Re: [IxDA Discuss] Interaction Designers: What is your elevator pitch?

2008-12-20 Thread Todd Zaki Warfel
Unless the entire system was designed to support itself and humans were figured into that mix. Theoretically it's possible. Makes me think of farming and natural ecosystems. Grass feeds the cattle. The cattle's waste feeds the grass. It's an entire system that works best when all parts,

Re: [IxDA Discuss] Interaction Designers: What is your elevator pitch?

2008-12-20 Thread Todd Zaki Warfel
Elements can have more than one purpose. The banana could have been designed for the purpose of reproducing itself and sustaining other life, human or otherwise. On Dec 19, 2008, at 8:27 PM, Dan Saffer wrote: its purpose is to reproduce itself, Cheers! Todd Zaki Warfel President,

Re: [IxDA Discuss] Interaction Designers: What is your elevator pitch?

2008-12-20 Thread Will Evans
Theoretically the flying purple spagetti monster designed the banana :-) will evans emotive architect hedonic designer w...@semanticfoundry.com 617.281.1281 twitter: semanticwill aim: semanticwill gtalk: wkevans4 skype: semanticwill _ Sent via iPhone On Dec 20, 2008,

Re: [IxDA Discuss] Interaction Designers: What is your elevator pitch?

2008-12-20 Thread Todd Zaki Warfel
I thought it was the flying purple people eater. On Dec 20, 2008, at 10:16 AM, Will Evans wrote: Theoretically the flying purple spagetti monster designed the banana :-) Cheers! Todd Zaki Warfel President, Design Researcher Messagefirst | Designing Information. Beautifully.

Re: [IxDA Discuss] Interaction Designers: What is your elevator pitch?

2008-12-20 Thread Katie Albers
Right! The Flying Spaghetti Monster isn't purple! http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flying_spaghetti_monster ! Blasphemer! Katie Albers Founder Principal Consultant FirstThought User Experience Strategy Project Management 310 356 7550 ka...@firstthought.com On Dec 20, 2008, at 9:38 AM, Todd

Re: [IxDA Discuss] Interaction Designers: What is your elevator pitch?

2008-12-20 Thread John Vaughan
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Re: [IxDA Discuss] Interaction Designers: What is your elevator pitch?

2008-12-20 Thread John Vaughan
On second thought: The appropriate answer (and it's all about context, isn't it?) would have to be ... It Depends on the Audience General Public: You've seen the TV ad for that Easy Button? I do that. IT Manager: Making your 50,000 lines of code usable by Normal People Marketing: I'm

Re: [IxDA Discuss] good examples for disability and web 2.0??

2008-12-20 Thread William Brall
Ajax != web 2.0 1.0 = content by web authors. 2.0 = content by website users. 3.0 = constructs by users and software as a service. So, for web 2.0 there shouldn't be any extra concerns for disabilities, but accessibility on the web has been a joke for much longer than the X.0 concept has

Re: [IxDA Discuss] Calendars integration online

2008-12-20 Thread William Brall
just remember, the cell-based traditional paper cal is designed for the limitations of paper. Don't bring them into your app. There is no reason you can't have all your months run together on the week with a color/shade alteration to show the change in month, rather than forcing a page. People

Re: [IxDA Discuss] good examples for disability and web 2.0??

2008-12-20 Thread Christian Crumlish
On Sat, Dec 20, 2008 at 10:48 PM, William Brall dam...@earthlink.netwrote: Ajax != web 2.0 1.0 = content by web authors. 2.0 = content by website users. 3.0 = constructs by users and software as a service. according to whom? i've heard numerous definitions of web 3.0, none of them