Check out Ableton Live and Traktor. Both are audio/production apps that
shift between compose/setup and play/live. Among other more minor
context shifts.
Also, the Flash/After Effects models try to do the same thing with
better panel controls. Depending on how modal your modes are, that might
be
You asked:
With that in mind I ask what are we, the new generation of designers,
missing from the puzzle?
Some answers:
- I got into the game before there was a lot of formal training around
IxD/UX. That's the reason many of us oldsters have backgrounds that are
different.
- What's missing from
Worth pointing out @peterme's latest tweet:
I'm always disappointed 2 get a resume from designers who went from
undergrad straight 2 grad skool. The real world, ppl! Live it!
I kind of agree. You can't get design judgement experience in skool. You
can get lots of insight about the process and
is a
young office, but part of a long LUNAR history. Interested designers
please contact me off list and put [Munich IxD] in the subject.
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Just heard Don Abrahms from Social Technologies give a killer
presentation with some of this type of info. Might want to check with
them and see if they sell reports.
Also, Forrester/Gartner might have something useful given the hotness'
of the domain.
I know
A credit card number is a unique identifier. No need for additional
qualifier. And more and more the trend is against having ppl make that
choice. Saw a site recently that had it AFTER the card number field and
it auto populated based on the first number in the card. Nice way to
confirm/reassure
I know there's quite a few designers in India on this list. I'd like to
gather some opinions from you on design and interactivity in India.
Please contact me off-list at gretc...@lunar.com.
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Here's one (or one to watch):
http://www.lunar.com/iconocast2/?p=149
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It all prompted me to ask on my blog show me a major success
(Apple-like success) that was based on UCD. No answers yet. ;-)
http://davemalouf.com/?p=1694
-- dave
- look for bulletin boards related to the domain you are interested in.
read what people are asking about/complaining about.
- go into a store where they sell the thing you are designing. Ask
people questions.
- if you're redesigning something: try teaching someone unfamiliar (but
not totally out
You just can't underestimate the power of branding. If you control the
story, you can make people accept whatever, including no battery
upgrade. As long as it works, no one cares about the battery. As long as
it's cool, the buyer's cool.
Apple really
does not care about what users may or may
This list only likes to *say* it hates semantic debates.
When you say *say* what do you mean? ;)
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People always get irritated about nouns becoming verbs and yet we all
google things.
Language lives! Evolve! Their! Theirs! ;)
That's how your friends would talk, no?
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Common Craft creates some great explanatory videos. Here's one
example: http://www.commoncraft.com/twitter
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I've had good luck with:
http://www.murrayhillcenter.com/about.html
Not a great site, but they did good recruiting and have good facilities.
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I don't work on much web stuff, so I'll jump in with this to stir the
pot:
I get a professional to write code for me. Embedded interfaces are
generally more difficult for the layman to produce, but also, I want
someone who knows code in and out to write code. ESPECIALLY production
code. Always
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I remember a question a while back that I don't' see answered: Now that
Brightcove is gone, are the video's from '08 gone for good? Or will
those eventually live here too?
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I'm technically a Gen X mom, but I'm no dinosaur. ;) Sites I've gotten a
lot out of include:
Babycenter.com
Askdrsears.com
Wholesomebabyfood.com
Berkeley parent's network (an email list for the Bay Area, but common
topics get archived online)
Kellymom.com
Email lists are an awesome resource for
Was just researching this myself.
Human Factors Design Handbook (Woodson, Tillman and Tillman) says gloved
is 3.1cm, and .64cm for non-gloved for HARD BUTTONS. (It's too old to
have touchscreen info). And clearly they mean industrial work gloves,
not medical latex.
So, some considerations
Wow! Thanks for this. As someone who misunderstood the research, it's helpful.
But this brings up a question for me:
Intuitively, 7+-2 *seems* to be a nice boundary for many instances (number of
choices offered, groupings) and I'm curious if there is research that bears
this out. I know the
trained to use genetic testing equipment.
Not to mention you usually get a few good observations about how the
training can/should be improved to support the new product.
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* Was that some new user input device I saw on her left there? Looked
like a 3D mouse that I can only guess would facilitate the pulling,
pushing, lifting, dropping interactions that were alluded to. Or maybe
it was just that thing from *Flight of the Navigator*? :)
Looks like the Novint
self-referential design point
I hate it when links open in the same window, unless they are navigational
within a site. Usually I'm opening a few references (links from blog, for
example) and I want to keep the main context to read more/find other links.
/self-referential design point
Random question:
I'm looking for a good photo of the internals of a copier with the 1,2,3
and color coded handles for clearing a paper jam. It's proving harder
than you'd think to get a good one.
Anyone got a good source?
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A few months ago a site popped up that was about
LUNAR is doing weekly podcasts, some of which are about IxD, some about
design in general, ID and Mechanical Engineering.
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Maybe this anecdote helps?
A recent client has asked me not to research certain products related to
what we are designing to preserve deniability of IP infringement. He
has asked his lawyers to thoroughly research the IP and be the people
who validate whether there is an issue or not. I can do
I don't think the idea is to replicate web functionality. It's taking on
Apple TV type products.
People want to watch TV on TVs not PCs, especially now that we have
large screens. You also get more bandwidth so you have higher
resolution. Is basically trying to deliver on the promise of
plus, talking is WAY slower than your hands.
You bet. At least for some things.
We just did a related project and looked at voice, and one thing that
came up is that StarTrek really set an expectation that's hard to
deliver on. The whole computer: [insert your open ended, humanly voiced
And, just something to consider about doing this in reverse:
I'm beginning to see services where I can take a photo of a 2D barcode
with my mobile and MMS it to a service and it returns info to me.
Example: In a server farm, I snap and send barcode to find out who what
sites are on a machine and
Design Research is research that informs the design of a
product/products that may or may not involve talking to users.
User Research is research that involves talking to users. It most often
is used to inform the design of a product but might also be used to
define an opportunity area before a
Thought Bill DeRouchey's Language of Interaction was relevant here:
http://www.languageofinteraction.com/
As he points out designers/IxDers are the curators of the language of
interaction, and our usage of symbols is part of the process of teaching
them to people. A triangle for Play is only the
I've begun to think that it would be
better for my company to give examples of wireframes (i.e.
prototypes) that we've created as part of designing compex websites
or online applications.
I've found that the value of your work better be understood and
perceivable in the end product and that
I started in Web and Desktop and now do pretty much everything. From a
technology perspective, don't assume everything is different. The
toolkits used to do UI development for devices (QT, Java, C, etc.) vary,
but you needn't know the details of how. If you use devices, you have an
idea of what's
Hey there,
I'm looking for a good writer to help with the Out of Box Experience for
a new product. Are there any lurking tech writers out there who want to
work on the documentation for a cool product? Get in touch: gretchen
[at] lunar.com.
Thanks, Gretchen
This research from the Design Council in 2005 is interesting:
http://www.designfactfinder.co.uk/
Businesses which use design perform better than their rivals. There's
unmistakeable proof of that in our Value of Design Factfinder, a unique
online information tool (previously published as Design
Out of curiosity (I'm very confused by this thread) is the issue with
user-centered design the fear that it's somehow ignoring biz tech?
I've always thought about it as generative research that fuels design
(or whatever Dan Saffer said so eloquently) where as expert design to
me means design
of our LCD to connect to the HanTouch.
3. Then you embed the screen into your prototype, connect your physical
controls (I assume you've got that part), and run flash on the PC.
Voila!
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One argument I have seen work is the: bad experience will erode our
(meaning the your/site, not the ad) brand and kill that valuable, if
unquantifiable equity.
This research (http://www.apa.org/monitor/jun04/toomany.html) talks
about how the more adds/choices a person has the less likely they are
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