As the former head of the Masters in HCI at Carnegie Mellon, I can
attest to the intensity, but I can remind folks that you don't HAVE to
do the program in one year! The classes are sequenced so you CAN do it
in a year, so it fits with some industry programs that sponsor their
employees to go a
Thanks, but I am not looking for the feature itself -- I know about and
have used the linking feature.
I am wondering if people actually USE it in practice and am looking for
examples.
Balsamiq makes it really easy to make static screen sketches, but I find
the linking clunky and very inconsiste
Does anybody actually use the links in Balsamiq Mockups to make
storyboards that can be walked through to show the interaction of a
system? I looked at all the examples in the Balsamiq Mockup gallery and
they all seem to be single screens (except for one which shows a
Google-like interface with
Alan Wexelblat wrote:
(How much longer is difficult to
quantify just from the paper prototypes, but my guess is that it's a
few seconds more on each operation.)
You could do more than guess - use predictive human performance modeling.
That is, you could use your paper prototypes to do Keyst
Heuristic evaluation has been shown to work with evaluators who
_are_not_experts_. (See Nielsen's old papers.) That's a big difference
between the two.
However, you have to have many more non-expert evaluators to find the
same number of usability problems when the evaluators are not experts in
To echo Dave's point, and Bill's via Dave, an undergraduate degree in
HCI _only_ is probably not a good idea.
To clarify CMU's program. It is not a first major -- you can't just
major in HCI. It is a *second* major. A student has to have a first
major in something else (Design, CS, Psychology,
it difficult for the far audience to get a word in
edgewise unless you design in ways to pull them into the conversation.
It's a learned skill, just like presenting in front of a physical crowd.
You might do the math and find it's easier just to fly everyone to
Portugal. :-)
//
I have used Skype only for (1) discussing things with a handful of
people, not 50-ish people and (2) only for items that are on a computer,
not hand drawn sketches up on a tack-wall. I looked at Adobe Connect
Now and it also seems to b\e about sharing the computer, not large
interactions among
The masters program in HCI at Carnegie Mellon University in Pittsburgh,
USA, has a joint program with the University of Madeira, Portugal and we
offer a joint project class where the students are dong an extended, 8-
to 12-month project. They need to present their preliminary designs
simultaneo
I believe CogTool can do what you want.
Although CogTool started life as a tool for making predictions of
skilled behavior on interfaces, it has evolved into a rapid prototyping
tool that generates HTML and, oh, BTW, gives you predictions of skilled
execution time at a touch of a button.
To
Things I do now:
1. Making three-way calls, because it is so obvious how to do it.
Add-Call button, dial the next number however you usually dial,
Merge-Calls button (in the same place the Add-Call button was). It just
works!
2. Taking pictures with the phone instead of the digital camera in my
I agree with that a sunrise alarm clock is delightful. Absolutely my
"last alarm clock".
Mine doesn't make any sound and allows any lamp to be plugged into it,
so it is a lovely as the lamp you choose (if you hide the box).
It is a small black box (~3inx5inx2in), with a red digital clock, 6
Folks,
If you've every thought that newcomers to HCI/IxDA could benefit from
your experience, perhaps you might consider directing the Masters in
HCI Program at Carnegie Mellon University. I've been doing it for 11
years and it's time for me to pass the baton and get back to more
research,
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