Re: [IxDA Discuss] Joel Spolsky claims the "Program Manager" role does UI design... ????

I give it 5-10 years and I predict a major shift in interaction design practice & education away from majors and masters and into support tracks and electives for already existing degrees in interactive, industrial, and architecture. -- Agreed. At least to educate those that need enough to get by

Re: [IxDA Discuss] Joel Spolsky claims the "Program Manager" role does UI design... ????

My primary objections with Spolsky's article are pretty simple: I don't want to *be* a program manager, nor do I want to be mistaken for one, nor do I want to have to do things that program managers do. Having different titles for different jobs is, y'know, useful. If someone does happen to do bot

[IxDA Discuss] Printing onto Post-its from Excel

I'm doing an affinity diagram exercise, and I want to avoid hand-writing individual observations onto post-its. Does anyone have an Excel spreadsheet template that can help me transfer data onto 3" x 3" post-its that I can output from a laser printer? Thanks! Jenn Anderson ___

Re: [IxDA Discuss] What music for interaction designers

I guess the music I listen to depends upon what I'm doing. If I'm trying to learn a difficult concept or analyse data, I prefer silence. If it's more the artistic side of things (the creation part), I like to listen to something a bit arty like Talk Talk (Spirit of Eden/Laughing Stock or Mark Holli

Re: [IxDA Discuss] IxDA NYC Presents: Marc Rettig - How to Change Complicated Stuff (e.g., the World) -- RSVP URL

This is a fantastic topic. Is it possible to please open this meeting up to a telephone/web conference so others can attend remotely? . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Posted from the new ixda.org http://www.ixda.org/discuss?post=40040 ___

[IxDA Discuss] [EVENT] Reminder: Boston IxDA: Amy Cueva - Using Comics in the Design Process. This Thursday evening @ Autodesk.

Hey folks, hope you're coming this Thursday evening to hone your skills and attend this fantastic workshop! --- Many of the challenges we face as designers relate not to the quality of our work, but the communication of our ideas. Boston IxDA is thrilled to host *Amy Cu

[IxDA Discuss] Position: Information Architect / ARTstor / Full-time / New York, New York

Institution: ARTstor (non-profit) Location: New York, New York Title: Information Architect Duration: FTE ARTstor is seeking a full-time, mid-level Information Architect who will work on new development initiatives and platform enhancements for ARTstor — a digital image library of nearly one milli

Re: [IxDA Discuss] Where bounce off design concepts?

First of all, thanks to all. This certainly is a rapid-response community! Skitch looks interesting, but I don't think one can embed HTML in posts here, so it'd have to work with links, indeed. Sometimes that's one extra step too many for fluent interaction, but I'm being picky. WallOfDeliverable

Re: [IxDA Discuss] Where bounce off design concepts?

I have posted a reply to all the posts quite some time ago, but have never seen it appear. At the top I got a yellow band stating that the post was being moderated. Since nothing in the post would require censorship, obviously, I wonder how much time it would take for it to appear? Thx. . . . .

Re: [IxDA Discuss] What music for interaction designers

On Sat, Feb 28, 2009 at 12:59 PM, Scott McDaniel wrote: > Not to be contrary, but I consider music essential to my process. > There are times for silence and office buzz, but really now...I know how I > work. > > Weedling through wireframes of familiar sorts, documenting, sketching, > correspondin

Re: [IxDA Discuss] Joel Spolsky claims the "Program Manager" role does UI design... ????

Yes, Patrick there is a lot of "it depends" and YMMV to the reality of all this. But if ActionScript and "pixel perfect" design is beyond you. Please move to strategy and management. Please! The economies of scale require that there is a UI Designer. ONE person. The age of having an IxD, a Visua

Re: [IxDA Discuss] \"Download Adobe Acrobat\" for PDFs

On Mon, Mar 16, 2009 at 12:52 PM, James Page wrote: > There where 9,199 visitors, and only 2,572 had "Acrobat". I sure if the > target audience was academic then the numbers for "Acrobat" would allot > higher. I'm not sure *I* have "Acrobat". I try to purge it from my system at every opportunity

Re: [IxDA Discuss] Where bounce off design concepts?

For your own protection, if for no other reason, you need to have a more substantial understanding of these issues. You may or may not agree on the level of importance that Dave assigns them in this particular connection, but they are certainly necessary considerations. 1) When something is

Re: [IxDA Discuss] \"Download Adobe Acrobat\" for PDFs

On Mon, Mar 16, 2009 at 11:10, Jamie Bresner wrote: > What should I take into account when considering adding "Get Adobe > Acrobat" next to a PDF link on a web page. Is this necessary? First question that comes to my mind: is the PDF download itself really THIS necessary, actually? If the content

Re: [IxDA Discuss] Where bounce off design concepts?

#1 is really the only concern for me, and it goes away pretty quickly once something is shipped. #2 I used to worry about, but after working in the industry for 15 years, and specifically in the early stage startup/VC side of things for the last year and a half, I've concluded that ideas are worth

Re: [IxDA Discuss] Joel Spolsky claims the "Program Manager" role does UI design... ????

Patrick, I think what Chris, Andrei and I are saying is that hiring tomorrow will not be like hiring from today. -- I disagree. While some of the new grads may have all of the skills listed, that list is fairly daunting for the majority of the IX/UX community. This is an issue that I've seen in

Re: [IxDA Discuss] Joel Spolsky claims the "Program Manager" role does UI design... ????

On Mar 16, 2009, at 10:01 AM, j. eric townsend wrote: But it's certainly not a required class for ixd and it's a risky class to take as an elective as it can fuck up you GPA. All the more reason to take it! It's a great way to learn how to walk the tightrope. -- Andrei Herasimchuk Chief

Re: [IxDA Discuss] Where bounce off design concepts?

I think this is an interesting idea. I suspect that most of the people posting would be: A) students or new designers working for small clients who aren't going to ask for an NDA or whose sites are not unique enough to have their designs be compromised by showing them, and B) people wanting to sh

Re: [IxDA Discuss] \"Download Adobe Acrobat\" for PDFs

> Another problem with relying on Javascript is of course that some > users may have it disabled for whatever reason > To help this discussion along, here are some more stats. Out of those 9,199 visitors, and only 2,572 had "Acrobat", 9,856 had Javascript, 8,135 had Flash. 300 came from browsers t

Re: [IxDA Discuss] \"Download Adobe Acrobat\" for PDFs

Another problem with relying on Javascript is of course that some users may have it disabled for whatever reason (their choice of user agent, paranoid IT departments, whatever). To be honest I don't think this group of users is that high these days, but it's important enough to consider some altern

Re: [IxDA Discuss] \"Download Adobe Acrobat\" for PDFs

There might be a bit of a problem with this approach. The browser can only detect whether the user has a reader configured to load as a plugin. That rules out users in firms with paranoid IT departments, which sometimes install reader as a stand-alone for security purposes, and also users who have

Re: [IxDA Discuss] \"Download Adobe Acrobat\" for PDFs

I love the built-in viewer in Google Docs. I wonder if there's an API for calling that an viewing the doc directly in the web page without needing the reader software/plug-in installed? That'd be the easiest solution from the user's standpoint. ·Dave ___

Re: [IxDA Discuss] \"Download Adobe Acrobat\" for PDFs

>So what to do? A little bit of javascript magic. Use javascript to test if the user has a pdf reader, if not show them the link to download it. The issue seams to be people don't know what "Acrobat" is and then combine the web stats I gave before, with Caroline findings, and it looks scary. Ther

Re: [IxDA Discuss] Represented (designer\'s) Model

Not sure if anyone pointed you to it, but Indi Young published a book entitled Mental Models last year. I don't know if it's quite the same thing you're looking into, but the name sparked my memory. -a ___

Re: [IxDA Discuss] \"Download Adobe Acrobat\" for PDFs

Jamie Bresner > What should I take into account when > considering adding "Get Adobe > Acrobat" next to a PDF link on a web page. > Is this necessary? Just recently suffered through a test of a site that does this. All the participants who clicked it thought that they were going to get the .pdf

Re: [IxDA Discuss] \"Download Adobe Acrobat\" for PDFs

>next to a PDF link on a web page. Is this necessary? Yes. I am just looking at some web stats for a clients site, out of 12,000 visits today, only 2500 had a pdf viewer. This site is mainly focused on consumers so these stats may not apply to your site. James http://blog.feralabs.com 2009/3/16 J

Re: [IxDA Discuss] What music for interaction designers

Mayur Karnik wrote: Adrian's comments are noteworthy... I was just thinking the other day how workplace environments have changed over the last decade. As 'open offices' and laptop / docking cultures manifest (now it seems, just about everywhere), there is an increasing clamour for private space.

[IxDA Discuss] \"Download Adobe Acrobat\" for PDFs

What should I take into account when considering adding "Get Adobe Acrobat" next to a PDF link on a web page. Is this necessary? Welcome to the Interaction Design Association (IxDA)! To post to this list ... disc...@ixda.org Unsub

Re: [IxDA Discuss] Joel Spolsky claims the "Program Manager" role does UI design... ????

Andrei Herasimchuk wrote: If the title in the software world is going to be called "interaction design" then that person needs to know these hard skills: Interesting list. I can think of a number of graduating seniors here who can handle 2/3 of your list pretty well and who are catching up on

Re: [IxDA Discuss] Joel Spolsky claims the "Program Manager" role does UI design... ????

Russell Wilson wrote: Admittedly maybe a few for programming: Software Engineer Software Programmer At my past three software engineering jobs, I was a "Member of Technical Staff" on paper, as was pretty much everyone who did anything remotely technical, from QE to circuit board design. On

[IxDA Discuss] [EVENT] [UK] UX Brighton: Mental Models, Service Design & Problems with Convergence

Cross Posted. When: Tuesday April 14, 2009 at 6:45pm Where: The Werks, 45 Church Road, Hove, UK, BN3 2BE Info: http://upcoming.yahoo.com/event/2137111 This looks like it's going to be a thought-provoking session with lots of issues to discuss. Speakers: Filip Healy & GiGi Demming from Amberligh

Re: [IxDA Discuss] Companies that value UX/IxD/IA - NYC area

Lis, We at SpeechCycle have a small UX team focused on a subset of our products. We're in lower Manhattan. ph . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Posted from the new ixda.org http://www.ixda.org/discuss?post=40020 __

Re: [IxDA Discuss] Where bounce off design concepts?

There is that site dedicated to wireframes, no? Might be good. The wall of deliverables is an interesting idea. Here at SCAD we are thinking of creating a work-in-progress gallery. A few big issues that people have with galleries: 1) Intellectual Property--I can't share what really doesn't belon

Re: [IxDA Discuss] Where bounce off design concepts?

How about The Wall of Deliverables ? (Though that seems to be more for final, polished stuff...) There is also an Interaction Designers group on Flickr . Cheers, Martin Polley Technical writer, interaction designe

Re: [IxDA Discuss] Where bounce off design concepts?

As far as I know, there's no central location for posting images/sketches. You are of course free to use Skitch.com, Flickr or any other solution to host your stuff, and share a link here on the list. - Fredrik Welcome to the Interac

[IxDA Discuss] Where bounce off design concepts?

Having just registered with this community, I hope this query doesn't come over as exceptionally ignorant, but I was wondering if there is a place in here where designers bounce off ideas off each other wrt a particular project they are working on. This would include sketches and a lot of other im

Re: [IxDA Discuss] How to hire an interaction designer?

On 16 Mar 2009, at 04:21, David Cortright wrote: [snip] And to me, that's the place that someone who knows nothing about the design space should start. By hiring a consultancy, you're not just getting production. You are getting a consultant who understand your business needs, can educate yo

Re: [IxDA Discuss] Surface-like interface: without using flash

> This is not new, if anyone here remembers DYNAPI. It was possible to do these things way back in 2000 (or earlier maybe). Indeed. Bi-directionally scrolling the browser viewport with JS has been possible (and used) for quite a lng time now. I strongly disagree on 'no value added', though. O

Re: [IxDA Discuss] What music for interaction designers

I dont listen to music either while working :P Silence is the best meditation :) of course I do put on my headphone just to avoid some useless discussions happening near me (so people will think I am busy listening to something and bitch about others assuming I cant hear them) lol -- sajid On Mo

Re: [IxDA Discuss] Surface-like interface: without using flash

This is like going down the path where flash has "been there, done that". Few years back, everyone used to love these fancy Flash websites. Things move around, fly past, jump, bounce etc. Why? because it was easier to do it with flash. Thats the past, everyone has realised that all of this does n

Re: [IxDA Discuss] What is easier to use? A consistent interface with an inferior interface or a inconsistent interface with one part superior interface?

Hi Adrian > "Easy to use" in what context? > What behaviours are you trying to make the interface best support? Are > there other UI options that might support different behaviours well? Thx for these questions. I think you just put me in the right direction. Probably the most common use cases

Re: [IxDA Discuss] Statistical analysis in Morae

You are right David. I was able to get basic statistical data such as mean, std deviation etc directly in MS word. But was unable to find anything that would help to better analyse and draw infrerence from it. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Posted from the

Re: [IxDA Discuss] Enabling iphone type experiences for non-consumer devices such as industrial, medical and automotive products - looking for strategic partners from an IXDA/UX background

I worked in a US-based office of CapGemini, in the Rapid Design and Development lab. We used an application called iRise for prototyping, and they now have an iPhone simulation deck. It's at http://www.onespring.net/iphonesimdk.html. And for what it's worth, I've contacting one of my previous co-w

[IxDA Discuss] a tool for IT product Research and Development Team

Hi guys do you have the same need of a tool which can help you organize and facilitate your project work? I am writing my thesis now, and developing a tools for developer in IT product Research and Development Team. that tools is mainly for individual user , but it can help for sharing the info