I sometimes ponder that we design the air pumps for our designer heads :)
Scott
On Wed, Feb 10, 2010 at 9:54 PM, Will Evans wrote:
> We don't design products or systems. We design people whose perception
> instantiates the other.
>
>
> ~ will
>
> "Where you innovate, how you innovate,
> and what
The response to Swartz's post that comes to mind for me is to ask
what the iPod and iTunes have done for the greater music market,
while still holding onto to a great deal of its comprehensive control.
Scott
On Thu, Jan 28, 2010 at 11:47 AM, Neil Cadsawan wrote:
> Weird that my last post got mun
There's supposed to be heavy dependence on MobileMe, iTunes, iDisk and
with assorted third party apps (Dropbox, AirShare),
but that doesn't seem to directly answer the question for now, does it?
An article with some ideas:
http://www.appleinsider.com/articles/10/01/29/apple_to_target_ipad_at_busin
"WE DEMAND" - haha!
On Fri, Jan 29, 2010 at 2:48 AM, Sachin Ghodke wrote:
> And one of the most important reason why iPad and Apple in general
> will disappoint - http://www.defectivebydesign.org/ipad
>
> A step backward is disappointing for a brand like Apple.
>
>
--
"You always have the c
See, I'd love to be in a position where my market share and audience
obliged us to look at my productions in this way ;)
I've maintained (or tried) to keep this perspective on Google Wave, for example.
To go with single user examples, my fiancee immediately said upon
watching it "My mom would be a
I've dropped mine several times, but it doesn't seem the uses of the
iPad are exactly matched with the iPhone -
"running to the taxi", for instance. Of course it's durability is a
concern, and may prove to be a major
shortcoming, but I think so much of the discussion seems to be around
it being in
On Fri, Dec 18, 2009 at 3:47 AM, shelly wrote:
> I think its more an indicator that people are realising the need more
> for our line of work, which does not necessarily go hand in hand with
> the need for other professions. Companies have realised to survive
> they need to look at the best way to
Yes.
On Mon, Dec 7, 2009 at 3:19 PM, live wrote:
> Come back?
> Honestly, have you ever had a need to go back to images after you've
> google/binged them?
> Can you imagine a use case scenario?
>
>
> On Dec 7, 2009, at 12:04 PM, Jayson Elliot wrote:
>>
>> I would caution STRONGLY against the "bot
The problem with this specific functionality being below the fold with
regards to usability
is that the primary purpose of the functionality occurs out of sight
for the user.
If it was a full page redirect, for example, that would be more
obvious to a user, or if the
portion of the page affected by
This reminds me of the point of this article:
http://www.rbguy.dailykos.com/storyonly/2009/10/11/791270/-Sometimes-They-Even-Talk-Alike
(Despite the url, it's not an explicitly political article and I'm not
pushing politics here)
"In 2008, the Toyota Prius was the best selling gas-electric hybrid
c
On Mon, Sep 21, 2009 at 4:50 AM, Meredith Noble
wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> Has anyone tested "mixed values" in trees in webapps lately? We
> discussed this four years ago
> (http://www.ixda.org/discuss.php?post=7380) and I'm wondering if
> anything has changed.
>
> Picture:
> - A tree with selectable no
Your Point #3 also implies that recruiters will be posting jobs.
"...Of course, you are encouraged to reply privately to any job ads
posted by members who are hiring. "
I agree with redundant redundancy being annoying, but the jobs
themselves are outright allowed.
Not a Board Member,
Scott
On Fri
This sounds like a company that should hire a UX Designer!
Scott
On Wed, Sep 16, 2009 at 3:41 AM, Santiago Bustelo
wrote:
> On 15/09/2009, at 23:11, Thomas Petersen wrote:
>>
>> Companies like Blitz are not in the SEO game.
>
> The point is not about the company wanting to rank higher on Google,
On Mon, Aug 31, 2009 at 6:30 PM, Mark Schraad wrote:
> maybe they are 'drinking the kool-ade' because they are happy, well served
> customers. How sinister and evil is that?
>
> Mark
>
> Sent from my iPhone
We're onto your game, Mr. Sent from my iPhone!
Seriously, though - there was an article
This is a white-paper I'd read repeatedly!
Scott
On Mon, Aug 31, 2009 at 9:20 AM, Charles Boyung <
charles.boy...@nexustechnologiesllc.com> wrote:
> I think you just about hit the nail on the head here. Apple really
> does not care about what users may or may want. They never really
> have. A
For some reason this feels like a familiar conversation, but this flies in
the face of so much that we discuss
and insist upon in our standard practices, doesn't it?
Genius design? Or is this safe to say when you're an industry leader and
have a proven record with it?
Cool read!
Scott
On Wed, Ju
It is a kind of influence, and with the various terms, folks are talking
past one another in some of these messages.
The question for me is "do I use my powers of design for good or for
Awesome?"
I think ethics here is in what the user desires to have done.
Influence covers a wide range of factors
Just more anecdotal stuff:
I'm a mild arachnophobe.
A few years ago, there was some product or service - I forget if it was
insurance, financial services or whatever -
where they'd have magazine ads involving a big, hairy spider designed to
look like it was sitting on the page of the magazine.
It s
William's response made me think:
it might be worth seeing if you could budget a few hours from a security
specialist to
give a professional opinion. Even if your boss still regard it as "just,
like, your opinion, man"
it may be a angle to get a viewpoint from someone he/she will see as an
Authori
There is a balance to be struck, definitely.
I've spent a couple years all but paralyzed over whether my personal
blog can be found
and it'd somehow affect my career because I express some strong (while
still largely mainstream)
political beliefs in it. Most people have at least has one bad boss
s
Is the problem you're seeing (and I totally get) because Amazon spells
out "Sign In" prior to and apart from
the actions?
On Tue, Jun 30, 2009 at 11:40 AM, Russell Wilson wrote:
> I'm guessing that "signing in" is an abstract step along the path to what
> the use really wants and they are attempt
While I'm not enchanted by the design, there was a place for Publisher
and if we go by that comparison, there ~could~ be a similar place for GUI
Design Studio.
It bears further examination if someone's interested in this product, but
really...when I was editing newsletters in college, Publisher ma
Considering the article (which, of course, I can't find now) that drew
me in was titled
"what if email was invented today?", these were exactly my thoughts.
This sits at the heart of what I understand about IxD (Usability! UX!
IA! Ftagn!): traditions are fine,
but for each one, is it the best thing
That's really the shame of it - the way many might experience the
physical product is represented
by the sub-par online experience.
On Tue, May 19, 2009 at 10:40 PM, Donna Spencer wrote:
> No, this is one of those cases where online and offline don't reflect each
> other. The product is great.
>
On Mon, May 18, 2009 at 7:06 AM, Maria De Monte wrote:
> Hello IxDA members,
> IxDA is considering undertaking a partnership with Coroflot
> (http://www.coroflot.com/) to handle the job-related posts that now come
> through our discussion list. We need your input on this question!
>
I'm pretty much compelled to rub my face against touchscreens, which
is why I'm banned from all Apple stores. I can just push a button
with a digit, no problemo.
Scott
On Thu, May 7, 2009 at 1:51 AM, live wrote:
> This has nothing to do with hygiene and everything to do with ROI.
> Touchscreen
Well, the world don't move
to the beat of just one drum
On Wed, Apr 29, 2009 at 1:56 AM, live wrote:
> Except for the fact that it requires you to register, create a whole new
> username and password for yet another site, just to comment on someone
> else's idea.
> Haven't they heard of IP tracki
se of UX, don't feel it in their
domain of skill and appreciation.
I think.
Scott
On Fri, Apr 24, 2009 at 4:39 PM, Adrian Howard wrote:
>
> On 24 Apr 2009, at 17:52, Scott McDaniel wrote:
>
>> Almost
>> all of my friends in SFO, for example, own an entire vertica
I'm usually the touchy one, so I can't judge harshly.
About the Bay Area, it is interesting, and I think there's a strong
case to at least be conversant in d) all of the above (as Andrei
Herasimchuk would probably Argue Strongly For), and minimally, I've
rarely encountered
anyone with an IA, UX or
> On 24 Apr 2009, at 15:52, Jonathan S. Knoll wrote:
> [snip]
>>
>> My experience, in both agencies and large corporations, is that the
>> front-end team tends to be semi-autonomous, but organizationally closer
>> (and
>> often beneath) the back-end or systems teams. Ironic, since the good ones
>>
As a project-of-love, I'm going to try to construct a shadow-puppet
theater that's user-driven based
on fabric screens with lights projeccted upon them, and carved/cut
shaped images that people can use to create storylines. I'm still
figuring out the materials and flow of this project, but I hope
Humble recommendation to look up Visio libraries, all over the internets.
It will help with literally thousand pre-made shapes, concepts,
connectors and other
elements to help accent your Visio experience.
I usually use Omnigraffle, so it's been a while since I've used Visio
and can't address your
On Fri, Mar 27, 2009 at 4:30 PM, Richard Dalton wrote:
> Dave - i'm just wishing we could all work more closely together here,
> wouldn't it be nirvana to have one organization (UX), with several
> sub-groups (IA, IxD, etc) which ran both a large UX conference and
> several smaller specialized one
On Thu, Mar 26, 2009 at 12:43 AM, dave malouf wrote:
> All I got to say about the PR issue is GO For it!!!
>
> It is important on so many fronts. I just don't think you can do it
> w/o a clearly messaged consensus of who we are.
>
> The definition of a rose is embedded in the reality of its existe
To try to do the whole 'lighting a candle' thing...
indications can be built in to make it blatantly obvious to
click/mouseover the points on the map to
see the portfolio pieces, or even having a secondary navigation so the
user can simply Do What They Came Here to Do - or even making the map
more
On Tue, Mar 24, 2009 at 10:51 AM, Adrian Howard wrote:
>> Personally, I don't really care about defining IxD as a discipline, at
>> least in the sense that is being done today. I'm really more interested in
>> doing interaction design. I do think it's important to understand the skills
>> necessar
On Thu, Mar 12, 2009 at 9:34 AM, Nicholas Iozzo wrote:
>
> Reason two has to do with detailed screen specifications. When you
> are designing an application to aid highly trained experts, the
> business rules within the system need to be documented and
> illustrated in a comprehensive manner. Prot
I think it's interesting to compare this to the AT&T Commercials from 1993:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TZb0avfQme8
So many things fulfilled, so many things understood in the common
technology of the time ("From a phone booth! Fax from a beach!").
Scott
--
"I have mad skills at doing spaz
Not to be contrary, but I consider music essential to my process.
There are times for silence and office buzz, but really now...I know how I work.
Weedling through wireframes of familiar sorts, documenting, sketching,
corresponding:
trance (esp. psytrance), dancey goth-industrial, Mozart, Chopin
Since I missed out on Interaction 09 (curse you, economy!), I made
sure than when I acquired a new position,
I would take the next opportunity to mingle with my fellow designers,
developers and dreamers.
So, any of you fine folk going to Web 2.0 next month?
Cheers,
Scott
--
"I have mad skills a
On Wed, Feb 25, 2009 at 5:05 PM, live wrote:
> Again, this is not a Distance Learning program, so does not apply.
Some of these are addressing the question of part-time programs.
Scott
--
"I have mad skills at doing spazzy things." - Janiene West
__
I think it can be understood that people aren't exactly describing
objective principles
of Truth.
On Sun, Feb 22, 2009 at 7:58 PM, live wrote:
> For *you* it may be dull and uninspiring.
>
> On Feb 22, 2009, at 4:49 PM, Michael Andrews wrote:
>
>> I am not sure that "productivity" should be the l
To be fair, this didn't read as a statement for shoehorning
author/ities based on categories,
but there is a decent question to be raised about the number of women
(etc) being seen as "IxD Greats",
whether it's presentation, representative imbalance, industry culture
and history, oversight and publ
On Wed, Feb 11, 2009 at 10:52 AM, Caroline Jarrett
wrote:
> Jorge:
>>
>> $5k per person in huge -- if you live/work in the "developed" markets.
>> For those of us in less developed countries, it is simply unrealistic.
>>
>> A shame, too -- if the objective really is to "bring forth a web
>> concep
Google and similar situations will use meta-data (if available) in the
code, how instances
and entries are linked throughout the internets, how the content is
stored, and a whole host of
associations with the company, their industry and so on.
In short, even if you don't create the method of organ
Standing around having a nice chat, then the other fellow walks up to
the podium and I realize I had been shooting the breeze with Jonathan
Arnowitz.
The Ethics of Everyday Design seminar which gave me fresh perspective
and relief that 'our people' cared about things beyond color wheels
and user r
On Fri, Dec 19, 2008 at 8:38 PM, Angel Marquez wrote:
> What good is a banana that doesn't get eaten?
>
Ask the banana trees! :)
Scott
--
"In art and dream may you proceed with abandon. In life may you
proceed with balance and stealth." -Patti Smith
__
On Thu, Dec 18, 2008 at 9:16 AM, Tonia M. Bartz wrote:
> I used to get a lot of blank stares when I would give my job title.
I say my job title, wait for the pause, then shout "I ARCHITECT
INFORMATION! MUHAHAHAHAHA!"
while making puppetmaster gestures with both hands.
Scott
--
"In art and drea
That's an excellent point, and I think it highlights the growth and
use patterns for
most social interactions that have grown and prospered - there are
intended, designed
uses and how the users decide to use them. The intended design can
and will factor in,
but it remains important - perhaps most
As kind of a tangent, this does make me wonder how many businesses are
simply outright based
in India for design and development, versus being an outsourcing
resource company featuring these skillsets.
Is there some balance of cost of being outsource resources versus
simply being their own software
Cool point there, too.
It seemed to fill a need, then become so common as to become the default.
Every time I go to it (to reference a band I just heard or because
someone friended me),
I can all but see the words "DANCING BEAR" blinking across the screen.
Scott
On Wed, Oct 15, 2008 at 9:39 AM, W
I'm somewhat more on the side of seeing the value in Facebook,
but you just said people can't judge if something is to their own liking?
You're beautiful.
Scott
On Sat, Oct 11, 2008 at 12:05 AM, Kontra <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> We don't live in a theocracy where *you* get to judge whether l
We are allowed to still discuss without it being the sum total of our existence.
I at least understand your name now.
Scott
On Tue, Oct 7, 2008 at 11:49 PM, Kontra <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>> We are more than a title.
>>
>
> One would never know from all this hair splitting over...titles.
>
>
It sincerely sounds like a thin line to be treading - users can generally handle
significant changes in content - intermediate+ users usually find
value in updated
content, deals and suggested items on their Amazon landing site for
example, but
framework changes such as color would seem to be confu
Graphic design is not the sole means of good communication.
Scott
> On Thu, Sep 25, 2008 at 12:17 PM, Andrei Herasimchuk
>
> Why? It's simple really... beyond the obvious fact that the design of most
> technology requires a screen or display system of some sort... Graphic
> design at its heart is
An approach I've been using is sort of a bastardized version of "page
description diagrams" explained by
Dan Brown here:
http://www.boxesandarrows.com/view/where_the_wireframes_are_special_deliverable_3
with some elaboration here:
http://www.dmxzone.com/showDetail.asp?TypeId=2&NewsId=3991&LinkFile=
"Nation of whiners" ;)
But seriously, I think a part is that Facebook gives the discontented
an inherent place to voice
their complaints, and dislike is more motivating than "Okay" or "Good",
and change is a harder sell in the "if it ain't broke" viewpoint.
Scott
On Wed, Sep 17, 2008 at 6:15 PM,
build, people to meet, Facebook is really
> compelling. Really.
>
> On Wed, Sep 17, 2008 at 1:26 PM, Scott McDaniel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>>
>> My address book never enabled people I didn't want to remember from
>> high school to give
>> me daily up
My address book never enabled people I didn't want to remember from
high school to give
me daily updates on their political views and dog's eczema, okay?
Scott
On Wed, Sep 17, 2008 at 11:53 AM, Will Evans <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> So an address book?
>
>
--
* It's very important to know wh
I think we're seeing it become more relevant as they've grown
decoupled from people being On Facebook and into other services.
I agree that apps and such are little blips in the overall picture,
but the amount of social news (and tbh, noise) I get via integrated
social networks is staggering - I ca
Did poor UX kill (or at least stymie) Orkut, Friendster, etc?
If so, why in God's green Earth is MySpace still on the internets?
Scott
On Tue, Sep 16, 2008 at 2:43 PM, live <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> What say you, people of IXDA?
>
> What say you of the new Facebook design?
>
> What of the usa
> Dude,
>
> Kind of a poor job of schilling there - I think there are many on this list
> that are in some way today or in the future, going to be designing sociality
> into online experiences, and knowing about your company would be useful - so
> give us the 411!
>
> --
> ~ will
Will,
I hit ente
To slightly shill, our company produces a User Generated Content
platform which allows for ratings
similar to YouTube, and oddly enough, one of our clients (Adult Swim)
allows for Negative ratings,
including a sort by "Worst Videos/Pictures" - on the easy side, this
simply put the assets at the bot
On Tue, Aug 19, 2008 at 7:19 PM, Valeska O'Leary
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
...
> I also started to enjoy the camaraderie of
> like minded professionals commenting on current affairs and experiences.
> Furthermore I enjoyed the responses to my own updates or tweets and
> networking opportunities di
I apologize for the recent spam, folks :\
Scott
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On Fri, Aug 15, 2008 at 9:31 PM, John Vaughan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Jared said:
>
>Um
>
> John says:
>
> Um
--
The lesson here is that we cannot remove artificial dependencies, but
we can reduce them. - Hao He
Well, crap...now you make me wish I had done fifteen.
Scott
On Fri, Aug 15, 2008 at 8:06 AM, Patrick Barrett
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> What I think is most interesting about this straw poll is the number of
> respondents who choose not to follow these simple instructions:
>
> "What are the to
Communicating effectively instead of w/the grtst ecnmy of ltrs
Instead of trapping myself at my desk for long periods of time, I
check email every now and again in a few minutes, especially if
anticipating something urgent.
Distractions and diversions when I best need them (e.g. music, videos
and
Oh, this should be fun.
On Wed, Jul 30, 2008 at 7:22 PM, pauric <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Andrei,
--
The lesson here is that we cannot remove artificial dependencies, but
we can reduce them. - Hao He
Welcome to the Interaction D
> So what should the take away be here Kontra? Are you suggesting that young
> designers have a higher probability of success and greatness if they avoid a
> structured learning path? Is this really the guidance that your would lend
> say... your children?
I think the point - Ok, and I'll only spe
I'm baffled at the existence of a monolithic entity known as IxD.
Scott
--
(The key to joy is disobedience
There is no guilt and there is no shame) - COIL
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On Fri, Jun 20, 2008 at 10:54 PM, <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> I do think that one can achieve greatness in practice without going
> to school. What education teaches you though which I believe no one
> spoke about is how to think & how to teach. education lastly gives
> you wings to inderstand th
Tom,
I've been faced with this and agree it's a tough thing to tackle,
especially if more straightforward
applications and pages make up most of one's experience. I've been
largely approaching components
and behaviours as the page-level items, but this splinters quickly and
starts looking more li
Here's an idea:
I don't care what people's positions are on IP or patents or whatever,
just take your sandbox spat to private emails.
Thanks a ton!
Scott
On Fri, Jun 6, 2008 at 10:51 PM, Andrei Herasimchuk
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> On Jun 6, 2008, at 6:23 PM, Kontra wrote:
>
>>> Are the peop
My humble recommendation would be navigation (links) and subnavigation (links),
since tab or no, that's what they are and do, right?
It's what I call such elements in most documentation since it allows
flexibility of use
if the design turns away from presenting them as tabs.
Scott
On Fri, Jun 6,
9:25 AM, Sebi Tauciuc <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> On Mon, Jun 2, 2008 at 1:56 AM, Scott McDaniel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>>
>> I never use the word 'leverage.'
>> Except right then.
>
> Sorry, but I'm afraid I don't get it. Could
I never use the word 'leverage.'
Except right then.
On Fri, May 23, 2008 at 9:39 AM, Jack Moffett <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> As an Interaction Designer (or Interface Designer, Information Architect,
> Usability Specialist, etc.), what is it that you do best?
>
> Curious,
> Jack
--
'Life' plus
Would this be considered 2 interactions, where we'd say the poll
itself wouldn't be the social network,
but content for it? So I'd say the social network aspect resides in
the sharing part or the space between.
A poll which interacts with the participants based on other
participant feedback comes
For things with which I've been involved, it was for ease reference -
("cf. 1.3") - and
because pages/sections/whatever tend to change more often, especially
now that I'm
working on a product which gets skinned by client specification, and
so names change
by project.
And yes, thanks for the respon
I'm a bit green yet with actually producing this stuff myself, but
Dante's method
sounds like what I use.
However, I am finding myself at a loss on how to treat global details, such as
top navigation, footer, user login box, etc. when their level of
detail requires a
separate page.
Right now I hav
man what
On Sun, May 18, 2008 at 12:01 AM, Jeff Seager <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Web design and print design share *some* characteristics, Matthew. I
> also share some characteristics with a mountain gorilla, but I'm not
> a mountain gorilla. In a similar way, the Web is an evolutionary
> cousi
I think it'd be fair to say that voice controls would largely need to
be an enhancement to screen/key/mouse
driven input for all the reasons mentioned before. I fear, too, that
many of the approaches to voice UI is following
the past 20 years of visual UI Design, based on products out there
instea
On Sun, Apr 13, 2008 at 11:16 PM, the <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> *snort* Not bloody likely...
It's still no call to be rude.
--
'Life' plus 'significance' = magic. ~ Grant Morrison
Welcome to the Interaction Design Association
That does sort of bring to mind questions-
what ~does~ getting into IT recruiting involve?
Is it like being a real estate agent/broker, but for IT jobs?
Special degrees beyond the obvious? HR background?
Nice smile?
Most of my interactions have been positive when I've been
looking at positions, at
Oh, er, um...my previous responses were going on the idea of general
means to moderate forums,
not being overly concerned with moderation of this list.
We all seem adults here and usually act like it...
So...never mind!
Scott
On Thu, Mar 27, 2008 at 12:19 PM, Dave Meeker <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrot
To go with this concept,but perhaps a bit more usable, is to have a
simple title search appear in an obvious but non-obstructive manner
on the page, layout and visual pleasure permitting.
On Wed, Mar 26, 2008 at 9:32 PM, Brandon E.B. Ward <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> A simple way would be, for the
This is really splendid.
"Designers have a profound responsibility to ensure that designed
interactions contribute positively to our personal and collective
sense of being human. "
Illustrates everything about why I wanted to move away from merely
coding to actually engaging people.
I'll be readin
We built a Flex application for an insurance company's CSRs.
It was - as Troy mentioned for one of his projects - because the
executive stakeholder
heard of this Flex-thing and wanted to whiz-bang. I had done Flash in
the past, so
I was tapped to learn Flex and go from there.
When it dealt with ou
Actually, if it doesn't become too much of a nuisance, please do keep
this public.
I'm changing jobs (my first time with no development, just IA!
Huzzah!), and we're
working on MacBook Pros as well.
Thanks!
Scott
Welcome to the Inter
On Fri, Mar 14, 2008 at 10:28 AM, Morten Hjerde <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> I've used plural to avoid "he or she". I didn't realize that using the
> "singular they" is actually proper English. Or *almost *proper English.
> That's cool!
>
> This post was intended to be a bit in the "friday fun"
Yo'd obviously need much solid evangelism to convince every yo and yo
in yo company.
On Fri, Mar 14, 2008 at 7:42 AM, W Evans <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Funny - i would use it - but I like getting paid for my work :-)
>
>
--
'Life' plus 'significance' = magic. ~ Grant Morrison
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On Wed, Mar 12, 2008 at 1:03 PM, Sebi Tauciuc <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Very good point!
> And while you mentioned this, does that mean that there are QA persons out
> there that have to fill in the blanks and do some design work when the
> design spec isn't detailed or clear enough?
Yes, d
I'd fight this fight, but think there's plenty to be done with a
design that's technically meeting their requirements, but has
95%+ of the content and functionality inside a more reasonable
boundary. The "IT Industry" is a wide thing, and even most
developers/designers I know firsthand* use dual-m
That fits pretty well with the recent article in the UPA magazine
which highlighted iRise, but
written from the viewpoint of the UX fellow at Washington Mutual.
Still, cool that there's
more opportunities and tools out there, which will hopefully mean
it'll be easier, less expensive
and meet more o
I'm betting lots of us were stuck in the lower left corner, wondering
how the flow broke down.
But great all the same - and nerdily heartwarming :)
Scott
On Sun, Mar 9, 2008 at 10:05 AM, Rob Tannen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > Clever essay (and hysterical flow chart) in the Sunday New York Tim
While it was some time ago, I have had a client ask me why my end product
didn't look like the wireframes. As in...literally looking like the Visio.
On Thu, Feb 28, 2008 at 8:33 PM, Gretchen Anderson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> I've found that the value of your work better be understood and
>
With the Nokia conceptual video fueling some interesting discussion, I
thought I'd throw this out there as something perhaps even more
removed from our normal
approaches to design, but...well...it's not entirely implausible that
real application of this technology could come about.
Crazy kids...
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