Hi Omid,
Laurea University of Applied Sciences in Helsinki has a new program
calledService Innovation and Designhttp://servicedesign.laurea.fi/
http://servicedesign.laurea.fi/I was there for a term this year, as
exchange. It's a mix between Business, Marketing and Design, including the
Service
Wait, wasn't that 'Experience Design' (or something)? I'm confused :)
Taking Chauncey's entry (minus the poetic linefeeds), Creating quality
code that drives useful usable engaging user interfaces, and tightening it
a bit, why not just say, Creating great experiences for our customers and
Hi Sachin,
Do you mean 'user experience' or 'usability'? To me 'fun' sounds like a
quality that could contribute to the overall user experience, in wich case
there would be no need for compromise.
What does 'product customizers' mean? Could you please give an example /
more details?
One thing's
I used iMindMap (available for both Mac and Windows). It's not free, though
- I had to pay for it - and it's not too cheap, either (but not extremely
expensive). For me it's worth it though, despite some things that could be
improved (and the new version they just got out seems promissing)
One thing's for sure: they were quite creative, and not afraid to play. They
did quite impressive things in half an hour with that comic software (that
I'd shown them for the first time).
What you said somehow made me think about this Ted talk on education killing
creativity* *(thanks Soo)*:
Hi all,
This is for whoever is interested. Just had a small session with some kids
for a library project here in Sweden, and here are the results:
http://sergiutauciuc.ro/en/portfolio/huskvarna-library/Meeting-the-kids.png(mindmap
- recommended)
Here are the links again, I didn't know they get messed up in the process
(at least on the website):
*http://tinyurl.com/qejr7j* http://tinyurl.com/qejr7j
*http://tinyurl.com/o7nerh* http://tinyurl.com/o7nerh
Sorry about this.
Sebi
On Fri, May 15, 2009 at 4:34 PM, Sebi Tauciuc stauc
Thanks a lot to everyone who answered, both online and offline! This was
very useful!
Sebi
On Fri, Feb 6, 2009 at 5:17 PM, Sebi Tauciuc stauc...@gmail.com wrote:
Hi,
Does anyone have experience in working with kids/teenagers aged 10-18? Any
pointers on the best methods to use to get them
be made
to mean anything on this list :) )
Sebi
On Thu, Jan 29, 2009 at 2:24 AM, Todd Zaki Warfel li...@toddwarfel.comwrote:
On Jan 28, 2009, at 7:08 PM, Sebi Tauciuc wrote:
Depends on what you mean by deliverable. I would see pen, paper
sketching as tools, not deliverables. Of course, you
wrote:
On Jan 28, 2009, at 4:08 PM, Sebi Tauciuc wrote:
Depends on what you mean by deliverable. I would see pen, paper
sketching
as tools, not deliverables. Of course, you can still show sketches to
people, but just to ask questions and promote discussion, not as a final
result
On Thu, Jan 29, 2009 at 12:35 AM, Andrei Herasimchuk
aherasimc...@involutionstudios.com wrote:
On Jan 28, 2009, at 6:24 AM, Peter Morville wrote:
Jeffery Callender and I collaborated on this article...
http://semanticstudios.com/publications/semantics/000228.php
...and on a collection of
Hi Matt,
I noticed that it doesn't say what *you*'re offering.
The extra explanation for the 1st point didn't make it any clearer to me
than it was.
Otherwise, it all looks pretty clear and reasonable to me. Can't comment on
the requirements themselves too much, because you probably know better
Hi all,
This may be obvious to others, but it's not clear to me:
Is there a good enough reason why when I want to change my profile picture
for Google, Yahoo!, Skype, LinkedIn and all the other social networks I'm a
part of (i.e. IxDA :) ), I have to go to all these places and upload the new
:37 PM, Sebi Tauciuc stauc...@gmail.com wrote:
Hi all,
This may be obvious to others, but it's not clear to me:
Is there a good enough reason why when I want to change my profile picture
for Google, Yahoo!, Skype, LinkedIn and all the other social networks I'm
a
part of (i.e. IxDA :) ), I
Great link, thanks!
Sebi
On Sun, Nov 16, 2008 at 10:29 AM, Jakub Linowski [EMAIL PROTECTED]wrote:
http://www.ironicsans.com/owmyeyes/
:)
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
Posted from the new ixda.org
http://www.ixda.org/discuss?post=35607
Hm, what am I consuming as a user of a, say, banking service? (assume I only
deposit, for the sake of the argument)
I, for one, have a big issue with the term 'consumer'. I really hope we get
passed it as soon as possible and get back to being humans.
Sebi
On Mon, Nov 17, 2008 at 8:22 PM,
After all this time, Google still doesn't know what language(s) I speak (and
serves me Finnish and Swedish ocasionally just because I'm in these
countries). I tried many times to tell it that I only speak Romanian and
English, but I don't really feel like it's listening.
So no, I'm not worried
Best post in this thread, if you ask me :)
...But it seems we never get tired of it, somehow.
Sebi
On Mon, Oct 20, 2008 at 11:05 PM, Jeff Howard [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Hi Tahsin,
We discuss this question every now and then without resolving it.
Here's the most recent attempt:
Very well put, Jonas!
On Wed, Oct 15, 2008 at 11:03 AM, Jonas Löwgren [EMAIL PROTECTED]wrote:
I notice though, that there is a strong dependency on how/if the
interaction
will work and the (eventual) visual design.
My question: can an interaction designer create great working interaction
That's great, thanks a lot!
Sebi
On Sun, Sep 28, 2008 at 12:14 AM, Jon [GMAIL] [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Hi,
Just a quick note - I've put the entire text of Thoughts on Interaction
Design online; you can peruse at http://thoughtsoninteraction.com/
Thanks :)
-
Jon Kolko
Hi,
I'm looking forward to the article!
Until then, I needed a summary of this discussion and since I'm making one,
thought someone else might need it as well.
*
On brainstorming*:
- a moderator/facilitator who knows what they're doing helps tremendously in
brainstorming. Scribe could also be
On the one hand, I would want to say that the concept isn't at all about the
mouse - it's about the browser. The mouse is just there to look futuristic -
so although discussions about input devices are interesting, they're not at
all related to the main idea of this video.
On the other hand, since
Hi,
Not a direct answer, but this reminded me of A. Cooper's *An Insurgency of
Quality*http://www.brightcove.tv/title.jsp?title=1416866797channel=1274129191
.
He answers a similar question around the time 37:37 of the presentation.
Sebi
On Fri, Aug 1, 2008 at 7:37 PM, Lakshmanan L L [EMAIL
Maybe you weren't indexed yet ;)
On Mon, Jul 28, 2008 at 3:29 PM, Mario Bourque [EMAIL PROTECTED]wrote:
Was not able to find mariobourque.com when searching for Mario Bourque
I like the concept though.
--
Mario Bourque
Web: www.mariobourque.com
Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Twitter:
Too long for me. Gave up reading up after two paragraphs. Does this prove
the article's point?
Sebi
On Tue, Jul 15, 2008 at 10:18 PM, Jackie O'Hare [EMAIL PROTECTED]
wrote:
Incidentally, I found the article too wordy for the ideas it described,
but emotionally satisfying (just like I found
Yes, it sounds to me too that marketing should know a lot about persuasion.
Of course, they may not know very well how to translate their knowledge into
a web page design. Maybe this is where close collaboration helps - they know
more about persuasion, we know better how to translate it into the
Hmm, and I hoped the discussion was over...At least it would have been nice
to keep it under the same thread - don't see the reason to open a new one
(except that messages here might get more visibility, since the other thread
is, well, packed? )
Personally, I don't see why we need to make such
On Thu, Jun 19, 2008 at 7:08 PM, Connor, Adam [EMAIL PROTECTED]
wrote:
What do you guys think? Those of you with Masters (or higher degrees),
how has having one helped you. Those that don't, do you feel not having
one has held you back or hurt you in any way? Do you plan on pursuing a
*2 converging divergent approaches, *I would say - at least that's one point
I think the article is trying to make.
Sebi
On Fri, Jun 13, 2008 at 3:25 AM, David Malouf [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Check out what I think is a very articulate article on 2 divergent
approaches to IxD.
On Thu, Jun 12, 2008 at 9:29 PM, Jeff Howard [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:.
In other communities with the give-to-get mentality, I've seen the
phenomenon of throwaway comments where a new member posts the
bare minimum simply to gain access to locked features. Is there a
check in place to
Oh, so you do have cheating mechanisms already. Sounds pretty good!
Personally, I have a very good feeling about this model. It mimics the way
human cooperation works in general (give some to take some combined with
trust) , and systems that mimic the way our mind works just... work.
Yes, there
On Sat, Jun 7, 2008 at 1:41 AM, Dan Saffer [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
On Jun 6, 2008, at 3:26 PM, Will Evans wrote:
removing oneself from the list is absolutely part of the solution options
Why would any one of us have to bow out to discuss this. It's ludicrous.
Last I checked - even with
On Fri, Jun 6, 2008 at 5:00 PM, Gail Swanson [EMAIL PROTECTED]
wrote:
I have a theory that the appearance of a dup email field is a
misunderstanding of the dup password field. Password fields are
often duplicated because they are masked and therefore the user has
no way to validate their
On Fri, Jun 6, 2008 at 5:28 PM, Jared Spool [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I haven't seen anything formally published. However, here's what we've
found in our research at UIE:
The problem you're trying to solve is mistyping email addresses. Depending
on the audience, context, and design, you can
Ok, am I the only one who gets an automated reply from Yahoo! Search
Marketing every time I post a message to the list?
Maybe we could do something about it?
Sebi
On Fri, Jun 6, 2008 at 5:43 PM, Yahoo! Search Marketing
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Thank you for contacting us. This automated
Yes, probably we do want to go the open source route. I started looking at
Moodle a bit, and it shows much more promise than what we currently have.
Now I've started looking at several such LMSs (Learning Management Systems)
and LCMSs (Learning Content Management Systems) - thanks for the hint
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 you please explain?
On Fri, May 23, 2008 at 9:39 AM, Jack Moffett [EMAIL PROTECTED]
wrote:
As an Interaction Designer
Coming up with ideas and developing them. Of course, that comes after seeing
that something needs to be improved and that improving it would make a
difference.
Sebi
On Fri, May 23, 2008 at 4:39 PM, Jack Moffett [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
As an Interaction Designer (or Interface Designer,
Hi all,
I could use some ideas of technical solutions that could be used to build a
free online university. It's not that I want to choose the technology first,
it's just that I would like to know my options.
For example, I was thinking that one wiki might be used to create and manage
each
That gets quite painful when you're living in a foreign country (every now
and then Google does it to me)...But I guess if you add a cookie to it and
make it remember your choice of language forever, it's ok.
Sebi
On Fri, May 9, 2008 at 9:03 PM, Bob Sampson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
..Don't
Hi Loredana,
You can also check the previous threads for more of people's thoughts, as
there have been many interesting discussions on this subject:
http://ixda.org/search.php?tag=agile
Sebi
On Fri, Apr 18, 2008 at 3:09 AM, Loredana Crisan [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
What are your thoughts on
the browsing/search experience is pretty horrendous -
and they require (free) registration in order to download a sample in
MP3 format, but you can (re)use all samples for free under a Creative
Commons license.
Good luck,
Alex
On Thu, Apr 17, 2008 at 8:19 AM, Sebi Tauciuc [EMAIL PROTECTED
Hi all,
I could use a (reasonably long) background sound of people talking - the
atmosphere of a social gathering or something like that.
Does anyone have good pointers as to where to search?
Thanks,
Sebi
--
Sergiu Sebastian Tauciuc
http://www.sergiutauciuc.ro/en/
What would you change?
..The past..?
--
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http://www.sergiutauciuc.ro/en/
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Hi,
I just noticed Google Docs has a new feature in the Sharing section of a
spreadsheet, called Invite people to fill out a form.
It seems to me like a pretty neat way to get online feedback/info from your
users. Of course, it has all the limitations a feedback form has as far as
quality and
.
On Sun, Mar 16, 2008 at 10:21 PM, Sebi Tauciuc [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Hi all,
If you were to name one thing (or a few) that contributed most to your
success, that brought a lot of value to your work, that greatly improved
your design skills (you get the idea), what would it be?
Maybe it's
Hi all,
If you were to name one thing (or a few) that contributed most to your
success, that brought a lot of value to your work, that greatly improved
your design skills (you get the idea), what would it be?
Maybe it's a decision you made, maybe it's an attitude, maybe a set of
values. Whatever
My girlfriend is on a business trip in another country, and she was trying
to book herself a plane ticket back (her stay was longer than expected). She
tried to login to the travel company's web site, but she wasn't sure about
the username (picked by her company) and password (she has several), so
Hi all,
Does anyone have any advice on finding remote (interaction) design work
or/and a design internship somewhere in Europe (ideally Finland or Sweden)
for the summer?
I've been living in Finland for the last year and a half, doing 2 different
internships, both kind of development oriented.
Great questions.
I guess a way to rephrase the question would be: When will they start
providing services instead of products?. Obviously, as long the business
model is 'sell as many products as possible and use whatever resources are
cheapest, there aren't too many incentives for them to produce
For some of the reasons outlined by Cindy, I started with an online
portfolio. This way, I figured, the portfolio itself would show my skills of
creating an interactive experience, not only the content. But since I wrote
all the html+css myself, I must say it was a bit hard and time-consuming to
FWIW... Involution is looking for both senior and junior level folks,
although we only post officially for senior level positions.
--
Andrei Herasimchuk
Applying to a position takes me at least half a day (that includes some
research and the customized letter of intent).
In general, I
Hi,
I usually read the list on my e-mail client, but every now and then I want
to tag or mark as favorite a message/discussion that I'm really interested
in. In those moments, I could really use a link from the e-mail message to
the same message/thread on the web. I was wondering if there are
I don't know anything about Australia, so can't answer that. But if you
already have a Bachelor's diploma, why do you need another one? Can't you
use that one to apply and learn a bit privately in order to get some IxD
fundations?
On Fri, 15 Feb 2008 23:37:27, Terence Ng [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
A 'treasure hunt' (with clues and riddles and challenges and stuff) for my
girlfriend when it was time for the Christmas presents. She really enjoyed
it, so I designed version 2 the next Christmas.
Sebi
On Feb 15, 2008 10:02 PM, Ari Feldman [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
be it desktop app, game, CD,
On Feb 13, 2008 9:21 PM, Kim Bieler [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I came away from Interaction '08 convinced of the value of personas
in focusing and directing the design of a project. Or, more
accurately, I was already convinced -- I came away DETERMINED to
start incorporating personas into my
There's much more.
If we want to still stand a chance on this planet, I think we will need to
redesign for sustainability mostly everything, from our homes to our
society. This, to me, sounds like a huge design effort. Now, if this effort
is taken on by the wrong kind of people, there is a risk,
Ah, that's right, thanks!
Ofcourse, in this case a balance needs to be found between resisting
change-for-the-sake-of-change and making change to improve efficiency.
But you're right, it seems like a good example that it can be done.
On Jan 19, 2008 1:54 AM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Sorry I
Hi
I use Last.fm daily, so I will speak from this point of view.
I came across that page once, clicked on that link, got to the MusicBrainz
website, read through to MusicBrainz is a community music metadatabase that
attempts to create a comprehensive music information site. , didn't even
notice
On Thu, 27 Dec 2007 09:08:36, dave malouf [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Of course, at a biological level we all receive signals
neurologically at the some level of commonality.
According to Pinker's How the Mind Works, we are all the same more than
just on a neurological level. We have several
By the way... Many times I come across services I would like to use or
stores I would like to buy from and the only way to tell if it works outside
U.S. or not is to go through the registration process and get to that Enter
your address page..I try searching the geographical scope in the 'About'
On Dec 11, 2007 9:00 PM, Fred Beecher [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
On 12/11/07, Michael Tuminello [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
We could add something to the ixda site that let non-profits submit
projects for consideration for pro-bono work by our members...
That sounds like a fabulous idea.
Very good idea and it seems nicely implemented on catalogchoice.org.
Anything available for the rest of the world? :)
PS. Very interesting how on many web sites, the only way to find out the
geographical scope of the project is to go to the Register page and see if
there is a 'Country' drop-down.
They both sound like great ideas, but maybe with different sized scopes.
The question is: how much time is needed for the Wikipolitics? Is it a
bigger project than what Michael was thinking? If yes, would we benefit from
a small victory on a smaller project before tackling a bigger project?
On
Hi Youle,
Very good observation that people behavior is important. I would even say
that people not only have to be involved, but they must actually drive the
change towards sustainability. I would put it like this:
People's *attitude* towards sustainability can be positively influenced by:
-
It is an arbitrary indication, but to some extent at least I think it does
set expectations. We tend to judge and evaluate based on past experience, so
if going through Step2 of a form takes us 3 seconds, I think we will assume
that Step3 won't take more than 10-20 seconds. If Step takes 3
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