On Jan 15, 2008, at 10:00 PM, Nasir Barday wrote:
I'd hypothesize that for intensive typing on a QWERTY keyboard, your
fingers need to know where they are, and that they've successfully
typed each letter. So it is a challenge to replace the hardware
QWERTY keyboard for this type of
On Jan 16, 2008, at 2:37 AM, Andrei Herasimchuk wrote:
I can't tell you how many times I see people attempt to design
products with little to no regard to how technology actually works
or what the business needs to function for profit because they claim
technology doesn't matter...
On Jan 16, 2008 2:37 AM, Andrei Herasimchuk
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People take the term user centered and use it to mean that the only
thing that matters in product design are users. I can't tell you how
many times I see people attempt to design products with little to no
regard to how
Hi Dan,
something that was not really mentioned so far is that there are still
two major problems associated with the deployment of the Semantic Web.
First of all, there is the issue of trust. Not all information can be
equally trusted, so your traditional Semantic Web shopping scenario
would
Dane: But, my main point I guess is that it is an inconsistent model
and it seems they are doing everything they can to shoehorn
multi-touch in anywhere they can... and that this is a mediocre step
to me.
I agree, however, I suspect this 'step' is part of a larger roadmap
and classic new-apple
On Jan 15, 2008 10:00 PM, Nasir Barday [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
To paraphrase an old school hip-hop track: It's all about the haptic
feedback, baby
That was friggin' hilarious. Thanks!
Jeff
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Hi folks,
My boss has asked me to do some usability training sessions for our
development team. Obviously this is a good thing, he wants them to be
thinking of the tools available to them and how they can utilize me better.
I would have to present to a group of about 25-40 people. They will be
Hey Tom,
My suggestion would be to avoid lecturing at them as the usability expert.
Sounds like you need to be the evangelist first, and their coach second. Start
with an interactive - workshop like exercise that demonstrates what it is like
to work with or design a product without much
You need to personalize it for them. They are likely working real hard to build
something right now. How disappointing it will be if what they are working
leads to user disappointment, lack of adoption, or failure in the marketplace.
With our methods, you do not have to wait until the end to
We've been testing an interactive Flash prototype on a laptop.
This prototype uses the keyboard and some extra controls connected with USB.
We used foam core to block out the areas not used or seen.
Ideally, we would like to send the flash protoype to a small screen -
the size of many cell phone
It has been announced that the battery can be replaced... same $129 as a
MacBook Pro, you just have to let them do it for you. (Installation is free.)
And it's a 5 hour battery! I replaced my current battery after 3 years, after I
only got 45 minutes of usable time out of it... but have not
What kind of guidelines did the publisher give?
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Designers Accord is actually something I've just recently heard of
(last night actually).
As far as their challenge/mission/principles go, I too think they've
done a great job. It's simple really. Teach and influence others by
surfacing the topic while working with teams or clients. It brings
I can't help but think they've missed the boat on this one. Yes, it is
beautiful and technolust-inspiring but the flaws are many. to wit:
No user-removable battery. This is a guaranteed trip to Apple in a
year or two, and when traveling, one will have to carry a dongle-
enabled external
So, in terms of the richness of features it seems like;
indesign pages word
Well, where to put openOffice then?
I recently began to use Pages and lovin' it. It's all-in-one-place
export screen, roomy interface are just great! But sometimes it
becomes frustrating when I just want to type a
I'm afraid I've had a delay in getting this off so some has already been
covered...
I understood the SW that Dan originally referred to be the SW that facilitates
the application of globally understood meaning to the data. By having this
common understanding, one can make then make
I would just like to endorse the following points:
- Post/postal code rather than zip (in Australia it's a postcode -
zip just sounds American)
- There are codes with alpha characters, not just numeric
- Some codes have spaces in them
- Some countries don't have codes (e.g. New Zealand, which
Hi
A good discussion has been going on the new Mac Air and its design elements
but I want to touch on a slightly different question. What part of the
Mac Air belongs
to IxD and is it all about IxD or there are more important elements to
the design?
To elaborate, the thin form factor holds inside
Tom/list,
We have carried out UX familiarization and training for our development
groups at my company. Ssome of the most important things I learned were:
- Understand the needs of the people attending the training. Will they be
responsible for conducting their own usability evaluations, or
On 15 Jan 2008, at 19:33, Jessica Enders wrote:
I would just like to endorse the following points:
- Post/postal code rather than zip (in Australia it's a postcode -
zip just sounds American)
[snip]
Which, of course, gives the reverse problem for the yanks :-) Just
because of the
Hi Michele,
my first idea was to use some small LCD video monitor, like the ones
that are sometimes installed to watch TV in cars etc. But the smallest
dimension I can find is about 6-7, which is still much larger than a
mobile.
A better alternative is to keep your prototype running on the PC,
I think you have some really good points.
A tangent for all you IxD'ers to ponder upon, (especially in light of
http://beta.ixda.org/discuss.php?post=24609): think about how this
product relates to sustainable design.
Jeff
On Jan 15, 2008 9:25 PM, Diamond Eric [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I can't
But if the horsepower is beyond what you currently use... and you carry a
laptop everywhere, it may in fact be worth the bucks (to save your shoulder).
This is not a machine targeting power users or designers. But, I know a ton of
designers in small shops and even at the corporate level who are
I understand that perspective Ari. But look at another scenario. I have a
macbookpro that cost about the same (maybe a bit more), and I no longer work in
design aps or any other resource intense aps at Starbucks, or on an airplane.
I would gladly trade that extra computing muscle for the light
And now for a more concrete interpretation ...
also, if this is your first book, prepare to get screwed a little. unless
you are a real celebrity, your advance will be paltry because the
publisher
wants to mitigate the risk [...]
Writing a tech book is a labor of love. It's not going to be a
On Tue, 15 Jan 2008 20:51:30, dave malouf [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Once the conference starts (or that week), we will initiate what
Twitter calls the back channel. Anyone who sends a direct message
to our ID interaction08 (you do this by typing d [id name]
where you would normally type your
Or it is a designer, but one that has a primary machine that's a
desktop.
And as for ethernet... what is that anyway?
On Jan 16, 2008, at 12:28 PM, Mark Schraad wrote:
All I am saying is that there is a market for this product and it is
not the designer.
Cheers!
Todd Zaki Warfel
I think there's some confusion about the definition of UCD, which is a
formally defined process. It's not the only process out there that
considers users all along the way (a characteristic of any good
design process). The significant difference of UCD from the others is
that it mandates a
Nasir:
I would disagree with your statement that UCD is a formally designed
process which mandates usability testing. I think of it in more
generic terms.
User centered design, to me, suggests that when design decisions are
made, the user will have greater weight than competing dimensions. I
Nasir - where did you read, or who told you any specific practice,
like usability testing or anything else, was 'mandated' in UCD? The
only thing I would say is mandated is conducting sound, unbiased
research.
Also, again, UCD is not giving users what they **want**. If someone
sits down in an
At 11:19 AM + 1/16/08, Dan wrote:
Thanks for your responses, I find this a really interesting topic and your
thoughts have been equally interesting. Here are a couple more thoughts of
mine below:
snip
In general, my question regarding the death of the web page was trying to
stimulate
Well, there's the UCD process, and a user-centered approach. Semantics.
Dan Saffer's *Designing for Interaction *considers formal UCD as well as a
few other methodologies, including genius design. The main differentiator
is that UCD depends on validation at each and every iteration, which, you
Hello Nair,
Some good point here...
Thinking practically, requiring users to physically touch the display
on an already light devicee would probably cause it to tilt backward
without counterweight in the base...
Dane: Then this might be the wrong device to introduce multi-touch, it is an
I would disagree with your statement that UCD is a formally designed
process which mandates usability testing. I think of it in more
generic terms.
Apparently, the more in-depth we dissect a particular design decision, the
higher the odds are we'll end up discussing the definition of UCD.
Hi Pankaj,
The question I really want to put out is, whether it is
justified to credit the whole making of Mac Air to a
group of Interaction designers who mostly gave it the
Visual form.
I don't credit the visual form of the Mac Air to Interaction
Designers. In an interview in the NY
That's certainly a good observation. Do you think this means
something? Is good, bad, etc?
Jeff
On Jan 16, 2008 3:39 PM, Robert Hoekman, Jr. [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I would disagree with your statement that UCD is a formally designed
process which mandates usability testing. I think of it
That's certainly a good observation. Do you think this means
something? Is good, bad, etc?
Mostly, it's just ... humorous. No matter how much we talk about it, we
never come to a consensus on the definition of UCD, but we just keep on
talking about it, going in circles, over and over again,
Great comments so far. At my company, Perficient, we offer
User-Centered design training internally and to our technology
clients.
We do much of what Tom discussed in his post. In addition I'd add
that one of the things our clients really appreciate are case studies
- actually showing real
Dann said: Here's a favorite quote: ...every product in the world gets
designed by someone, whether or not they know what they're doing.
In my early days of UCD-design evangelism, I used to refer to a frequent
alternative to UI design, or to user-centred design, which I sometimes
called design by
Hello, (with our apologies for any duplicates)
We are looking for speakers for our panel on Agile Web Design.
If you are interested in exchanging on collaborative and agile
development, UCD and web design, and sharing your thoughts
on the subject let us know before January 25.
Thomas Lissajoux
Charlie and Robert, I couldn't agree more. I get equally as frustrated
every time the list talks about what design is, or what interaction
design is. I simply want us to agree on something and move on to
bigger and better things.
I've expressed this in the past, the response I got was that, hey,
It is realistic
to think we can address this and solve it once and for all? I really
don't know. But I'd love to be a part of some effort to find out.
Perhaps we should collectively go find some good definitions, craft one of
our own in a constructive, proactive *project*, and then stick the
Yup and its only a useful definition if the people we are selling it
to understand it and see how it will help their business succeed or
help them do their jobs better in a project context.
We often reference the ISO definition of Usability (simply to let
folks we are presenting to know it
Well, if people are interested in collaborating on some of these
definitions, I would be happy to try and coordinate. I'm too tired
to write a lot about this now but anyone who wants to talk further,
please feel free to email me.
One of my interests is to begin to create a body of knowledge about
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