[IxDA Discuss] Explain IA Winners

2010-02-21 Thread Peter Morville
the experience as much as I have, and I trust that our new and colorful collection... http://www.flickr.com/groups/explainia/ ...will continue to help people who find themselves needing to Explain IA. Cheers! Peter Morville (on behalf of the IA Institute

[IxDA Discuss] Explain IA

2010-02-12 Thread Peter Morville
time TV. Good luck! And, thanks for playing! Peter Morville President, Semantic Studios http://semanticstudios.com/ http://findability.org/ Welcome to the Interaction Design Association (IxDA)! To post to this list ... disc

Re: [IxDA Discuss] Usability: HipHopMuseum.or or NMOH.org

2010-02-08 Thread Peter Becker
Sounds like some suits are trying to bring some cred to what is otherwise totally street. Perfectly stated as outside in rather than inside out. My vote's for hip hop museum and my theory on the acronyms are as follows. If there is a choice between acronym or a phrase/title, from the standpoint of

[IxDA Discuss] Explain IA Final Week

2010-02-04 Thread Peter Morville
for the: $1,000 grand prize (sponsored by the IA Institute and Endeca) $500 best video award (sponsored by nForm) $500 best diagram award (sponsored by Semantic Studios) So, enter now, while you still have a chance to Explain IA. Peter Morville President, Semantic

[IxDA Discuss] Search Pattern Library

2010-02-01 Thread Peter Morville
interesting and valuable. Please let us know that you think. Thanks! Peter Morville President, Semantic Studios http://semanticstudios.com/ http://findability.org/ Welcome to the Interaction Design Association (IxDA)! To post

Re: [IxDA Discuss] Reloaded: Forrester's Take on IA

2010-01-25 Thread Peter Morville
entries that show the relationship between information architecture and interaction design. Cheers! Peter Morville President, Semantic Studios http://semanticstudios.com/ http://findability.org/ On Jan 25, 2010, at 6:08 AM, Milan Guenther wrote: I came across this free paper from Jan 13

[IxDA Discuss] Explain IA

2010-01-11 Thread Peter Morville
to Explain IA. Thanks! Peter Morville Welcome to the Interaction Design Association (IxDA)! To post to this list ... disc...@ixda.org Unsubscribe http://www.ixda.org/unsubscribe List Guidelines http

[IxDA Discuss] Google redesign: nothing between me and my search bar

2009-11-30 Thread Peter Van Dijck
-between-me-and-my-search-bar Cheers, Peter -- http://petervandijck.com Skype id: peterkevandijck USA tel (SkypeIn nr.): (646) 502-8604 Welcome to the Interaction Design Association (IxDA)! To post to this list ... disc...@ixda.org

[IxDA Discuss] Adaptive Path seeks contract UX Generalists, IxDs, Visual Designers

2009-11-09 Thread Peter Merholz
engineer (front-end web dev, DHTML, Flash) Please email us at j...@adaptivepath.com. You need to be able to work in the San Francisco Bay Area or Austin, Texas. Please point us to a portfolio of work. Please include the type of work you're best suited to in the Subject line. --peter

Re: [IxDA Discuss] Golden oldies: pre-web-era book recommendations

2009-10-19 Thread Peter Boersma
Anyone else know of some pre-web-era books related to communication, design, and design-thinking that might deserve a fresh look from people today? How about Design Methods by John Chris Jones, originally published in 1970. Alongside the old idea of design as the drawing of objects that are

Re: [IxDA Discuss] Mobile web: problems with search interfaces

2009-10-06 Thread Peter Morville
/2008/02/10/future-of-internet-search-mob ile-version/ Peter Morville President, Semantic Studios http://semanticstudios.com/ http://findability.org/ -Original Message- From: discuss-boun...@lists.interactiondesigners.com [mailto:discuss-boun...@lists.interactiondesigners.com

Re: [IxDA Discuss] Mobile web: problems with search interfaces

2009-10-06 Thread Peter Morville
There are also some examples/links in our search pattern library... http://www.flickr.com/photos/morville/collections/72157603789352245/ ...including a paper on faceted search for mobile... http://research.microsoft.com/apps/pubs/default.aspx?id=64303 Peter Morville President, Semantic

Re: [IxDA Discuss] Defining a UX vision

2009-10-06 Thread Peter Merholz
and towards pictures and other more concrete means of expression. We typically create a vision prototype to embody the vision and principles, to make tangible the strategy. --peter On Oct 3, 2009, at 3:40 PM, Jim Leftwich wrote: Here's a link to a .pdf of Design Vision: A Conversation About

Re: [IxDA Discuss] What Other Fields Could UXers Steal From?

2009-09-30 Thread Peter Morville
or conceptual pursuit in the discipline that's not based on solving the immediate problem? Worth asking the same question about IxD? Cheers! Peter Morville President, Semantic Studios http://semanticstudios.com/ http://findability.org

Re: [IxDA Discuss] Unusable things

2009-09-28 Thread Peter Morville
Mark Hurst keeps a list under the this is broken label... http://goodexperience.com/broken/ http://www.flickr.com/groups/65611...@n00/ Peter Morville President, Semantic Studios http://semanticstudios.com/ http://findability.org/ -Original Message- From: discuss-boun

Re: [IxDA Discuss] Toward a search dominant wayfinding paradigm (worthit?)

2009-09-24 Thread Peter Morville
. This means that every destination is also a gateway. We can enhance the value of these findable and social objects through attention to IxD, IA and SEO. We make this case in our new book (Search Patterns), so you'll have to wait until January for more detail :-) Peter Morville President, Semantic

Re: [IxDA Discuss] Toward a search dominant wayfinding paradigm(worth it?)

2009-09-24 Thread Peter Morville
on exploratory search... http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Exploratory_search ...which deals explicitly with cases in which users don't know what to search for. Peter Morville President, Semantic Studios http://semanticstudios.com/ http://findability.org/ -Original Message- From: discuss

Re: [IxDA Discuss] Toward a search dominant wayfinding paradigm (worthit?)

2009-09-24 Thread Peter Morville
) and not enough in getting search right. Okay, I'm going back into lurker mode now...I have to finish my book about search :-) Peter Morville President, Semantic Studios http://semanticstudios.com/ http://findability.org/ -Original Message- From: Jared Spool [mailto:jsp...@uie.com] Sent

[IxDA Discuss] (Apologies for dupes) Still hiring IA's in NYC

2009-09-07 Thread Peter Van Dijck
, ...) - Contract work first, if things go well we could hire you as full-time employee. Contact me with your resume if you haven't already ;) Cheers, Peter -- http://petervandijck.com Skype id: peterkevandijck USA tel (SkypeIn nr.): (646) 502-8604

[IxDA Discuss] Hiring junior/midlevel IA's immediately in NYC

2009-08-26 Thread Peter Van Dijck
(iPhone, Android, ...) and websites so familiarity with phone UI is great. Email me with resume and we'll talk. Cheers, Peter -- http://petervandijck.com Skype id: peterkevandijck India tel: ++91 953 639 39 79 Welcome

Re: [IxDA Discuss] Types of Faceted Search

2009-07-27 Thread Peter Morville
prior to interaction. Peter Morville President, Semantic Studios http://semanticstudios.com/ http://findability.org/ -Original Message- From: discuss-boun...@lists.interactiondesigners.com [mailto:discuss-boun...@lists.interactiondesigners.com] On Behalf Of Vishal Iyer Sent: Monday

[IxDA Discuss] Web Font Service preview

2009-07-17 Thread Peter Bilak
, Cyrillic, Arabic). More information about the system is here http://www.typotheque.com/news/web_font_service_preview We plan to launch the service later this summer. If you are interested to test drive the system in coming weeks, drop me an email to (peter AT typotheque DOT com

[IxDA Discuss] [PLUG] UX Week 2009; Early Pricing Ends July 1

2009-06-24 Thread Peter Merholz
discounts. Email eve...@adaptivepath.com --peter Welcome to the Interaction Design Association (IxDA)! To post to this list ... disc...@ixda.org Unsubscribe http://www.ixda.org/unsubscribe List Guidelines

[IxDA Discuss] Biz models and design Re: Shaun Inman's Fever

2009-06-18 Thread Peter Merholz
player. Business model is the thing thwarting Tivo's success, no matter how brilliant it's user interface design. We as designers have a lot to contribute toward thinking through business model implications. --peter Welcome

Re: [IxDA Discuss] Design Training

2009-06-15 Thread Peter Merholz
/ http://adaptivepath.com/events/2009/apr/ --peter On Jun 13, 2009, at 4:21 PM, John Labriola wrote: Can anyone recommend a design company that provides training or consultation for a company looking to improve their design team and process

Re: [IxDA Discuss] What is an Experience Strategy?

2009-06-07 Thread Peter Merholz
: - a philosophy that undergirds your behavior - a vision for what to achieve - an understanding of what success means If you focus too much on that collection of activities, you potentially miss out on the need to change course in order to achieve your ultimate goal. --peter On Jun 7, 2009, at 6

Re: [IxDA Discuss] Product training and orientation: anything surprising/interesting?

2009-06-03 Thread Peter Merholz
You could spend tens of millions of dollars on placing advertising that does little more than demo the product, the way Apple did with iPhone. (I'm only half-joking. It was a brilliant move on their part.) --peter On Jun 2, 2009, at 1:27 PM, Gretchen Anderson wrote: Looking for some

[IxDA Discuss] Mobile Literacy - Designing Mobile Technology for Emerging Markets

2009-05-19 Thread Peter Merholz
products and services for emerging markets. --peter Welcome to the Interaction Design Association (IxDA)! To post to this list ... disc...@ixda.org Unsubscribe http://www.ixda.org/unsubscribe List Guidelines

Re: [IxDA Discuss] Organizing files and folders

2009-05-18 Thread Peter Nelson
Thanks David. PIM had crossed my mind before but I had rejected it without looking into it because I had always associated the term with really personal information management - birthdays, contacts, etc - whereas I'm talking the the scale and type of files for a small business. But reading

Re: [IxDA Discuss] Feedback on Redesigned BART Ticket Kiosk Interface

2009-05-06 Thread Peter Merholz
things: - I would make the floaty letters look more like the ATM-style buttons, so that there's a clear connection between the floaty letters and the buttons on the sides of the screen - I would draw a bounding box to reinforce which destinations are selected to which floaty letters --peter

Re: [IxDA Discuss] Feedback on Redesigned BART Ticket Kiosk Interface

2009-05-06 Thread Peter Merholz
What about the mechanical buttons on the current BART kiosk machines. Would you touch them? I actually depress them with my tongue. --peter Welcome to the Interaction Design Association (IxDA)! To post to this list ... disc

Re: [IxDA Discuss] What is a mobile phone called in your country?

2009-05-05 Thread Peter Van Dijck
In Belgium/Dutch, it's generally and colloquially called a GSM (not mobile or cell). More official wording might be mobiele telefoon - I should check on various websites. Peter On Tue, May 5, 2009 at 12:39 PM, Boon Chew boon.c...@gmail.com wrote: Handphone or hp for short in Malaysia. Mobile

Re: [IxDA Discuss] What is a mobile phone called in your country?

2009-05-05 Thread Peter Van Dijck
I summarized the discussion so far here in case someone wants it: http://poorbuthappy.com/ease/archives/2009/05/05/4597/what-is-a-mobile-phone-called Peter On Tue, May 5, 2009 at 12:46 PM, Peter Van Dijck petervandi...@gmail.comwrote: In Belgium/Dutch, it's generally and colloquially called

Re: [IxDA Discuss] What is a mobile phone called in your country?

2009-05-05 Thread Peter Van Dijck
What the hell, I made a Google form and will open up the resulting spreadsheet, so go fill in the form here: http://spreadsheets.google.com/viewform?formkey=cmlpdW1mUFJ2cmY5aEFHR0JXRUxCVGc6MA.. http://spreadsheets.google.com/viewform?formkey=cmlpdW1mUFJ2cmY5aEFHR0JXRUxCVGc6MA.. Peter On Tue, May

Re: [IxDA Discuss] Searching People: Best Practices

2009-04-09 Thread Peter Conradie
I agree with Philip Hunter: the type of searches normally conducted should (or could) play a strong role in deciding which method to apply. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Posted from the new ixda.org http://www.ixda.org/discuss?post=41113

[IxDA Discuss] Event: Beyond the Desktop, April 8, San Francisco

2009-04-06 Thread Peter Merholz
. --peter Welcome to the Interaction Design Association (IxDA)! To post to this list ... disc...@ixda.org Unsubscribe http://www.ixda.org/unsubscribe List Guidelines http://www.ixda.org/guidelines List Help

Re: [IxDA Discuss] JJG's IA Summit 2009 Keynote

2009-04-03 Thread Peter Morville
and Peter and others for forcing us to engage). However, I also believe it's equally important for these two communities to continue to grow and evolve independently. It's been wonderful to see the IxDA community flourish in recent years, and the discussions and events and books that have been nurtured

Re: [IxDA Discuss] Wood gatherers, boat architects, or sailing experience designers?

2009-03-31 Thread Peter Van Dijck
(and I mean that in a good way.) On Tue, Mar 31, 2009 at 1:04 PM, Peter Van Dijck petervandi...@gmail.comwrote: Maybe we just need a place where we can have a drunken fight once a year? Oh wait, wasn't that the IA summit? Peter On Mon, Mar 30, 2009 at 6:22 AM, David Malouf d...@ixda.org

Re: [IxDA Discuss] Wood gatherers, boat architects, or sailing experience designers?

2009-03-31 Thread Peter Van Dijck
Maybe we just need a place where we can have a drunken fight once a year? Oh wait, wasn't that the IA summit? Peter On Mon, Mar 30, 2009 at 6:22 AM, David Malouf d...@ixda.org wrote: Joshua, It is also important every once in a while when your seaman got a bug up their butt to let them have

Re: [IxDA Discuss] the alignment of the practices and outcomes ofIA and IxD

2009-03-31 Thread Peter Morville
and community of practice focused on bringing principles of design and architecture to the digital landscape. Peter Morville President, Semantic Studios http://semanticstudios.com/ http://findability.org/ -Original Message- From: discuss-boun...@lists.interactiondesigners.com [mailto:discuss

Re: [IxDA Discuss] the alignment of the practices and outcomes ofIAand IxD

2009-03-31 Thread Peter Morville
Ah, so I omitted my own definition. I apologize for my mistake. Peter Morville President, Semantic Studios http://semanticstudios.com/ http://findability.org/ -Original Message- From: discuss-boun...@lists.interactiondesigners.com [mailto:discuss-boun

Re: [IxDA Discuss] the alignment of the practices and outcomes of IA and IxD

2009-03-31 Thread Peter Merholz
design will most benefit from equal advocacy across all its constituent disciplines, including IA, IxD, visual design, industrial design, architecture, environmental signage, etc. etc. etc. --peter Welcome to the Interaction

Re: [IxDA Discuss] the alignment of the practices and outcomes of IA and IxD

2009-03-31 Thread Peter Merholz
? Or Information Architecture for Physical Spaces book? Peter Morville's Ambient Findability and Adam Greenfield's Everyware are both largely about information architecture in devices and spaces, whether explicit (in Peter's book) or implicit (in Adam's). --peter

[IxDA Discuss] the alignment of the practices and outcomes of IA and IxD

2009-03-30 Thread Peter Merholz
question... Where are the interaction designs that are not closely aligned with IA outside the web realm? --peter Welcome to the Interaction Design Association (IxDA)! To post to this list ... disc...@ixda.org Unsubscribe

Re: [IxDA Discuss] JJG's IA Summit 2009 Keynote

2009-03-29 Thread Peter Merholz
, the membership demonstrates far more sense than the leadership. --peter Welcome to the Interaction Design Association (IxDA)! To post to this list ... disc...@ixda.org Unsubscribe http://www.ixda.org/unsubscribe List

[IxDA Discuss] Addendum: Re: JJG's IA Summit 2009 Keynote

2009-03-29 Thread Peter Merholz
When I said: Thankfully, the membership demonstrates far more sense than the leadership. I did not mean the current leadership of the IAI or IxDA. From what I've seen (which, admittedly, isn't much), current leadership gets it more often than not. --peter

Re: [IxDA Discuss] Designing (for) Experiences

2009-03-29 Thread Peter Merholz
can't hang our collective hat there. --peter Welcome to the Interaction Design Association (IxDA)! To post to this list ... disc...@ixda.org Unsubscribe http://www.ixda.org/unsubscribe List Guidelines

[IxDA Discuss] PANEL: Beyond the Desktop; 8 April, San Francisco

2009-03-26 Thread Peter Merholz
Please RSVP on Upcoming: http://upcoming.yahoo.com/event/2151706/ Beyond the Desktop: A Panel Discussion on Emergent Interaction Paradigms Wednesday April 8, 2009 from 6:00pm - 8:00pm Adaptive Path 363 Brannan Street There have been clear and consistent signals over the last year that

Re: [IxDA Discuss] Five things Interaction Design probably isn't

2009-03-24 Thread Peter Van Dijck
these people to communicate to non-members of this group that they're needed (note I didn't say what for). - and there's more, but gotta run Note you'll never agree on a definition, just like (but worse than) you'll never agree on the definition of Christian. Peter On Tue, Mar 24, 2009 at 3:26

Re: [IxDA Discuss] Five things Interaction Design probably isn't

2009-03-24 Thread Peter Van Dijck
Can everyone who doesn't care about the specific title stand on the right, and everyone who wants to define Interaction design stand on the left? Thanks! Peter On Tue, Mar 24, 2009 at 4:21 PM, Brad Nunnally bnunna...@gmail.com wrote: Job titles and descriptions only matter to me when I am

Re: [IxDA Discuss] Five things Interaction Design probably isn't

2009-03-24 Thread Peter Van Dijck
groups haven't done so well - Knowledge management comes to mind - who calls themselves that anymore? Cheers, Peter On Tue, Mar 24, 2009 at 5:20 PM, Peter Van Dijck petervandi...@gmail.comwrote: Can everyone who doesn't care about the specific title stand on the right, and everyone who wants

Re: [IxDA Discuss] Five things Interaction Design probably isn't

2009-03-24 Thread Peter Van Dijck
I agree 99.7% :) P On Tue, Mar 24, 2009 at 7:29 PM, Todd Zaki Warfel li...@toddwarfel.comwrote: On Mar 24, 2009, at 2:26 PM, Dan Saffer wrote: We don't need mission statements; we need a communications strategy. Agree 1001%. Cheers! Todd Zaki Warfel Principal Design Researcher

Re: [IxDA Discuss] Designers, meet the Drupal community!

2009-03-21 Thread Peter Van Dijck
Does Wordpress have groups and flexible roles? I'm not sure, just asking :) Peter On Sat, Mar 21, 2009 at 11:29 AM, AJ Kock ajk...@gmail.com wrote: Please, I would seriously be enlightened if you could tell me what those features are that you can find in Drupal but not WordPress. -- me

Re: [IxDA Discuss] Bowman leaves Google

2009-03-21 Thread Peter Van Dijck
As Dave M said earier - if you want to research and derive inspiration from research, or research and live by the data, that is a choice, but I would argue that one is design and the other is not. So if the data tells you something and you ignore it, is that design? Peter Harry

Re: [IxDA Discuss] Tools for animating the user experience

2009-03-21 Thread Peter Van Dijck
I'm doing screencasts of wireframes these days. http://poorbuthappy.com/ease/archives/2009/03/21/4499/screencasts-of-clickable-wireframes I'll post an example soon. Peter On Thu, Mar 19, 2009 at 4:28 PM, Auke van Scheltinga auk...@gmail.comwrote: Ah my extra 2 gigs memory module was broken

Re: [IxDA Discuss] Bowman leaves Google

2009-03-21 Thread Peter Van Dijck
If the 2 versus 4 pixels thing is on a crucial page like the Google search results or list of adsense ads, surely it's a MUST to test it and let the data speak? No? or would you redesign the ads, see revenue go down and not change your mind? Peter On Sat, Mar 21, 2009 at 7:57 AM, Dan Saffer d

Re: [IxDA Discuss] Designers, meet the Drupal community!

2009-03-21 Thread Peter Van Dijck
So your point is that Wordpress has a better user experience, so we should use it, even though the other products have more features? Sounds fair enough, if WP actually does what we want it to do. Peter On Sat, Mar 21, 2009 at 10:59 AM, AJKock ajk...@gmail.com wrote: This is critique

Re: [IxDA Discuss] Bowman leaves Google

2009-03-21 Thread Peter Van Dijck
I think that's wrong. Why can't I continue to measure and change stuff? In any case, data driven design doesn't mean there's no place for the designer. Who else will come up with stuff that we can then measure? Peter On Sat, Mar 21, 2009 at 11:12 AM, AJKock ajk...@gmail.com wrote: The problem

Re: [IxDA Discuss] Bowman leaves Google

2009-03-21 Thread Peter Van Dijck
We agree then. My point is not that we don't need design. My point is that design should be humble and listen to data. Peter On Sat, Mar 21, 2009 at 6:18 PM, AJKock ajk...@gmail.com wrote: @ Peter Can data-driven design predict future design? No, it can only measure today. Design is more than

Re: [IxDA Discuss] Bowman leaves Google

2009-03-21 Thread Peter Van Dijck
The reason the 41 blue test is bad, is any one of us would have told google the right choice for FREE! That's a false argument, because you're saying that designers should then be trusted to know what they know and know what they don't know. Peter

Re: [IxDA Discuss] Bowman leaves Google

2009-03-21 Thread Peter Van Dijck
seen that movie :) Peter Welcome to the Interaction Design Association (IxDA)! To post to this list ... disc...@ixda.org Unsubscribe http://www.ixda.org/unsubscribe List Guidelines http://www.ixda.org

Re: [IxDA Discuss] Persona skeptics

2009-03-09 Thread Peter Merholz
tool we have to spread empathy throughout an organization. It probably shouldn't be the only tool, but if you have time for just one, and you want to help your colleagues achieve a visceral understanding of your customers, I don't know of a better tool than personas. --peter

Re: [IxDA Discuss] Design/UX goals in your company

2009-03-09 Thread Peter Merholz
. And when it proved successful, it opened the doors to additional value that design can bring. So, align your group's goals with the company's larger goals. Simple as that. --peter Welcome to the Interaction Design Association

Re: [IxDA Discuss] Instant Messaging UIs and Annoyances

2009-02-23 Thread Peter Trudelle
for my client, not for everyone around me. This is particularly fun when the network goes down I hear hundreds of doors slamming. Peter Shaun Bergmann wrote: We have the ability to change the duration/opacity of these popup windows, but they are ALWAYS in the bottom right corner of the screen

Re: [IxDA Discuss] Siftables. (Wow!)

2009-02-21 Thread Peter Merholz
. Importantly, the form of Siftables also speaks to *fun*. They’re blocks, and, as kids know, blocks are fun. The immediate impulse of anyone interacting with Siftables is to *play* with them... --peter On Feb 21, 2009, at 6:43 PM, Ted Kilian wrote: Lots of things get called innovative these days

Re: [IxDA Discuss] IxD Greats?

2009-02-19 Thread Peter Merholz
://www.maedastudio.com/index.php) Lisa Strausfeld Jake Barton (http://localprojects.net) Dan Bricklin (VisiCalc) Kai Krause (already mentioned by others) Marc Blank, Dave Lebling (creators of Zork/Infocom) Steve Jobs (also already mentioned) --peter

Re: [IxDA Discuss] The UX Challenge organizers might be insane

2009-02-11 Thread Peter Boersma
Todd wrote: Especially cool payoff if you sponsor, say, a Jamaican Bobsled team: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0106611/ I worked as a user experience designer in Jamaica for 3 weeks, do I qualify for the team? And I can spell bacon in Jamaican: b-e-e-r-c-a-n! :-) Peter Sanka, you dead? Boers-ya

Re: [IxDA Discuss] Preparing a presentation on Fireworks

2009-02-05 Thread peter chung
://tv.adobe.com/#vi f1498v1658 Peter Chung Sr. IA/UI Designer, Wells Fargo . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Posted from the new ixda.org http://www.ixda.org/discuss?post=38092 Welcome

Re: [IxDA Discuss] Web site workflows and the IA

2009-02-03 Thread Peter Boersma
introduces the presentation: http://www.peterboersma.com/blog/2005/03/my-ia-summit-presentation-stux_10.html Slideshare has the slides: http://www.slideshare.net/pboersma/stux-ia-summit-2005-peter-boersma and I wrote a short article about it for the ASIST bulletin: http://www.asis.org/Bulletin/Feb

Re: [IxDA Discuss] User Experience Deliverables

2009-01-29 Thread Peter Morville
That's a great list. I'll add it to my list of links. Thanks Yohan! Peter Morville President, Semantic Studios http://semanticstudios.com/ http://findability.org/ -Original Message- From: discuss-boun...@lists.interactiondesigners.com [mailto:discuss-boun

[IxDA Discuss] User Experience Deliverables

2009-01-28 Thread Peter Morville
Jeffery Callender and I collaborated on this article... http://semanticstudios.com/publications/semantics/000228.php ...and on a collection of icons and images... http://flickr.com/photos/morville/sets/72157612907604234/ ...and we'd love feedback and suggestions. Thanks! Peter Morville

Re: [IxDA Discuss] Rapid Expert Design (R.E.D.)

2009-01-28 Thread Peter Boersma
record, not a broken comb... ;-) An finally, if RED = talent + skills + experience + knowledge + client trust but no fixed process, then I'm done listening. PetEr -- Peter Boersma | Senior Interaction Designer | Info.nl http://www.peterboersma.com/blog | http://www.info.nl

Re: [IxDA Discuss] User Experience Deliverables

2009-01-28 Thread Peter Morville
...but, of course, I'm not a real architect, so I could be wrong :-) Peter Morville President, Semantic Studios http://semanticstudios.com/ http://findability.org/ Welcome to the Interaction Design Association (IxDA)! To post to this list

Re: [IxDA Discuss] Strategic Interaction Design

2009-01-06 Thread Peter Merholz
and vision are important -- as you change your plans, you have a foundation that helps you maintain appropriate focus. --peter Welcome to the Interaction Design Association (IxDA)! To post to this list ... disc...@ixda.org

[IxDA Discuss] [Plug] Adaptive Path 2009 Events - Discount Extended

2009-01-06 Thread Peter Merholz
, and use the promotional code RNSB, you'll get an additional 15% off the current registration price. --peter Welcome to the Interaction Design Association (IxDA)! To post to this list ... disc...@ixda.org Unsubscribe

Re: [IxDA Discuss] Strategic Interaction Design

2009-01-05 Thread Peter Van Dijck
do think designers should also understand at least the basic of business. That is, making money. Peter On Sun, Jan 4, 2009 at 11:20 PM, Andrew Otwell heyotw...@gmail.com wrote: So when I ask, what should interaction designers know about strategy? You respond... The other answers seemed

Re: [IxDA Discuss] Strategic Interaction Design

2009-01-05 Thread Peter Merholz
Strategy day is the Product Evolution Map, which brings rationality and sensibility to the standard product roadmap. --peter Welcome to the Interaction Design Association (IxDA)! To post to this list ... disc...@ixda.org

Re: [IxDA Discuss] People are Used to it

2008-12-29 Thread Peter Merholz
their organization operates, and not be satisfied simply following others requirements. --peter Welcome to the Interaction Design Association (IxDA)! To post to this list ... disc...@ixda.org Unsubscribe http

[IxDA Discuss] [PLUG] Adaptive Path '09 Events: 15% off!

2008-12-29 Thread Peter Merholz
$930.75 with RNSB. --peter Welcome to the Interaction Design Association (IxDA)! To post to this list ... disc...@ixda.org Unsubscribe http://www.ixda.org/unsubscribe List Guidelines http://www.ixda.org

Re: [IxDA Discuss] Public Transportation Experiences

2008-12-07 Thread Peter Bird
Others can debate the potential security holes opened here, but http://swisstrains.ch/ shows the projected physical locations of trains in Switzerland based on the published timetables. I believe they're working on getting the actual GPS coordinates. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

[IxDA Discuss] Theory Re: Where that ACD thing fits

2008-11-13 Thread Peter Merholz
-- that can be stultifying. But there's no way to get anywhere with these methodological discussions without appreciating the theory underlying them. --peter On Nov 13, 2008, at 3:13 AM, Jared Spool wrote: On Nov 12, 2008, at 5:56 PM, David Malouf wrote: If I were designing it from a UCD

Re: [IxDA Discuss] Where that ACD thing fits

2008-11-13 Thread Peter Merholz
methods, which takes us beyond tasks and goals, and towards behavior, motivation, context and culture. This more holistic appreciation of people ought to provide insights that allow for superior products and services. --peter

Re: [IxDA Discuss] Looking for design template samples forimagine/discovery phase

2008-11-13 Thread Peter Boersma
Melissa, Very interested in cool formats for presenting distilled design innovation concepts to key stakeholders. Victor Lombardi's Concept Design Tools article (http://www.digital-web.com/articles/concept_design_tools/) may be of use to you. Peter -- Peter Boersma | Senior Interaction

Re: [IxDA Discuss] Protoshare, anyone?

2008-11-12 Thread Peter Uchytil
Hi, Gitika, I'm Peter Uchytil, the product manager for ProtoShare. I would be happy to answer any questions you have about our product. As far as good/bad experiences, let me say this: we have very happy customers right now, and we have had trial users who have said it's not ready for them yet

Re: [IxDA Discuss] UCD process diagrams

2008-10-28 Thread Peter Boersma
-2005-peter-boersma/ Van: [EMAIL PROTECTED] namens erpdesigner Verzonden: ma 10/27/2008 6:53 Aan: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Onderwerp: [IxDA Discuss] UCD process diagrams I know that somebody has posted UCD processes diagrams on the web but can't find in the archive

[IxDA Discuss] Portugal Talk + Workshops

2008-10-15 Thread Peter Morville
. Thanks! Peter Morville President, Semantic Studios http://semanticstudios.com/ http://findability.org/ Welcome to the Interaction Design Association (IxDA)! To post to this list ... [EMAIL PROTECTED] Unsubscribe

Re: [IxDA Discuss] why the hate-on User-centered Design? (waspractice vs. discipline roles vs. people

2008-10-07 Thread Peter Boersma
and materials. Or, in short: User Centered *Design*, not Engineering. Peter -- Peter Boersma | Senior Interaction Designer | Info.nl http://www.peterboersma.com/blog | http://www.info.nl Welcome to the Interaction Design Association (IxDA

Re: [IxDA Discuss] Graphics to communicate usability process

2008-10-01 Thread Peter Boersma
Summit site: http://www.iasummit.org/2005/finalpapers/39_Presentation.pdf or on slideshare: http://www.slideshare.net/pboersma/stux-ia-summit-2005-peter-boersma Peter -- Peter Boersma | Senior Interaction Designer | Info.nl http://www.peterboersma.com/blog | http://www.info.nl

Re: [IxDA Discuss] G1 Android - case study in inconsistency

2008-09-25 Thread Peter Knocke
What part of Google's current product offerings would lead you to believe there's systemic consistency, cross-product cohesion and anything but an amateurish aesthetic quality to it, especially with regard to a comparison to Apple? Yes there is basically no cross-product cohesion in the google

[IxDA Discuss] G1 Android - case study in inconsistency

2008-09-24 Thread Peter Knocke
Sorry if I'm rehashing a conversation here, but to my surprise I haven't seen any G1 debates coming up here from the release this week. So I'll startOh my...what a mess. I really enjoy gizmodo's write up

Re: [IxDA Discuss] Off Topic: 37signals

2008-08-22 Thread Peter Ryan
Shaun, The election was about 37 segments, as opposed to the 37 radio signals that might prove the existence of life outside our planet. The number might be coincidental, unless you're a numerologist. Peter On Thu, Aug 21, 2008 at 10:32 AM, Shaun Bergmann [EMAIL PROTECTED]wrote: Just

[IxDA Discuss] [PLUG] Discounts for Upcoming Adaptive Path Events; Online, SF, and Copenhagen

2008-07-30 Thread Peter Merholz
available, but I’ve been told we might have to cap registration soon. And then 13-16 October (note the date format!) we’re offering UX Intensive Copenhagen, our hands-on four-day workshop on the core elements of user experience. http://www.adaptivepath.com/events/2008/oct/ --peter

Re: [IxDA Discuss] Big/Little

2008-07-28 Thread Peter Boersma
Whitney asked: Does anyone know who first used Big/little (eg BIG IA vs little ia) in the UX context? My idea was always that it was Peter Morville: http://argus-acia.com/strange_connections/strange004.html That's what I used as the basis for my T-model that does away with the discussion

Re: [IxDA Discuss] Opening PDFs

2008-07-18 Thread Peter Ryan
the format so heavily to transmit information. So we're stuck for now. I do agree that separate windows is always the best way to view files. Peter On Fri, Jul 18, 2008 at 6:36 AM, Sachin Ghodke [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello Ben, As i would look at this is open the PDF in a separate window

[IxDA Discuss] [PLUG] Ten Tips for Managing A Creative Environment - July 16

2008-07-15 Thread Peter Merholz
promotional code FOPM and get 15% off (this, or any of our events!) --peter Welcome to the Interaction Design Association (IxDA)! To post to this list ... [EMAIL PROTECTED] Unsubscribe http://www.ixda.org/unsubscribe List

[IxDA Discuss] JOB: Interaction Designer at Bitstream/Pageflex - Cambridge, MA - Contract 4+ months

2008-07-08 Thread Peter Davis
JOB: Interaction Designer at Bitstream/Pageflex - Cambridge, MA - Contract 4+ months Join the Pageflex division of Bitstream, Inc. to design a new Adobe InDesign based plug-in to extend our existing line of variable data publishing products. This is a hands-on (non managerial) position where

Re: [IxDA Discuss] Should persuasion be left to marketers?

2008-07-07 Thread Peter Merholz
require persuasion. In an attention economy, every business offering, be it a product or service, needs to persuade people that it is worth their time. Interaction design is a primary tool for that. --peter On Jul 7, 2008, at 7:05 AM, Jared Spool wrote: On Jul 6, 2008, at 3:57 PM, Robert

[IxDA Discuss] [PLUG] Adaptive Path's UX Week 2008; Fundamentals, Service, Play, and The Future

2008-06-25 Thread Peter Merholz
, Current TV, Zipcar, TheDailyShow.com, and the Exploratorium. Use the promotional code FOPM and get 15% off the registration price! --peter Welcome to the Interaction Design Association (IxDA)! To post to this list ... [EMAIL

Re: [IxDA Discuss] Portal Best Practices

2008-05-29 Thread Peter Chung
I hope this helps, Peter . Peter Chung Senior User Experience Designer Customer Experience Group, CNET.com [EMAIL PROTECTED

[IxDA Discuss] Reminder: Queens of Content presentation in SF - May 20

2008-05-20 Thread Peter Merholz
she helps create appealing, useful interfaces that make sense. She has been toiling on the Web since 1995 and consulting joyfully for a decade. Mule clients include PBS, The Wall Street Journal, MedicAlert, Federated Media Publishing, and the American Academy of Ophthalmology. --peter

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