Please join us at the next IxDA Silicon Valley F2F for an entertaining
evening with Jared Spool, who will speak about Magic and Mental Models:
Using Illusion to Simplify Designs.
Wednesday, March 5, 2008
7:00-7:30 pm
Socializing
7:30-9:30 pm
Program
Yahoo! Sunnyvale Campus
Building C,
Please join us at the next IxDA Silicon Valley F2F for an entertaining
evening with Jared Spool, who will speak about Magic and Mental Models:
Using Illusion to Simplify Designs.
Wednesday, March 5, 2008
7:00-7:30 pm
Socializing
7:30-9:30 pm
Program
Yahoo! Sunnyvale Campus
Building C,
Hi all,
just stumbled upon this website (getsatisfaction.com), which seems to
be a platform for facilitating user feedback discussion about any
sort products services. In many cases the people officially
responsible for the product/service participate in the discussions,
see for example:
Whether correctly implemented or not, it's the last of the above symbols
(the 'standby toggle') that we see most commonly applied to refer to
'power'.
Not 100% sure about most commonly. But I'd accept commonly.
The standby symbol is often seen on computers and monitors and interpreted
by
Compare with the definitive origins of the Peace Symbol.
http://www.docspopuli.org/articles/PeaceSymbolArticle.html
How many know that it is stylized representation of the composite semaphore
signs for the letters 'N' and 'D', as in 'Nuclear Disarmament'? Or that at
one point, the Christian
This is turning into Monty Python's Four
Yorkshiremenhttp://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xe1a1wHxTyo
sketch...
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Not a manual typewriter, but an electric portable Smith Corona. Then again,
I seem to recall I usually wrote
gentle-rantHmm, mentoring. (I should probably have cross-posted this to
the IAI ...) I've tried a couple of times to obtain a mentor through the IAI
and this has fallen on deaf ears both times so I'd caution against offering
a scheme without a robust approach to ensuring it's adhered-to.
Yeah, I am the same, I'm getting to grips with it now and pretty much
select what I am going to listen to based on the mood that I want to
convey. I find that Industrial and noise stuff tends to yield more
angular designs than some trip hop or ambient which tend to yield more
flowing lines and
anytime that a company has to resort to making videos
of products, rather than making products, it's in serious trouble.
it signifies something, a desperate need for attention,
a need to be seen as relevant, a distraction from the design of the actual
products?
Hi Brian
You should
A couple of people already mentioned last.fm as one resource, and it
occurred to me that one other idea might be for people on this list to tag
appropriate, design-friendly music with something like ixd or even just
design.
It looks like the design tag has been used at least a few times, already.
data entry speed is one of the prime advantages of green screen apps.
web apps don't really excel at this due to their emphasis on mouse-based
input.
i'd focus on building in lots of key-based redundancy for common tasks such
as tabbing between fields, etc.
also, web forms can reduce many green
But I do think that it signifies something, a desperate need for attention,
a need to be seen as relevant, a distraction from the design of the actual
products?
I disagree. Creating concept videos like this is a common tool in the
product design world to understand how an idea may be crazy
On Feb 28, 2008, at 9:06 AM, Bill DeRouchey wrote:
So they thought about how the technology could have bearing on
someone's daily life, and made a video to show it.
I also wanted to point out that the scenario very purposefully
doesn't focus on the device itself. The phone/watch/etc.
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No music... Just the purring of my cat. I find that music
continues, but always changes or stops. My cat purrs then goes to
sleep. Both her purring and her sleeping are more soothing than any
style of music to me. Now, get me out of the office and I'm ready
for live jazz...
. . . . . . . .
We're designing a video news interface for the iPhone. Sort of a
way to do interactive TV on a small screen. Everyone on campus could
watch a live stream of local headline news.
Stories are linked to meta data so an appropriate news item could
call your iPhone and play itself.
Think IM for
Hi everyone, I'm an interaction designer from Saint-Petersburg, Russia :)
As I see, most of Ix designers work on applications, websites or maybe
mobile devices. But looking around I notice lots of ubiquitous
appliances, like microwave ovens, coffee makers, electric teapots etc.
that surely lack
While the video has all the subtlety of an Old Navy TV ad from 2001
(obvious lure is the iPhone, not so much the university), the
potentialities revealed are riveting - and a bit disturbing.
Some of my disturbance comes from concern that, if students don't
have to look at a map and learn where a
I think it's interesting that the video uses hand-drawn animation
and a handwriting-style font to humanize the technology. The music is
really touchy-feely and the woman is not in a business setting, but
at an outdoor cafe. They're trying to suggest that this will be the
complete opposite
Okay, okay, sorry for the barrage of emails, but... we just got word that
David Malouf will be in Boston tonight and joining us for our social at the
Asgard! He'll be sharing a few of his own stories about the conference and
of IxDA in general. We're looking forward to it!
Do come out to meet
what a great idea!
I'm on it!
On Thu, Feb 28, 2008 at 7:05 AM, John Gibbard [EMAIL PROTECTED]
wrote:
Consider it done: http://www.last.fm/group/IxDA
On 28/02/2008, Bryan J Busch [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
A couple of people already mentioned last.fm as one resource, and it
occurred to me
(apologies for cross-posting)
This spring I'll be teaching a new day-long workshop, Site Search Analytics
for a Better Experience. I won't be focusing on tools and transactions;
rather, I'll demonstrate how this method can help designers of all types
diagnose and fix problems with their sites'
Geoff wrote:
Am I just old and paranoid? I don't think so. Left unstimulated,
neural pathways go dark.
I think this is a real concern for design. There's a lot to find on
the topic by searching google for the keyword de-skilling
// jeff
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This may be the simplest form of an engineering driven interface
ever encountered. 1 vs 0? Closed vs open circuit? Show that symbol
to someone in an undeveloped country and it loses its meaning.
It's certainly easy to think of a more intuitive symbol using
natural phenomena rather than
If I listen to music, it's gotta be a favorite artist and an album I'm
already familiar with. I can't listen to anything new or that isn't a
favorite because it becomes a distraction... Should I rate this
song?, This one doesn't sound so great, etc.
4- or 5-star songs, shuffle, repeat.
Why would it lose its meaning in an underdeveloped country??
I think you would have to travel pretty far to find a country where people
didn't know the meaning of 0 and 1.
And if you where even able to find a country that didn't know 0 from 1,
didn't have engineers and didn't have electricity
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Considering I have actual relatives who would never in a million
years make the connection between on/off and 1/0, (and they are not
stupid, old, uneducated or otherwise outlying cases) I think it's
foolish to believe that this symbol is as universally comprehensible
as you would like to
Gee, that's helpful. Standby — even if a user knew that's what it
meant — is only marginally more useful than closed circuit (again,
if the user even knows that's what if symbol means, and then what the
term itself means).
And thus, what it means isn't of any use here. To the majority of
You should probably be aware that the company you refer to sells 1 million
mobile phones every single day of the year including Saturdays, Sundays and
holidays.
Yes, this the same company that has sold hundreds of millions of
devices over a decade and never came even close to the power and
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Hi everyone,
Our User Experience team at work is looking to begin Emotive or Emotional
response testing on our internal web applications in the near future. We're
starting to do some research on the topic to build out our methodology
around this type of testing. So, does anyone have pointers on
This is relevant to a reorganization of my division at the University
of Washington. We were formerly the artist known as Computing and
Communications. We're now UW Technology. The fun, however, has been
the new logo incorporating a power icon.
It appears here with all the requisite
Glad you asked. I created this station on pandora.com specifically to
share what I listen to while working, hoping others will enjoy it
too:
http://www.pandora.com/stations/975a6d3136879cceedf8dffe5cc6faa4425ba2910f7abf8b
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Re: the value of portfolios. I've begun to think that it would be
better for my company to give examples of wireframes (i.e.
prototypes) that we've created as part of designing compex websites
or online applications.
This way we'd be able to showcase our interaction design skills and
evangelise
Is anyone using iRise for simulations, requirements gathering, or any other
purpose?
I would be curious to know your experiences.
thanks
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Does anybody has an experience of designing interactions for
appliances? Does anybody HIRE such people? I would like to be the
first candidate ;)
Yes, there are a lot of people who think about appliance design. If you're
looking to get hired, IDEO immediately comes to mind (
The ergonomic abstracts could keep you reading for years to come on this
topic.
Mark
On Thu, Feb 28, 2008 at 5:46 PM, timoni grone [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Does anybody has an experience of designing interactions for
appliances? Does anybody HIRE such people? I would like to be the
Hello Jason,
The new book that was mentioned a few weeks ago, Product Experience
(Schifferstein Hekkert, 2008) has two sections devoted to the
Emotional Experience.
The repertory grid is good at getting at underlying dimensions of
product experience from the user's perspective rather than the
Hello Rony,
Legacy applications may not be the most aesthetic, but they are often
quite efficient and when moving from legacy to GUI or WUI (Web user
interface), keeping the efficiency can be quite a challenge. If you
are looking at applications like order-entry or financial apps where
people
Thought Bill DeRouchey's Language of Interaction was relevant here:
http://www.languageofinteraction.com/
As he points out designers/IxDers are the curators of the language of
interaction, and our usage of symbols is part of the process of teaching
them to people. A triangle for Play is only the
I've begun to think that it would be
better for my company to give examples of wireframes (i.e.
prototypes) that we've created as part of designing compex websites
or online applications.
I've found that the value of your work better be understood and
perceivable in the end product and that
While it was some time ago, I have had a client ask me why my end product
didn't look like the wireframes. As in...literally looking like the Visio.
On Thu, Feb 28, 2008 at 8:33 PM, Gretchen Anderson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I've found that the value of your work better be understood and
Until I moved to the US from India in 1986, I don't recall having
encountered the 0/1 power symbol more than a couple of times. Even today,
the symbol is quite rare except on computers and some other digital
products. Many educated people in India could probably guess at the meaning
of the
I'm guessing you eat donuts and muffins for breakfast and take your coffee
black -- isn't that what everybody does? ;-)
Growing up in India, we used to use this thing that apparently came on wires
-- though I have never actually see it with my eyes, I kinda believe the
wise people who assured us
Checkout skin tatoo's project by Philips Design.
http://www.design.philips.com/probes/projects/tattoo/index.page
It's a Design Probe.
To know more about design probes, you can read here:
http://www.design.philips.com/probes/whataredesignprobes/index.page
-sajid
On Thu, Feb 28, 2008 at 11:45
sorry Mark, I forgot to reply all :)
Hi,
Yes I do interaction design for both consumer electronics as well as
domestic appliances.
I work for Philips Design, so I would say you can try Philips if you
are looking to get hired.
Try careers section on http://www.design.philips.com to see if there
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