Re: [IxDA Discuss] Interaction Specification Document

2010-02-10 Thread Jarod Tang
You may want to read http://www.amazon.com/Communicating-Design-Developing-Documentation-Planning/dp/0321392353, and it's enough for you make your own spec out. And agree with Gaurang, apple's development guide makes a good reference as well. Cheers, Jarod On Tue, Feb 9, 2010 at 3:05 PM, Vivek

Re: [IxDA Discuss] Facebook on Google Buzz: How Well Does That Friendship Model Work?

2010-02-10 Thread Jarod Tang
gtalk: semanticwill twitter: semanticwill skype: semanticwill On Feb 10, 2010, at 3:24 PM, Jarod Tang wrote: Hi Will, Thanks for you kindly notice ( and sorry for the cross posting). And, let's step further

[IxDA Discuss] Schmidt: “innovation is funda mentally about how the world can become a better place.”.

2010-02-03 Thread Jarod Tang
From http://blogs.wsj.com/davos/2010/01/29/googles-eric-schmidt-comments-on-china/ Unlike other CEOs in Davos, who talk about the social responsibilities of business as opposed to their fundamental business responsibilities, Schmidt sees no difference between the two. Google is into

Re: [IxDA Discuss] UX in China

2010-01-28 Thread Jarod Tang
I'm not sure I understand westernize or china style, if it's good, it'll be accpeted without doubt. Like iPod or macbook, it's western style or not? but they are well accepted in china IMHO. BR -- Jarod One of the most interesting things that I've gathered from this research is that the

[IxDA Discuss] slides on interaction paradigm

2010-01-05 Thread Jarod Tang
http://www.slideshare.net/meoskind/interaction-paradigms some cases explains authers understanding of interaction paradigm, are there other resources on IP ? Cheers, -- jarod -- @jarodtang http://designforuse.blogspot.com/

[IxDA Discuss] Fwd: [anthrodesign] Norman replies to Nussbaum

2010-01-03 Thread Jarod Tang
-- Forwarded message -- From: Sam Ladner samlad...@gmail.com Date: Sun, Jan 3, 2010 at 11:36 PM Subject: Re: [anthrodesign] Norman replies to Nussbaum To: anthrodes...@yahoogroups.com Hi Arvind, *scratches head* so, according to norman, we needed healthcare after doctors

Re: [IxDA Discuss] [anthrodesign] Norman replies to Nussbaum

2010-01-01 Thread Jarod Tang
Take for example food preservation. Before refrigerator ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Refrigerator#History), food is preserved by baking it or natural ice. Then, refrigerator breakthrough the way of preserving food. If talk about the better refrigerator, needs comes after the tech. If talk about

[IxDA Discuss] Fwd: [anthrodesign] Norman replies to Nussbaum

2009-12-30 Thread Jarod Tang
More don's argument. The reason is simple. People's needs come after the technologies exist. The need for cooking came after the taming of fire (animals don't cook their meals). The need for communication devices (telegraph, telephone, radio, cellphone, internet, postal mail, email) came after

[IxDA Discuss] Fwd: [anthrodesign] Don Norman: Technology First, Needs Last

2009-12-09 Thread Jarod Tang
-- Forwarded message -- From: Mitchell Gass mitch...@participatorydesign.com Date: Thu, Dec 10, 2009 at 1:44 AM Subject: [anthrodesign] Don Norman: Technology First, Needs Last To: anthrodes...@yahoogroups.com I'd be interested in getting the list's take on Don Norman's latest

Re: [IxDA Discuss] Prototyping Tool Recommendations

2009-11-17 Thread Jarod Tang
flash catalyst On Mon, Nov 16, 2009 at 10:58 PM, Chris Rink rink_ch...@emc.com wrote: Hello, i have recently been given the task of identifying prototyping tools to test high fidelity and high functionality. Our goal is to have prototypes that will be high enough quality to work as design

Re: [IxDA Discuss] read, 3 Things Phone Manufacturers Should Get Right to Beat the iPhone

2009-11-11 Thread Jarod Tang
design intention there is :) Cheers, Andrew Andrew Boyd faci...@gmail.com http://uxbookclub.org -- connect, read, discuss On 11/11/2009, at 2:15 PM, Jarod Tang jarod.t...@gmail.com wrote: http://www.usabilitypost.com/2009/11/03/3-things-phone-manufacturers-should-get-right-to-beat

[IxDA Discuss] read, 3 Things Phone Manufacturers Should Get Right to Beat the iPhone

2009-11-10 Thread Jarod Tang
http://www.usabilitypost.com/2009/11/03/3-things-phone-manufacturers-should-get-right-to-beat-the-iphone/ p.s. ( beat iPhone is not a good design intention, IMHO) Cheers, -- Jarod -- @jarodtang http://designforuse.blogspot.com/

Re: [IxDA Discuss] Android wireframe stencil

2009-10-26 Thread Jarod Tang
Seems you can get the pngs from the os package directly On 10/27/09, erpdesigner erpdesig...@yahoo.com wrote: Hi, I am wondering if anybody has an Android Wireframe stencil they can share, preferably in Illustrator or Visio, Omnigraffle works too I guess. I looked on the archives and didn't

Re: [IxDA Discuss] Faceted Search Stats

2009-10-26 Thread Jarod Tang
In the search user interface book, you can find a section on this topic On 10/27/09, Jennifer Hoppenrath jenhoppenr...@yahoo.com wrote: Hi All, Does anyone know of anywhere that I can find stats for the impact of faceted search functions on e-commerce sites?  (For example, Amazon comes to

Re: [IxDA Discuss] pattern suggestions for personalisation

2009-09-29 Thread Jarod Tang
http://news.google.com/ On Tue, Sep 29, 2009 at 2:24 PM, Jax Wechsler hello...@gmail.com wrote: Hi, Does anyone know of any sites that allows for the personalisation of information and does it well? Within a site I am wire-framing, users can select from 8 categories that relate to them

[IxDA Discuss] read, what a good interaction ( design ) should be ?

2009-09-27 Thread Jarod Tang
Most interesting were Westergren’s comments about advertising. As you can see in the clip below, the show’s host, Scott McGrew, and my co-panelist, NPR’s Laura Sydell, claim to be huge Pandora fans but couldn’t seem to remember hearing many ads. Said Westergren: That means we’re doing it right.

Re: [IxDA Discuss] nice read: On Apple's connection with the consumer

2009-09-23 Thread Jarod Tang
there comes more case/real world projects ( instead of going to opinion vs opinion style? ThanksRegards -- Jarod -- dave On Tue, Sep 22, 2009 at 1:02 PM, Jarod Tang jarod.t...@gmail.com wrote: Firstly, I love the self design concept very much (thanks Jared again, before i knew it, i call

[IxDA Discuss] nice read: On Apple's connection with the consumer

2009-09-22 Thread Jarod Tang
It may help resolve some long fights over Apple's design philosophy ? We did iTunes because we all love music. We made what we thought was the best jukebox in iTunes. Then we all wanted to carry our whole music libraries around with us. The team worked really hard. And the reason that they

Re: [IxDA Discuss] nice read: On Apple's connection with the consumer

2009-09-22 Thread Jarod Tang
The team worked really hard. And the reason that they worked so hard is because we all wanted one. You know? I mean, the first few hundred customers were us. 1. The team ( design and implementation team ) fight hard for the good design ( this is hardly achieved by consultant design team ) We

Re: [IxDA Discuss] nice read: On Apple's connection with the consumer

2009-09-22 Thread Jarod Tang
, 2009, at 9:44 AM, Jarod Tang wrote: So you can't go out and ask people, you know, what the next big [thing.] 3. this is most interesting, the design if future-oriented, it's super normal ( normal for tomorrow ), and it's obvious not a genius design style according Dan Saffer's definiton Genius

Re: [IxDA Discuss] nice read: On Apple's connection with the consumer

2009-09-22 Thread Jarod Tang
Firstly, I love the self design concept very much (thanks Jared again, before i knew it, i call/practice it Immerse Design for myself). On Tue, Sep 22, 2009 at 5:21 PM, dave malouf dave@gmail.com wrote: Jarod equating self-design with UCD is a slippery slope and in my mind ignores the most

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

2009-09-14 Thread Jarod Tang
Google is also a proper example, PageRank , A.D word/sense as well as the simple page layout are built around people's needs and motivation ( and which drives the technology and design development ). And I also propose a question from the other side, could you list a great and lasting

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

2009-09-14 Thread Jarod Tang
On Mon, Sep 14, 2009 at 7:38 AM, Thomas Petersen t...@hellobrand.com wrote: Googles focus seems more speed centered than it's user centered. So I don't believe that is a good example. Pagerank was not based on users either but on an approach to search and prioritizing. Googles clean look

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

2009-09-14 Thread Jarod Tang
On Mon, Sep 14, 2009 at 8:11 AM, Thomas Petersen t...@hellobrand.com wrote: Again Why are you and others assuming that users are not always in the center when one is designing? I never assuming this. How can you not have the user in the center? Great question, and I never disagree with

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

2009-09-14 Thread Jarod Tang
On Mon, Sep 14, 2009 at 4:07 PM, Andrei Herasimchuk aherasimc...@involutionstudios.com wrote: On Sep 13, 2009, at 11:04 PM, Jarod Tang wrote: Google is also a proper example, PageRank , A.D word/sense as well as the simple page layout are built around people's needs and motivation

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

2009-09-01 Thread Jarod Tang
I guess you will to address UCD as philosophy. As previous gays said, there're two level for UCD in the design culture, one from design philosophy perspective, other from process perspective. Design cant avoid the former one, because all artifact is by the people, for the people and of the

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

2009-09-01 Thread Jarod Tang
On Wed, Sep 2, 2009 at 1:49 AM, Andrei Herasimchuk aherasimc...@involutionstudios.com wrote: On Sep 1, 2009, at 5:17 AM, Ali Naqvi wrote: With time more and newer methods can be added to UCD. UCD is not ONE specific development process. UCD is an overall term that can have many different

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

2009-08-30 Thread Jarod Tang
Did page rank come from analyzing users wants or needs? There's plenty of technology out there that one could argue would have been stifled if engineers were told to only focus on what people want or need, not what is possible purely at the engineering level. From page Rank's history, it's

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

2009-08-28 Thread Jarod Tang
On Sat, Aug 29, 2009 at 6:23 AM, Jared Spool jsp...@uie.com wrote: On Aug 27, 2009, at 10:12 PM, Jarod Tang wrote: I'm afraid this will leads designers' work into a trap, if the designer really assumes the tech driven is right. What is that trap? Designer should fight for the empathy

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

2009-08-27 Thread Jarod Tang
A manager said last week: We are a technology driven corporation and that is why we are so successful. User-centered design is not a panacea, nor is it helpful for every type of design problem. As I've mentioned before, UCD is just one approach to design (

Re: [IxDA Discuss] resource: search interfaces book by marti hearst

2009-08-19 Thread Jarod Tang
isnt it a bit dry and far from real world ? On Tue, Aug 4, 2009 at 9:40 PM, Michel Milano mmil...@gmail.com wrote: apparently this went up in june and it is entirely possible that i can't find/recall this having been listed here already; but at the caveat of repeat-risk, i thought that others

Re: [IxDA Discuss] Video of User Testing with an Interactive Prototype

2009-08-18 Thread Jarod Tang
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c4-A-9hGn0U maybe not fullfill your exactly purpose, but related -- Jarod On Wed, Aug 19, 2009 at 2:05 AM, Dante Murphy dmur...@digitashealth.comwrote: Hey everybody... I am looking for a very specific video to help illustrate the value of early-stage

[IxDA Discuss] good read, Designers must deliver not just beautification, but substantial change

2009-08-10 Thread Jarod Tang
“The people in business must understand http://feedproxy.google.com/%7Er/Inspireux/%7E3/2IbUwNjQIzY/what they can achieve with designers. Designers have to understand that they really must deliver to business not just beautification, or another form of it, but substantial change.” – Hartmut

Re: [IxDA Discuss] Aesthetics in HCI

2009-07-29 Thread Jarod Tang
Maybe don's book and article is interesting to you, http://www.jnd.org/dn.mss/emotion_design.html Most of don's view on this topic are very interesting, but one things needs to think twice, it's a more complex topic about the relationships between aethetics ( perception as well as experience )

[IxDA Discuss] good read: Jonathan Ive on The Key to Apple's Success

2009-07-27 Thread Jarod Tang
http://www.businessweek.com/innovate/next/archives/2009/07/jonathan_ive_th.html We try not to bring out another product that's just different, he said. 'Different' and 'new' is relatively easy. Doing something that's genuinely better is very hard. -- http://designforuse.blogspot.com/

Re: [IxDA Discuss] Date based search on Mobile web

2009-07-22 Thread Jarod Tang
maybe news search is one of them, :) Cheers, -- Jarod On Thu, Jul 23, 2009 at 2:29 AM, Melissa Cooper melcoo...@exemail.com.auwrote: Hi all, I was just wondering if anyone knew good examples of date search on mobile web.Specifically talking about html driven stuff, not iphone apps. The

Re: [IxDA Discuss] RFP: Writing UI Spec for Mobile Phone

2009-07-22 Thread Jarod Tang
TaT (u.s.) may help you. Cheers, -- jarod On Thu, Jul 23, 2009 at 1:03 AM, Patricia Mourthé patricia...@yahoo.comwrote: Hi, My company is looking for an external agency that can deliver a complete UI specification for touchscreen mobile device. If you know of a US agency that is suited for

Re: [IxDA Discuss] City experience

2009-07-21 Thread Jarod Tang
Hi Rob, Maybe Life between Buildings and The Death and Life of Great American Cities will be interesting to you, ( both could be found from amazon). Cheers, -- Jarod On Tue, Jul 21, 2009 at 6:29 PM, Rob Epstein robinepst...@gmail.com wrote: Has anyone provided UX / usability services to a

[IxDA Discuss] daybreak with some nasty bug fix

2009-07-16 Thread Jarod Tang
Hi Claude, here comes some bug fixing version, it resolve the freeze bug while entering Cheers, -- Jarod -- http://designforuse.blogspot.com/ Welcome to the Interaction Design Association (IxDA)! To post to this list ...

[IxDA Discuss] Fwd: [anthrodesign] New open source tool: video note taking utility

2009-07-14 Thread Jarod Tang
FYI -- Forwarded message -- From: Melissa Cefkin mcef...@yahoo.com Date: Wed, Jul 15, 2009 at 6:40 AM Subject: [anthrodesign] New open source tool: video note taking utility To: anthrodesign anthrodes...@yahoogroups.com Hey all, A potentially useful new tool for those of you

Re: [IxDA Discuss] In 10 words or less, what is software design to you?

2009-07-04 Thread Jarod Tang
Make it for people ( than for computer). On 7/4/09, Russell Wilson russ.wil...@gmail.com wrote: At the end of a recent interview, the candidate asked me “What is software design to you?” I can probably come up with a thousand different answers but the one that popped into my mind immediately

Re: [IxDA Discuss] Palm Pre

2009-06-20 Thread Jarod Tang
On Sat, Jun 20, 2009 at 3:32 AM, William Brall dam...@earthlink.net wrote: I'm all for some competition for Apple. I think the future of all personal computing are in something iPhone like. I've already seen some people stop using their PC in favor of the iPhone. I'm not sure japanness will

Re: [IxDA Discuss] Palm Pre

2009-06-20 Thread Jarod Tang
On Sat, Jun 20, 2009 at 10:23 PM, William Brall dam...@earthlink.netwrote: I wasn't talking about what the iPhone looks like. I was talking about the easy in which it does things. It isn't perfect. I've seen a pre now and they are good too. Still not perfect. I agree with what you said,

Re: [IxDA Discuss] Patterns for city searches

2009-06-18 Thread Jarod Tang
Hi Matt, The biggest pattern is location awareness. Cheers, -- Jarod On Thu, Jun 18, 2009 at 10:22 PM, Matt Parker mattpar...@aggienetwork.comwrote: I'm looking for objective data on user search behavior, particular with respect to city and town names. When presented with a set of potential

Re: [IxDA Discuss] Palm Pre

2009-06-17 Thread Jarod Tang
You have to look beyond the phone itself. The iPhone is part of a *platform*. It includes iTunes to manage music, video, apps, and purchases. It includes the boatloads of third-party developers out there making up brilliant little add-ons. And it includes all those people who have create

Re: [IxDA Discuss] Palm Pre

2009-06-16 Thread Jarod Tang
i guess you tells about the AIM app on pre. seems they are coming up with a fix for this? On Tue, Jun 16, 2009 at 4:07 PM, Den Serras dennit...@yahoo.com wrote: I'm hearing the Pre has exactly the kind of battery problems that the iPhone doesn't have, because all those background apps suck

[IxDA Discuss] cite, MySpace Exe cutes 30% Staff Reduction Today

2009-06-16 Thread Jarod Tang
http://www.techcrunch.com/2009/06/16/myspace-executes-30-staff-reduction-today/ as we know, there was a myspace enduring effort on ( redesign, ... ), it seems facebook win the last year ( and this year ), quite interesting to reflect ( especially at the facebook's user's strongly against its last

Re: [IxDA Discuss] Palm Pre

2009-06-15 Thread Jarod Tang
And, hopefully, Pre maybe more one-hand-friendly, :). But frankly speaking, an better batter life will make it better ( it's in the scope of interaction design as well ) Cheers, -- Jarod On Tue, Jun 16, 2009 at 9:16 AM, Julie Stanford ju...@slicedbreaddesign.com wrote: So the Palm Pre came

[IxDA Discuss] recap on facebook redesign

2009-06-04 Thread Jarod Tang
Hi there, two links ( google trendhttp://www.google.com/trends?q=facebook%2C+myspacectab=0geo=alldate=ytdsort=0, alexa http://www.alexa.com/siteinfo/facebook.com ) clues facebook's march redesign http://news.cnet.com/facebooks-redesign-time-to-listen-to-users/hit the right place again. Cheers,

Re: [IxDA Discuss] How do you pitch UCD process (or design thinking)?

2009-04-29 Thread Jarod Tang
Hi Josh, The fact is that your goals should completely align with your client's goals (whether in-house or not). You're not there to do UCD...you're there to solve your client's problem. Thanks for so elegant a clarify. Cheers, -- Jarod -- http://designforuse.blogspot.com/

Re: [IxDA Discuss] Time period in navigation

2009-04-05 Thread Jarod Tang
Sorry, a side question. What's the scenario that the people want to browse by peorieod from you design research? Cheers, - jarod On 4/3/09, Kordian Piotr Klecha kpkle...@gmail.com wrote: Hi, I am working on solution for a books-focused site, which publicate lots of announcements (50-100 new

[IxDA Discuss] interesting read, Brave New World of Digital Intimacy (On Facebook's new redesign)

2009-04-01 Thread Jarod Tang
It's about designer's insight and braveness.http://www.nytimes.com/2008/09/07/magazine/07awareness-t.html?_r=3sq=ambient%20intimacyst=csescp=1pagewanted=all Cheers, -- Jarod -- http://designforuse.blogspot.com/ Welcome to the

Re: [IxDA Discuss] Wood gatherers, boat architects, or sailing experience designers?

2009-03-30 Thread Jarod Tang
Hi David, IMHO, what Joshua request is also quite important . For a association like IxDA, it at least should do more than coffee time talking ( while most guys love the coffee time talks), 1. enable more creative case based discussing ( but if there's consciously mediated case analyze and

Re: [IxDA Discuss] Designing (for) Experiences

2009-03-29 Thread Jarod Tang
I find the idea that experience design is somehow not valid because you can't design experiences to be a red herring at best, and a canard at worst. Our community has no other accepted term to address the breadth that experience design discovers, with the possible exception of design, but

Re: [IxDA Discuss] Some of the non-software things that interaction designers do

2009-03-28 Thread Jarod Tang
I'm currently designing a new department for my company. yes, (also in the 3rd time redesign my apartment) that's one of the most favoraite part for interaction designer. Design it, live in it, and find many design needs to be improved, this is a excelent experience. Cheers, -- Jarod --

Re: [IxDA Discuss] Bowman leaves Google

2009-03-23 Thread Jarod Tang
Hi Dave, On Tue, Mar 24, 2009 at 6:41 AM, Dave Malouf d...@ixda.org wrote: Not all forms of production are DESIGN. Engineering is not the same as design. Many companies are examples of engineering success. Maybe more proper says as some designs in the process of engineering? Traditionally,

Re: [IxDA Discuss] Bowman leaves Google

2009-03-22 Thread Jarod Tang
What i read from Bowman's blog is not about data or not, it's about trust between design and engineering. If he had better argument(and sure there is), he could/should show the evidence instead of complain, else the design cant find feet in the product development process. More common, it's a

Re: [IxDA Discuss] Zuckerberg doesn\'t care about users.

2009-03-22 Thread Jarod Tang
dosent listen dosent mean dosent user/research research. Cheers, -- jarod On Sun, Mar 22, 2009 at 9:10 PM, Mike Scarpiello fontbom...@gmail.comwrote: Thoughts? Owen Thomas from Valleywag has an article entitled Even Facebook Employees Hate the Redesign which contains the following excerpt

Re: [IxDA Discuss] Zuckerberg doesn\'t care about users.

2009-03-22 Thread Jarod Tang
Hi Angel, What i was set to express maybe more humble, in user research, we are not only listen to user, but more importantly watch what they are doing, and try to interpret it in some logic elegant way, this is especially effective when we are the user ourselves. For the Z-Man, he has the data,

Re: [IxDA Discuss] Zuckerberg doesn\'t care about users.

2009-03-22 Thread Jarod Tang
On Mon, Mar 23, 2009 at 9:59 AM, Angel Marquez angel.marq...@gmail.comwrote: What do you think the Z-mans goals are? http://scobleizer.com/2009/03/21/why-facebook-has-never-listened-and-why-it-definitely-wont-start-now/ *Don’t get distracted by the current design that looks sort of like

Re: [IxDA Discuss] Bowman leaves Google

2009-03-21 Thread Jarod Tang
One side question, what do you think about google's new icon compare to old one? Cheers, -- Jarod On Sat, Mar 21, 2009 at 5:15 AM, Andrei Herasimchuk aherasimc...@involutionstudios.com wrote: Posted without comment, even though I very much feel Google just lost an amazing talent for no good

Re: [IxDA Discuss] Bowman leaves Google

2009-03-21 Thread Jarod Tang
Hi Dave, On Sun, Mar 22, 2009 at 2:38 AM, David Malouf d...@ixda.org wrote: Jarod, I don't like it. I find it to be .. 1) reminiscent of MS 2) too brash and distracting Yes, I found few likes the current Google icon near around. But many people like the one one, that would be the interesting

Re: [IxDA Discuss] interesting article comments, Why the Japanese Hate the iPhone

2009-03-18 Thread Jarod Tang
alsha is interesting, among the japan iPhone user, 5% are extremely satisfied, while 2.5% satisfied, but no number on who explicitly express No. Cheers, -- Jarod On Wed, Mar 18, 2009 at 7:47 PM, Adrian Howard adri...@quietstars.comwrote: On 18 Mar 2009, at 03:43, Jarod Tang wrote: http

[IxDA Discuss] interesting article comments, Why the Japanese Hate the iPhone

2009-03-17 Thread Jarod Tang
http://blog.wired.com/gadgets/2009/02/why-the-iphone.html the most inspiring points, why iPhone is hot welcomed somewhere, and cold at other place? and deeply, what can be called good (or bad) interaction design? Cheers, -- Jarod -- http://designforuse.blogspot.com/

Re: [IxDA Discuss] interesting article comments, Why the Japanese Hate the iPhone

2009-03-17 Thread Jarod Tang
+ link, views from japan side ( guy who be interviewed ) http://blog.nobi.cc/2009/02/my-view-of-how-iphone-is-doing-in-japan-by-nobi-nobuyuki-hayashi.html On Wed, Mar 18, 2009 at 11:43 AM, Jarod Tang jarod.t...@gmail.com wrote: http://blog.wired.com/gadgets/2009/02/why-the-iphone.html

[IxDA Discuss] interesting article, Forging a China–US energy alliance

2009-03-15 Thread Jarod Tang
Forging a China–US energy alliancehttp://whatmatters.mckinseydigital.com/climate_change/forging-a-china-us-energy-alliance, global sustainability should really be one of the focus ( much more important than buttons and icons ). Cheers, -- Jarod -- http://designforuse.blogspot.com/

Re: [IxDA Discuss] Persona skeptics

2009-03-14 Thread Jarod Tang
I'm the hard-core persona lover months ago for some projects. And I should say persona is a candidate design communication method, which is not the must for design.and the problem lies if we use it properly..., so we can easily comes up with local home-made path to fake security. And the problem

Re: [IxDA Discuss] Tools for animating the user experience

2009-03-12 Thread Jarod Tang
it's cool if the price is more acceptable and with mac version. On Thu, Mar 12, 2009 at 9:41 AM, maastrix armandm...@gmail.com wrote: If you put your design in AxurePro or at least make it clickable, you can just use a screen recorder. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

Re: [IxDA Discuss] New Ipod Shuffle

2009-03-12 Thread Jarod Tang
This really depends on who you are, and the context. If you are hiker or jogger ( which is the shuffle's major target group??!!), this may not so bad(i never wear a mp3 while hiking, but many people confirm this to me). Good or bad is contextually and personalized. If it's not fit you, just go

[IxDA Discuss] interesting AIGA article, Design Business An ethnography primer

2009-03-05 Thread Jarod Tang
Design Business An ethnography primerhttp://www.aiga.org/content.cfm/ethnography-primer . It's just a primer, but interesting enough though not as heavy as Human-Machine Reconfigurations. Cheers, Jarod -- http://designforuse.blogspot.com/

Re: [IxDA Discuss] A list of mobile situations

2009-03-01 Thread Jarod Tang
Hi Pietro, + Link http://weblog.cenriqueortiz.com/mobile-context/ *An Introduction to the mobile context and mobile social software*, which explores the topics of the mobile context and its role on what I referred to as People-centric mobile computing. Cheers, Jarod On Thu, Feb 26, 2009 at

Re: [IxDA Discuss] Initial engagement: question

2009-02-26 Thread Jarod Tang
How he use it? The movtivation? Context? Enjoy. --jarod On 2/26/09, oliver green oliver...@gmail.com wrote: Hi All, Frequently, various departments from my firm will ask me to fix their UI. They show me what they have implemented and what they can do to improve it. This is a new experience

Re: [IxDA Discuss] A list of mobile situations

2009-02-25 Thread Jarod Tang
+ On the train/bus Driving car Biking Waiting for bus ... Travel ( businiess or for enjoyment ) After lunch time ( walk or f2f chat ) ... Ps: Different country makes difference On 2/26/09, Barbara Ballard bball...@gmail.com wrote: On Wed, Feb 25, 2009 at 12:33 PM, Pietro Desiato

Re: [IxDA Discuss] Do you work from a home office?

2009-02-25 Thread Jarod Tang
We got a small office and fot it for design work. I guess that is affordable for most of the case --jarod On 2/25/09, dnp607 dnp...@pacbell.net wrote: Hi All, I wanted to get a pulse on how you feel about designers who work a good amount of their time from a home office. I've noticed that

Re: [IxDA Discuss] Gestural/Multi-touch and dexterity?

2009-02-25 Thread Jarod Tang
Since iphone is out for years, it's possible for you to find the people who use it in daily life. Especially in u.s. or japan. Or you can offer it to some tagert group, and let them us it themselves for sometime(two weeks or even longer). And you can keep your ethnogrphy on that. Nothing new.

Re: [IxDA Discuss] Open source user experience

2009-02-20 Thread Jarod Tang
Gimp may be a case for open design for os project. --jarod On Thu, 12 Feb 2009 23:51:22, Andy Polaine a...@polaine.com wrote: Hi Andrew - not snarky at all. I felt sure something was probably happening somewhere, but I hadn't see it. The hardest part, as I see it, is moving from a kind of

Re: [IxDA Discuss] Terms Every IxD Should Know

2009-02-18 Thread Jarod Tang
It would be nicer to add a list of vocabulary as non-ux but related items? And better, put them into different boxes, :) Regards, Jarod On Mon, Feb 16, 2009 at 9:38 AM, Dan Saffer d...@odannyboy.com wrote: At I09, there were a lot of calls for a vocabulary we can all understand, no matter

Re: [IxDA Discuss] Long / Large forms

2009-02-18 Thread Jarod Tang
Hi chris, A side question: maybe the first is to think about reducing the length? Jarod On Mon, 16 Feb 2009 02:45:13, Chris McLay ch...@eeoh.com.au wrote: Hi, I'm looking for examples of very long forms, or forms for gathering lots of data. Forms that have multiple questions (20+) for

Re: [IxDA Discuss] Nice article, Is Good Design Replicable? by Joshua Porter

2009-02-14 Thread Jarod Tang
One of the hallmarks of the team I think is this sense of looking to be wrong, said Ive at Radical Craft. It's the inquisitiveness, the sense of exploration. It's about being excited to be wrong because then you've discovered something new. I dont know if this real said there, but it's true in

Re: [IxDA Discuss] Talk to the Hand: Dan Saffer and gestural interfaces, by Andy Polaine

2009-02-14 Thread Jarod Tang
Hi Mark, I like your insight. Here, just add more ( maybe repeating ) comments, 1. people's behavior is semantic action, or in a web ( process as well as culture ), a good design means we design that fits into the web, while help people meet his needs or motivation in nice way, so 2. we should

Re: [IxDA Discuss] Nice article, Is Good Design Replicable? by Joshua Porter

2009-02-13 Thread Jarod Tang
To me process is like an Airline Pilot's preflight checklist and training. Cool metaphor. These days, a better format of the checklist will makes more sense, like a checklist of inspiring questions instead of statement? Regards, Jarod -- http://designforuse.blogspot.com/

[IxDA Discuss] Nice article, Is Good Design Replicable? by Joshua Porter

2009-02-12 Thread Jarod Tang
Is Good Design Replicable?http://bokardo.com/archives/is-good-design-replicable/ The following pieces are very attractive, So, the obvious question to ask is: *Is there evidence that someone following a certain process produces great design every time?* The problem with Apple, of course, is

Re: [IxDA Discuss] Interaction Designer vs User Experience Designer vs User Interface designer

2009-02-10 Thread Jarod Tang
They maybe the same or not, depends on your definition of Interaction design, and user experience design and UI design. But anyway, user only use the product ( designed artifact) through the interface, and his personal experience is generated according to HIS using (the interaction happens here)

[IxDA Discuss] rethinking on elements of interaction design: beyond the descriptions

2009-01-31 Thread Jarod Tang
Hi There, In thread http://www.ixda.org/discuss.php?post=16346, there's discussion on elements of interaction design, which was a very interesting at that time. After one and half year, it seems worth to restart it, since new views comes from different practiceresearch corner , From Reimann's

Re: [IxDA Discuss] say no to genius design

2009-01-31 Thread Jarod Tang
Then your point? or even better, give a example of genius design? Regards, Jarod On Sun, Feb 1, 2009 at 7:34 AM, Andrei Herasimchuk aherasimc...@involutionstudios.com wrote: On Jan 31, 2009, at 6:46 AM, Daniel Szuc wrote: Thanks Jared and good reading -

Re: [IxDA Discuss] say no to genius design

2009-01-31 Thread Jarod Tang
, at 5:03 PM, Jarod Tang wrote: give a example of genius design? One that I'm thinking of is a Boston area hospital IT team that was building out electronic billing systems for the various practices within the hospital. (The hospital was built out of independent business practices that shared

Re: [IxDA Discuss] say no to genius design

2009-01-31 Thread Jarod Tang
:) So, it's fall into common sense for design 1. understand thy user (from past experience or fresh by design research) 2. design solution generation ... Regards, Jarod On Sun, Feb 1, 2009 at 9:43 AM, Jared Spool jsp...@uie.com wrote: On Jan 31, 2009, at 5:39 PM, Jarod Tang wrote: Maybe you

Re: [IxDA Discuss] say no to genius design

2009-01-31 Thread Jarod Tang
Yup. On Sun, Feb 1, 2009 at 9:58 AM, Jim Leftwich jl...@orbitnet.com wrote: Better alternative labels and much deeper explanations will have to emerge from practitioners themselves. Talking about design will never be the same as doing it and having done it. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

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

2009-01-30 Thread Jarod Tang
Hi Jared, I like the name Genius Design because it means I'll never resort to it. But I have met people in my travels who were capable of seeing and solving problems without any research that took me years of research to uncover. Those people are true geniuses in my mind. If one designer can

Re: [IxDA Discuss] User Experience Deliverables

2009-01-29 Thread Jarod Tang
Hi Andrei, What you expressed is very important(to me), that is what's the deliverable for, but peter seems already expresses similiar thinking in his article Of course, compiling a list is only the first step. For each project, we must strive for the optimal mix. Since our deliverables resist a

Re: [IxDA Discuss] User Experience Deliverables

2009-01-29 Thread Jarod Tang
Hi Michaeal, Yup, fully agree. Design team (process) is a blackbox, for other part of whole product team. There's input to it and output (deliverbals) from it. The stakeholders may not (most of the time) care what's in the team or process ( some none-final skeches, or similiar stuff), they care

Re: [IxDA Discuss] User Experience Deliverables

2009-01-28 Thread Jarod Tang
All design professions -- from fashion to industrial to architecture to graphic -- have some functional equivalent of a blueprint. Yes, this is fotal important, especially for demo design ideas to stakeholders as well as communicate with the engineering team. it sketches the affordable

Re: [IxDA Discuss] say no to genius design

2009-01-25 Thread Jarod Tang
Hi Jim, On Sun, Jan 25, 2009 at 9:20 PM, JimH j...@hoekema.com wrote: This reminds me of a debate I used to have about instructional design. My friend liked to contrast the scientific approach, based on research, with the intuitive approach, based on... well, he would said nothing but

Re: [IxDA Discuss] say no to genius design

2009-01-25 Thread Jarod Tang
@Jared #3 is what we'd call Genius Design, in that it leverages the existing experience and knowledge of the design team without the need for further research. We've seen this many times in our travels and have come to believe it's a solid style that often has positive outcomes. Agree, it

Re: [IxDA Discuss] say no to genius design

2009-01-25 Thread Jarod Tang
On Mon, Jan 26, 2009 at 12:25 AM, Dan Saffer d...@odannyboy.com wrote: On Jan 24, 2009, at 9:29 PM, Jarod Tang wrote: 1. Reportedly, the iPod was made with no user research, for example, as we know iPod is not first portable musice player, with many previous players, with bounch of user's

Re: [IxDA Discuss] What to do in an environment run by engineers??

2009-01-25 Thread Jarod Tang
Hi Janna, Also no one likes to feel like a dumb ass. Everyone wants to feel like they know what they're doing. So consider how you can approach the challenge as less a Debbie (or Donnie) Downer [ie. here are all the things that are wrong with what you've made], and more how you can make them

[IxDA Discuss] say no to genius design

2009-01-24 Thread Jarod Tang
as guys keep asking genius design, and seems some newbie designer take it as the secret path to grand design success, which is not a good thing from my understanding. from http://www.aiga.org/content.cfm/designing-for-interaction-an-interview-with-dan-saffer Genius design is when the designer

Re: [IxDA Discuss] Quality standard of interaction design

2009-01-19 Thread Jarod Tang
Hi Stephen, Maybe you ask a interesting but never will get result question. As designers seems never agreed (and this will continue for years) on what's good interaction design until now. If there's some, it might list as, Good design should fit into end user's life Good design should improve

Re: [IxDA Discuss] Best Country for IxD

2009-01-14 Thread Jarod Tang
Interaction design as most of us know is not understood by everyone. However if we look relatively, the term is well understood in some countries while other places its completely absent even on corporates.Although many firms must be practicing IxD under different names. Considering a global

Re: [IxDA Discuss] Best Country for IxD

2009-01-14 Thread Jarod Tang
of daniel fallman of Umea it can be divided into design practice, design exploration and design studies. But what i seek is the application or mindset of such perspectives across nations. Thanks, Amit On 1/15/09, Jarod Tang jarod.t...@gmail.com wrote: Interaction design as most of us know

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