Re: [IxDA Discuss] Documenting interaction design specification

2007-12-29 Thread Michael Tuminello
BTW, I meant Conflence as well - Jira is Atlassian's issue tracking software. I get all the made up words confused... :-) I'd be interested to hear what you mean by integration with prototyping tools - I poked around a bit, and visio has a web viewer and axure suggests the following (which

Re: [IxDA Discuss] Documenting interaction design specification

2007-12-29 Thread Michael Tuminello
Oh - regarding having something to share, although I probably can't share any docs, I don't see any harm in sharing the table of contents from the top of the wiki page (this is automatically generated by mediawiki, and they are anchor links). It looks like in the end even breaking out menus

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

2007-12-29 Thread P Maher
Hi Dave, Thanks, for the tips. I am really looking for a course in Europe but I like your idea of just being the interaction designer. Not many apps with interaction in my group but am not adverse to changing to another group which does. If anyone knows of such a course in europe please let me

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

2007-12-29 Thread Andrei Herasimchuk
On Dec 29, 2007, at 6:31 AM, dave malouf wrote: Having worked for a technology leader for the last year, I really see how thinking about technology first and foremost (must create patent) really leads the design direction into weird spaces/places. I agree whole heartedly with this. It's

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

2007-12-29 Thread Andrei Herasimchuk
On Dec 27, 2007, at 7:30 AM, Dan Saffer wrote: So you feel that everything is contextual, that there are no universal principles of good design that are always true? To which Dave replied... On Dec 27, 2007, at 9:08 AM, dave malouf wrote: Of course, at a biological level we all receive

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

2007-12-29 Thread dave malouf
Andrei, I was just provoking someone like yourself to so brilliantly tell me I was wrong. ;) That being said, what is the point of these great laws of the properties that we manipulate as designers when their interpretations and utility differ so widely across so many different axis? -- dave --

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

2007-12-29 Thread Andrei Herasimchuk
On Dec 29, 2007, at 3:56 PM, dave malouf wrote: That being said, what is the point of these great laws of the properties that we manipulate as designers when their interpretations and utility differ so widely across so many different axis? I'm not quite I understand the extent of what you

Re: [IxDA Discuss] the appearance of change

2007-12-29 Thread pauric
Confessions of a deceitful designer.. I work in the networking equipment domain. A couple of years back I was working on a building to building wireless bridge. A key aspect of the design was that the appliance is usually mounted on a roof or such inaccessible location with a single cable into

Re: [IxDA Discuss] the appearance of change

2007-12-29 Thread Katie Albers
Well, don't feel *too* bad. After all the pacifier button is a time-honored convention in certain uses. I don't think there's a single elevator in which pushing the Door Close button does anything at all...but they make people *think* they're in control. If you want the ultimate commentary on

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

2007-12-29 Thread pauric
Andrei:It's like gravity. You can choose to ignore it but it's still there keeping you alive on planet Earth without asking for any compensation in return. How the 9.8m/s/s is applied to rocket science and bungee jumping are two completely different contexts for that universal law. The same can

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

2007-12-29 Thread pauric
Andrei:what are the other 2/3 of the story that I'm apparently missing you:product design is not user centered nor technology centered. It always has and always will be both. Maybe my math is a little out of whack?? you:The original question posed was are there design principals that live