Re: [IxDA Discuss] How to introduce experience design in high schools?
I imagine it would be fun and relevant for current students to perform an ethnographic study on the new student high school (and middle school) experience. They can, from afar and up close, observe new students as they assimilate into high school. For example, how do they they use maps and handouts to familiarize themselves with campus layout? Do students gets lost easily on the first day and how do they recover? What kind of resources they use to plan their curriculum, and do they work well? Are important buildings centralized and easy to find? Which campus officials are the most helpful? To what degree are parents involved in shaping the high school experience and does it affect their planning in a positive/negative way? As the year proceeds, how does new student behavior evolve? Interview those new students on a bi-weekly basis with questions which can help evaluate the effectiveness of those previously mentioned maps and handouts. Observe other behaviors: have certain bathrooms more popular than others and why? Which resources go unused? At this point, it might be good for the research students to explain why they're asking these questions and plug the experience design studies they've been doing to generate future interest. After all the fieldwork, you can have the researchers evaluate and make changes to the maps, handouts, new registration process, etc. Test them on transfer stuents or on new students who enroll midterm. Refine and evolve. This would be very useful in providing the best possible experience for nervous freshman, while also making current students more empathetic towards them. The result might be mindblowing (and could be another study in itself). This idea might have been more timely in August/September, but I'm sure much of this can be performed now. Mike Quibuyen m...@thinkcloud.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] Public Transportation Experiences
I had a great experience using the Emery Go Round system in Emeryville, CA due to their NextBus real-time tracking implementation, however their web site can definitely use some work and isn't as simple or direct as One Bus Away's site. You can retrieve real-time shuttle status from the bus stop and the web site, and the system worked great for me while I was there. Take a look: http://www.emerygoround.com/ Btw, let me know if you'd like any thoughts on the LA area MTA and Metrolink. The public transportation experience is so fun to think about and dabble in, and I love conjuring up ideas each time I ride. MQ 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] what helped most in your career?
Experiences + Curiosity: Having many of them. Giving each experience context by exploring its gamut. Consciously experiencing things I naturally wouldn't. Questioning everything. Challenging beliefs. Being wary of product/service idolatry. Risk: (What I might call) strategically-executed risk and deviance can be fun and rewarding, and equally deflating. Very necessary in making advances. Alliances: Finding and creating strategic alliances--necessary to get things done in certain climates. The process is fun--it's like social treasure-hunting. Self-reflection + feedback: Continually evaluating and improving myself until I croak. Being open to feedback from quality sources. and most importantly... Quality of life: Focusing on my own and advocating it for my peers and colleagues has been the most helpful, most rewarding attitude thus far. 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
