[IxDA Discuss] [Event] IxDA-SF Presents: VizFarm: CALL FOR PROPOSALS
Hello friends, We’re happy to confirm our community-driven, July event, VizFarm! IDEO has graciously agreed to sponsor and host the event on Tuesday, July 29, starting at 6:30pm. Please RSVP and pass on to others: http://upcoming.yahoo.com/event/872188/ We’ve received a number of early submissions, but we’ll need many more to make it a great event. We want the content to be diverse as possible, so whether you’re doing professional information design or you’re just excited about a diagram in a recent presentation, we want to hear from you! No submission is too great or too insignificant. For the privacy of IDEO’s clients, no photography or video will be permitted during the presentation (audio recording is allowed) so it’s a perfect opportunity to present your work that hasn’t yet been released. *** [IxDA-SF presents] VizFarm: SECOND CALL FOR PROPOSALS As people and businesses increasingly need to understand and evaluate vast amounts of information, information visualization has moved from a research topic to a mainstream technique. It’s now an interaction designer’s job to express all manner of complex information through graphics, animations and interactive interfaces. On July 29, IxDA-SF presents VizFarm, where you can have the opportunity to share your information visualization work with the local interaction design community. IxDA-SF will be hosting an evening of 5-minute presentations from local designers, showing off great examples of information visualization in practice. Have you done any information visualization work recently? Interested in giving a short presentation about the project, your process and the resulting work? Whether you’re doing professional information design or you’re just excited about a diagram in a recent presentation, we want to hear from you! Please email your proposal to sf-local at ixda.org describing the project, type of visualization work you performed and examples if possible. *** We’re looking forward to a great event! :) —the IxDA-SF team 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
[IxDA Discuss] [EVENT] IxDA-SF presents: Herding Cats and Taming Lions: Using Facilitation Skills to Create Better Design
Just a quick reminder that Jon Littell will be presenting his workshop on facilitation and soft skillsTOMORROW night, 6/3, at Adaptive Path. Socializing and Hiring Salon at 6:30, presentation at 7. http://upcoming.yahoo.com/event/704477/ Hope to see you there! -the IxDA-SF team 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
[IxDA Discuss] JOB: Senior Web Interface Ninja, Tiny Pictures / Radar, San Francisco, Full Time
We're Tiny, and we're growing. We have an immediate opening for a talented and creative engineer or web designer to work with a small team and become the resident expert for our web presentation layer. This person will play a central role in developing the next stage of our flagship application, Radar, the leading service for real-time sharing of cameraphone pictures and videos between friends. We're looking for someone who is highly motivated, flexible, and someone who will work well with the design team but can also be self- directed. We're looking for someone who enjoys building quick prototypes to present ideas, but who also knows that a quick prototype is almost never a working solution. Your Responsibilities: - Work with the Design team to produce crisp, responsive, and intuitive Web 2.0 user interfaces - Design clean, reusable and maintainable solutions - Implement these solutions quickly Required Skills: - HTML, CSS, JavaScript and an expert in cross-browser compatibility - Expertise in JS libraries such as Script.aculo.us, Prototype, YUI - Experience using JSP Pluses: - Exposure to Java frameworks such as Struts, Spring MVC, and Hibernate - Proven history delivering consumer-facing scalable web applications And finally, you must be a Radar user, even if you just signed up today. We have a strong work hard / play hard ethic, and we take very good care of our team: highly competitive salaries, outstanding benefits, and equity sharing. Interested? Send your resume to [EMAIL PROTECTED] and we'll tell you more. Local applicants only, and no recruiters or agencies please. Seriously. We're hiring for a number of other development roles as well, so if you're outstanding at what you do, get in touch and we'll take it from there. http://www.tinypictures.us http://radar.net 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
Re: [IxDA Discuss] Examples where personas are *not* useful
Jason Fried of 37signals wrote this biased but worthwhile critique of personas not too long ago: http://www.37signals.com/svn/posts/690-ask-37signals-personas On Nov 13, 2007, at 12:19 PM, oliver green wrote: So, can you give me examples where using personas would not be advisable/helpful? *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
[IxDA Discuss] IxDA SF: In The Moment: UX research about life instead of just interfaces - Tomorrow Night!
In The Moment: UX research about life instead of just interfaces http://upcoming.yahoo.com/event/312297/ IxDA SF returns with its third event in our design tools series. This month we present Nate Bolt, CEO of Bolt | Peters, as he presents UX research about life. Not all UX research is about the interface. It’s about the habits, moods, location, and motivations of the people using your interface. Unfortunately, that junk is unpredictable and difficult to measure, but can make or break the accuracy of your research. Here are three examples of how we’ve structured research to uncover where peoples’ real lives meet technology: (I) Web Apps. Live intercepts and remote research. Get on the user’s time, instead of forcing participants to follow your time as a researcher. (II) Video Games. Simulated native environment testing and six-on-one moderation with TeamSpeak. Sounds crazy, and it is. We’ll show a short documentary on what all that means and how much better it is than standard video game research. (III) Cars. Getting into people’s cars to film them while they drive, smoke a cigarette, flip open their laptop, check traffic, and then play an iPod. Also, how to double-check safety and liability waivers. All three examples preserve the authenticity of users’ moods and behaviors by maintaining a native environment, allowing us to understand relevant background information about a user, and using a relaxed, non-sterile environment to conduct the research-preferably, the comfort of their own homes (or cars). Users also have a much bigger role in choosing their tasks and structuring the interview than the researchers. We’ll talk about splitting our scripts into passionate themes and backup questions, watch actual video and audio from recent research and explain what we found. Wednesday, November 14, 2007 6:00 PM - 8:00 PM Yahoo! Brickhouse 500 3rd St San Francisco, California 94107 6:00 – Social Hour 7:00 – Presentation FREE http://upcoming.yahoo.com/event/312297/ *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
