tonight! @ me or DM me at @nbarday, or do the same with
@austinixda if you need more deets.
- Nasir
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People of Austin,
I'm blowing through Austin Thursday, January 20th, and it would be great to
catch local IxD and other
People of Austin,
I'm blowing through Austin Thursday, January 20th, and it would be great to
catch local IxD and other design nuts alike. We could call it Interaction
Conference pre-game ahead of the main event in Savannah :-). How about Happy
Hour at a favorite local spot? We could start the
This suggestion won't be helpful if you really need sticky notes (e.g. for a
design exercise), but I use Evernote to make sticky reminders to myself:
PC, Mac, and iPhone:
http://www.evernote.com/
Welcome to the Interaction Design
At the end of the day, the approaches listed here are part of our toolbox
that we choose appropriately, based on the context.
But regardless of the approach, we agree that you need to find the right
chunk size to start with. How many results are enough before someone is
satisfied that they've
Okay, I hope it's clear that no one is talking about a Browser BEING an
Operating System. Yes, an OS handles all kinds of under-the-hood things that
the Browser never even thought of. Which is why a Browser runs on top of an
OS-- so it doesn't have to think about pesky things like device drivers
Ambrose wrote:
They might cache apps/data locally temporarily, but it's not as permanent
as local apps.
Google Gears took this distinction away from local apps long ago, no?
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You'll be quite disappointed to find out that the file is in Google docs
when you open y
our laptop without a network connection. I'd prefer to know exactly where
my file is.
A design problem, the solution to which already comes via Google Gears
(offline sync'd Docs and GMail!)
The distinction
Asbjørn wrote:
A user-centered design (and development) process is usually a good idea -
if
you want your application to be usable to it's end users, that is.
Andrei wrote:
It is? Then how do you explain Apple's products?
God, it's so easy to mix up user centered design with good ol'
Oooh, boy, this thread could get nice and juicy. See you guys after, oh,
post #53. I imagine there will be many blog-post-style posts after this one,
so I will only add this quote to the mix:
There is nothing wrong with having to explain the principles of operation.
It is wrong only when that
We all understand the problem here, right? I think instead of expounding on
it to each other, we could help Ali figure out how to change his manager's
thinking.
While it's nice for us to formally label what we do, that thing that makes
stuff cool, elegant, and easy to use, interaction design,
multitouch
computer.
- N
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nbarday+i...@gmail.comnbarday%2bi...@gmail.com
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This is all sounds akin to Mark Weiser's vision for tabs, pads, and boards:
(if you're in a hurry, do a Ctrl+F for Ubiquitous computers will also come
in different sizes
Generally, MIDs are souped-up smartphones, while netbooks are pared-down
laptops. MIDs run smartphone platforms and have slightly more powerful
processors than most mobile devices, while Netbooks run traditional desktop
OSs and include Atom, which leads to lower battery life but yields a bit
more
We should be careful with discounts in our industry, lest people think they
can something for nothing. The best advice I've gotten is that clients
should feel the pain. If we lower our estimates, it should be because
we've taken something away: one less design iteration, fewer usability
tests,
There really should be a standardized way to handle the whole password
problem. Websites all seem to have their own ways of solving it, from fancy
ways to keep you logged in (or boot you out), to locking your account, to
requiring sometimes absurd password strength.
Of course, the contexts are
You asked for cold, hard research. This is the closest I could come:
http://is.gd/1jSh1
Only $749! Right. But if your client (or one of your partners) has access to
Forrester, you could get in on this.
- N
Welcome to the
I should add a warm thanks to Gilbert Corrales for setting up the Aggiorno
giveaway. Congratulations in advance to our two new CSS/xHTML superheroes!
- N
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(via Janna DeVylder):
We are fast approaching the end of Day 2 of the IxDA Give a Little Back
support drive. Thank you to the 405 people who have shown such great
support, raising almost $8,000 for this important initiative.
We have reached 25% of our goal, so we still need your help. Please
Looks like this post took its time to make its way through the
intertubes. Go Day 3!
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We are fast approaching the end of Day 2 of the IxDA Give a Little
Back
support drive. Thank you
Giving people a rewarding experience in exchange for learning a complex
interface is one tactic. But let's take a step back. It sounds like the
strategic goals here are twofold:
-) Allow people to create their own products
-) Help them get to results that are good enough to buy
Maybe instead of
The reason Apple got so many people excited is that they designed MORE THAN
JUST A DEVICE. From end to end, they've created an ecosystem: Phone platform
software, easy data management with a built-in store, and most importantly
for the latest wave: great developer tools. People who are already OSX
(Shucks, did that come off mean and snarky? I didn't mean it. Come back.)
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Architecture and urban planning are older than Interaction Design, sure. But
they are also working in different mediums :-). What's frustrating is that
this type of tool *could* exist, but Adobe is choosing to dig in its heels.
Who knows, maybe it's because they want to take it slow and do it
Sho 'nuff.
First, on the whole one tool for all thing, I don't see a
sketch/design--prototype--refine--prototype tool as an all in one. Far
from it. Rather, it's something that would make my own workflow more
efficient as changes come down the pike. I manage several products over
years of
I was as giddy as a schoolgirl for Catalyst. But as of this Beta, it doesn't
open Fireworks CS4 files natively! Only Illustrator and Photoshop files. I
would have thought that Fireworks, a tool positioned for prototyping (and
even with some teasers of Flex integration, and mapped to Catalyst's
Well, that just takes the wind outta my SAILS. Is there a way we can salvage
this and start using it? What if we start trying to do use this as primary
documentation, where it's appropriate? I'm going to start this week and
report back. There are lots of places where it's important to show
Not sure that I agree that multiple search fields are an unqualified bad,
but I'll concede that they probably aren't appropriate _in this context_,
assuming people, discussions, and white papers share the same level of
hierarchy.
A complement to a unified, categorized search results page could be
Very weird-- was just asking about a pagination pattern on Twitter earlier.
There's another concept, which it looks like we're calling inline
pagination, in which our intrepid user clicks a Next 30 results button or
link, and the items add to the current scrolling list. So instead of
navigating
Hi there,
FYI, ixda.org is down tonight as of around 9pm EST. All of our other sites,
including library.ixda.org and board.ixda.org, are still up. We've got a
trouble ticket open with our hosting provider, and we'll let you know when
the storm passes ...
- Nasir
... and we're back! You can resume using ixda.org to make posts and
browse the archives. Let me know if you notice anything amiss.
- Nasir
On Apr 28, 2009, at 8:31 PM, Nasir Barday nasir.bar...@ixda.org wrote:
Hi there,
FYI, ixda.org is down tonight as of around 9pm EST. All of our other
/04/22/
A shortened version, for your Tweeting pleasure:
http://tr.im/KimGoodwinTUXW
Hashtags tonight are #NYCIxDA and #KimGoodwin.
A million thanks to Chris Palle and the UX Workshop for housing all the
details to make this happen.
Nasir Barday
Interaction Design Association
P.S. I just realized
The Brightcove embeds are crashing and burning, but I'm working on migrating
them over to the IxDA Media Library. In the meantime, you can still
stream/download the video and audio versions of each talk (look under the
embed rectangle).
- Nasir
And you know what REALLY excites me about this list? If someone new to the
list wants to know how to get started, we can point them to the
Fundamentals of Interaction Design section. Looking forward to more
coolness that this will enable...
- N
P.S. If you have ideas on how to show how the
HA. Didn't think you'd see a subject line like that one, didja? Figured that
would get your attention.
Seriously, though, I'm looking at the list of remaining Interaction '09
videos coming down the pike, and I'm excited to share them with the
community. But combine this with the list of
In his keynote at Interaction '09, John Thackara shows the ways in which
business as we know it iss about to change for good, and then identifies how
interaction designers can take these challenges on as design problems.
Watch the video here:
http://library.ixda.org/node/4
About John Thackara:
our discipline can borrow, and new interaction
paradigms that can keep us busy for the next 40 years.
Watch the talk here:
http://library.ixda.org/node/5
Cheers,
Nasir Barday
Media Director
Interaction Design Association
Welcome
In my experience, Fireworks works best for pixel-accurate prototyping (and
has the handy Master page feature, borrowed from InDesign). It even has some
handy tools for layout-- the CS4 beta had a feature that lets you space
elements with a certain pixel margin, for example.
OmniGraffle and Visio
Dude, I feel your pain. I made a similar transition to Fireworks two years
ago and it was like seeing the light of God. Stuff to try while you get
tooled up for Fireworks:
- Use Background Pages instead of layers. Not sure how you're structuring
your layers, but I tend to start with common
Trying to keep this short!
I had a million problems with JJG's talk, but I'm in a hurry and you asked
for viewpoints, not diatribes. To Jeremy's point (woot), User Experience is
waay generic. It's also a professional umbrella that works for the here and
now. Further, it is severely limiting
(at the end, I should have said practices with similar problems with
external perception, not similar practices! Though that would be a new page
in broadening the bejeesus out of our definitions ...)
Welcome to the Interaction Design
We have a few contexts going on here, and I'm going to bite Janna DeVylder's
concept here:
-) Defining to Defend
-) Defining to Educate
I think Luke's list:
Information architecture defines the structure of information (which can
exist in many formats).
Interaction design enables people to
Writing about music is like dancing about architecture.
The frustrating thing to me about threads like this in our lovely ecosystem
is that most of us seem to be on the same page, but we misunderstand each
other a lot-- mostly because creative types like to think we are
misunderstood :-).
The longer that thread gets, the crankier I get, so I'm starting a new one
specifically to talk about Jesse James Garrett's talk at the IA Summit last
weekend. It's what he wanted us to do, anyway.
Todd wrote
If you truly believe that, then I don't understand how you could have a
million
Perhaps I'm oversimplifying, but how about UML?
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unified_Modeling_Language
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Yes, the Interaction '08 Videos will live here as well; I'm working on doing
an upload over the next few months. Any preferences on what to upload first?
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YES. I'm working with someone to build in some RSS love and make an
iTunes podcast feed out of this hot mess. He knows who he is-- I've
been neglecting him while preparing for and attending the IA Summit
(we love our IA bretheren!). But we will hopefully post news on that
soon.
- Nasir
at SIGGRAPH and DUX.
Check it out here: http://library.ixda.org/node/3
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Sounds like what you want is a sample pack, not a softsynth. There are great
collections out there from EastWest, and they come with the software you
need. Ableton Live, Logic, Adobe Audition, or even GarageBand in a pinch
will help with that. You can layer the sounds with the synths that come
Coming up dry on my search, but look for Sound Effects, or SFX, libraries;
browse the Sound on Sound and Keyboard Magazine websites for reviews on the
latest.
An FM synth is good for getting spacey sounds-- I swear by Native
Instruments' FM8. Their IxD has gotten really good over the years, too.
Terms of Use interactions have always irked me-- is a checkbox enough for
someone to confirm that they've actually read an understand the terms of
use? Sure, we can get someone to finally check that checkbox by disabling
the Just buy it, dammit! button and holding it hostage. The problem with
I want to drop a quick note here to keep everyone in the loop about progress
on the Interaction '09. Our Vancouver production team is finishing up the
mastering process and I should be able to upload a few polished videos to
the web by Friday. I had hoped to begin this release a few weeks ago, but
The sign in/sign up process is one place where I've seen lighboxes misused.
There should be a clear, easy way for people to cancel out of the lightbox.
Imeem.com, the music/media site, used to have a login lightbox that was like
quicksand; if you didn't want to register or remember your login,
We've done an extensive analysis of the major community-based
environments out there, and Drupal was our clear top choice. As Dave
said, Drupal has a strong developer community and out of the box
covers a majority of our requirements. Additionally, we can fill in
the gaps with custom modules and a
Cool retrospective, Scott!
I do agree that our infrastructure is a glass ceiling; we're still
having trouble getting hotels to realize that broadband internet
access is a utility as essential as cable TV news in the room. I still
think a lot of this can be possible while we wait on the right
Thanks for posting, Andrei.
Lots of good stuff here, including concepts Mark Weiser pioneered in
the early 90s at Xerox PARC. Interesting to see the applications,
especially those involving transparent displays. I especially liked
the animated finger-painting display-- I used to dream of that as
BTW it's spelled Nasir, tho I may name my first kid Nazir as a
cruel prank ;-).
- Nasir
On Thu, Feb 26, 2009 at 6:35 PM, Los Angeles IxDA
losangeles.i...@gmail.com wrote:
Hi Everyone,
Last night IxDA Los Angeles held a recap of Interaction ‘09 and it was
a lot of fun and information for our
SORRY, that wasn't meant for the list ...
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BTW it's spelled Nasir, tho I may name my first kid Nazir as a
cruel prank ;-).
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On Thu, Feb 26, 2009 at 6:35 PM, Los Angeles IxDA
losangeles.i...@gmail.com wrote
You could interpret Dan's comment as a call for us to design not just
the single touchpoints that make up services, but to design that whole
ecosystem. I don't think he meant that by designing one element of a
service, that we are designing the entire service.
- N
Jay Morgan wrote:
A lecture-based conference with alcohol-based social activities is
not a realistic preparation for our working environments. A competition is.
Maybe e-mail removes some of the intonations in your statement, but
this appears to me to be a dismissal of the real value of a
I like the idea of local IxDA competitions, as long as we can provide
a healthy way to execute them. For example, we wouldn't want community
members to get a rockstars only vibe and avoid competing altogether.
If we want to set it up as a skill-honing event, it needs to be open
and inclusive--
To Will's last point, if you want to get involved with a service
design project, the Interaction Conference is a great way to get your
hands dirty. I took on Production Management this year, which means I
developed and executed this year's Twitter/Flickr feed concept,
plotted out the layouts of
I can't really sum up my experience in a sentence without saying
something you've already read before. But I will say that I still have
a ton of I've Gone Local buttons attached to my messenger bag, my
overcoat, and my favorite blazer.
A youth camp I'm heavily involved with is developing
To the Johnnies at Johnny Holland and the people who contributed those
writeups, TANKS, as my relatives say overseas.
As I posted before, videos are coming, and we'll be able to continue
the conversations specifically per talk. I think what Greg was getting
at was talking about the resonating and
We've bounced around the idea of IxDA labs for a while now. In fact,
some might argue that we've had one for the longest time-- people have
always been welcome to show us a better way to do things, and we have
ways of setting up sandboxed development environments, albeit very
manually.
What got
from '08 or '09
for a lecture/talk or other event, please message me directly and I'll
try and help you out with a hook-up.
Cheers,
Nasir Barday
Media Maven
Interaction Design Association
P.S. The conference playlist is at the end of the thread here:
http://interaction09.crowdvine.com/posts/show
Skype has a nice $2.95/month unlimited U.S. and Canada plan.
$9.95/month unlimited to U.S. and Canada, and landlines 25 additional
countries. Flat enough for ya, Catriona?
- N
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There will be WiFi in the conference spaces. Normally you have to pay
for in-room Internet per night, but will let Greg chime in on that.
For anyone looking to get a GSM card, you may as well go roaming with
your home network's card. Cards I've found, at least for ROGERS (and I
think they're the
Jeff, I know you were digging for drawbacks, but finding people with
the right skillset is less of an issue. If you're already a developer
that knows ActionScript (or Java/C/C++ in my case), the platform is
very easy to pick up. If you've got that kind of skillset lying
around, you can have an
Yah, that was a bit cavalier on my part; thanks for calling that out.
I meant that after 2 days they'd be able to have an idea how to get
started and learn to use the available APIs. Would love to talk Flex
if you're coming to Interaction '09...
The Flex/Flash actionscript Twitter API,
Toblerone is my guilty-pleasure kryptonite! I don't think I would
survive an encounter with a 20lb chunk ...
If you're tracking the pre-conference buzz on Crowdvine, get your
suggestions in for the Interaciton '09 playlist:
http://interaction09.crowdvine.com/posts/show/3144133
And if you're not
I don't think the Onion is widely known internationally-- the piece is
done so well that it's hard to know the thing is a parody :-).
Now that we're 18 months out from Apple's ousting of a physical
keyboard, how are you all finding its reception? I'm finding that a
touch-only keyboard with no
How many levels of hierarchy, and how many categories do you have to
show? You could flatten the tree, emphasizing the hierarchy labels at
each level. Kind of hard to know without seeing a sample document, or
a sketch of what you mean by listview.
- N
A ping to everyone about tonight's event. This is your last chance to see
Dave Malouf speak in NYC! And for those of you waiting for him to come to
Savannah, Georgia, and for people in other cities, check out the stream
we're setting up here: http://snipurl.com/7qwel [www_ustream_tv]. The show
night, and good luck!
- Nasir
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A ping to everyone about tonight's event. This is your last chance
to see Dave Malouf speak in NYC! And for those of you waiting for
him to come to Savannah, Georgia, and for people in other cities
Synthtopia rocks! I also track http://www.createdigitalmusic.com and
http://www.analogindustries.com. Each of these participate in a chunk of the
music tech community-- the comments are very IxDA like. Analog Industries is
the blog for Audio Damage, a two-person outfit that makes plugins; they
Are you simply referring to interfaces for the electronic sound-shaping
within the keyboard? Or the piano keyboard itself as an interface?
Many have tried and failed in the past in this regard. What is the problem
we are trying to solve with the piano keyboard? Are there frustrations other
than
on this platform, and if
you (or someone you love) is a Drupal afficionado, we'd love to get you on
board to help us start tweaking and building! People outside of the UX
community are also welcome.
Thanks, and hope to hear from you soon!
Nasir Barday
Director of Geekery
Interaction Design Association
Photoshop physical prototype:
http://designyoutrust.com/2008/11/07/as-real-as-it-gets/
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Yikes, acrimony and emotions running high in this thread.
In talking about the challenges with this method, I wasn't clear about my
thoughts on the rest of the picture:
- We have a set of requirements that is fairly unique to a Community of
Practice
- Packages exist that can cover *most* of our
Sounds like an interesting concept-- are you envisioning this as an IxDA
Buddy list? If so, we should think of ways to integrate with other social
networks rather than to build our own. Maybe this concept becomes a wrapper
for the ways to get in touch?
I guess I'd have to see this thing visually
They had me at oblique extrusion surface!
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This is probably starting your discussion prematurely, but I have to say
that I find the survey slants too much on the organization and not on the
designer. Would have liked to have seen factors listed such as Innefective
communication of the design or Designer cannot defend ideas well, as you
(These guys just don't get it being in reference to the organizations they
work in, after having their ideas unceremoniously thrown into the wood
chipper).
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You could add lines under a particular block to convey what that node shows
and what functionality it makes available. You can also separately model
modules to be shown on sidebars or as additional toolbars, and reference
these modules under your nodes in the same way.
It helps me to link each
Hi Folks,
We're going to try and stream this event live on Ustream.tv. Here's the link
to watch:
http://www.ustream.tv/channel/dan-saffer---%22tap-is-the-new-click%22-by-nyc-ixda
Drop me an e-mail if you run into trouble.
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The Zoom H2 and H4 are acceptable for voice recordings (maybe even a
concert bootleg or two), and they can write to flash cards directly in MP3.
But if you're not a recording geek like me, the H2 mentioned above is
smaller and more affordable. If you're gonna spend in the ballbark of $100
on a
Google: Our bad, we'll change it -
http://arstechnica.com/news.ars/post/20080903-google-on-chrome-eula-controversy-our-bad-well-change-it.html
:-)
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37 Signals decided to pick August 15th, no wait, October 1st, as the day
when they would phase out IE6:
http://37signals.blogs.com/products/2008/07/basecamp-phasin.html
They must have been barraged with e-mails from angry users (probably already
angry at Basecamp's extraterrestrial interface
I respect Scott's modesty, though also would like some more info-- hook us
up with a URL! :-).
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and thwarting most of the shortcomings we experience
with e-mail as a discussion medium. I hate to leave you hanging there, but I
promise more information in the next few weeks :-).
Cheers,
Nasir Barday
Digital Infrastructure Dude
Interaction Design Association
We have those types of cartons in the U.S. in the Quart (liter) and Pint
(1/4 liter) sizes. How do you do the Gallon, or 4 liter size? I think the
designers sought to scale up this rectangular cardboard/plastic container
and made it less awkward to use with a handle.
The spout on the new design
Sustainable design alone isn't enough of a motivator to change behavior
(outside of our hip, chic circles), but its collateral benefits may be: this
jug saves 10 to 20 cents in price and fits better in refrigerators.
It's great that Sam's did a bit of validation before doing a huge launch. I
do
I should have added that we have a table set up in our design space
for usability testing, so yeah, I agree that the testing and design
spaces can be somewhat dual-purposed. In our case we use our space
primarily for collaboration and to do our own work off in a corner
(literally!).
I've found
I'm with Jared on this one ...
My opinion: Usability labs are a senseless waste of glass and furniture.
http://www.uie.com/articles/streamlining_usability/
The linked article says it all, but in short:
-) A formal lab seriously freaks some users out, especially Type A finance folks
-) Same for
I'm wondering what kind of experience you have had with remote testing?
For remote tests, even a simple tool like Windows NetMeeting,
GoToMyPc, WebEx, etc. does the trick. It's best if the facilitator and
observers are in the same room to minimize the goofing off you
mentioned. WebEx has the
Hey Everyone-- just a friendly prod to make sure you send RSVPs to our
nyc-rsvp e-mail address as opposed to the main discussion list or our
local address.
On a side note, a small percentage of people end up sending their
RSVPs to the wrong address each month. I've found that adding a quick
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I got the Nanny-bot message this morning and wasn't too happy with the
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