Christine,
I agree with what you say and I did not think that aspect through
enough when posting. I subscribe to everything that you say;
additionally, I like the research that says that our language affects
our thinking, and that it has been proven that the thought patterns of
different
There%u2019s a difference between usability, and the business
objectives for which usability and design is being used. You are
talking about business objectives. Usability is a method to achieve
those business objectives, and is a general societal concept next to
things like Internet, electricity
If anything, this whole thing is an example of how Internet
democratizes sales and marketing such as airline homepages, and how
smaller companies have an opportunity they did not have 25 years ago,
when AA did those innovations, and when it took a lot more muscle to
reach people.
If I want to buy
Cooper keeps talking about how producing software and experiences is
not so different from producing movies.
http://www.cooper.com/journal/2009/03/feedback_loops.html
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On Mike's note: I have found that a system's behavior can be modeled
in two ways. For engineers, there is the UML Activity Diagram, which
is what the first link refers to. And then there is Garrett's
Information Architecture/Navigation Map/UI flow diagram. They look
deceptively similar because
As someone doing some hiring/recruiting and also having used paid
postings, here's my 2c:
I would pay for the job posting IF it was syndicated across both
Coroflot and IxDA. I would NOT pay a double fee to post to both
Coroflot and IxDA, in that case I'd just stick with Coroflot. When
making a
Thanks! I'll check out the AIGA events.
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Welcome to the Interaction Design Association (IxDA)!
I like IxDA NYC events a lot. But I am also interested ones that are a
bit more visuals- and graphic-design-oriented. Do you go to any
similar NYC events/communities that are more along those lines?
Welcome to the Interaction Design
George %u2014 yes, the HCII program is intense, running for 12 months
in a row. I had also been out of school for many years, but the HCII
is very project-based, and having a professional background helps.
This is a professional, not an academic program, so you don't need
to walk in with a lot of
I had to make a choice between Berkeley iSchool and Carnegie Mellon
HCI. (Not IxD, is a bit more more engineering-oriented since it is in
Computer Science school, but shares a lot of the philosophy with IxD
and design school, and you can take many of the same classes.) I
chose Carnegie Mellon
World Evolved is the second venture for Heidi Messer and Stephen Messer,
the sister and brother team who founded, built and sold LinkShare
Corporation, which was acquired by a Japanese portal for $425 million in
2005 (www.linkshare.com). That transaction is widely recognized as one
of the most
At http://cups.cs.cmu.edu/soups/2008/program.html, there was an
interesting paper on this: look for Personal knowledge questions
for fallback authentication on the page. It highlights many
problems with the security questions, but also offers some solutions.
It does not really contain a checklist
In Estonia, we have been using Internet voting for a few years now,
and I'd say the voting experience itself is pretty smooth from the
IxD perspective. See
http://www.jaanuskase.com/en/2007/02/evoting_in_estonias_2007_parli.html
for a writeup.
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My practice has shown that the critical distinction in creating
personas and models is whether or not you do it based on real
contextual data. I have had great success with first going and
observing/interviewing actual users in their work context or even in
the lab, before creating anything new.
Think aloud can be especially problematic in high-context cultures,
since the tester may be seen as higher status, and people are less
likely to voice criticism of them. I've read that for testing in
these kinds of countries (think it was Japan, but I'm not 100% at
the moment), it can work better
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