On Feb 20, 2008 6:16 AM, Murli Nagasundaram [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Alexander mentioned the problem of organizing 500+ commands. The answer is,
you don't organize it. Not in the conventional way, anyway.
Well, that was mostly a rhetoric question :) I agree that search is a
good idea in many
Hi,
I was wondering if there were any IxD(a) groups / meetings in London?
I've searched the list, and there seems to be sporadic meetings, but
nothing regular.
If nothing does exist, would anyone be interested in helping to
organise a regular meet-up? Even if it is every two months or so, it
In my experience you can choose to describe your idea/concept/business
case to the VP of Marketing using the jargon that gets you props on
the IxDA list, or you can use the marketese vocabulary they are used
to and makes them feel warm and fuzzy.
Whatever gets the ball into the end zone, so
my personal favorite instrument / sequencer of all time:
http://www.genoqs.com/index.php?option=com_rsgallery2Itemid=104catid=1
this thing has completely changed the way i compose
its interface is truly unique, and lends itself to exploring sequences
and loops in new and different ways.
I agree with Loren. The freedom of creating in interacting with these kind of
instruments can actually open the way to new form of expression, not written in
rules. This could open to a new sense of art in what comes from the
Human-Machine interaction.
- Messaggio originale -
Da: Loren
A company called Emotiv has a mind controller device. Think something and
that something becomes correlated to an action.
it isn't as easy as say the movie Firefox (think in Russian!), but it is
a start of calibrating brain waves to then say whenever this pattern occurs
do this action.
I doubt it
Hi there,
I live and work close to London as well, I'd be happy to participate
in organising any meetups. I think I'm in this list for a year or so
now, and I haven't seen any meetup in London.
With respect to other groups, UK Usability Professionals' Association
seem to have some regular
My biggest - one of them at least, axes to grind - is the use of
in-language, jargon, bad metaphors and cliches. The most annoying one,
however, is the use of sports metaphors in diction. I have seen politicians
speeches and marketing websites where a reader is subjected to paragraphs of
nothing
Doesn't it just make you want to shout out 'buzzword bingo'?
On Feb 20, 2008 8:44 AM, W Evans [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
My biggest - one of them at least, axes to grind - is the use of
in-language, jargon, bad metaphors and cliches. The most annoying one,
however, is the use of sports
And another reason to thank you for the link was there special report on
advances in Search:
*Special Reports Next-Generation Search*
http://www.technologyreview.com/specialreports/specialreport.aspx?id=2
--
~ will
Welcome to the
I realize we aren't all webbies, or even software designers, but I found the
inclusion of Offline Web Applications in Technology Reviews list of 10
emerging technologies intriguing.
While I agree in the importance of this step for web technologies, I
didn't quite see it as the sliced-bread quality
Thanks for the link Dave - and some very interesting things in the list -
but one thing I was thinking is that we have been, as
software/web/interface/interaction designers - stuck in the exact same (for
the most part), paradigm for GUIs since 1968.
Wow. It was exactly 40 years ago that Engelbart
Hi Chris,
There is substantial research on the HFES database on icons and
labels. Check out the online search of articles on www.hfes.org
(human factors and ergnomic society).
Deborah Mayhew's book on Software user interface guidelines from the
early 1990s cites research on icons (and
Hi Alex's,
I like this Interaction Design Alex's in London. ;) (IxDA ... ha ha)
There are no private discussion lists that are part of the IxDA
community. There might be non IxDA related discussion lists about
interaction design, but not owned/operated by IxDA.
As to the question of starting an
I found myself in a bit of a debate over the use of
icons, and would like to be able to cite empirical
data. Unfortunately I haven't located much
literature. Can anyone refer me to research that
compares icons with text buttons?
From: James Leslie [EMAIL PROTECTED]
: I was shocked to find that only about 10% of blind people in the UK
use
: screen readers, mainly due to inhibitive costs and the (generally)
: complicated set-up involved and learning process. I think the idea
put
: forward about automatically having sound
*Reminder:
*NYC Usability Professionals Association presents:
*Wayfinding: a real world signage system its implications for online
design***
Think it's important to know how to get around a website? How about a
hospital? Find out how Sylvia Harris, a leading Information Design
Strategist, was
These ideas I always find interesting, but will humans ever be ready for
something like this?
After all, we have the capacity to not hit that button... we do not have the
capacity to Not think that action.
Nick Iozzo
Principal User Experience Architect
tandemseven
847.452.7442 mobile
Claude Knaus wrote:
2. Save (5.5% of the usage)
This is the one which worries me. I find myself hitting Ctrl-S every
few sentences or seconds.
How can software restore the trust of the user?
In this case by providing auto-save, presumably, long overdue [1] anyway.
[1]
Indeed. It takes a lot of mind control/discipline to control a device
like that. The device would have to learn your neurological patterns
pretty quickly to be effective.
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Hi
Does anyone want to do a local IxDA meet in Delhi-NCR? Mumbai, Bangalore and
Pune already do.
Do get in touch if anyone's interested.
Cheers
Soo
PS (i also help organize the local Mobile Monday meet ups here)
--
The details are not the details. They make the design' - Charles Eames
On 2/19/08, Loren Baxter [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
What I find interesting about all of these interfaces is that they aren't
immediately self-explanatory. The user needs to play around with them
before discovering how it can be used. At first, I thought this was
I think that's one of the
Similar yet a more primitive version is experienced by me, Etkin Ciftci and
Nilay Yapici from IMP-Wien last week as a part of the Ars Electronica
e-Motion exhibition in Vienna's Museumsquartier. Brainball is a table game
of two. The players try to pull the ball to their sides by relaxing. Yes
Title: Software Interaction Designer
Company: LiTL LLC
Location: Boston, MA (Back Bay)
Title: Permanent, full time
LiTL is a brand new, well funded company developing a consumer product
that involves hardware, software, and online services. We're looking
for a talented interaction designer to
[old thread... I was thinking about it for a couple of days...]
I've been lurking for a while and seeing threads (on this list and
others) where people have been narrowly defining interaction design as
something that only takes place in a web browser.
In particular I feel that the experience
And I would love to blame the quality of the job posting sites. There search
engines are terrible.
Just now, I search in Washington DC
Information Architect (86 results - only 3 were for IA)
Interaction Designer (41 results, only 1 for IxD)
Interface Designer (10 results, only one for ID)
It's not so much a matter of designers disappearing as much as demand
ballooning.
As our work gains momentum and more companies see the value of bringing good
design to their products, it follows that the demand for designers grows as
well. I think we've been noticing an upswing in demand for
Hi Andrei,
1) This is not just a problem in SV. At the IA Summit there were 19
sponsors all there to recruit heavily and well from my basic survey,
they weren't all that successful. I know we weren't.
2) Like what David Shaw said. You've gotta be nutz, coocoo, and just
insane to leave anyplace
It's been my experience that in these cases, HR is often to blame.
There are very few recruiters who understand what you're actually in
need of so they work from a skills and background checklist and if a
resume doesn't use the same set of magic words that their list does,
you lose someone who
so they work from a skills and background checklist and if a
resume doesn't use the same set of magic words that their list does,
you lose someone who might actually be a perfect candidate
Then it seems they are no better than a machine.
--
Agreed with Dave and David, and here are some additional points to consider:
1) The demographics of more experienced candidates (i.e. more likely
to have a family and other personal obligations) make them less
interested in moving to areas with a high cost of living like SF/NYC.
Conversely, less
I have always thought we as a community need to do a better job
educating recruiters/HR people to what we actually do to enable them
to understand the space, write proper job descriptions and tags, know
how to interview and hire the right people.
__
Catríona
Supply and demand... there is A LOT of work out there right now. Many large
companies are transforming to Web 2.0 or just evolving to become more targeted
and efficient which requires more seasoned talent. (Versus Dot Coms chasing VC
money and just filling seats...) Most companies today that
I whole hearted agree - the results that are produced are sometimes
nothing close to what you are searching on?
As a human factors / cognitive engineer with experience in Interface
Design/ Interaction Design jobs seem slim for the picking - however
I'm told there is more work in our
Lead Designer
Boston
Boston University - Charles River Campus
Job Description
Lead the design and management of web and other interactive new media projects
with a comprehensive approach that emphasizes branding, technology, quality of
written and visual content and information architecture.
From: dave malouf
Sent: Wed 2/20/2008 12:05 PM
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: [IxDA Discuss] Where are all the designers?
...
3) The value of SV as a nexus is being lost due to well what SV does
... create
Hi Tim,
We will be hosting our deep dive cultural immersion workshop,
Rethinking China! this summer and India in January 2009.
To learn more, please visit
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Let me know if you would like to be added to our mailing list when
registration opens March
I know that we're talking about digital products, but I can't resist
a shout-out to Harry Partch and the wonderful instruments he invented.
Check out these interfaces:
http://musicmavericks.publicradio.org/features/feature_partch.html#
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On Feb 20, 2008, at 12:05 PM, dave malouf wrote:
2) Like what David Shaw said. You've gotta be nutz, coocoo, and just
insane to leave anyplace including NYC and move to SF unless you were
guaranteed something between $150k-$200k, and HUGE relocation package
upwards of $20-$30k. Having done
Here's another example that connects Interaction Design and Theatre.
The London premiere of Peter Pan in 1904. Captian Hook has poisoned
Tinkerbell and she's near death. Peter Pan turns to the audience and
implores them to clap if they believe in fairies in order to save her
life.
Today that sort
Sorry for joining in on this late but I'm wondering what you folks think of
eliminating browsable navigation on Web sites all together and just forcing
users to use a search interface to locate what they are looking for. Songza
(http://www.songza.com) is an example of this that does not allow
Pankaj wrote:
Unless Dave wont have recommended it I would have
given this website a pass...
But he _did_ recommend it. That's why you were there. It's clear
they expect you to be sold on the value proposition before you visit
buzzword.com. They're optimizing for existing users.
A bit of
On Feb 20, 2008, at 12:05 PM, dave malouf wrote:
2) Like what David Shaw said. You've gotta be nutz, coocoo, and just
insane to leave anyplace including NYC and move to SF unless you were
guaranteed something between $150k-$200k, and HUGE relocation package
upwards of $20-$30k. Having done
Jeff,
I'd generally treat as 'epic failure' any Web app that didn't at least
provide some basic overview in support of asking me to register. In this
example, even a simple Don't know about Buzzword? Read the
overviewhttp://about.buzzword.comand find out why it's the best
darn-tootin' Web app
Falling off my chair laughing. I worked all week to get 'catiwompus'
into a client meeting. Today was the day. No real idea how to spell it.
On Feb 20, 2008, at 7:14 PM, Steve Baty wrote:
[Also: props on getting 'discombobulated' into a sentence. Not
something I
see every day :) ]
Hi all,
I've had further talks with the client and they want sound for strategic
purposes (future sites). So though I'm not sure if it's entirely
appropriate, I have to make sure it's used in a way that isn't annoying and
is hopefully useful.
On Tue, Feb 19, 2008 at 5:12 AM, Marty DeAngelo
From your specialist in obscure regional dialect:
http://dictionary.reference.com/search?r=2q=catawampus
Also kittywampus in Appalachia, akin to kittycorner (on a
diagonal, or opposite, corner)) ... Can't tell you about the
derivation, but people around here use these words all the time.
. . .
Not to take away from the very real issue of what the cost of living
here is and how it puts a strain on people, but it certainly doesn't
require earning $150K to $200K a year.
Depends on your lifestyle. For example, $100k can do significantly more for
you in Arizona than $150k can in Silicon
The same goes for us in NYC! Rents in manhattan for a 250 sq ft studio are
easily $1900 or more.
A two bedroom apt in a good neighborhood (with good schools) easily costs
$850K or more. My younger brother lives in Scottsdale, AZ. He owns a nice,
two level house for what our 1 bdr apt costs!
Lots of reasons to relocate for work.
How many designers do we know that started with Apple or Adobe on
their resume and leveraged that into bigger better roles.
Sometimes you need exposure to a great company or to great projects
to kick start a carrier. While great projects are available
Getting older, having babies, networking and finding jobs through informal
channels and friends rather than formal channels, and staying employed as a
consultant as a job that I like with people I like that affords me the
flexibility that I need to avoid a long commute and spend more time with
not so much a design solution as a technical one - but it may also
help out
http://www.netzgesta.de/loupe/
cheers
jy
Ideas I've had so far:
Magnifying glass on roll-over (ala iPhone text magnifying)
Welcome to the
On Wed, 20 Feb 2008 15:47:54, Jeff Howard [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Pankaj wrote:
Unless Dave wont have recommended it I would have
given this website a pass...
But he _did_ recommend it. That's why you were there. It's clear
they expect you to be sold on the value proposition before you
Arent we a global village anymore? It makes me happy
to know that UX is almost at the same level around the
globe.
Considering that most of the top business houses have
their offices in China and India, does it make sense
to consider shifting to these parts of the world as
well?
Consider this:
Pankaj wrote:
My question really was whether I should be blamed
or the website?
As a user, you're pretty safe from criticism on this list. No one is
ever going to admit that a user should be blamed for anything. But
even though the tryout/signup process for buzzword could be better
than it
Vicky-
The simple answer is for the same reason any product uses a professional to
endorse it. The same reason Kobe Bryant endorses sneakers...on a conscious
level we know that he probably doesn't wear the same ones we can buy in the
store, but sub-consciously we fall for it, whether it's
This seems to apply for many people - in weighing our options in the
near future as she finishes
her doctorate, my fiancee and I have considered moving. The Bay Area
is one of the few
places we've given serious thought away from our current hometown.
We are aware that this would mean shifting
The Illustrated Family Health Guide from A.D.A.M. may have the type of
thing you're looking for. Although it is a book, they do have a few
examples you can look at online.
http://www.adam.com/familyhealth/toc.htm
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