[IxDA Discuss] Design Research Conference 2010

Does anyone have insight or opinion on the Design Research Conference (http://designresearchconference.org/)? Did you attend last year - how did you find the experience? Welcome to the Interaction Design Association (IxDA)! To post

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And in case its of interest to others I note that this conversation is continuing on the Phd Design List where Leonardo also posted the question. e.g https://www.jiscmail.ac.uk/cgi-bin/webadmin?A2=ind0905&L=PHD-DESIGN&D=1&T=0&O=D&P=90335 and https://www.jiscmail.ac.uk/cgi-bin/webadmin?A2=ind0905

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ironically I managed to break the list trying to post a longish response to this thread - perhaps reflecting the complexities of the question?! so I posted it here instead. http://www.smallfire.co.nz/2009/05/21/design-research-design-research-design-research/ . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

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Incomplete previous post. Here it is complete. Sorry for double posting the same, just thought the references were needed. "The danger with the Bayazit approach is that it can end up being totally theoretical. " I agree with you, and that is exactly what we´re not looking for, or at least a group

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Hi all, Now to be a little more specific, the actual discussion at my work group is aimed at defining research policies in our design department, within specific research requirements/perspectives coming from university policies. We are looking at how -design activities- are a form of research, w

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Yes, you'll never find a definitive answer to this, only debate. Remember that some of this doesn't come from a position of actually trying to define design research for its own sake but that it is also loaded with politics in academia about who gets their hands on research money. My own feeling a

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life IS research. I prefer the artist view; but, I also understand where Nigan is coming from. If you wanted to pass Nigans class with a higher grade you would memorize and respond: Research is: Experiential, Qualitative, Quantitive, Speculative, Experiential, Performative, Discovery-Led, Formal,

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Interesting but from a different perspective, can you have good design without research? As an interaction designer, I am focused on designing well for how people interact with things. Where I work now, we are extremely focused on doing customer research as a part of our design process because we

[IxDA Discuss] Design research.

Hi all, I am currently involved in a discussion on how research can be a part of design. There seems to be two different paths, Nigan Bayazit wrote: "Some of the art, craft, and design people call what they do for art and design “research.”...An artist’s practicing activities when creating

Re: [IxDA Discuss] Design Research: Practice noticing stuff and telling stories

I recommend ReQall (http://www.reqall.com/). I use it from the car all the time. I dial the phone number, say "Add" and voice my message. It records my message and emails me a transcript (fairly accurate) and the recording (for when the transcript is way off). If there is a date and time involve

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Andy Polaine wrote: I have 33 notebooks going all the way back to my university days when I first started numbering them - these days they're mostly Moleskines or Miquel Rius ones (if I can my hands on them). It's not a terribly formal process though. They switch from being notebooks to journal

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I've been doing this with my xv6800 (and before that, the 6700). I take pictures of stuff then when I sync, they get transferred to my "incoming photo" directory for me to sort/massage as needed. I've also started shooting video this way -- the xv6800 camera is 2M and shoots some pretty nice

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recorrder of some kind so that I can walk up and down the haight, muttering and brainstorming. I'm not kidding. I used to do this to try to capture others muttering -- once had a hapless and unsuspecting dude lean into the left channel of my stereo sonic studios mikes -- I hid them in a bas

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Evernote has a great iPhone app that lets you sync text, photo and voice notes with the desktop and web editions of Evernote. The only thing I miss from evernote is the ability to take a photo and draw notes on the photo. Andreas . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

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I have been leaving myself voice mails for 15 years for exactly this purpose -- it works best as a way of synthesizing one's thoughts because of course you dont want to leave too long a vmail (knowing that you'll have to listen to it later ;-0). I also take long showers and talk to myself w

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On that same note - does anyone email themselves notes to GooToDo? They have a nice way of emailing yourself todo's - but the same could be done for ideas - anyone using that tool as well? On Mon, Oct 27, 2008 at 11:09 AM, Jack Moffett <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On Oct 27, 2008, at 10:58 AM,

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I have started using my iphone this way. I use the Unote (younote?) application to basically jot down random thoughts. I have a lot of these while driving for some reason, and if I don't write them down they evaporate. The key advantage of the iphone is that I always have it with me, unlike a n

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On Oct 27, 2008, at 10:58 AM, Will Evans wrote: Does anyone use their iPhone/mobile device to send notes to themselves? I use 37 Signals' Tada-List to record ideas for blog posts. They have an iPhone-optimized version that I use when out and about. Jack L. Moffett Interaction Designer

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Hi Will, I'm an AIGA member, and they have a reciprocity agreement of some kind with Coroflot, so my AIGA portfolio appears there too. Here's a link if you're curious: http://www.coroflot.com/public/individual_details.asp?job_seeker_id=181978&t=&name=micheletti&sort_by=1&&page_no=&c=1 Recruiters

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Does anyone use their iPhone/mobile device to send notes to themselves? How about refer back to their ideas that the posted to Twitter to follow up - with images attached? Just trying to get a feel for all the ways we keep track of the constant assault on our senses, how we process, store, and retu

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I believe there is a big problem with many tools available when it comes to storing your inspiration. It might take a week, month or even a couple of years but in the end you%u2019ll end up losing most of the context and reasons why you saved a piece of inspiration in the first place. No matter if

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I hadn't even thought of the back of the hand -- that's great. I once had both my thumbs broken at the same time and walked about with both arms in casts -- had I been so inclined, they might have made for a great note-taking device, and a semi-public one at that. In fact the history of wri

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i'm a fan of moleskins and have been carrying around some form of physical notebook since i was 14. numbered and catalogged, therye great to flip through years later for reference but prove auful as far as being any cohesive form of organization. i recently started posted somewhat religously to a c

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I forgot to mention I also use both Leap and Yep to store and browse the 2.5GB of PDFs and other docs in my reference library. I've tried DEVONThink a few times and found it good, but not really suited to the way I work. Best, Andy :

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On Sat, Oct 25, 2008 at 5:10 AM, Will Evans <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>wrote: > > Put your observations on the Internet. Maybe no one will see them, but the > discipline of taking your observations out of your own head and publishing > them in a sharable fo

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I keep notes in a small gridded Moleskin notebook. But more important is simply having something to write with. Always. In a pinch I'll jot down observations on the back of my hand between the thumb and index finger. I never knew you could write there until I saw the movie Memento, but it's a reall

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One thing I really don't like about coroflot is how the term "interaction design" just means anything interactive.. most people who tag themselves with interaction design there have done a few websites or flash.. kind of misleading if you're actually looking for IxD work On Sun, Oct 26, 2008 at 1

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i tend to use a soft cover moleskine (one of the thin ones) because it's easy to carry everywhere. i alternate between blank paper and grid paper versions... that's where i write all my ideas, sketch, make to-do lists.. all sorts of stuff. then, when i have an idea that i want to easily referenc

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Also - Is anyone using http://www.coroflot.com/ for their portfolios? Do they find it actually works for them? Just wondering. On Sun, Oct 26, 2008 at 7:48 AM, Will Evans <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>wrote: > Thanks for the great ideas and contributions so far. I actually have a > point is asking this of

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Looks like we are tribe-sourcing a requirements document, doesn't it :-) On Sun, Oct 26, 2008 at 8:34 AM, Steve Baty <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I would make mention of two points by way of requirements for such a > system: > * it should be as immediate as flipping open a sketchbook; or that sho

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I would make mention of two points by way of requirements for such a system: * it should be as immediate as flipping open a sketchbook; or that should at least be your aim. So MMS integration; twitter integration; photo-blogging etc * it should replicate down to my local machine a la MobileMe. This

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Is there a need/desire for an online, shared portfolio service: semi- private with granular control over who sees what - where you can store ideas/articles/inspirations/notes/sketches/portfolio and allow access to only certain parts. this would be located in the cloud or in the context of a

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I'm mainly using Twitter, Tumblr and babl.nl at this moment. Next to a paper notebook for more fuzzy ideas. I've learned not to keep all of my notes and urls in just one single place... FavoritesAnywhere.com's disappearance, Murl.com's crash and mybookmarks.com's reset have learned me this lesso

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Thanks for the great ideas and contributions so far. I actually have a point is asking this of the community - so I would love to get more input from others - Is there a need/desire for an online, shared portfolio service: semi-private with granular control over who sees what - where you can store

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Will, I use a combination of delicious, evernote, and Moleskin notebooks. There's nothing formal or disciplined about it; and I've only really started doing it consistently in the past couple of years. Cheers Steve 2008/10/25 Will Evans <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Does anyone have a 'suitcase' where

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I have 33 notebooks going all the way back to my university days when I first started numbering them - these days they're mostly Moleskines or Miquel Rius ones (if I can my hands on them). It's not a terribly formal process though. They switch from being notebooks to journals to sketches to

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Will Evans wrote: Does anyone have a 'suitcase' where the stick stuff they find? When I was taking undergraduate design classes, this was called a "sketchbook". :-) As much as I like the computers and tah wehbs, I still prefer working with tangible objects. Lately if I see something onlin

[IxDA Discuss] Design Research: Practice noticing stuff and telling stories

A while back, there were discussions about design research and inspiration. Steve Portigal has a good little article in Core77 called "Design Research: Practice noticing stuff and telling stories," http://www.core77.com/hack2school/portigal.asp "To be a better design researcher, hone your ability

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Vishal, I think you are local to DC, right. At The Washington Post, we have used Edge Research and Shugoll. They provide many of the services you are looking for. bv On Jan 14, 2008 11:06 AM, Vishal Iyer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I'm looking for companies that do Design Research- we're lookin

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Catapult Thinking does Design Research. Their site is http://www.catapultthinking.com/. Also keep in mind that there tonnes of Design firms that automatically do design research in order to identify the appropriate design (i.e. it's one of their offerings, or part of their service), so you may wa

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The Bentley College Design and Usability Center in Waltham, MA conducts all the types of research that were mentioned in the original message. http://www.bentley.edu/usability/ Chauncey On Jan 14, 2008 3:14 PM, Angel Marquez <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > http://www.metadesign.com > http://www.ide

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http://www.metadesign.com http://www.ideo.com *Come to IxDA Interaction08 | Savannah* February 8-10, 2008 in Savannah, GA, USA Register today: http://interaction08.ixda.org/ ___

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Try www.humanfactors.com. They do a lot of research into many industries. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Posted from the new ixda.org http://www.ixda.org/discuss?post=24526 *Come to IxDA Inter

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Vishal, Some consultants and firms may specialize in different types of design and user research. For your project on User Testing and Heuristic Evaluations - you might use a usability consultant. The UPA has a directory at http://www.usabilityprofessionals.org/people_pages/consultants_directory/in

[IxDA Discuss] Design Research companies

I'm looking for companies that do Design Research- we're looking at Field Studies, User Testing, Heuristic Evaluations, Focus Groups & Interviews for an eCommerce (retail) website. Is there are directory of such companies? Would be great if IxDA has lists of various service providers (not just thi