[IxDA Discuss] Signing out

2009-09-19 Thread Andrei Herasimchuk
talent to help to add to Yahoo's ranks. And yes, I thought a long while before choosing my title, so consider this message my final word on the whole semantic argument about the interface v. interaction v. user experience design debate. Take care all and best of luck. -- Andrei Herasimchuk

Re: [IxDA Discuss] How trendy is UCD? Are we critical enough aboutit?

2009-09-14 Thread Andrei Herasimchuk
due to chunking, AdWords auction algorithms to maximize ad revenues, and all the massive infrastructure they have been building on the backend to make all the magic happen -- and what they can make that technology do for people. -Andrei Herasimchuk

Re: [IxDA Discuss] Why isn't the OS a browser?

2009-09-13 Thread Andrei Herasimchuk
On Sep 12, 2009, at 2:22 PM, Kim Bieler wrote: My original question was why isn't the OS a browser, not, why can't my browser be the operating system. An operating system is a *very* specific thing that handles very specific tasks at a technical level. If you're trying to ask what would

Re: [IxDA Discuss] How trendy is UCD? Are we critical enough about it?

2009-09-13 Thread Andrei Herasimchuk
advancements and business requirements, not to mention a little playfulness and aesthetic integrity, will always create better products than user-centered, tech- centered, or business-centered processes. -Andrei Herasimchuk Welcome

Re: [IxDA Discuss] How trendy is UCD? Are we critical enough about it?

2009-09-13 Thread Andrei Herasimchuk
On Sep 13, 2009, at 8:39 PM, Alan Salmoni wrote: btw Andrei - all power to you there mate, but I find that telling programmers and especially marketeers (given their influence) not to be lazy usually results in problems in the longer term. Let's be clear. The example, as given, was: The

Re: [IxDA Discuss] Why isn\'t the OS a browser?

2009-09-10 Thread Andrei Herasimchuk
On Sep 10, 2009, at 9:24 PM, Nasir Barday wrote: The distinction between OS and Browser is becoming unimportant. Except for the minor fact that without an OS you can't actually launch a browser. The main difference is in performance; The main difference is that the OS actually runs the

Re: [IxDA Discuss] Identity Design and Eye Tracking

2009-09-02 Thread Andrei Herasimchuk
http://www.ixda.org/discuss.php?post=44684 Welcome to the Interaction Design Association (IxDA)! To post to this list ... disc...@ixda.org Unsubscribe http://www.ixda.org/unsubscribe List Guidelines

Re: [IxDA Discuss] UCD vs Design Again? Really?!? [was: We don't blah blah blah]

2009-09-01 Thread Andrei Herasimchuk
with hard coded JSON while you're at it. I guarantee the single act of forcing yourself to learn how to code and build your own prototypes will show you without a doubt how focusing on the user as the center of everything is incomplete at best. -- Andrei Herasimchuk Chief Design Officer

Re: [IxDA Discuss] UCD vs Design Again? Really?!? [was: We don't blah blah blah]

2009-09-01 Thread Andrei Herasimchuk
design. -- Andrei Herasimchuk Chief Design Officer, Involution Studios innovating the digital world e. and...@involutionstudios.com c. +1 408 306 6422 Welcome to the Interaction Design Association (IxDA)! To post to this list

Re: [IxDA Discuss] UCD vs Design Again? Really?!? [was: We don't blah blah blah]

2009-09-01 Thread Andrei Herasimchuk
On Sep 1, 2009, at 5:42 PM, Jarod Tang wrote: On Wed, Sep 2, 2009 at 1:49 AM, Andrei Herasimchuk aherasimc...@involutionstudios.com wrote: Apple focuses on the customer, the technology, the business and the product itself. Simple cursory knowledge of their history, their products

Re: [IxDA Discuss] UCD vs Design Again? Really?!? [was: We don't blah blah blah]

2009-09-01 Thread Andrei Herasimchuk
eject the disk, but it turned off the machine. -- Andrei Herasimchuk Chief Design Officer, Involution Studios innovating the digital world e. and...@involutionstudios.com c. +1 408 306 6422 Welcome to the Interaction Design

Re: [IxDA Discuss] UCD vs Design Again? Really?!?

2009-08-30 Thread Andrei Herasimchuk
, they are not inclusive enough. -- Andrei Herasimchuk Chief Design Officer, Involution Studios innovating the digital world e. and...@involutionstudios.com c. +1 408 306 6422 Welcome to the Interaction Design Association (IxDA)! To post

Re: [IxDA Discuss] UCD vs Design Again? Really?!? [was: We don't blah blah blah]

2009-08-30 Thread Andrei Herasimchuk
at the center of everything, coloring their decisions on what to do or what not to do. -- Andrei Herasimchuk Chief Design Officer, Involution Studios innovating the digital world e. and...@involutionstudios.com c. +1 408 306 6422 Welcome

Re: [IxDA Discuss] We don\'t make consumer products, hence no need for a User Centered Design development process.

2009-08-27 Thread Andrei Herasimchuk
On Aug 26, 2009, at 10:53 PM, Asbjørn wrote: A user-centered design (and development) process is usually a good idea - if you want your application to be usable to it's end users, that is. It is? Then how do you explain Apple's products? -- Andrei Herasimchuk Chief Design Officer

Re: [IxDA Discuss] We don\'t make consumer products, hence no need for a User Centered Design development process.

2009-08-27 Thread Andrei Herasimchuk
example of an Apple product - actually *isn't* easy to use, but we don't care so much about that because it's a lot of fun? Really? Do you actually believe that? -- Andrei Herasimchuk Chief Design Officer, Involution Studios innovating the digital world e. and...@involutionstudios.com c. +1

Re: [IxDA Discuss] We don\'t make consumer products, hence no need for a User Centered Design development process.

2009-08-27 Thread Andrei Herasimchuk
On Aug 27, 2009, at 8:12 AM, Joan Vermette wrote: Which part of this are you asking about my believing - the not easy to use part or the we don't care because it's fun part? The claim that the iPhone isn't easy to use. -- Andrei Herasimchuk Chief Design Officer, Involution Studios

Re: [IxDA Discuss] We don\'t make consumer products, hence no need for a User Centered Design development process.

2009-08-27 Thread Andrei Herasimchuk
on this subject to be extremely reasonable: http://www.uie.com/brainsparks/2008/04/23/ia-summit-keynote-journey-to-the-center-of-design/ -- Andrei Herasimchuk Chief Design Officer, Involution Studios innovating the digital world e. and...@involutionstudios.com c. +1 408 306 6422

Re: [IxDA Discuss] We don\'t make consumer products, hence no need for a User Centered Design development process.

2009-08-27 Thread Andrei Herasimchuk
listed and lets you get to talking to 911 immediately. -- Andrei Herasimchuk Chief Design Officer, Involution Studios innovating the digital world e. and...@involutionstudios.com c. +1 408 306 6422 Welcome to the Interaction Design

Re: [IxDA Discuss] We don\'t make consumer products, hence no need for a User Centered Design development process.

2009-08-27 Thread Andrei Herasimchuk
a pretty good case it's quite easy to use. -- Andrei Herasimchuk Chief Design Officer, Involution Studios innovating the digital world e. and...@involutionstudios.com c. +1 408 306 6422 Welcome to the Interaction Design

Re: [IxDA Discuss] We don\'t make consumer products, hence no need for a User Centered Design development process.

2009-08-27 Thread Andrei Herasimchuk
type 911 and hit the call button. This bypasses all of the steps Joan listed in her scenario. Now knowing this, the question becomes (for her) I think, whether she still thinks the iPhone is hard to use when compared to other phones. -- Andrei Herasimchuk Chief Design Officer, Involution

Re: [IxDA Discuss] We don\'t make consumer products, hence no need for a User Centered Design development process.

2009-08-27 Thread Andrei Herasimchuk
On Aug 27, 2009, at 12:16 PM, Andrei Herasimchuk wrote: I'm purposefully did not respond to the situation I'm purposefully... And one of these years, I'll finally learn how copy edit my own crap in the same way I've learned how to copy edit tech specs. /sigh. -- Andrei Herasimchuk Chief

Re: [IxDA Discuss] We don\'t make consumer products, hence no need for a User Centered Design development process.

2009-08-27 Thread Andrei Herasimchuk
. It's been so long since I've had my iPhone, but I thought passcodes were on by default. I don't remember ever having them disabled. (Nor would I ever given the amount of personal information I keep on it.) My apologies if that wasn't clear. -- Andrei Herasimchuk Chief Design Officer

Re: [IxDA Discuss] Netbooks lead the way on how we'll be using our mobile phones in the near future

2009-08-26 Thread Andrei Herasimchuk
the next five years, I think it might put some of these other companies out of business. Guess we'll see. -- Andrei Herasimchuk Chief Design Officer, Involution Studios innovating the digital world e. and...@involutionstudios.com c. +1 408 306 6422

Re: [IxDA Discuss] Designers, Build your iPhone Apps with Corona

2009-08-21 Thread Andrei Herasimchuk
I think the point was that the *required* information was too much to ask for when one has no idea if the Dev kit is actually worth it since it's sight unseen. I'd actually like to check it out, but I won't given the sign up process. -- Andrei Herasimchuk Chief Design Officer, Involution

Re: [IxDA Discuss] Designers, Build your iPhone Apps with Corona

2009-08-21 Thread Andrei Herasimchuk
in it, but I won't drop all the personal information they want in that sign up form without seeing *something* beforehand. -- Andrei Herasimchuk Chief Design Officer, Involution Studios innovating the digital world e. and...@involutionstudios.com c. +1 408 306 6422

Re: [IxDA Discuss] Eye-Tracker software/hardware recommendations

2009-08-20 Thread Andrei Herasimchuk
to Jared's stated opposition to eye-tracking is really a disservice to how much Jared actually knows about this topic, and how much experience and expertise he has in research and technology. -- Andrei Herasimchuk Chief Design Officer, Involution Studios innovating the digital world e

Re: [IxDA Discuss] SXSW Panel Picker- please vote for my panels!!!

2009-08-17 Thread Andrei Herasimchuk
at that point. -- Andrei Herasimchuk Chief Design Officer, Involution Studios innovating the digital world e. and...@involutionstudios.com c. +1 408 306 6422 Welcome to the Interaction Design Association (IxDA)! To post to this list

Re: [IxDA Discuss] SXSW Panel Picker- please vote for my panels!!!

2009-08-17 Thread Andrei Herasimchuk
the title be something more like Adobe AIR, Microsoft WPF, Appcelerator Titanium or WebKit+Gears be technologies to choose from an RIA? -- Andrei Herasimchuk Chief Design Officer, Involution Studios innovating the digital world e. and...@involutionstudios.com c. +1 408 306 6422

Re: [IxDA Discuss] SXSW Panel Picker- please vote for my panels!!!

2009-08-17 Thread Andrei Herasimchuk
false expectations about what the said talk might be. Since wireframes != prototypes, the talk sounds to me more like you want to discuss various methods for presenting work at various fidelities. -- Andrei Herasimchuk Chief Design Officer, Involution Studios innovating the digital world e

Re: [IxDA Discuss] Latimes.com Redesign - No Link Colors

2009-08-13 Thread Andrei Herasimchuk
underlines to everything when nearly everything is clickable? I think the redesign is great. And now the major media companies have all finally gotten on the bandwagon to bring structured, clean graphic design back in fashion. It's about time. -- Andrei Herasimchuk Chief Design Officer

Re: [IxDA Discuss] His/Her vs. Their in website copy

2009-07-23 Thread Andrei Herasimchuk
For a mailing list that hates discussions about semantics, this thread is quite long. -- Andrei Herasimchuk Chief Design Officer, Involution Studios innovating the digital world e. and...@involutionstudios.com c. +1 408 306 6422

Re: [IxDA Discuss] Where is the Sign In on Amazon.com?

2009-06-30 Thread Andrei Herasimchuk
. But it's speculation. Someone from Amazon would need to chime in. -- Andrei Herasimchuk Chief Design Officer, Involution Studios innovating the digital world e. and...@involutionstudios.com c. +1 408 306 6422 Welcome

Re: [IxDA Discuss] HELP NEEDED: Need to find a list of military ranks for a drop down menu

2009-06-23 Thread Andrei Herasimchuk
. There are very few Adminals in the Army.) FWIW, it's easy enough to set up a simple JSON object array and a little bit of javascript to do that nowadays. No need to get into backend programming at all. Not like the various ranks will change, and it's a known list. -- Andrei Herasimchuk Chief

Re: [IxDA Discuss] Shaun Inman\'s Fever

2009-06-20 Thread Andrei Herasimchuk
on the iPhone. And then see how you feel about it as well. It still has a few bugs, but I know Shaun is working diligently on them. -- Andrei Herasimchuk Chief Design Officer, Involution Studios innovating the digital world e. and...@involutionstudios.com c. +1 408 306 6422

Re: [IxDA Discuss] Difference between Heuristic Evaluation and Expert Review

2009-06-20 Thread Andrei Herasimchuk
and, in most cases, believed the results. I'm going to quote that. Awesome. -- Andrei Herasimchuk Chief Design Officer, Involution Studios innovating the digital world e. and...@involutionstudios.com c. +1 408 306 6422 Welcome

Re: [IxDA Discuss] Shaun Inman\'s Fever

2009-06-19 Thread Andrei Herasimchuk
you'd like to discuss the method by which a product like Fever is sold... then by all means... it's an open list. Discuss it already. Stop discussing that you think it can be discussed. -- Andrei Herasimchuk Chief Design Officer, Involution Studios innovating the digital world e

Re: [IxDA Discuss] Shaun Inman\'s Fever

2009-06-19 Thread Andrei Herasimchuk
about it works, what doesn't, what are going to be the next standards in this sort of approach going forward 5 years and how to expand further on it. Say the words and I'll press the Send Money button. -- Andrei Herasimchuk Chief Design Officer, Involution Studios innovating the digital world

Re: [IxDA Discuss] Shaun Inman\'s Fever

2009-06-19 Thread Andrei Herasimchuk
when someone pushes back -- Andrei Herasimchuk Chief Design Officer, Involution Studios innovating the digital world e. and...@involutionstudios.com c. +1 408 306 6422 Welcome to the Interaction Design Association (IxDA

Re: [IxDA Discuss] Shaun Inman\'s Fever

2009-06-19 Thread Andrei Herasimchuk
the whole product while also being part of his marketing driven brain. Feed a fever, Red hot, well read... etc. It's a great example of how to use a product metaphor for more than just the product itself. -- Andrei Herasimchuk Chief Design Officer, Involution Studios innovating the digital world

Re: [IxDA Discuss] Shaun Inman's Fever

2009-06-18 Thread Andrei Herasimchuk
. Why are you making such a big fuss and acting so pissy with me? It's really unseemly. IMHO. -- Andrei Herasimchuk Chief Design Officer, Involution Studios innovating the digital world e. and...@involutionstudios.com c. +1 408 306 6422

Re: [IxDA Discuss] Shaun Inman's Fever

2009-06-18 Thread Andrei Herasimchuk
this new breed of web app that scales between browser and mobile with the same design philosophy? -- Andrei Herasimchuk Chief Design Officer, Involution Studios innovating the digital world e. and...@involutionstudios.com c. +1 408 306 6422

Re: [IxDA Discuss] Shaun Inman's Fever

2009-06-18 Thread Andrei Herasimchuk
on the exact same business model and the exact same web server hosted architecture, and what I know about how many he sold... I also know $30 is the right price. 8^) -- Andrei Herasimchuk Chief Design Officer, Involution Studios innovating the digital world e. and...@involutionstudios.com c. +1

Re: [IxDA Discuss] The Business of Design [was: Shaun Inman's Fever]

2009-06-18 Thread Andrei Herasimchuk
the discussion is at home here... Who are these many you are referring to? At this point in time, I've only heard one person complain on this point. -- Andrei Herasimchuk Chief Design Officer, Involution Studios innovating the digital world e. and...@involutionstudios.com c. +1 408 306 6422

[IxDA Discuss] Shaun Inman's Fever

2009-06-17 Thread Andrei Herasimchuk
is the epitome professionalism in this medium. As I said, if you have the ability, I can't recommend more than to go out and buy Fever, install it, and learn from it. -- Andrei Herasimchuk Chief Design Officer, Involution Studios innovating the digital world e. and...@involutionstudios.com c. +1

Re: [IxDA Discuss] Shaun Inman's Fever

2009-06-17 Thread Andrei Herasimchuk
target demo is a very specific type of person, and $30 is a minor price imho. -- Andrei Herasimchuk Chief Design Officer, Involution Studios innovating the digital world e. and...@involutionstudios.com c. +1 408 306 6422 Welcome

Re: [IxDA Discuss] low cost wireframing/diagramming solution?

2009-06-16 Thread Andrei Herasimchuk
On Jun 15, 2009, at 2:23 PM, Jerome Covington wrote: I thought if I was going to spend any money that it might be possible to find a better solution and figured I would turn to the community for help. Pencil and paper or a whiteboard with a digital camera. Seriously. -- Andrei

Re: [IxDA Discuss] Flash Catalyst Beta (aka Thermo) is out

2009-06-03 Thread Andrei Herasimchuk
. -- Andrei Herasimchuk Chief Design Officer, Involution Studios innovating the digital world e. and...@involutionstudios.com c. +1 408 306 6422 Welcome to the Interaction Design Association (IxDA)! To post to this list ... disc

Re: [IxDA Discuss] Flash Catalyst Beta (aka Thermo) is out

2009-06-03 Thread Andrei Herasimchuk
and pixels to allow you to do all that you need visually for the display, mixed with the statefulness and random access behaviors that code requires to truly design a professional grade interface for any software product, regardless of medium; web, RIA, desktop, mobile. -- Andrei

Re: [IxDA Discuss] Undergraduate Curriculum in HCI

2009-06-02 Thread Andrei Herasimchuk
fundamentals of it since Photoshop is really *all* interaction and very little visual, but that has not been my experience. I've found very people who truly understand what it means to design traditional tool based software anymore, for whatever reason. -- Andrei Herasimchuk Chief Design

Re: [IxDA Discuss] Nice Research on Persona Effectiveness

2009-05-29 Thread Andrei Herasimchuk
aren't trained or simply don't know what they are doing. -- Andrei Herasimchuk Chief Design Officer, Involution Studios innovating the digital world e. and...@involutionstudios.com c. +1 408 306 6422 Welcome to the Interaction

Re: [IxDA Discuss] Nice Research on Persona Effectiveness

2009-05-29 Thread Andrei Herasimchuk
guarantee I'll be the first in line to make sure it's implemented with all the clients and design teams I work with. -- Andrei Herasimchuk Chief Design Officer, Involution Studios innovating the digital world e. and...@involutionstudios.com c. +1 408 306 6422

Re: [IxDA Discuss] Nice Research on Persona Effectiveness

2009-05-29 Thread Andrei Herasimchuk
On May 29, 2009, at 3:36 PM, Patrick wrote: I think of the mistakes we make generally in the UX community is that we think we're inventing everything for the first time. We aren't, and we shouldn't. This I absolutely agree with. It drives me insane actually. -- Andrei Herasimchuk Chief

Re: [IxDA Discuss] Two must read articles

2009-05-28 Thread Andrei Herasimchuk
For anyone who follows such things... TypeKit is the latest thing from Jeffery Veen and crew. -- Andrei Herasimchuk Chief Design Officer, Involution Studios innovating the digital world e. and...@involutionstudios.com c. +1 408 306 6422

Re: [IxDA Discuss] Who am I?

2009-05-22 Thread Andrei Herasimchuk
you can now create with HTML +CSS+JS+Titanium (or MXML+FlashCSS+AS+Air if you must) for front-end coding and prototyping is awesome. It actually makes the job a thousand times more fun and rewarding if you really must know. -- Andrei Herasimchuk Chief Design Officer, Involution Studios

Re: [IxDA Discuss] Who am I?

2009-05-18 Thread Andrei Herasimchuk
will find yourself out of a job in the very near future. -- Andrei Herasimchuk Chief Design Officer, Involution Studios innovating the digital world e. and...@involutionstudios.com c. +1 408 306 6422 Welcome to the Interaction

[IxDA Discuss] The purpose of knowing how to draw

2009-04-29 Thread Andrei Herasimchuk
Dave Malouf clarified my comment at the IxDA in Vancouver. Jason Santa Maria says what I was trying to even more concisely. http://jasonsantamaria.com/articles/pretty-sketchy/ -- Andrei Herasimchuk Chief Design Officer, Involution Studios innovating the digital world e

Re: [IxDA Discuss] the alignment of the practices and outcomes of IA and IxD

2009-04-06 Thread Andrei Herasimchuk
, but it feels presumptuous and demeaning when people in this field keep relabeling a profession that has far more craft and skill applied to it that was hard earned over the last century. -- Andrei Herasimchuk Chief Design Officer, Involution Studios innovating the digital world e

Re: [IxDA Discuss] Help! Is there a Cardiothoracic Surgeon in the room?

2009-03-31 Thread Andrei Herasimchuk
-- Andrei Herasimchuk Chief Design Officer, Involution Studios e. and...@involutionstudios.com c. 408.306.6422 On Mar 31, 2009, at 7:50 AM, Jared Spool jsp...@uie.com wrote: In an emergency, you fetch a doctor. Interestingly, there are no doctors. Or, more accurately, there are many

Re: [IxDA Discuss] Help! Is there a Cardiothoracic Surgeon in the room?

2009-03-31 Thread Andrei Herasimchuk
to the table and then things can continue where they left off in 1996 before people thought that splitting up all of the skills was a good idea. -- Andrei Herasimchuk Chief Design Officer, Involution Studios e. and...@involutionstudios.com c. 408.306.6422 On Mar 31, 2009, at 7:50 AM, Jared Spool jsp

Re: [IxDA Discuss] the alignment of the practices and outcomes of IA and IxD

2009-03-31 Thread Andrei Herasimchuk
, the skillls of designers found at places like SXSW, then we might finally be on track to having something that serves digital product designer needs and its growing field of practice. -- Andrei Herasimchuk Chief Design Officer, Involution Studios innovating the digital world e

Re: [IxDA Discuss] Command line or GUI

2009-03-30 Thread Andrei Herasimchuk
the benefit of context (as defined by the URL in the browser) to create the first level of scoping the problem. -- Andrei Herasimchuk Chief Design Officer, Involution Studios innovating the digital world e. and...@involutionstudios.com c. +1 408 306 6422

Re: [IxDA Discuss] Command line or GUI

2009-03-30 Thread Andrei Herasimchuk
meant dialog boxes that lock you out of doing anything else on the computer. In fact, modality simple means that there are modes. When you choose a tool you are setting the mode for how all of your interaction with the mouse and keyboard work. -- Andrei Herasimchuk Chief Design Officer

Re: [IxDA Discuss] Five things Interaction Design probably isn't

2009-03-26 Thread Andrei Herasimchuk
for what it is we want to promote. And, PR within our own community is probably the first priority! The irony in this post has now made reading the IxDA for so many years beyond worth it. -- Andrei Herasimchuk Chief Design Officer, Involution Studios innovating the digital world e

Re: [IxDA Discuss] Bowman leaves Google

2009-03-21 Thread Andrei Herasimchuk
On Mar 21, 2009, at 12:15 PM, William Brall wrote: Collecting Data is a big part of IxD, and like any field with a science background, that data need not be collected a second time for the same problem. Science background? -- Andrei Herasimchuk Chief Design Officer, Involution Studios

[IxDA Discuss] Bowman leaves Google

2009-03-20 Thread Andrei Herasimchuk
Posted without comment, even though I very much feel Google just lost an amazing talent for no good reason: http://stopdesign.com/archive/2009/03/20/goodbye-google.html -- Andrei Herasimchuk Chief Design Officer, Involution Studios innovating the digital world e. and...@involutionstudios.com

Re: [IxDA Discuss] Bowman leaves Google

2009-03-20 Thread Andrei Herasimchuk
by Google's insistence on data driven design by committee? -- Andrei Herasimchuk Chief Design Officer, Involution Studios innovating the digital world e. and...@involutionstudios.com c. +1 408 306 6422 Welcome to the Interaction

Re: [IxDA Discuss] Bowman leaves Google

2009-03-20 Thread Andrei Herasimchuk
On Mar 20, 2009, at 5:42 PM, Jared Spool wrote: I read Dan's response as he thinks that *is* a good reason to leave. (You had originally stated that they scared Doug away for no good reason.) Yes, as noted by you and robert, I think that is the case as well. I phrased my initial post a

Re: [IxDA Discuss] Joel Spolsky claims the Program Manager role does UI design... ????

2009-03-18 Thread Andrei Herasimchuk
the whole thing himself, and he did it in a year's worth of time rebuilding the entire product three times over. The Shaun Inman's of the world are the future in this field with regard to skills, craft and aesthetic. -- Andrei Herasimchuk Chief Design Officer, Involution Studios innovating

Re: [IxDA Discuss] Joel Spolsky claims the Program Manager role does UI design... ????

2009-03-16 Thread Andrei Herasimchuk
On Mar 16, 2009, at 10:01 AM, j. eric townsend wrote: But it's certainly not a required class for ixd and it's a risky class to take as an elective as it can fuck up you GPA. All the more reason to take it! It's a great way to learn how to walk the tightrope. -- Andrei Herasimchuk

Re: [IxDA Discuss] The future of Wireframes (was: Joel Spolsky claims the Program Manager role does UI design... ????)

2009-03-12 Thread Andrei Herasimchuk
up in some alternate reality. To hear Dave say this after all this time... well... I'm finally at a loss for words. Know hope! -- Andrei Herasimchuk Chief Design Officer, Involution Studios innovating the digital world e. and...@involutionstudios.com c. +1 408 306 6422

Re: [IxDA Discuss] The future of Wireframes (was: Joel Spolsky claims the Program Manager role does UI design... ????)

2009-03-12 Thread Andrei Herasimchuk
interesting. -- Andrei Herasimchuk Chief Design Officer, Involution Studios innovating the digital world e. and...@involutionstudios.com c. +1 408 306 6422 Welcome to the Interaction Design Association (IxDA)! To post to this list

Re: [IxDA Discuss] The future of Wireframes (was: Joel Spolsky claims the Program Manager role does UI design... ????)

2009-03-12 Thread Andrei Herasimchuk
that for years, and I'm glad to hear him say it now. -- Andrei Herasimchuk Chief Design Officer, Involution Studios innovating the digital world e. and...@involutionstudios.com c. +1 408 306 6422 Welcome to the Interaction

Re: [IxDA Discuss] Standard font size

2009-03-11 Thread Andrei Herasimchuk
layouts the are optimized for everyone but work for no one, realistically speaking. -- Andrei Herasimchuk Chief Design Officer, Involution Studios innovating the digital world e. and...@involutionstudios.com c. +1 408 306 6422

Re: [IxDA Discuss] Joel Spolsky claims the Program Manager role does UI design... ????

2009-03-10 Thread Andrei Herasimchuk
to do so quite frankly. -- Andrei Herasimchuk Chief Design Officer, Involution Studios innovating the digital world e. and...@involutionstudios.com c. +1 408 306 6422 Welcome to the Interaction Design Association (IxDA)! To post

Re: [IxDA Discuss] Joel Spolsky claims the Program Manager role does UI design... ????

2009-03-10 Thread Andrei Herasimchuk
with regard to scripting HTML, CSS and JS/AS. -- Andrei Herasimchuk Chief Design Officer, Involution Studios innovating the digital world e. and...@involutionstudios.com c. +1 408 306 6422 Welcome to the Interaction Design

[IxDA Discuss] Eliss

2009-03-10 Thread Andrei Herasimchuk
://www.toucheliss.com/ Enjoy. -- Andrei Herasimchuk Chief Design Officer, Involution Studios innovating the digital world e. and...@involutionstudios.com c. +1 408 306 6422 Welcome to the Interaction Design Association (IxDA)! To post

Re: [IxDA Discuss] Prototyping tools resources

2009-03-06 Thread Andrei Herasimchuk
, the more real you make it, the better you can make adjustments that have real impact on the final product. -- Andrei Herasimchuk Chief Design Officer, Involution Studios innovating the digital world e. and...@involutionstudios.com c. +1 408 306 6422

[IxDA Discuss] Microsoft Office Labs 2019 Vision

2009-03-03 Thread Andrei Herasimchuk
My apologies if this got posted already... but I didn't see it. I figure there'd be a lot of interest in this video: http://www.istartedsomething.com/20090228/microsoft-office-labs-vision-2019-video/ -- Andrei Herasimchuk Chief Design Officer, Involution Studios innovating the digital world e

Re: [IxDA Discuss] Prototyping tools resources

2009-02-28 Thread Andrei Herasimchuk
sized team (almost 20 or so people) and as a designer who likes to fiddle with my own personal projects. While it is personal opinion, it has been my experience. I encourage you to go create a counter argument, and I'll even point to it from the page as a countering opinion. -- Andrei

Re: [IxDA Discuss] Prototyping tools resources

2009-02-28 Thread Andrei Herasimchuk
of the chart was precisely to illustrate the it depends answer. -- Andrei Herasimchuk Chief Design Officer, Involution Studios innovating the digital world e. and...@involutionstudios.com c. +1 408 306 6422 Welcome to the Interaction

Re: [IxDA Discuss] Prototyping tools resources

2009-02-28 Thread Andrei Herasimchuk
from the 80s and 90s, it's high time to take back the design of the interaction by using something like JQuery to prototype the idea, not scissors, paper, glue. -- Andrei Herasimchuk Chief Design Officer, Involution Studios innovating the digital world e. and...@involutionstudios.com c. +1 408

[IxDA Discuss] Prototyping tools + resources

2009-02-27 Thread Andrei Herasimchuk
Scriptabulous is missing. I need to add them but want to add as much as possible in one pass. Thanks in advance for any help here. -- Andrei Herasimchuk Chief Design Officer, Involution Studios innovating the digital world e. and...@involutionstudios.com c. +1 408 306 6422

Re: [IxDA Discuss] Successful designers must influence product direction and strategy

2009-02-24 Thread Andrei Herasimchuk
On Feb 23, 2009, at 11:32 PM, Angel Marquez wrote: Where freemiums begin and end, network effects? How much more money you can make as a non-profit opposed to a corporation... It's all design. I have absolutely no idea what your point is. -- Andrei Herasimchuk Chief Design Officer

Re: [IxDA Discuss] Successful designers must influence product direction and strategy

2009-02-24 Thread Andrei Herasimchuk
, you also try and gain more direct perspective about how money is the thing that makes the world go round from the mindset of an executive. -- Andrei Herasimchuk Chief Design Officer, Involution Studios innovating the digital world e. and...@involutionstudios.com c. +1 408 306 6422

Re: [IxDA Discuss] Successful designers must influence productdirection and strategy

2009-02-23 Thread Andrei Herasimchuk
companies yearly financial reports and don't get them, well, there's your first place to start to digging in. -- Andrei Herasimchuk Chief Design Officer, Involution Studios innovating the digital world e. and...@involutionstudios.com c. +1 408 306 6422

Re: [IxDA Discuss] Successful designers must influence product direction and strategy

2009-02-23 Thread Andrei Herasimchuk
product. Simplistic? Maybe... but the question was how can a designer gain more executive perspective. -- Andrei Herasimchuk Chief Design Officer, Involution Studios innovating the digital world e. and...@involutionstudios.com c. +1 408 306 6422

Re: [IxDA Discuss] IxD Greats?

2009-02-20 Thread Andrei Herasimchuk
because I had forgotten the evolution of this and was pointed to: http://1997.webhistory.org/www.lists/www-talk.1993q1/0182.html The exchange is interesting. Make of it what you will. -- Andrei Herasimchuk Chief Design Officer, Involution Studios innovating the digital world e

Re: [IxDA Discuss] IxD Greats?

2009-02-19 Thread Andrei Herasimchuk
and software, which has been missing for many years now. -- Andrei Herasimchuk Chief Design Officer, Involution Studios innovating the digital world e. and...@involutionstudios.com c. +1 408 306 6422 Welcome to the Interaction

Re: [IxDA Discuss] IxD Greats?

2009-02-19 Thread Andrei Herasimchuk
makes their opinions relevant is the fact they had the body of work to back it up. -- Andrei Herasimchuk Chief Design Officer, Involution Studios innovating the digital world e. and...@involutionstudios.com c. +1 408 306 6422

Re: [IxDA Discuss] A business case for switching Mac

2009-02-18 Thread Andrei Herasimchuk
, then there's no real cost difference you're going to be able to lay out there that makes your case. -- Andrei Herasimchuk Chief Design Officer, Involution Studios innovating the digital world e. and...@involutionstudios.com c. +1 408 306 6422

Re: [IxDA Discuss] IxD Greats?

2009-02-18 Thread Andrei Herasimchuk
concepts in software and interface design that are still 100% relevant to day as they were in 1982, Paul Heckel is still your guy. -- Andrei Herasimchuk Chief Design Officer, Involution Studios innovating the digital world e. and...@involutionstudios.com c. +1 408 306 6422

Re: [IxDA Discuss] IxD Greats?

2009-02-18 Thread Andrei Herasimchuk
was claiming or otherwise tying IxD as a digital technology based craft or that an interaction designer should be expected to know how to draw. -- Andrei Herasimchuk Chief Design Officer, Involution Studios innovating the digital world e. and...@involutionstudios.com c. +1 408 306 6422

Re: [IxDA Discuss] Should IxDA support a US National Design Policy?

2009-02-18 Thread Andrei Herasimchuk
at the private sector level. How on earth can setting *standards* for legibility and readability for government documents *produced* by government workers be a bad thing? Are standards only for the W3C or the IEEE and not for anyone else? -- Andrei Herasimchuk Chief Design Officer

Re: [IxDA Discuss] IxD Greats?

2009-02-17 Thread Andrei Herasimchuk
moment, if they've even gotten out of junior high. Until they come along, should give the engineers who made all of this happen the credit they are due for being great designers as well. And there have been plenty of great ones. -- Andrei Herasimchuk Chief Design Officer, Involution Studios

[IxDA Discuss] Ah, the good old days!

2009-02-10 Thread Andrei Herasimchuk
not as far fetched as it may seem... -- Andrei Herasimchuk Chief Design Officer, Involution Studios innovating the digital world e. and...@involutionstudios.com c. +1 408 306 6422 Welcome to the Interaction Design Association (IxDA

Re: [IxDA Discuss] say no to genius design

2009-02-02 Thread Andrei Herasimchuk
, and as such, thought you were misinterpreting Jared's article. My Apple Mail was simply splitting the thread however, and I found my error. Again, my mistake. -- Andrei Herasimchuk Principal, Involution Studios innovating the digital world e. and...@involutionstudios.com c. +1 408 306 6422

Re: [IxDA Discuss] say no to genius design

2009-01-31 Thread Andrei Herasimchuk
a quick design, knowing the results would essentially be unintended. Those teams had a rich toolbox of techniques and a solid understanding on how and when to use them. -- Andrei Herasimchuk Principal, Involution Studios innovating the digital world e. and...@involutionstudios.com c. +1 408 306

Re: [IxDA Discuss] Rapid Expert Design (R.E.D.)

2009-01-30 Thread Andrei Herasimchuk
to explain what kind of activities good designers practice, I'd really like to see the whole RED term live only for a brief moment as an anomaly on this list. -- Andrei Herasimchuk Principal, Involution Studios innovating the digital world e. and...@involutionstudios.com c. +1 408 306 6422

Re: [IxDA Discuss] Rapid Expert Design (R.E.D.)

2009-01-28 Thread Andrei Herasimchuk
classification of decision style. Sounds like the Dallas Cowboys. -- Andrei Herasimchuk Principal, Involution Studios innovating the digital world e. and...@involutionstudios.com c. +1 408 306 6422 Welcome to the Interaction

Re: [IxDA Discuss] User Experience Deliverables

2009-01-28 Thread Andrei Herasimchuk
. -- Andrei Herasimchuk Principal, Involution Studios innovating the digital world e. and...@involutionstudios.com c. +1 408 306 6422 Welcome to the Interaction Design Association (IxDA)! To post to this list ... disc...@ixda.org

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