[IxDA Discuss] Help us develop the next generation of interaction design tools
Hello All, Would you like to help us develop the next generation of interaction design tools? The DUCT project team at University of Michigan's School of information is conducting research on the practices of designers working at the frontiers of new technologies and application types. We are currently looking for designers who are willing to talk to us about projects they have done involving designing interactions for off the desktop and context-aware computing (e.g., location-aware applications, smart spaces). The goal of this study is to gather requirements for a next generation toolkit for designing, developing and testing ubiquitous computing systems. Click here to learn more about our study and to see how you can get involved [http://www.si.umich.edu/mwnewman/projects/ubiDesignStudyOverview.html]. -- Jared Bauer Masters Student School of Information University of Michigan www.swarmthink.com Welcome to the Interaction Design Association (IxDA)! To post to this list ... disc...@ixda.org Unsubscribe http://www.ixda.org/unsubscribe List Guidelines http://www.ixda.org/guidelines List Help .. http://www.ixda.org/help
Re: [IxDA Discuss] What's your favorite memory of Interaction 08?
The way the organizing team drew large arrows and color coded maps on the sidewalks with chalk to help people find their way to the different venues. Cheers! Todd Zaki Warfel President, Design Researcher Messagefirst | Designing Information. Beautifully. -- Contact Info Voice: (215) 825-7423 Email: t...@messagefirst.com AIM:twar...@mac.com Blog: http://toddwarfel.com Twitter:zakiwarfel -- In theory, theory and practice are the same. In practice, they are not. Welcome to the Interaction Design Association (IxDA)! To post to this list ... disc...@ixda.org Unsubscribe http://www.ixda.org/unsubscribe List Guidelines http://www.ixda.org/guidelines List Help .. http://www.ixda.org/help
Re: [IxDA Discuss] Design Strategy: Archetypes vs. Analytics
Paul Sounds a bit like a hostile colleague to me. In these sorts of cases, it's often best to step aside, and let them proceed straight on at full speed :) As long as his team's failure (and if they really are looking only at numbers, and he isn't just pulling your chain, then they will likely fail in some notable fashion) doesn't adversely affect you, experience recommends letting them jump off of the quantitative cliff without too much interference. If your work is decent, it will only make you look better by comparison... Cheers, Joe Lamantia On Jan 16, 2009, at 8:09 PM, Paul Bryan wrote: Hi, A colleague of mine and I were having coffee recently. I was telling him about my user archetype (persona) development project. He snickered and said, “My team is delivering an individualized design experience based on hard data. You’re stuck in design yesteryear.” After this discussion I was wondering: Is the future of interactive design strategy in the hands of statisticians? What do you think? /pb Paul Bryan Director, User Research and Experience Design Welcome to the Interaction Design Association (IxDA)! To post to this list ... disc...@ixda.org Unsubscribe http://www.ixda.org/unsubscribe List Guidelines http://www.ixda.org/guidelines List Help .. http://www.ixda.org/help j...@joelamantia.com | www.joelamantia.com I have not failed. I've just found 10,000 ways that won't work. - Thomas Edison Welcome to the Interaction Design Association (IxDA)! To post to this list ... disc...@ixda.org Unsubscribe http://www.ixda.org/unsubscribe List Guidelines http://www.ixda.org/guidelines List Help .. http://www.ixda.org/help
[IxDA Discuss] [Event] NYC UPA Jan 27: Andrew DeVigal presents at Bloomberg
The New York City Usability Professionals Association cordially invites local IxDA members to: *Telling Interactive Stories: The New York Times and the Online News Experience* a presentation by *Andrew DeVigal,* multimedia editor for *The New York Times* Tuesday, January 27 at 6:00 pm How do we create compelling online news experiences? First, we traverse the multimedia landscape to gather the pieces of our narrative: text, visuals and data. Next, we design that story as one seamless experience in a simple interface. Oh, and we mustn't forget to make it flexible enough to allow last-minute changes and updates. In this presentation, we'll examine case studies from The New York Times and explore some outside-the-box thinking. REGISTRATION Tickets are $15 for non-members and $10 for members. Please join NYC UPA for $15 annually and receive your first discount now. Registration closes at 12:00 pm on Friday, January 23. Tickets are transferable until 12:00 pm on Monday, January 26 by emailing rsvp [at] nycupa [dot] org. You must be on the attendance list to enter the building. Please register at: http://tinyurl.com/9mm4hu* *LOCATION Bloomberg L.P. 731 Lexington Avenue (between 58th 59th streets) Yes, the party will be similar to the IxDA bash at Bloomberg. A photo ID is necessary to enter. MAP: http://tinyurl.com/8cmbh2 SCHEDULE 6:00 pm – 7:00 pm | Networking refreshments 7:00 pm – 7:15 pm | Announcements 7:15 pm – 8:30 pm | Presentation and QA 8:30 pm – 9:30 pm | More networking refreshments SPEAKER Andrew DeVigal is multimedia editor for *The New York Times* as well as the co-founder of DeVigal Design, a print and interactive communications agency. In the news industry since 1993, he runs Interactive Narratives, a website sponsored by the Online News Association and dedicated to capturing the best in online visual storytelling. Andrew was recently profiled as a leading renegade cybergeek by *New York*magazine. See http://tinyurl.com/8juuqn. Here's Andrew's perspective on the rapid transformation of today's news media: It's an exciting moment in the industry as new technologies enrich the possibilities of journalism, giving us, storytellers, the ability to better organize and present complex information as well as enhance the experience of telling interactive stories through the fusion of text, photo, video, audio and infographics. For more information, please visit NYC UPA at http://nycupa.org. Welcome to the Interaction Design Association (IxDA)! To post to this list ... disc...@ixda.org Unsubscribe http://www.ixda.org/unsubscribe List Guidelines http://www.ixda.org/guidelines List Help .. http://www.ixda.org/help
Re: [IxDA Discuss] Data to support the ROI of an Intranet re-design
Neil, with respect to testimonials on business impact, the Neilsen Norman reports suggested by Angel's earlier post is a good start. With respect to quantitative ROI of community features, however, I would be surprised if there is any decent numbers out there that you could apply to your own environment. In my experience, these features are normally supported when there is political will, in the same way an organization normally doesn't require a quantitative business case to put telephones on their employees' desks. Paul . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Posted from the new ixda.org http://www.ixda.org/discuss?post=37307 Welcome to the Interaction Design Association (IxDA)! To post to this list ... disc...@ixda.org Unsubscribe http://www.ixda.org/unsubscribe List Guidelines http://www.ixda.org/guidelines List Help .. http://www.ixda.org/help
Re: [IxDA Discuss] Reverse colour text and attention blindness
The problem is that some users seem to completely ignore the other tabs in an in-page tab panel - even when the tab headings are clearly relevent to their task. Obviously any tab panel should have some element of foreground and background in the design but if the background is never even used then it becomes a problem. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Posted from the new ixda.org http://www.ixda.org/discuss?post=37296 Welcome to the Interaction Design Association (IxDA)! To post to this list ... disc...@ixda.org Unsubscribe http://www.ixda.org/unsubscribe List Guidelines http://www.ixda.org/guidelines List Help .. http://www.ixda.org/help
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On Sat, Jan 17, 2009 at 2:02 PM, discuss-requ...@lists.interactiondesigners.com wrote: Send Discuss mailing list submissions to discuss@lists.interactiondesigners.com To subscribe or unsubscribe via the World Wide Web, visit http://lists.interactiondesigners.com/listinfo.cgi/discuss-interactiondesigners.com or, via email, send a message with subject or body 'help' to discuss-requ...@lists.interactiondesigners.com You can reach the person managing the list at discuss-ow...@lists.interactiondesigners.com When replying, please edit your Subject line so it is more specific than Re: Contents of Discuss digest... Today's Topics: 1. Re: Design Strategy: Archetypes vs. Analytics (Steve Baty) 2. Re: Design Strategy: Archetypes vs. Analytics (Cindy Alvarez) 3. Re: Data to support the ROI of an Intranet re-design (paul bryan) 4. Re: Data to support the ROI of an Intranet re-design (Angel Marquez) 5. [Event] Austin UPA Happy Hour - Thursday, January 22nd at VinoVino (Julie Lowe) 6. [Event] NYC: Jan. 29 ?Doing More With Less: Sharing Tales of Guerrilla IxD? (NYC IxDA) 7. Re: 10 Most Common Misconceptions About User Experience Design (Angel Marquez) 8. Re: Whats in a name, my fellow Usability Experience Specialists? (Edo Amin) 9. Re: Strategic Interaction Design (Nathaniel Flick) 10. Help us develop the next generation of interactiondesign tools (Jared Bauer) 11. Re: What's your favorite memory of Interaction 08? (Todd Zaki Warfel) 12. Re: Design Strategy: Archetypes vs. Analytics (Joe Lamantia) 13. [Event] NYC UPA Jan 27: Andrew DeVigal presents atBloomberg (Elena Melendy) 14. Re: Data to support the ROI of an Intranet re-design (Paul Eisen) 15. Re: Reverse colour text and attention blindness (John McCarthy) -- Message: 1 Date: Sat, 17 Jan 2009 08:04:56 +1100 From: Steve Baty steveb...@gmail.com Subject: Re: [IxDA Discuss] Design Strategy: Archetypes vs. Analytics To: Katie Albers ka...@firstthought.com Cc: Paul Bryan p...@usography.com,Forum Interaction Design Ixda disc...@ixda.org Message-ID: 21d0e6880901161304n2831f811r82e522b8f2812...@mail.gmail.com Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Speaking as someone with a) a real passion for numbers; b) a degree in mathematical statistical modelling; and c) a bit of experience in this thing we call user experience design - I have to wholeheartedly agree with Katie's arguments below. We can learn *a lot* about people either individually or collectively by surveying, recording, measuring, collating, analysing, aggregating and reporting. But around the hard knot of clusters of similar-appearing people such an undertaking might produce, is a whole fuzzy world of real individuals. We humans are messy creatures: very hard to pin down, and sometimes prone to get all contrary when you try. We have emotions, hormones, moods, good days bad; we get obsessed, easily distracted; we change our minds. The numbers won't tell that whole story - ever. The moment you become solely reliant on numerical data to describe people you're making a very large and dangerous abstraction that is not justified by the observed world. Steve 2009/1/17 Katie Albers ka...@firstthought.com The use of data sets encourages a false sense of knowledge on the part of people using them. As T.S. Eliot pointed out (and this is a paraphrase), we have lost wisdom in knowledge, lost knowledge in information, and lost information in data. snip The acquisition of the zero, the definition of calculus, the practice of rigorous statistical analysis, mathematical modelling, all these things are very important to our world and our culture today. But you can be fluent in all of them and you still can't use them as the basic tools of developing a strikingly good interaction, or experience or interface. Don't forget negative numbers, the irrationals (pi etc), a complex numbers (sqrt(-1) = i) ! None of which help explain people any better; although very good for engineering. Numbers are attractive because they offer a sense of Correctness...there is only one right answer (although, as we used to say at MIT, 2+2=5 for very large values of 2 and very small values of 5). That still doesn't mean that they're always the right tool. snip Katie Katie Albers Founder Principal Consultant FirstThought User Experience Strategy Project Management 310 356 7550 ka...@firstthought.com -- Steve 'Doc' Baty | Principal | Meld Consulting | P: +61 417 061 292 | E: steveb...@meld.com.au | Twitter: docbaty | LinkedIn: www.linkedin.com/in/stevebaty Blog: http://docholdsfourth.blogspot.com Contributor - UXMatters - www.uxmatters.com UX Book Club: http://uxbookclub.org/ - Read,
[IxDA Discuss] New Book: Practical Prototyping with Excel
Nevin Berger, MIchael Arent, Jonathan Arnowitz, and Fred Sampson have a new book out: Berger, N., Arent, M., Arnowitz, J., Sampson, F. (2009) Effective prototyping with Excel: A practical handbook for developers and designers. Amsterdam: Morgan Kaufmann. Excel is not often mentioned as a prototyping tool in the UX/Interaction design community, but it can be a powerful tool for generating active forms, wireframes with links, and medium or high-fidelity prototypes. Using Excel for prototyping can be tricky because you have a graphics layer and a spreadsheet layer, but this book provides practical advice about how to make use of both the graphics and the calculation features in Excel. Chauncey Welcome to the Interaction Design Association (IxDA)! To post to this list ... disc...@ixda.org Unsubscribe http://www.ixda.org/unsubscribe List Guidelines http://www.ixda.org/guidelines List Help .. http://www.ixda.org/help
[IxDA Discuss] Academia, Bauhaus, Postmodernism and Games
A great post from the chair of the Interactive Design and Game Development department here at SCAD. She and I were talking about this very topic over lunch just this past Thursday. Her post here is just an amazing representation of that conversation++. BTW, fit Interaction (or Interactive) instead of Game and the whole piece fits just as well. Here is the URL: http://tr.im/9bwv -- dave Welcome to the Interaction Design Association (IxDA)! To post to this list ... disc...@ixda.org Unsubscribe http://www.ixda.org/unsubscribe List Guidelines http://www.ixda.org/guidelines List Help .. http://www.ixda.org/help
Re: [IxDA Discuss] Reverse colour text and attention blindness
Yeah, losing the entire tab navigation would defeat the purpose... Are you finding this true in any particular design more than any other? Where I see tabs get lost when they are underneath a row of primary tabs/buttons and they aren't as prominent as the upper row - the eye, after clicking the top tab, just jumps down to the content looking for the new info. It's only after discovering the page doesn't show what they want that I've seen users go back up to look for another nav. That always bugged me about Apple's last version of the site. I'm glad they fixed it in the new one and made the second row now the most important nav after leaving the home page. They still hide it on product pages and the iphone page, but on the other secondary pages they use large pics at the top which do a great job of catching attention. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Posted from the new ixda.org http://www.ixda.org/discuss?post=37296 Welcome to the Interaction Design Association (IxDA)! To post to this list ... disc...@ixda.org Unsubscribe http://www.ixda.org/unsubscribe List Guidelines http://www.ixda.org/guidelines List Help .. http://www.ixda.org/help
Re: [IxDA Discuss] Microsoft Surface and Windows 7
I worked with the Surface team and post an almost daily bit on designing for Surface and multi-touch at: http://www.pointanddo.com Also, buy Dan Saffer's book. It provides a nice overview of UX issues in multi-touch, physical computing and context aware computing. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Posted from the new ixda.org http://www.ixda.org/discuss?post=36947 Welcome to the Interaction Design Association (IxDA)! To post to this list ... disc...@ixda.org Unsubscribe http://www.ixda.org/unsubscribe List Guidelines http://www.ixda.org/guidelines List Help .. http://www.ixda.org/help
