Re: [IxDA Discuss] website-proportional size

2008-05-12 Thread Jared Christensen
Can you link us to an example? . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Posted from the new ixda.org http://www.ixda.org/discuss?post=28899 Welcome to the Interaction Design Association (IxDA)! To post

Re: [IxDA Discuss] Raising awareness for Interaction Design in a corporate IT company

2008-04-21 Thread Jared Christensen
Rein, I also work for a (very large) IT company with a lot of consultants. We've found that using internal channels (forums, blogs, workshops, etc.) has been pretty effective in raising awareness of what exactly UX is and what it can do for the company. We regularly circulate 37better documents

Re: [IxDA Discuss] DEFINE: Affordance

2008-03-20 Thread Jared Christensen
Chris, I don't think the second 'definition' you laid out is correct. Affordance is not an object (metal plate), or a quality assigned to an object (glossiness); it is the perceived action associated with or communicated by an object. I can see where the issue might get confused, and perhaps