I help ensure digital technology conforms to you, instead of forcing
you to conform to the technology.
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This is indeed a nice thread..
I help spread the smile when dealing with products and the products
could range from a simple website to physical products to entire
systems.
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this is one of the best threads at IxDA so far! it echoes the very
motivation in each one of us to log on to this group and spend a few minutes
every day on it, doesn't it? and very rightly put in the subject,
professional life is nothing but an elevator pitch where in just a few
minutes you need
Dan, are you saying that there is no repeatable process involved in
interaction design?
The scientific method, if that's what you meant by science, can
be repeatedly applied to help explain many occurances in nature, such
as gravity or magnetism, or the lifecycle of a star vs the lifecycle
of a
what's a vcr?
On Mon, Dec 22, 2008 at 5:43 PM, Jeremy Yuille overl...@isomorpho.uswrote:
had to do this two days ago - to a group of people around the age of
my parents.. which made me think a little about it afterward.
I usually follow up what's an interaction designer? with
something
Angel Marquez wrote:
what's a vcr?
Those who do not study history are doomed to repeat it. :-)
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I wonder what the world would be like today if beta was the direction we
went.
On Mon, Dec 22, 2008 at 11:33 PM, j. eric townsend j...@flatline.net wrote:
Angel Marquez wrote:
what's a vcr?
Those who do not study history are doomed to repeat it. :-)
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I've played with a few different responses%u2014trying to give the
field its due recognition. I've attempted going into detail about
the intersection of human needs and technology be it online, with a
product, or in an environment and how everything around us involves
interactions with objects,
I typically give some anecdotal explanation about a product or web
site that is particularly frustrating and how I work to improve
things like that.
Reaching common understanding with your inquisitor as quickly as
possible is key to keeping them on board and not just thinking of you
as another
Most people I meet are ones who know about design. So I just megaphone what
I have read somewhere before (unfortunately, I forget where)...
Design is about giving form to an idea. Communication designers give visual
form to an idea, product designers give structural phone to an idea and
I'm an interaction designer
What's that?
I design how things should behave and then get ignored by everyone
else.
Oh, like what?
Like that your TV remote should have a dial, like a mouse wheel,
for volume and channel changing. Because you can skip ahead much
faster and count how many notches
Unless the entire system was designed to support itself and humans
were figured into that mix. Theoretically it's possible.
Makes me think of farming and natural ecosystems. Grass feeds the
cattle. The cattle's waste feeds the grass. It's an entire system that
works best when all parts,
Elements can have more than one purpose. The banana could have been
designed for the purpose of reproducing itself and sustaining other
life, human or otherwise.
On Dec 19, 2008, at 8:27 PM, Dan Saffer wrote:
its purpose is to reproduce itself,
Cheers!
Todd Zaki Warfel
President,
Theoretically the flying purple spagetti monster designed the banana :-)
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On Dec 20, 2008,
I thought it was the flying purple people eater.
On Dec 20, 2008, at 10:16 AM, Will Evans wrote:
Theoretically the flying purple spagetti monster designed the
banana :-)
Cheers!
Todd Zaki Warfel
President, Design Researcher
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Right! The Flying Spaghetti Monster isn't purple! http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flying_spaghetti_monster
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I'm stealing this one:
On Dec 18, 2008, at 11:35 AM, Michael Micheletti wrote:
I've been known to say, I design software and websites that people
don't
hate.
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I figure out where to put buttons on websites, then decide what they
should say and do
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I say: I'm a designer, or, I design stuff.
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I have been saying I use science to make Web sites better, because
people aren't pushing the science angle enough, I think.
I want people to know that there are reasons why we put things in
grid layouts, and the logo links to the home page, etc.
But things are moving farther away from the page,
On Dec 19, 2008, at 1:32 PM, Bryan J Busch wrote:
I have been saying I use science to make Web sites better, because
people aren't pushing the science angle enough, I think.
I want people to know that there are reasons why we put things in
grid layouts, and the logo links to the home page,
So, are you saying their is no underlying design behind the cosmos and say
something like horticulture? Aren't science and nature friends, partners?
Wouldn't the ultimate design objective be to create something that
appears unrepeatable but the underlying pattern could never be discovered,
On Dec 19, 2008, at 4:02 PM, Angel Marquez wrote:
So, are you saying their is no underlying design behind the cosmos
and say something like horticulture? Aren't science and nature
friends, partners?
Science is the discovery of the natural. We're veering onto theology
here, but there is
'Design' implies purpose or intent. There are organizing principles to the
cosmos; and chaos theory, or non-linear dynamical systems theory,
demonstrates that quite complex - and unpredictable - behaviour can result
from a few simple rules. In fact, we can predict the point at which things
will
lol
There is no repeatable formula that will expose a natural product
because there is no such thing.
Yet.
nothing was created specifically to meet a human need
I'm not sure if I agree with this. I just ate a banana and it was good. Did
my ancestors not eat bananas?
I am enjoying your book
On Dec 19, 2008, at 4:40 PM, Angel Marquez wrote:
nothing was created specifically to meet a human need
I'm not sure if I agree with this. I just ate a banana and it was
good. Did my ancestors not eat bananas?
I'm sure they did, but the banana wasn't designed to be eaten by
humans, to
What good is a banana that doesn't get eaten?
On Fri, Dec 19, 2008 at 5:27 PM, Dan Saffer d...@odannyboy.com wrote:
On Dec 19, 2008, at 4:40 PM, Angel Marquez wrote:
nothing was created specifically to meet a human need
I'm not sure if I agree with this. I just ate a banana and it was
On Fri, Dec 19, 2008 at 8:38 PM, Angel Marquez angel.marq...@gmail.com wrote:
What good is a banana that doesn't get eaten?
Ask the banana trees! :)
Scott
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This is getting way off topic.. but I just have to post this link in
support of Dan.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nfv-Qn1M58I
On Fri, Dec 19, 2008 at 8:27 PM, Dan Saffer d...@odannyboy.com wrote:
On Dec 19, 2008, at 4:40 PM, Angel Marquez wrote:
nothing was created specifically to meet a
Strictly speaking, I think of myself as an Information Designer, which means I
allow myself the luxury of being a little more vague and abstract:
My job is to convert data into knowledge
Of course you can see that it's probably more effective at stopping awkward
elevator conversations than
I don't get invited to parties.
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I used to get a lot of blank stares when I would give my job title.
For years many of my friends and family weren't quite sure. Then this
past summer I went to the zoo with my fam. They had arrows that were
supposed to give you the best complete path through the zoo but
instead we got lost. I took
I just say, it's like a normal architect, but instead of buildings, I
plan websites.
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I have a number of elevator pitches. I don't prefer one over the
other - I kind of flip through them like a rolodex. These, however,
are some of my most successful ones:
I help clients make their products/sites more user-friendly
When it comes to web or application design, I advocate on the
Plan of design?
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You mean for holiday parties coming up? Here's what I usually say (or
some variation thereof):
I design attractive, intuitive software for digital products, like
websites, desktop apps, etc.
(note that I distinctly say I design in the active voice)
And then I throw in some names like Frog,
I've been known to say, I design software and websites that people don't
hate.
That's usually gets a good conversation going. In design circles, we all
speak about usability and delight as if these were commonplace. But out in
the world, everyone works with software or websites that drive them
I'm with Tonia.
Unless the person asking doesn't already know software and therefore
already knows what usability/UX/ID is. Yo either get a drool face or
the good ole Oh you work in IT epiphany.
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I plan and build online experiences for people by focusing on making
things easy to use and enjoyable.
I do that by listening to people and working to incorporate solutions
to meet the needs of the people that will use it.
I pretty much just love efficiency and optimizing things for others
as
I make technology easy and fun to use.
(via Matt Blackbelt Jones, explaining what he does to a taxi driver)
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The reasonable man adapts himself to the world; the unreasonable one
persists in trying to adapt the world to himself. Therefore, all progress
depends on the unreasonable man.an.
On Thu, Dec 18, 2008 at 4:27 PM, Dan Saffer d...@odannyboy.com wrote:
I make technology easy and fun to use.
(via
I also stick with a design/ease-of use comment:
I create the visual experience of websites and software
applications
And, of course, I augment around this basic comment depending on the
person asking (ie business acquaintance vs. my mom).
But yes, user experience/interaction design is still a
On Thu, Dec 18, 2008 at 9:16 AM, Tonia M. Bartz tonia.m.ba...@gmail.com wrote:
I used to get a lot of blank stares when I would give my job title.
I say my job title, wait for the pause, then shout I ARCHITECT
INFORMATION! MUHAHAHAHAHA!
while making puppetmaster gestures with both hands.
Scott
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how do you introduce the work you do when you have a social introduction?
I figure out what a web site or application needs to do, and why, and then
design how people will perform those tasks.
It's incomplete by a mile, but it works well after you say, I'm an
interaction designer, and they
Remember the last time you were yelling at your insert device here?
Interaction Designers are being brought in to make sure that doesn't happen
again.
On Wed, Dec 17, 2008 at 1:44 PM, Robert Hoekman Jr rob...@rhjr.net wrote:
how do you introduce the work you do when you have a social
I keep it simple:
I help make web sites and applications easy to use, *and *look good.
On Wed, Dec 17, 2008 at 2:56 PM, Shaun Bergmann shaunbergm...@gmail.comwrote:
Remember the last time you were yelling at your insert device here?
Interaction Designers are being brought in to make sure that
I make sure the computer works to make *your* life easier, instead
of requiring you to make your work match the way the computer wants
things
Also incomplete by a mile, but I find most people understand it
relatively well.
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I mention the example of stove top controls in Norman's The Design of
Everyday Things. (If the formation of the controls resembles the
formation of the burners (2x2 not 4x1), then it's easier to figure out
which dial controls the right rear burner.) Or the (push? pull? where
to push?) doors. I
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