Jeff: right. Thanks for pointing this out. I agree. They probably do a good
job blocking spam behind the doors... Your question still remains, though
(how to convince skeptics), and I can't think of a better solution than some
sort of disclaimer or something.
Michael: so very interesting. People s
Would you consider the term defined as
"A property in which the physical characteristics of an object or
environment {inform the user of} its function."
To sufficiently clarify the following ?
-An affordance exists relative to the action capabilities of a
particular actor.
-The existence of an
Maybe it is just that titles aren't saying it and it is in the
coursework, but I haven't seen any studio classes.
My two were Drawing/Sketching for Product Design Studio & Product
Design Studio.
Studio courses in general to me are key to ANY design education just
not IxD. They are the cornerstone
Excellent example, thank you :)
Another thing I recently read about is that Russian soldiers back in
Afganistan started to put tracer bullet closer to the bottom of their
magazines. In this case they know when magazine is going to be empty soon
(there is visual difference in shooting with regular
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I encountered this interaction design a few minutes ago and it moved me
to post :)
I've been sick all week with a sinus infection and have gone through
several boxes of tissues at home and work. Our brand of choice for the
home is Kleenex. No affiliation, just personal preferance. At work they
p
It is possible. Apple did it when they removed the "Stop" button from the
iPod and from iTunes. Before that, it was commonly accepted that an
interface for a player had to have Play, Pause, Stop, Forward and Rewind -
even though Stop only makes sense when the device is a tape deck. People
have acce
I would agree that the term is less than perfectly communicative but
from my own opinion I think this has come from Normans second
interpretation of the term and where 'perceived affordances' has
dirtied the waters and where Norman has openly admitted that has had
to spend much time in clarifying
""A property in which the physical characteristics of an object or
environment {inform the user of} its function."
So, in practical terms it just reminded of the FOX car (Volkswagen
Brazil) .
..."Accidents occur when a person, instinctively, puts the finger on
the ring of metal. Unlocked, the m
Good afternoon!
We're looking for experienced User Experience professionals in the San
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year. We currently have two separate opportunities that will both last
for 12 weeks.
This is a unique opportunity to help guid
When is it too late to change an "accepted cultural convention in the
computer world"?
I ran into to albeit lighthearted taboo at work when i made it clear i had
to look at the keyboard when i typed. Everyone(for the most part) accepts
qwerty. we've learned broken metaphors, and adapted to inneffic
Typography
Sketching and Modeling
Design Theory
Mapping and Diagramming
Conceptual Modeling
Design Research
These are the ones I find myself referring to/thinking about/putting
into practice repeatedly.
Dan
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Dear List member
I am looking for undergraduate program titled exactly interactive
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---
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Really interesting stuff! At least where I work I've observed this
the most when we bring customers in for usability testing. They may
be talking about an activity that is not on the agenda, but they
describe how the navigate to it and our user experience team says
"wow that's not how it's supposed
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The project aims at providing training in interactive media desig
Oleg,
What is most compelling to me, as an Interaction Designer, is that Thermo
would allow me to do rapid prototyping using some very simple interactions.
I usually create my wireframes in InDesign and publish them as PDFs. Thermo
would save a lot of time and effort when I need to create these cli
A little more depth on this topic:
The original meaning of affordance (in the context of Gibsonian
psychology) is a RELATIONSHIP. The relationship exists between an
actor and the environment and/or object.
The classic example is that a chair affords sitting - but that is an
oversimplification.
Just today I had to use a registration process that was so abysmally bad
that I felt I needed to share. I'm one of the (apparently many) people here
who've switched from Mac to PC and one of my clients requires a Cisco client
to access their VPN.
So I head over to Cisco.com to find out if they hav
In order if importance:
1 A cog psych course - sensation, perception cognition - leave the eye
tracking machine alone
2 A behavioral psych course
3 A basic Anthropology/ethnographic course
Note the emphasis on people, not technology. Of course if your undergrad is
in any one of these feels you sh
Just out of sheer curiosity, is that essentially the same as saying,
"A property in which the physical characteristics of an object or
environment {inform the user of} its function."
This seems a little more in-line with Robert's (well-put) definition.
On Mar 20,2008, at 12:20 , Angel Marquez
%u2026 following my previous post
Thus, in our brain exists neuron deputed to the coding of objective,
named visuo-motor neuron (which match the intuition of Gibson). But,
for how astonishing was this discovery, it was nothing in respect to
the next step made by the Rizzolatti%u2019s group, that i
The name Affordance (Gibson, 1979), concerns the relationship between
the visuo-motor system of living organisms and the spatio-temporal
distribution of electromagnetic energy to which the different visual
systems are sensible, it has his root in the evolutionary process.
Don Norman (1988) at that
On Thursday 20 March 2008 15:47:12 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> A question for experienced Interaction Designers:
A forewarning, I think I'm more academic than professional and I had a few
years experience before going through my program, so not everyone in my
program would have the same opinion a
> which you save it with a different name, and extension. So why use
> words
> whose meaning refers to space (import is moving to here, export is
> moving to
> there) - to mean translation?
Aren't all metaphors inherently "broken"? :-) In the sense that no
metaphor is 100% verisimilitude, b
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