I come from a web design/software development background -- the design research and design strategy were the two most useful days for me. Really eye-opening, and full of practical examples and opportunities to try things out in a group setting. The IxD day was also fun... learned great ways to get our whole team involved in the design process and generating useful ideas.
The IA day was the least useful for me, since IA was the first technique I learned to improve my web design work about 10 years ago. (In fact, back then, I think it was the only web-focused technique we had!) Please contact me off-list if you'd like to chat more about the details of each day. -Jon On Wed, Feb 11, 2009 at 1:02 PM, William Selman <[email protected]> wrote: > "Design Research" was actually my favorite of all the workshops. I > think that you'd be surprised by what you can accomplish even with a > limited budget and timetable. I use at least some of the techniques > discussed on that day all the time. The strongest part that I found > applicable to my day-to-day activities was the discussion of how to > formulate research questions and conduct interviews. I use this all > the time when doing discovery work and user validation. > > I think that it would be impossible to cover theory in such a short > span of time. To study it would require a great deal of reading and > to make it meaningful, class discussions and writing (esp. > considering the wide variety of disciplines whose ideas we employ). I > think you'd be better off seeking out a more formal academic setting > for that kind of instruction. > > > . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . > Posted from the new ixda.org > http://www.ixda.org/discuss?post=38469 > > > ________________________________________________________________ > 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 > ________________________________________________________________ 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
