the
argument for why even more people should follow your lead.
-Scott
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Sent: Thursday, May 22, 2008 1:19 PM
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ss background
noise than offices? If the TV or radio is on doesn't that create nearly as
many problems?
-Scott
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From: "Kevin Doyle" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
I've read about some great HCI coming to the home -- you'll be able
to start
y, but
sometimes failing, and a seperate group in the same company responsible for
training on that product profiting from those failures. So yes, I suppose
the training group did in a way hope for more complexity, but the designers
and engineers on the actual product were committed to work against it.
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>
> Scott Berkun:
> > Apple is a great example of what can happen when they do (although to
be
> > fair, I doubt Jobs or Wozniak would call themselves designers.Certainly
not
> >
o general
management where *they* are in control, or closer to it, over the
distribution of power between designers, engineers and marketers. Because
honestly it's at that level that the decisions are made that make great
design possible or impossible.
-Scott
Scott Berkun
www.scottberkun.com
st nothing to do with design
or designers. The first marketer, the first tester, the first usability
engineer, the first whatever in any organization will describe the same
tensions. And the sooner designers realize it has less to do with design and
more to do with group dynamics, pow
o my observations).
I just don't see the point in complaining about not being invited - invite
yourself. If you start your own thing you can make yourself the person who
does the inviting, instead of the other way around, and if a
non-territorializied strategic landscape is what you desire, i
xamples for
reference? Those examples would be an awesome place to start if the goal is
to teach future designers how to make design a more powerful part of the
business world.
Cheers,
-Scott
Scott Berkun
www.scottberkun.com
Welco
ople experienced with the tools, and it takes more time and money to
interpret data that comes out of those studies.
-Scott
Scott Berkun
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the entire rise of tools
and machines (yep, it includes punchcards). I've never seen the
presentation live, but the slides are pretty damn good.
-Scott
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In innovation jargon, this phenomenon is known as dominant design. The
question of "too late" is less about how how superior a new design is, and
more about how willing people are to pay the learning & change costs
required to learn the new thing. In the Apple Play/pause case, there are
small lear
The real secret sauce is cultural history - I doubt you'll hear about any
design technique at Apple, B&O, BMW, Google* or Pixar that you haven't heard
of before. What's different is most of these companies were born with
quality design as a central value, were led or run by people who highly
valued
questions or problems.
4. Every consultancy and client are different - so if you're not sure how
the stuff you make is being used on any project, go find out. It's entirely
reasonable for you to ask your clients about this, since the more you know
about how your stuff is used (even
If you read through all the comments here, you'll get some reasonable
answers.
http://www.beatnikpad.com/archives/2004/02/03/the_power_on_icon
-Scott
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