My first inkling was eleven or twelve years ago when I created a Visual Basic UI to the phone queues of a technical support call center. It was a huge project - we thought it would be a simple integration exercise and it turned into more of an invention (a year late, untested phone switch interface, patents, you know the drill). I had access to a small usability testing lab and asked them to test my onscreen phone controls. In the FIRST THIRTY SECONDS OF THE FIRST TEST it became clear that my modal popup window was not an ideal design for a customer service telephone UI. Sigh. Simultaneous with thinking "Now we're a year and a month late..." I was thinking that I needed to learn how to make better decisions about application interfaces. I started chatting up other developers who did well at it, and eventually learned that there was a creature called a designer, and that maybe that's what I was in the process of becoming.
Now rather more circumspect with modal popups, Michael Micheletti On Dec 18, 2007 12:35 PM, pauric <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I think many of us took the long winding path actually. I was > wondering if we could hear some stories about those pivotal moments in > our careers where we changed from being 'X' in to Interaction > Designers.... > ________________________________________________________________ *Come to IxDA Interaction08 | Savannah* February 8-10, 2008 in Savannah, GA, USA Register today: http://interaction08.ixda.org/ ________________________________________________________________ Welcome to the Interaction Design Association (IxDA)! To post to this list ....... [EMAIL PROTECTED] Unsubscribe ................ http://www.ixda.org/unsubscribe List Guidelines ............ http://www.ixda.org/guidelines List Help .................. http://www.ixda.org/help
