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REI like the haptic feedback idea, but positioning a cursor while
driving seems like a bad idea to me.
Assuming people will expect to be able to adjust the controls of the
car while driving, I think the aim is to help the driver keep his/her
eyes on the road. And if you can *feel* the controls
This has been done, using haptic feedback, by Lexus:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Remote_Touch
I haven't tried it, but I've read reviews that say it's so good it
should be in every car.
V
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Hi Dan,
To learn what the product development field knows here, a good entry
phrase is fuzzy front end. Though I like your term magic
place better.
http://www.google.com/search?q=fuzzy front end
Victor
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The iPad human interface guidelines are an interesting read to
consider how we might create and alter interaction designs for the
device. Guidelines include 'Add Physicality and Heightened
Realism', 'Flatten Your Information Hierarchy', and 'Restrict
Complexity in Modal Tasks.'
You can download
Date of birth can be handy in the future because you always know the
person's age. If you run another contest, you can invite just those
over 18, or if they're signed in you'll know what flow to take them
through.
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Brian Fling's book is pretty good for the beginning-intermediate
level. In addition to the expected how-to instruction, he makes some
side commentary that confirmed hunches I had about the industry, the
kind of things you usually only learn in the hallways at
conferences...
REThe client does not want to show a converted price in the basket
because the actual charge may be different.
You could state that potential difference explicitly in the UI and the
Terms and Conditions in order to negate fears of customer backlash and
legal issues.
Victor
On Fri, Oct 9, 2009
I think Jared Spool's comments a few weeks ago summed up my thoughts
on how UX/UCD contributes to strategy (or doesn't!), so I'll just
refer you there:
http://www.ixda.org/discuss.php?post=45062#45062
But I'll also highlight this great quote from yesterday's Financial
Times, in which Robbie Bach,
Hi All --
Thank you to everyone that recommended translation agencies for user
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http://www.prisma.com/
http://www.sdl.com/en/
http://www.vistatec.ie/en/home.htm
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, but open to work with agencies elsewhere.
Thanks in advance,
Victor Lombardi
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To illustrate what Fredrik said, here's the mobile category:
http://www.ixda.org/search.php?tag=mobile
And here's the mobile category RSS feed:
http://www.ixda.org/rss/search/?tag=mobile
You can access these using the search box at http://www.ixda.org/
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large groups and show it on a projector/beamer and listen on
speakerphone, making it a good value for a group session.
Best,
Victor Lombardi
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fyi, the book Business Model Generation by Yves Pigneur and Alex
Osterwalder will be out soon (and chunck are available now as they
write it, due to their innovative publishing model :-). I've
attended two of Alex's workshops, and he explicitly uses design
principles and methods in how he
Jim Kalbach, author of the O'Reilly book 'Designing Web Navigation,'
willl explain three advanced navigation techniques and methods for
employing them.
* Date and Time: June 16, 18:00 GMT / 1pm EST / 10am PST
* Duration: 60 minutes, including time for questions and answers
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One of the most interesting (if not conventional) examples is
Convertbot, an iPhone app. Regardless of whether you find their
solution relevant, the description of their design process might be
very useful...
http://tapbots.com/blog/design/designing-convertbot
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Hunch is all about that:
http://www.hunch.com/fact-sheet/
Victor
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On Mon, May 11, 2009 at 10:46 AM, Alan Mazzan amaz...@mac.com wrote:
Hello,
I'm looking for some good examples of web-based logic flow that guides
a user though a series of questions that are
Here's two that strongly influenced my perspective on interaction design:
INTUITIVE EQUALS FAMILIAR
http://www.asktog.com/papers/raskinintuit.html
Direct Manipulation for Comprehensible, Predictable and Controllable
User Interfaces
http://citeseer.ist.psu.edu/old/shneiderman97direct.html
Victor
Our next live webinar takes place April 23, and features Brain
Traffic's Kristina Halvorson discussing the intersection of
content strategy and website design.
In this hour-long live webinar, Kristina Halvorson will offer
step-by-step instructions on how to integrate content strategy
into the
On Fri, Mar 20, 2009 at 1:17 AM, Robert Hoekman Jr rob...@rhjr.net wrote:
The most important thing a company can have is a vision. And to me, the
strategy comes out of the vision, but many companies fail to communicate any
sort of vision to its staff (or perhaps even define one in the first
Hi Mario,
It's rare to find examples of particular design strategies for study
outside a university program, probably because organizations consider
them confidential. And so a common understanding of what design
strategy is doesn't seem to exist in our field.
The best analogous field you can
http://www.useit.com/alertbox/user-research-methods.html
or sample the webinar in this five minute preview
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IxDA members (that's you) get a 20% discount by redeeming code
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Best,
Victor
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Best Wishes,
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In Bill Buxton's landmark book 'Sketching User Experiences,' he not only
teaches us about sketching, he argues that sketching is the archetypal
activity of design -- an action central to design thinking and learning.
By illustrating the nuances of sketches, he illustrates how it takes the
same
I recommend MES, they've done great work for me in the past. Talk to
Suzanne Stinson if you can.
http://mes-inc.com/
Victor
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Hi Jeremy --
I don't have much time to volunteer, but I'm happy to discuss my
experience. I was the first leader of the education initiative for
the Information Architecture Institute, and subsequently started my
own company to teach design-related skills. I think I could save you
a lot of pain
On Thu, May 15, 2008 at 11:42 AM, Michael Micheletti
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On Tue, May 13, 2008 at 11:36 AM, Jeff Garbers [EMAIL PROTECTED]
wrote:
Why aren't we talking to our computers yet? Should we be?
Apple includes basic speech recognition on Macs:
In these days of participatory content and CSS-driven design, I wonder
why it's the redesign and not a design, one among many from which
the *reader* chooses?
In other words, why not make more sites Zen Garden sites?
Victor
On Tue, May 13, 2008 at 3:59 PM, vlad [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Hi!
Christopher Fahey wrote:
There is basically little to no invitation for actual designers to
become business players. Designers -- we, the people who practice
design and actually design things -- are simply not an integral part
of the design thinking school of thought.
Design
On Fri, Apr 25, 2008 at 2:54 PM, Melinda Bonneville
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... Examining User Expectations of the Location of Web
Objects. ...
http://www.internettg.org/newsletter/dec00/article_bernard.html
James Kalbach reminds us that such research does not correlate
breaking these
On Fri, Apr 18, 2008 at 4:04 PM, Robert Hoekman Jr [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
What I'm interested in is why the rise in effectiveness takes so long to
kick in? I mean, logically, you should be able to compare one day's metrics
with another and see the effect of a design change, but this is not
On Fri, Apr 18, 2008 at 3:25 PM, Robert Hoekman Jr [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
So, I pose the question to the legion of expertise on this list. Have you
noticed a delay in results (positive or negative) due to design changes? If
so, how do you explain it?
This could be a corollary to the
On Mon, Apr 14, 2008 at 8:16 AM, Kunal Kapoor [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I am trying to gather references, study material, examples in interaction
design on the theme - 'Funology in Interaction Design'.
'the Design Emotion society raises issues and facilitates dialogue
among practitioners,
James Kalbach's relatively new book 'Designing Web Navigation'
includes this kind of information. It also summarizes the latest
navigation research in areas like genre and transitional volatility,
state of the art stuff.
On Tue, 25 Mar 2008 10:06:06, Dave Jasper [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Thanks for the great information above. I live in NYC and I am
interested in interaction design
fyi, Smart Experience in New York City will again host Dave Malouf's
6-week 'Interaction Design for Web Applications' course
On Wed, Mar 19, 2008 at 8:57 PM, Christopher Hlavaty
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In the discipline of IxD, the word has been used to define a possible
action perceived by a user within some environment (Norman 1988). In the
classic example, the affordance of a door with a flat metal plate is
On Thu, Mar 20, 2008 at 7:33 AM, Victor Lombardi
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Don Norman also saw that discrepancy, and at some point revised it to
perceivable affordance.
I just found the link:
Affordances and Design
http://www.jnd.org/dn.mss/affordances_and.html
apparent during the conference, and it's a
great place to meet experienced folks in the field.
Victor Lombardi
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://www.billbuxton.com/AudioUI06icons.pdf
Victor Lombardi
Smart Experience
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this new tool?
I believe that's the extent of what Adobe has released so far.
I tried putting Thermo in context of the tools we have now, and those
we'll have in the future, in a recent talk at the German IA conference:
http://www.slideshare.net/threefour/make-tools
Victor Lombardi
Smart
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