Re: [IxDA Discuss] The Peer-to-Patent Project

Dude - I agree the system sucks and should be changed. I agree that there are alot of spurious at best applications that get approved. I agree that it's a perversity of the system that companies - mostly in Texas, can buy and hold patents for things they never created, never built, have no plans of

Re: [IxDA Discuss] Fitts Law fits

sorry - i tend to be more eloquent than that -Oleh is right - but I am so psyched that you were thinking about Fitt's Law that I am almost beside myself - this is exactly why I like IxDA - practitioners dealing with real problems while not forgetting all the good cog sci and HCI stuff that came bef

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

Yes but from your blog article ""How are monopolies lost? One day, the monopoly expires for whatever reason. But by then the best product people have left, or they're no longer listened to… Who usually ends up running the show? The sales guy… And so the company goes through this tumultuous time, an

Re: [IxDA Discuss] What's the difference between Delete and Remove?

On 10/17/07, Oleh Kovalchuke <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Colloquial, informal and elusive (also personal as well as 'my 2 cents'): > > "Delete" is final (barring "undo"), removes the item completely, from all > lists. > "Remove" - removes the item from the current list (other lists might still >

[IxDA Discuss] iPhone and Gmail - Oy Gevalt!

[File Under Gripe] Tell me first if this has already been discussed. I am currently in love/lust/embittered/confused/confounded and generally dismayed so far with Gmail's implementation on my iPhone. Here is just one user scenario that is very common for me - and leads me to believe that the gmail

Re: [IxDA Discuss] theory behind login screen of IxDA ?

Wow - Jeff invoked Bruce Schneieron IxDA. I must be hallucinating. In a parallel universe - IxDA people actually care about Crypto and security in the context of usable systems :-) just kidding of course. We don't spend any time on

Re: [IxDA Discuss] Tips on "breaking into" IA/ID/UxD industry forrecent graduates?

Steven, Jason, and others looking: 1. Fresh out of school, an agency is just not the place to work. Not only would I recommend trying for an inside position - I would try for one in something like a company's marketing department; then as you gain experience, you can begin to insidiously practice g

[IxDA Discuss] IxDA Savanna - Call for Authors and Books

Hi All, As the unofficial librarian, I am calling out to all IxDA members that are authors. For the IxDA conference in Savannah, Dave M came up with the brilliant idea of making sure that the SCAD bookstore was carrying as many IxD, IA, UX related books and has asked me to compile a list to send t

[IxDA Discuss] [Event] IxDA Boston Social F2F -- UI12 2007 Conference -Reminder

*IxDA Boston Social Face2Face — UI12 2007 Conference* What. IxDA Boston will be holding a social gathering of IxDA professionals from across the country that will be attending the UI12 2007 in Cambridge, Massachusetts. When. Monday, November, November 5th, 5.30pm - ?? Where. From the hotel lobby

Re: [IxDA Discuss] Call for Proposals - CHI 2008 Workshop: Optimizing Agile UCD (date extended)

Interesting - I just sat all day yesterday through a Larry Constantine seminar on Agile and UCD where he "almost" wrote off the entire User Research, Persona development parts of Big Design Up Front - and focused almost completely on modeling activities/tasks using UML. I must say that quite a few

Re: [IxDA Discuss] [EVENT] Reminder: IxDA Boston presents Steve Mulder: A Persona Workshop

http://boston.going.com/IxDABostonPersonas with update image On Nov 6, 2007 3:46 PM, Lisa deBettencourt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > IxDA Boston is pleased to present Steve Mulder: A Persona Workshop > > Tuesday, November 13th, 2007 at 7:00PM (6:30 for socializing and snacks) > > Location : Molec

Re: [IxDA Discuss] Examples where personas are *not* useful

To some degree - yes - But: "personas will not be able to define how the users are going to carry out the task or how they are going to approach their goals." If a UX/IxD is creating personas that do not include high importance scenarios/narratives/comics of users accomplishing certain goals - the

Re: [IxDA Discuss] Examples where personas are *not* useful

"Sounds ok, but how is this able to cater for unexpected behaviors? I am uncomfortable with including predicted user behaviors or the way the persona in question is going to approach the task, because I feel that it borders on relying on "gut feeling" which in my opinion should not be the way to co

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

And from my readings and attendance at all day workshops and seminars - the "Other" UCD - Usage Centered Design - is not User focused at all. The actuall user not not the central focus of the design effort. What is at the center of the design effort is a "conceptual model" of a particular usage bas

Re: [IxDA Discuss] Interesting tab navigation example

Ahh - so real accessibility issues - as opposed to the fact that I couldn't see the tabs because the site was either incorrectly implemented or MS just didn't care about me seeing it on my iPhone with Safari. Sorry about that - actually BFOH - euphemism for old school sys admins/hackers that are

Re: [IxDA Discuss] Universal Principles of Interaction Design (was: OLPC: Sugar not so Sweet?)

I think we need to make sure a distinction is made between "Principles" - like Cooper-Reimann's "Do No Harm," etc - with Design Patterns - which most definitely are dependent on context/culture/age/ etc... >From the highest level of abstraction - things are a lot more universal - but as you become

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

Your right Robert - I was so F*&^ing pissed about the use of the term "Specialist" that I skipped over that. As I said before - in many agency/consulting environments - Specialist means something very specific - that is 1-4 years at the most in experience - and no masters degree with a median salar

Re: [IxDA Discuss] Ratio of designers to developers

Over the last 5 years here is the breakdown from my experience: Kayak.com 1 IA/IxD (me) 4 engineers Gather.com 1 IA/IxD (me) 1 visual designer, 3 engineers AIR Worldwide 1 IA/IxD (me) 55 engineers (and 4 major product lines) - [no visual designer, no usability] Current

Re: [IxDA Discuss] Why do crappy interfaces sell?

Has it already been mentioned in this thread - but my gut tells me that a big reason crappy interfaces sell is that the person buying is not the person using. I won't name names - but a huge complaint about many ERP systems is that the CIO/CFO is sold the goods - and she never ever uses it - so the

Re: [IxDA Discuss] new features

Mark - I would say that if it's a potentially disruptive new feature - then call it out in some way - if it's a catch up feature - let it soft-launch because as you intimate - it draws attention to the fact that you are a latecomer and playing catch-up... This actually just happened to me last nigh

Re: [IxDA Discuss] new features

; when their self-service products were brought down with the rest of the > site...a sad situation that could have easily been avoided by a > soft-launch approach. > > -----Original Message- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of W > Evans > Sen

Re: [IxDA Discuss] Good Rant on lack of Good GUI Design Software

I hear you Dave -- A while back we talked a bit about this - and I was using Expression for some design/interaction prototyping - but you you are right - from a designer's perspective it was still very very painful (caveat - I haven't used it since September). The usability and flow was just not t

Re: [IxDA Discuss] Should web apps maintain state when moving between tabs

A more abstract question is this - Why are essentially two independant wizard like form operations happening inside of tabs to begin with? Is that the right metaphor to separate out different categories, types of interactions, workflows What does the tab metaphor mean in the context of the ap

Re: [IxDA Discuss] Why do crappy interfaces sell?

Yes - we've beat this poor horse dead before - looks like someone dug the poor thing up for an addition round of beating. Semantically - people who are interacting with machines to accomplish a task are using the machine. Drug addicts to not use the drugs, they take the drugs - but that horse is o

[IxDA Discuss] Tufte Discusses iPhone

Has anyone else seen, watched this presentation - Tufte on the iPhone? http://www.edwardtufte.com/bboard/q-and-a-fetch-msg?msg_id=00036T&topic_id=1 :: Interface design and the iPhone The iPhone platform elegantly solves the design problem of small screens by greatly intensifying the information re

Re: [IxDA Discuss] for type enthusiasts

I was lucky enough to see the Helvetica exhibit at MOMA in NYC in December and it was very interesting and inspirational indeed! If you get a chance - do check it out. On Jan 24, 2008 5:43 PM, JenniferVignone <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > http://www.helveticafilm.com/ > > Helvetica is a feature-le

Re: [IxDA Discuss] ATM machines

That is too funny you mention that. Co-workers and I stopped at a BoA ATM just yesterday and were dumbfounded "Is that..." "It can't be..." "It's the windows error sound..." And it was really really annoying - because it made that sound after I confirmed every aspect of the transaction - and just

Re: [IxDA Discuss] Myers Briggs, DISC, Personality of UX Folk

I'll weigh in, although my answers are obviously highly subjective. When evaluating candidates and building a team I would rather boil in a vat of hot molten lead than use a standardized test to inform anything, including who is fit to make coffee. Actually - more strongly - I think standardized te

Re: [IxDA Discuss] Myers Briggs, DISC, Personality of UX Folk

ion not to take the scores too seriously, the next 3 hours are > >a discussion of the scores and how they are strong predictors of job > >performance when in fact, they are not. > > > >I was the "victim" once of a company that wanted to use an MB-like > &g

Re: [IxDA Discuss] Myers Briggs, DISC, Personality of UX Folk

RE: Todd's comments. I am not back peddling per se, but I didn't want to think that the list of interview questions I ask, the answers, portfolio review - etc. are the only thing that matters. It does depend on the position (and context) - a designer must be able to design of course, but I have a

Re: [IxDA Discuss] Differnce between user interface and interactio design?

Long live silos!! Titles, and all other remnants of the roman army and feudalism are important in maintaining power in a hierarchical society. *Will's definitions: * Interaction Designer: Anything Dave M. does (and the *only *thing he does :-) Interface Designer: Anything LukeW does (and the only

Re: [IxDA Discuss] Myers Briggs, DISC, Personality of UX Folk

I tend to be introspective, introverted and perceptive in the morning - catatonic in the afternoon, and extroverted, quick to joke, and judgmental in the evening... I would have to take the test over 100 times, then do some serious math on the results - full blown statistical analysis - and them co

Re: [IxDA Discuss] Why do crappy interfaces sell?

Interesting metaphysical question. What if there was no God? What if all the praying, reading Torah (or Bible, or Koran, or Dianetics), good works, moral life, had absolutely no impact on anything - all that praying - farts in the wind. To your question - if good interface design just doesn't mat

[IxDA Discuss] [Plug] Mental Models: Getting Into Your Customer's Head

*Speaking of mental models etc...* Check out UIE's virtual seminar: Mental Models: Getting Into Your Customer's Head http://www.uie.com/events/virtual_seminars/indi_young/ When it comes to your users, do you really know what they want? Is your team struggling to agree on a common design because e

Re: [IxDA Discuss] Why do crappy interfaces sell?

Christine: I knew I had something about this - and I found a great white paper/report by our friends at Adaptive Path that talks about the ROI of User Experience - and the stuff we do - you actually have to pay for the thing - but it is definitely worth the investment for your organization - I wil

Re: [IxDA Discuss] Myers Briggs, DISC, Personality of UX Folk

Astrology and Tarot cards - administered by a professional, can also be truly eye-opening, and reveal really interesting things about myself and others - but it's still a parlor game best left in the salons of debutantes and pedants on the Upper East Side. It's far beyond the simple, less than dang

Re: [IxDA Discuss] Differnce between user interface and interactiondesign?

>>Job titles are very often totally meaningless. Amen. Can we just let this turd of a thread die? Titles are meaningless. Anyone who thinks they will be taken more seriously because of a title, or a proper understanding and general consensus of the definition of a title relative to other competin

Re: [IxDA Discuss] Differnce between user interface and interactiondesign?

Agreed Niemela: >>They are happy to make > every button look different.> Wow. Greater ignorance of graphic design has never been uttered with such impunity. Shame on you. You obviously have never worked with real visual designers. On Jan 28, 2008 2:11 AM, Niemelä Sami <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

Re: [IxDA Discuss] Differnce between user interface and interaction design?

Beside turning the page of a brochure - what are some other types of interactions between a user and a brochure? Taking it out of the envelope? On Jan 29, 2008 12:11 PM, Mark Schraad <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I agree entirely Jim. I know interaction designers that specialize in > brochures.

Re: [IxDA Discuss] interaction design groups for women?

The company that I was the UX A for 2.5 years may have not been the norm - but in the software engineering group - 55-60 people, the breakdown was something like this 55% women 45% men Tech leads 3 men, 2 women Ethnicity: 35% White (Euro ancestry - including eastern European Jewish and Russian ba

Re: [IxDA Discuss] encourage the use of real name

You wrote: "As with any social networking applications, the quality of a given social graph heavily depends on whether your users are using their real name in their profile." *I disagree*. I know some very very vibrant, highly sticky social networking applications and the quality of the social gra

Re: [IxDA Discuss] encourage the use of real name

If - from a business perspective you really need real names - then Jeff's recommendation is right on - and you need to offer some value - such as increased reputation (a highly regarded form of currency on SN). I only disagreed with the base assumption that social networks derive greater value for

[IxDA Discuss] More Design Thinking & Strategic Design

*Another Blog Posting on Design Thinking & Management from Fast Company. * "Is the Design Revolution Here? Can Designers get to the top of a publicly traded company? In the past months I've read several articles and blogs about the possibility that Jonathan Ive, SVP of Industrial Design at Apple,

Re: [IxDA Discuss] Social app popularity begins to decline

I agree with you to the extent that most (All?) social networking sites are designed without the aid/help/input from social psychologists.. I only got interested in the social psych/cog psych of SNAs after I started designing an SNA. But first a comment - I know of only one SNA that was designed b

Re: [IxDA Discuss] Social app popularity begins to decline

Another anecdote (note- I no longer have stock in Gather) - Gather takes it's advertising revenue and revenue from allowing companies to set up groups around their products - and turns around and pays people for their contributions to the SN - you earn points by connecting, publishing, and commenti

Re: [IxDA Discuss] Social app popularity begins to decline

Christine's comment is prescient given the blog posting by Seth Godin: http://sethgodin.typepad.com/seths_blog/2008/01/tribal-manageme.html "Tribe Management Brand management is so 1999. Brand management was top down, internally focused, political and money based. It involved an MBA managing th

Re: [IxDA Discuss] Social app popularity begins to decline

Merli - Wouldn't you agree that from a pure social psychology perspective - at least theoretically - pleasing or not - SNAs do allow for three key group/social dynamic needs, Stalking, imitation, and gossip - a recent book actually has come out talking about the huge importance of gossip in mainta

Re: [IxDA Discuss] Social app popularity begins to decline

Jeff - going all Magritte on us now! To wit: "This is not a pipe" Not all social networks mediated by technology are the same. Friends on MySpace, Connections on LinkedIn, friends on Facebook -- may not be friends - but they are not precluded from being friends by the nature of the mediation. Some

Re: [IxDA Discuss] Social app popularity begins to decline

Wow - now your busting out with Baudrillard? Welcome to the desert of the real! Actually - I suppose that social networks will only exhibit the kind of crisis of identity when simulacra replace simulation, and copies without originals rule the SNAs *http://tinyurl.com/y9kh9w * On Thu, 31 Jan 200

Re: [IxDA Discuss] Social app popularity begins to decline

I do agree with you on those points. I personally don't find this off topic because it goes to the nascent concept of a code of ethics for us - since many of us here are designing these new ecologies of simulated experience and identity - and we need to think about the implications of our design de

Re: [IxDA Discuss] "Manifesto of the UI" - A UI Developer's POV

"It just highlights to me this notion of people are doing interaction design without knowing they are doing it." Absolutely. When I just read that - I was reminded of something Dan S. wrote in the first chapter of Designing for Interfaces that argued that exact same point. People who don't even kn

Re: [IxDA Discuss] International Journal of Design - CFP on Cultural Aspects of Interaction Design

Good find Dave - for those who are unfamiliar - I have recommended before (and it's included in my list of top 101 books for IxD community) - and heartily recommend Jonas Lowgren's book with Erik Stolterman - Thoughtful Interaction Design:* http://tinyurl.com/3yjug6 *What I like about the book i

Re: [IxDA Discuss] "home" links

There is never a reason to not make the logo also a home link - there is no cost, and many people actually do understand that it is a pseudo-standard. But an explicitly labeled home link in the global (not local) navigation is equally - if not more important. Unless --- your site info arch lends it

Re: [IxDA Discuss] The ONE Book!

The toughest thing about Pankaj's question is that he forces me to choose just one per group - managers and line engineers. As many of you know - my UX/IxD/IA library darn near competely fills my home office - and it's kinda of sad in a geeky way. For engineers - a fun, funny book that at least arg

[IxDA Discuss] [Design Patterns] Save and Cancel

Some input and thoughts would be appreciated. For modal (and modeless) windows, pop-ups, and "lightbox" ajaxed pop-ups, after a person has performed certain tasks, there are two options - commit those changes or cancel the dialog window. What order is best? Mac OS X orders them as Cancel | Save,

Re: [IxDA Discuss] [Design Patterns] Save and Cancel

lace the "save" button where a little more > attention is needed to click it. > > This is all just based on my experience and thoughts, no research > included. (Apart from the fact that it is easier to hit a target in > the lower right than the lower left corner, but eve

Re: [IxDA Discuss] [Design Patterns] Save and Cancel

from this > conversation. If desired, tab stops can be programmatically controlled > to set focus on the default button following the last text field in the > form. > > -Original Message- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of W > Evans >

Re: [IxDA Discuss] [Design Patterns] Save and Cancel

6, 2008 8:47 AM, Alexander Baxevanis <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Feb 6, 2008 12:42 PM, W Evans <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > For modal (and modeless) windows, pop-ups, and "lightbox" ajaxed > pop-ups, > > after a person has performed certain tasks, there

Re: [IxDA Discuss] [Design Patterns] Save and Cancel

The MAC User Experience Guidelines is very explicit on this Rob - The order is: --- *[ FORM ]* --- *Previous* | *Next**Cancel * | *OK* ---

Re: [IxDA Discuss] [Design Patterns] Save and Cancel

Thanks Jack - that helped alot - and although I was doing the right thing - sometimes I forget why I was doing something the way I was doing it. "I know there is some XXX that backs this up - but jeez I can't remember what it was -- anyone see my glasses?" Yeah - I am getting old. On Feb 6, 2008

Re: [IxDA Discuss] How to transition from technical writer to interaction designer?

I think there is actually a gentle path from Technical Writer » Information Architect » IxD because I see it as a journey from structured content to structuring content (organization, flow), to flow and behavior (creating the dialogue between people and system, people and people, people and environ

Re: [IxDA Discuss] look and feel

>From the post: "Brands are about ideas not just logos, 'look and feel' refers to the brand's supporting graphic elements, typography, colour palette, material palette, photographic style etc, these are elements that can help communicate the brand message or story." Yeah - I disagree. I don't thin

Re: [IxDA Discuss] Monday. Ugh!

Ditto! I arrived back in Boston last night (quite a few IxDers on the leg from Savannah to Charlotte) - 15 degrees, windy, really cold- *NOT *as nice as the amazing weather, camaraderie, passion, excitement and energy I got from meeting so many great people. Special thanks to Dave and all the orga

Re: [IxDA Discuss] Working with Product Analysts/Manager

Karen - I would recommend reading the article in Jon Kolko's book "Thoughts On Interaction Design," by an interaction designer named Ellen Beldner called "Getting Design Done," in which she deals with just that issue of how to work effectively with PMs - especially when they want to own everything

Re: [IxDA Discuss] Thoughts on Alan Cooper's Keynote

"I suggest you take a look at Scott Ambler's Agile Modeling site; this is a good intro< http://www.agilemodeling.com/essays/initialArchitectureModeling.htm> to how initial modeling fits in. (Ambler is about the most authoritative you can get with agile, so if you want to gain an understanding of w

Re: [IxDA Discuss] Fwd: Thoughts on Alan Cooper's Keynote

True Scott - which is why brainstorming and prototyping by IxD people should be done first! If everything was thrown in a data table - we would never have the 3-d flip-book carousel to page through our CDs on our iPhones. Lotus 1-2-3 came out 25 years ago - we might think about innovating once in

Re: [IxDA Discuss] How to transition from technical writer to interaction designer?

> I would strongly encourage all designers, and particularly young > designers to begin putting in that extra time to document your work, > processes, iterations, and outcomes. Yes! To quote Dan B again - IxD should not just spring forth like Athena from Zeus's forehead. Show iterations, mock-ups

Re: [IxDA Discuss] How to transition from technical writer to interaction designer?

"Do you see IA as a necessary intermediate step? Or is it starting out on a parallel (and to me, less interesting-sounding) path?" No. I don't think there is a yellow brick road to IxD that requires IA as an intermediate step - but I do know that a rather large portion of the people on this list h

Re: [IxDA Discuss] Thoughts on Alan Cooper's Keynote

Manifestos are beautiful - and I can't argue with these - but it's the practice and process of any methodology carried out by real people that is all that matters. The communist manifesto was a work of literary art. Stalin killed 50 million people. Manifestos don't always lead to good outcomes in r

Re: [IxDA Discuss] Education and Skill Sets

Start by looking at our archives - under the topic education: http://www.ixda.org/topics.php?topic=education Off the top of my head - Carnegie Mellon, Bentley College, Kent State, NYU, Pratt, SCAD I would write to the other, but I have a train to catch! On Feb 13, 2008 2:42 AM, Cheryll-Bellsouth

Re: [IxDA Discuss] Thoughts on Alan Cooper's Keynote

I made no reference to the nazis! On Feb 13, 2008 6:49 AM, Jeff White <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Ha! > > On Feb 13, 2008 6:10 AM, Scott McDaniel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Is this close enough to Godwin's Law to call it? > > > > On Feb 13, 200

Re: [IxDA Discuss] Keeping content relevant in 2015

Jerome - I really like the article and a lot of the ideas that you put down. I would wonder if you wanted to extend the article to cover more than just the time dimension as is relates to "relevance" Specifically significant changes in natural language processing and semantic analysis of large bod

Re: [IxDA Discuss] Less talking, more doing (was: Thoughts on Alan Cooper's Keynote)

I will tell you something that really excites me - this discussion has brought more people into the discussion than many we have had in months - and that is a great thing. People I don't recognize are posting some very passionate, articulate arguments and that can only make this list better. On Fe

Re: [IxDA Discuss] Evil Datagrids! ( was RE: Fwd: Thoughts on AlanCooper's Keynote )

, grouping them in sets of thinks - like playing with math blocks as a kid - if you start to think about discreet database records as objects like this thought experiement - you might come up with whole new ways to display the data. On Feb 13, 2008 4:41 PM, W Evans <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: &

Re: [IxDA Discuss] Evil Datagrids! ( was RE: Fwd: Thoughts on AlanCooper's Keynote )

Tufte is a good place to start - Envisioning Information, Visual Display of Quantitative Data, Beautiful evidence. His examples are old, but the ideas about how to think about the problem are par none! 2008/2/13 Pierre Roberge <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > Greg said: > Not being funny, just looking to l

Re: [IxDA Discuss] HCI Blog Aggregate

What is a "planet" besides of course the celestial variety? On Fri, Feb 15, 2008 at 9:17 AM, Celeste 'seele' Paul <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > PlanetHCI.org has been dead for a while, but I don't know of any other > good > HCI/usability/ia/design blog "planets". Does anyone have any suggestion

Re: [IxDA Discuss] friday fun: what's the coolest thing you've designed?

I love what I am designing right now -but since it won't see the light of day for a while kayak.com is probably the highest profile, I really designed the UI for myself - but others seem to like it, even if it has issues gather.com because I never thought I would design a social networking ap

Re: [IxDA Discuss] friday fun: what's the coolest thing you've designed?

Hands down your best work to date! On Fri, 15 Feb 2008 12:34:34, dave malouf <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > the interaction design association > > > . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . > Posted from the new ixda.org > http://www.ixda.org/discuss?post=25992 > > >

Re: [IxDA Discuss] "The Most Frequently Used Features in Microsoft Office"

My biggest - one of them at least, "axes to grind" - is the use of "in-language," "jargon," bad metaphors and cliches. The most annoying one, however, is the use of sports metaphors in diction. I have seen politicians speeches and marketing websites where a reader is subjected to paragraphs of noth

Re: [IxDA Discuss] Technology Review puts Offline Web Apps in their top 10 emerging technologies

And another reason to thank you for the link was there special report on advances in Search: *Special Reports Next-Generation Search* http://www.technologyreview.com/specialreports/specialreport.aspx?id=2 -- ~ will Welcome to the Int

Re: [IxDA Discuss] Technology Review puts Offline Web Apps in their top 10 emerging technologies

Thanks for the link Dave - and some very interesting things in the list - but one thing I was thinking is that we have been, as software/web/interface/interaction designers - stuck in the exact same (for the most part), paradigm for GUIs since 1968. Wow. It was exactly 40 years ago that Engelbart (

Re: [IxDA Discuss] Where are all the designers?

And I would love to blame the quality of the job posting sites. There search engines are terrible. Just now, I search in Washington DC Information Architect (86 results - only 3 were for IA) Interaction Designer (41 results, only 1 for IxD) Interface Designer (10 results, only one for ID)

Re: [IxDA Discuss] Where are all the designers?

"so they work from a skills and background checklist and if a > resume doesn't use the same set of magic words that their list does, > you lose someone who might actually be a perfect candidate" Then it seems they are no better than a machine. --

Re: [IxDA Discuss] Where are all the designers?

. hee. > > [Shameless plug] > > The job postings on jobs.boxesandarrows.com are extremely accurate. Less > of them, but they are all aimed at the right demographic and thus have > high relevancy. > > W Evans wrote: > > And I would love to blame the quality of the job postin

Re: [IxDA Discuss] Where are all the designers?

"Wow. I want to work where you work! Most interaction designers I know in the Bay Area don't make anywhere close to this amount. I'd say about half of this ($75-100k) is about average." Therein lies the problem in the Bay Area Dan. How much is proximity to all those great places/people/companies w

Re: [IxDA Discuss] Where are all the designers?

> > Where do the "IA needed with 10 years Illustrator and J2EE hands-on > experience" posts come from? > Scott One word: Leprechauns* - Welcome to the Interaction Design Association (IxDA)! To post to this li

Re: [IxDA Discuss] Where are all the designers?

Dan, when I read this: "Geographic concentration encourages innovation because ideas flow more freely, are honed more sharply, and can be put into practice more quickly when innovators, implementers, and financial backers are in constant contact. Creative people cluster not simply because they like

Re: [IxDA Discuss] Where are all the designers?

To that point - those of us who *have* been hiring managers in the past - if we want things to change - we have to take responsibility for partnering with HR/Recruiter people. I have spent many an hour on the phone just talking about the issues, skills, mindset, background of people that might be a

Re: [IxDA Discuss] GMails New Contact Manager

Amnon - At least you can try to use it -- * I can't! * None of my contacts show up in the list. I can mouse over what I guess might be the rows where the names exist - but the names don't appear. When you can't even read the names of your contacts because they don't exist, there is a real problem

Re: [IxDA Discuss] Where are all the designers?

ten out that this position is ill defined > and pays rather well. Like Andrei, I am getting resumes that are all over > the mat and hardly qualified. Lots of people with a tech background and > absolutely no design foundation. > Mark > > > On Thu, Feb 21, 2008 at 3:52

Re: [IxDA Discuss] Where are all the designers?

"Now, you might hand that off to someone else to spit and polish, but in reality, you can't do one w/o impacting the other." As much as I try to limit the definitions of the practice, I can't limit the practitioner. Depending on what I am working on - I may do nothing more than interview people, d

Re: [IxDA Discuss] Where are all the designers?

"Yet, how do you get those 3-5 years without year 1! Yes, I have 3-5 years experience, but I think we all are doing ourselves a disservice by not hiring junior folks. If you're out there hiring, try to consider a junior position, even as a contractor position if necessary." I knwo businesses are

Re: [IxDA Discuss] Creative Navigation

It was attractive, but the orange arrow definitely some Fitt's issues. The arrow is decent size - but if you didn't tell me - I would have had no idea that that launched navigation. It's not that the site content on the main page is so busy with imagery and content that there is even a need to hide

Re: [IxDA Discuss] Creative Navigation

eems a little risky. But for complex apps that > serve a niche user base and are used frequently, I like the concept of "get > stuff out of my way and let me do my job". They'd quickly learn how the > navigation works. > > Jeff > > > On Fri, Feb 22, 2008 at 12:56

Re: [IxDA Discuss] iPhones on Campus

My biggest fear of de-skilling comes from what I consider the wide scale if not complete functional illiteracy of children that have graduated [sic] from high school in the last 20 years. This trend is accelerating at an exponential rate such that almost every child born today will be functionally

Re: [IxDA Discuss] Most usable doesn't always mean best solution

Elizabeth, there are a lot of people out in the field, especially marketing agencies, performing usability studies who haven't got a clue that there's an ISO 9241 standard for it. You might be surprised by this, but it's true. .. To the point: "In the dusty institutions where usability standar

[IxDA Discuss] JOB: Web Interface/Interaction Designer, Cambridge MA, HiveFire, Part-time/Contract

*Company Overview* HiveFire is an early stage funded start up located in Kendall Square in Cambridge, MA. HiveFire is in the online news and blog space specializing in technology involving machine learning, natural language processing, information retrieval and human computer interaction. Curren

Re: [IxDA Discuss] Good examples of airlines websites

Anyone else notice that Cleartrip is almost a complete ripoff of my Kayak design which was done in 2004? Look here: http://www.cleartrip.com/, then hhttp://www.kayak.com/ Is it me - or is complete copying of a UI the better part of flattery? - Will On Tue, Mar 11, 2008 at 2:31 PM, Todd Zaki Warf

Re: [IxDA Discuss] Who would you like to see in a Debate?

Me versus Dan Saffer on why Silicone Valley is the last place a good IXD would want to move to and work. On Wed, 12 Mar 2008 06:50:15, David Malouf <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Jason Fried vs. Me! > I think 37Signals' notions of "designing for self" are wrong > despite. Starting with "yourself" h

Re: [IxDA Discuss] Design at Apple

Similarly - colleague and I once had a client that loved pickle flavored ice cream - similar to your pony. His reasoning was: I like pickles, I like ice cream. Pickle-flavored ice cream is a great idea. We actually became close with the client and could joke with him after a while when he was askin

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