Designing Interactive Systems: People, Activities, Contexts,
Technologies (2005). David Benyon, Phil Turner, Susan Turner.
http://product.half.ebay.com/Designing-Interactive-Systems_W0QQtgZinfoQQprZ43755771
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I am looking for training courses/conferences for web copywriters in
our UX team.
Can anyone refer institutions/web-based/workshops to instruct
copywriters to write effectively for the web.
The writing includes marketing copy, UI / error copy, site
instructional copy, site help copy, etc
Hi, I'm Studying IxD.
For this summer I'm looking for Internship around the world in
different companies in different field from Google and Microsoft to
small interactive art and media companies. I realized that the role
of interaction designers may differ very widely regarding the focus
of the
Hi Ali,
I think the IxDesigner will get more responsibility to be a creator
not just adjusting usability. The more knowledge you have the more
opportunity you will get. Creativity will be more appreciated in this
profession and even more knowledge about globalization
Dear Dave...
Seeing my problem as design point of view will really help me a
lot...I'll Focus on that and I'll come back with more questions
soon
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Monster is looking to hire an enthusiastic Interaction Designer to
create engaging and meaningful interactive experiences for our end
users globally. Were looking for a passionate IxD designer to help
us redefine how consumers will use the internet to search for jobs
and candidates, connect,
Thank you Michael and Dave for your replies...
Today I was attending a lecture session by Adam Greenfield about
Elements of a Networked Urbanism. The ideas he was showing us
were great, cities with great level of intelligence which could be
our future cities but still I've found the same struggle
Hello...In last few months of my Study as Interaction Design Student I
was wondering if we really forget that Interaction design is here to
helps us to make our life easier or just to makes it more complex and
problematic?
I think that we invent new technologies and then trying to
implemented
Hello James,
thanks alot! Interesting report.
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I am reading a book about User Experience and came across the
following in the Research Plan chapter:
The competitors' design is a lot less polished and much more
chaotic, yet they get twice as much traffic with a similar amount of
advertising.
How can you find such information about the
http://www.amroha.dk/litterature.html
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Todd,
how do you collect your data? is it quantitative or qualitative
data?
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Welcome to the
Thanks for the link Andrei. I'll certainly read all the posts with
great interest.
Though from some of the posts, I see that people are against eye
tracking due to the cost. In the near future eye tracking equipment
won't be that expensive.
Ali
Seems as if we got some reali IPhone fans here huh? :)
With regards to my friend:
It dropped out of his hands and fell to the ground. No one ran it
over with a truck :)
Let me remind you that in Denmark we chance mobile phones each 6
months due to our contracts. Its not rare at all to change a
Apple's design process:
http://www.businessweek.com/the_thread/techbeat/archives/2008/03/apples_design_p.html
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UCD has many other names and consist of these (and probably many
others): contextual inquiry, customer-focused design, empathic
design, participatory design, usability, usability engineering,
usability testing, user experience design, user-focused design,
user-friendly design.
With time more and
Jared:
But won't you agree that UCD follow a certain guideline? Poorly
executed UCD could for instancebe that not enough qualitative
research was conducted? There could be other examples...
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Jared:
Okay I have been reading all your comments carefully. Also the ones
you made in my post.
You are against this term since you claim that no two practitioners
of UCD do the same thing.
As humans we are different from each other and have a different
creative mind. Following UCD doesnt
Hi David,
the fetished customer base that tells their friends to buy the IPhone
is part of the marketing process. Its all part of the weak
ties/Strong ties relationships that Apple takes advantage of.
http://www.si.umich.edu/~rfrost/courses/SI110/readings/In_Out_and_Beyond/Granovetter.pdf
I agree
But I WANT a UCD department at my location. I develop documentation
and to visually describe a system based on heavy technology WITHOUT
user input is disastrous.
The Motorola ZN5 was developed in Denmark by Danish ENGINEERS. I have
that phone. And its the ONLY phone developed by Motorola Denmark.
Hello Jared,
the execution of User Centered Design done the RIGHT way will
guarantee success. Atleast this is what I believe. Many companies do
design great products without a UCS approach, I believe that these
products can improve and become even better with a UCD approach.
You say that people
Users know that this certain feature can do SOMETHING, yet they dont
know WHAT. So they avoid looking at it and totally block it from
their minds.
trust me, if people started complaining, corporations would be in
trouble. people do NOT complain. Sitting online and writing about a
product defect on
The management KNOWS deep down that the product can be better and that
there is some problem. They just continue developing problems,
knowing its not the 100 percent correct way. Its human nature. Let us
just continue. We humans only wake up when its too late. Take
global warming as an example. We
Hello Jared,
there are tons of examples on a UCD approach that went wrong.
A successful UCD approach is where the cross functional team does a
heavy amount of international UX research, IA activity and
constant usability tests throughout the development process NOT
neglecting proper marketing. For
But I do get your point. Reality is different than utopian philosophy.
Tradeoffs are a reality which we designers face daily.
Thanks for your replies!
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Working as a Technical Writer, I VERY often see myself being put in
the final stage of the development process by management.
I came across the following article that i want to share with other
technical writers out there:
http://www.stc.org/confproceed/2001/PDFs/STC48-000107.PDF
I don't have an IPHONE. I do want one but lately articles are written
about IPHONES exploding in people's hands.
The Danish article belows states that there are 10 cases in France.
I also read about cases in the US, Japan and the UK.
http://politiken.dk/tjek/digitalt/telefoni/article775823.ece
Hello Diego,
you wrote:
On of the requirements of my client, is to have an online help in
the application (with the intention to reduce calls to internal
support). I was arguing that this requirement is unnecessary, because
I think that users will not read the online help: they will be busy
Thanks Jeff. Could you post my reply also? :)
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Thank you all for responding. I am trying yet again to post a reply. I
am not sure whether this will reach you guys, or be gone forever
somewhere out there.
I personally believe that is you create a service or a product, UCD
is the best development process.
The manager I quoted was happy about
Dave,
I get your point. I am a problem fixer too. I have managed to
convince my manager to let me talk with those who listen and can
make a difference.
I have tons of ideas. It takes time. I know it does.
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Jared:
The companies that make MILLIONS without a user centered design
principle may be the ONLY one in that specific industry. It could
also be that users simply just accept whatever these companies
create / offer without complaining.
For me, a company that offer a product, should follow an
Hello John,
yet the Wii Fit does not tell people to strecth out after a workout.
That is VERY important and I believe the team designing this should
have kept this in mind.
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Isn't a better way to just sit with the client's development team
and/or management, and get things done together?
When I worked as a Usability Logger during my studies, my task was to
ensure that the usability Reports were correct. I also asked for the
development team to be present, but at
Also please paste the following Danish article in Google Translator to
get an English version:
http://www.wiitech.dk/index.php/nyheder/255-ti-personer-indlagt-om-ugen-grundet-wii
The article states that 10 people are admitted to the hospital every
week due to muscular pain after playing TENNIS
Hi John,
I am surprised to hear that people now say that stretching is
harmful. I have been doing sports and martial arts all my life and
stretching has been a VERY important after each game/session.
At the moment my physio therapist suggest that I stretch out more
than I do already.
I found
Why can't I read the replies?? I can see that people have replied bt
when I try to access the post, its empty! Its frustrating...
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Time and time again I am being told that a user centered design
development process isn't needed in our company since we do not make
consumer products.
Yet we make web interfaces for them to use, we create billions of
features for them to use etc.
A manager said last week: We are a technology
I do not know if this topic has been discussed earlier, if so, I
apologize for posting it again.
Recently alot of articles that discuss Wii Fit users getting muscular
pain are being written.
User of Nintendo Wii get muscular pain due to an excessive use of the
console. The tennis game for
Hello Lance,
as far as I know there is no warm up or cool down routine in the
Tennis game or other sport game.
With regards to Wii Fit, it would be good to have such but its not
there.
Stretching is very important though after an exercise so having some
med. specialists in the whole design
I used to work as a telemarketer for several years. In the beginning
we had a fixed salary. It didnt matter whether we sold 100 deals or 5
deals per month. The salary was fixed. My colleagues and I chilled at
work. We wouldnt persuade the callee too much.
The management saw that people didnt sell
Brilliant! Thanks for letting us know.
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Welcome to the Interaction Design Association (IxDA)!
Thanks for replying guys,
I think that Interaction Design should be acknowledged as a
profession just like Software Development, Engineering etc.
This profession is on the rise and you see more people working as
Interaction Designers... Can't IXDA somehow influence gov.
immigration websites and
hello members,
I have a problem when I am looking at immigration websites and job
providing websites such as monster.ca
Under the section Job Category one will find IT, Architecture,
Internet and New Media, Engineering, Research and Development etc.
and NONE of these have Interaction Designer,
Hello Jon,
the link doesnt work
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Hello Shivan:
Our marketing team vistins the users since they are the ones
providing user feedback. Our manuals are written in English and the
marketing team found out that the term Radio is what users use. May
it be a police officer in Korea, a figher fighter in the US or a
nurse in the UK. Radio
Hello folks,
I work as a technical writer and have a User Centered Design background.
My background constantly reminds me to look at terms and phrases from a
user's viewpoint.
One term, which I hate, has been decided by the management to be used in
our manuals.
My understanding is that this term
I agree with Samantha. If you can get an interview with the users
before they use the application, this will be useful.
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Its the term for BOTH Bryan! :)
A mobile is called portable mobile station and a stationary is called
fixed mobile station :)
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Here I mean that my company calls a radio a SUBSCRIBER. So its not the
users who call it a subscriber.
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here or members who have experience with
writing such information? or could you guide me to a website that have
such examples presented?
Kind regards
Ali Amrohvi
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Hello Rob,
I have made the Quick Start Guide already. It's a quick reference to
configuring the products. A reference to other manuals is made with
regards to installation of the products. So the Quick Start Guide is
to help with configuration only.
All actions are shown in screenshots.
Now for
Yes they are amazing!
I was taught by Simona Maschi and Heather Martin (co-founders) at
ITU.
I recommend joining their weekly open talks. (For those residing
in Denmark)
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try out Nokia e71. I have it and I am quite pleased with it.
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ARE THE INTERACTION
DESIGNERS??? Its about money I've been told... Ali remember,
most of our users will receive training so why use money on all these
qualitative researchers?? If we do, we will have to fire the training
personnel... JZ
Interesting comments from all of you. Thank you.
I have had a few conversations with the department managers, other
co-workers and even prepared a powerpoint presentation for my first
kickoff, (many of the attendants are engineers) wherein I will stress
the importance of user Centered Design
As a User Centered Design graduate I find it quite irritating to be
working in an environment where engineers run everything. My position does
not allow me to say much yet as a Tech Writer/Project Manager assisting
the engineers on usability issues I have had it!
They all believe that designing
of what you have made yourself?
Any style suggestions etc?
Thanks!
Ali
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tak!
Ali
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Hello,
thanks alot all of you.
Harry: wonderful stuff!
Ali
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forgot to
see the abuser point of view. Do you think that this only concern the
engineers and programmers or can Interaction Designers provide useful help
here? (If they ever think about abusers)
Ali
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and draining, studies
show.
I have NOT yet bought the book but WILL do very soon. After reading its
reviews, I highly recommend it.
--
A man can be valued through his sayings.
Imam Ali(as)
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So have any of you tried these cards? What do you guys think?
I came across the cards while reading an article Would you guys invest
in them?
--
A man can be valued through his sayings.
Imam Ali(as)
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I would also recommend `Lifeworld (German: Lebenswelt)`.
Habermas talks about this here -
http://cohering.net/jh/rfd.html
Though I would like to say that if you want to interview users in
countries where English isnt the first language, then hire
qualitative interviewers from these countries.
Google is about being simple. The themes still allow you to use the
basic theme. I see the `new themes` as an extra option for those who
are bored of the basic theme.
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The book `Designing for Small Screens` written by Carola Zwick ,
Burkhard Schmitz and more might be relevant to check out.
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. I am NOT a web designer at all but know abit of HTML.
So what do you guys think? I have changed the colours.
Ali
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1.
Don Norman`s `The Design of Everyday Things`. This book gave me the
basics about Interaction Design.
2.
Sketching User Experiences: Getting the Design Right and the Right
Design. Written by Bill Buxton.
User Interface Design and Evaluation.
Written by Debbie Stone, Caroline Jarrett, Mark
just ordered A. Cooper`s INMATES ARE RUNNING THE ASYLUM. Though by
reading the reviews it sounds to be very close to Don Norman`s
DESIGNING FOR FUTURE THINGS
ali
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very nice!
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Hi Michael,
http://www.snitker.com/public/dokumenter/A4personasplakat2.pdf
This has been made by a Danish PHd.
Ali
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.
With regards to links, I can paste your webpage beneath the `Stuff about
Interaction Design` if you want me to.
Please critize, praise, comment do whatever you want. After all I want my
users/readers to be pleased )
Ali
Welcome
Hello members,
well the reason why I only can choose from these two job openings is
that I have ben jobless for 3 months now and have been offerede these
lately. I cant wait any longer since I have to pay mortgage and
support my family.
(No more loans granted.)
I had a meeting regarding the tech
I agree with Adrian,
It is very important that you read some litterature that touches the
subject. You can read and learn alot from the net by reading the free
articles. Google it up and you will see tons of material. If you are
willing to spend some money then Adrian`s books are great and so are
see what happens.
Ali
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happens
tomorrow. I will be heading to the Tech Writer company tomorrow and
have a final conversation and Tuesday its the technical tester
position.
I can always apply for a user experience or an interaction design
position later on at both corporations as you also have told me.
Ali- confused
Hello members,
thank you SO much for helping me out here. Your replies were all
indeed very helpful.
These positions are offered by two different companies. The tech
tester job is at the largest pension company here. With alot of
career opportunities. The tech writer job is at a company that is a
of you experienced veterans could
give me some advice I would be delighted.
Thanks
Ali
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An email has been sent out to all those who were interested.
These emails came from people residing in many different countries
which mean that their suggestions will be based on cultural and their
own `lifeworld`. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lifeworld
So a final design suggestion prototype will
Hi Johnny,
I will write some stuff about mobile phone interruption and email you
:)
Hope you can use it!
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Hello Aaron,
is it a criteria to have a portfolio beforehand? I did a BA in
Internationcal Business COmmunication where my major was English and
my minor American Studies. I applied for the Master of Science
programme in User Centered Design in 2006 and recently graduated.
Isnt a motivated letter
`Isn't presence just the ability to know availability information
like in an IM client? Will, it feels pretty standard to me. -- dave`
yes it is. BUT there are alot of options with such a presence system.
Fine, I can see Dave on my display but what options do I have? Shall I
call him right away?
in the priginal power point files.
It could be nice to see how ixda.org members view a presence display
and what cultural or other important factors they include in their
design suggestions. More insight to a problem is surely better than 1
insight only.
Ali
Hello David,
if I can be of any assistance I would want to help out also. I dont
know what my role can be exactly but I am willing to do my best.
Ali
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are interested let me know I
will send you the file... If we are able to prodcue a decent presence UI
from scratch, we could dedicate that it to Ixda. (don`t know if they could
use it, but the crowdsourced presence UI could be bought by any mobile
company??) Let me know if you are interested!
Ali
During my thesis I also touched the concept of `presence`, which can
be used in order to prevent interrupting phone calls.
But in order to use this `presence` system a decent User Interface
needs to be implemented. Many corporations are working on such User
Interfaces and I have seen some
I see alot of good responds. I myself believe that IF reducing
features can make a thing more userfriendly, then that should be done
right away. It all depends on the context. My DVD remote control has
the following buttons-
eject/switch off (same button)
standby/switch on (same button)
a clear
wow... I just sent Josh an email about crowdsourcing and how it could
benefit ixda.org...
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Hey Will,
well I was more into making some money I assume Ixda needs some
financial assistance eventhough members donate. But Ixda could really
become a hub for many corporations. So many intelligent people here
with so much experience.
MATSUI is a company that makes DVD players and their
Thats a great idea David. I dont understand why ixda.org isnt built up
as an online forum thing... I mean like the pre made forums that only
needs to be activated. I dont know if it is MY computer or my lack of
computer expertise, but at times ixda.org and searching for topics can
be very time
I have been looking into Sourceforge and your idea is great.
We just need to take the next step.
Ali
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Well said Eva... my point exactly.
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I recently read John Maeda`s book `The Laws of Simplicity` and also visit
his website http://lawsofsimplicity.com/
The Laws of Simplicity is a book written in the same style Don Norman
wrote `The Design of Future Things`.
Few days back I came across the following link
Chris wrote
`Amazon DOES have minimum password requirements:
I tried to change my current password to easy... `
Amazon does not tell you that you HAVE to include atleast 1 digit or
any capital letters in your password. The user experience is amazing.
One can buy items by clicking 3 times only...
Many of you might have tried creating an account online in order to
participate in an online forum or in order to apply for a job in a major
corporation.
Many times a password needs to consist of the following-
A capital letter
A digit or sometimes 2 digits
Minimum 8 Characters
The password must
Hello Mark,
as I stated earlier the `regular expression` needed in order to
prevent misuse should allow a user to use the same digit in his/her
password as used in the username.
When I took the course PHP and MYSQL I learned that `regular
expressions` can be used in a userfriendly manner.
. . .
you could write `country of depature` instead of country of origin.
Depature and origin means two different things.
Ali
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Andy wrote`No! Don't do that. Most of the world doesn't call it a
Zip code and every country has different formats. I hate it when I
get funnelled into a form using one country's terminology only.`
Exactly! And what do you do if you live in Karachi, Pakistan??
Karachi does not have a zipcode or
to Mark,
you have to keep in mind that my post was concerning Online Forum and
Job Application passwords. I did not mention B2B or any other site
where credit card information is needed.
Lets for instance say that I am a Nigerian mother wanting to discuss
children in a forum for mothers. Why
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