Re: [IxDA Discuss] portal taxonomy
Hi Milan, Not sure whether you mean top-down, as in you're making the decisions and users will be adopting whatever you decide on? or top-down simply meaning a navigation/menu structure that involves several layers of hierarchy? The former might suggest not so much input from users. But if you just mean the latter, I'd suggest investing effort into initial discovery--i.e., finding out how users already organize these concepts, literally, physically, and how they frame them up in their minds (i.e., mental models)--as well as doing quick, frequent, iterative usability/validation testing to see how this schema works for the users. Up front you might want to do some card-sorting exercises (useful resource: http://www.boxesandarrows.com/view/card_sorting_a_definitive_guide), as well as paper prototyping, simple task-based testing, etc. This may go beyond the scope of your project (or interest), but if you haven't done so as part of your discovery, you might research what existing information organization/design systems (formal and informal) already exist within your company that people use, as well as to inform your work. Additionally, find out whether this hierarchy you're putting together will be used or adopted by others--e.g., for classifying content, underlying/informing search, etc. On a semantic note...not sure this is a taxonomy. If it were the basis for multiple purposes (as per above---adopted and leveraged more broadly for multiple purposes, beyond internal portal navigation) it would be a taxonomy. It seems more to be a navigation schema. But you can call it whatever works for your users, management, decision-makers, project funders/champions, and others who may be working this space. Whatever makes sense to them and makes them want to care. Hope this is useful, Susan On Nov 8, 2007 3:44 PM, Milan Guenther [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: hi everybody, I am currently working on a high-level menu structure for an employee portal, using a top-down approach. We are trying to create a set of generic menu items (or menu folders) where applications, resources etc. are being placed according to a user's business roles. The first approach: Workplace Collaboration Reporting Tools Workflow ... Personal Data My Profile (HR) Travel Information Reset Password ... Resources Business Areas Corporate Functions ... If there is anybody experienced in such a project would like to share thoughts and ideas, please let me know. best regards milan -- milan guenther * interaction design ||| | | || | || | || designing the information workplace +49 173 285 66 89 * www.guenther.cx *Come to IxDA Interaction08 | Savannah* February 8-10, 2008 in Savannah, GA, USA Register today: http://interaction08.ixda.org/ Welcome to the Interaction Design Association (IxDA)! To post to this list ... [EMAIL PROTECTED] Unsubscribe http://www.ixda.org/unsubscribe List Guidelines http://www.ixda.org/guidelines List Help .. http://www.ixda.org/help *Come to IxDA Interaction08 | Savannah* February 8-10, 2008 in Savannah, GA, USA Register today: http://interaction08.ixda.org/ Welcome to the Interaction Design Association (IxDA)! To post to this list ... [EMAIL PROTECTED] Unsubscribe http://www.ixda.org/unsubscribe List Guidelines http://www.ixda.org/guidelines List Help .. http://www.ixda.org/help
Re: [IxDA Discuss] Paper is not a prototyping tool
Is this thread related to the idea the Paper is not a Prototyping tool? Or is this a semantic discussion on the boundaries of job/skill description? As far as the statement Paper is not Prototyping Tool this really seems like a ridiculous statement. Mustard on a hot dog bun could be used as a prototyping tool. Lets get real here, if this is a semantic discussion related to job description of who does what, what are we doing here? Maybe we should be working for a Union defining who can and cannot use a hammer. *Come to IxDA Interaction08 | Savannah* February 8-10, 2008 in Savannah, GA, USA Register today: http://interaction08.ixda.org/ Welcome to the Interaction Design Association (IxDA)! To post to this list ... [EMAIL PROTECTED] Unsubscribe http://www.ixda.org/unsubscribe List Guidelines http://www.ixda.org/guidelines List Help .. http://www.ixda.org/help
[IxDA Discuss] JOB: Interaction Designers - Bay Area - FILTER - FT - Contract to Hire
Seeking Interaction Designers with Passion for Elegant Simplicity And it would be great if you had an affinity for mobile as well because right now we are seeking world-class interaction designers who also like to dig in and push pixels. In this role you will have the opportunity to develop groundbreaking mobile products, working with a cross-functional team from product conception to ship date to define the interfaces that millions will use every day. WHAT YOU'LL BE DOING * Leading a cross-functional team through the design process from research to delivery * Drawing wire frames, sample screens and concepting prototypes in Flash * Writing specifications to guide delivery of the UI * Working closely with designers on other projects to support a consistent product vision * Drive intuitively simple, emotionally appealing, and functionally impressive interaction design SKILLS * 5+ years practical experience delivering exceptional software interaction designs * Ability to create simple, intuitive, functional and appealing interfaces * Seasoned understanding of the theories and practices of interaction design * Express ideas concisely and completely in words and pictures * An intuition for finding the opportunities inherent in design problems * An intrinsic empathic connection to users of mobile devices * Practical knowledge of Photoshop and Flash (or comparable design tools) * A craftsman's obsession with getting every detail right and a passion for elegant simplicity * Ability to work in a highly collaborative environment * Ability to clearly, succinctly and persuasively articulate design decisions and influence cross-functional teams * Strong interpersonal skills and a good sense of humor * Can successfully juggle multiple projects and competing priorities * Experience with software applications for phones or handheld devices a plus * Visual design experience a plus A BIT ABOUT FILTER FILTER is a full-service creative resources company that delivers proven results. For businesses that need talent-either in-house or off-site- we offer staffing services and project-management expertise for a variety of design, production and content management needs. By finding and fostering talent, we offer flexible, cost-efficient solutions for producing outstanding creative and marketing content. FILTER serves the creative industry like no one else, with a powerful combination of style, passion and matchmaking expertise. Our clients include prominent technology and services companies as well as many of the leading design, advertising and interactive agencies. To apply, please send resume (.pdf, .doc or .txt only) and a brief email including samples and/or URL and contact information to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject line: Interaction Designer_1954 If you are already registered with FILTER, please sign in to http://www.filtertalent.com http://www.filtertalent.com/ using your email and password to express interest in this job. Only qualified candidates will receive a response. FILTER is an equal opportunity employer. . THERESA ROBERTS MARCOM CONSULTANT D 425.415.6369 M 425.985.5216 701 PIKE ST, SUITE 1675, SEATTLE, WA 98101 FILTERTALENT.COM http://www.filtertalent.com/ FILTER PURE TALENT CREATIVE RESOURCES FOR BUSINESS SEATTLE BELLEVUE PORTLAND SAN FRANCISCO LOS ANGELES *Come to IxDA Interaction08 | Savannah* February 8-10, 2008 in Savannah, GA, USA Register today: http://interaction08.ixda.org/ Welcome to the Interaction Design Association (IxDA)! To post to this list ... [EMAIL PROTECTED] Unsubscribe http://www.ixda.org/unsubscribe List Guidelines http://www.ixda.org/guidelines List Help .. http://www.ixda.org/help
Re: [IxDA Discuss] What tools do you use for prototyping?
On Nov 8, 2007, at 7:01 PM, Eric Scheid wrote: Let me rephrase - you can't guarantee pixel perfection in the final designed product, so why are you trying to achieve it in the prototype? Of course you can gaurantee pixel perfection. How on earth does the client/product team know what the heck they are building if you couldn't? It seems you might be equating pixel perfection with a static, immovable, print-exact, screen layout or the px value in something like CSS meaning of the word. Pixel perfection, as I'm using it, means nothing more than the prototype as rendered in pixels on the screen looks exactly like the real product that will ship, at minimum in it's visual presentation, including all the things that will happen if you resize windows, change font sizes, etc. Given the nature of web applications these days, this is very simple to do. The tools are finally maturing for the desktop client environment that will make this equally as easy to do there. As for Flash/Flex or Silverlight types of products, the prototype code for the visual presentation is often the exact same that's in the final product, so tat's covered as well. -- Andrei Herasimchuk Principal, Involution Studios innovating the digital world e. [EMAIL PROTECTED] c. +1 408 306 6422 *Come to IxDA Interaction08 | Savannah* February 8-10, 2008 in Savannah, GA, USA Register today: http://interaction08.ixda.org/ Welcome to the Interaction Design Association (IxDA)! To post to this list ... [EMAIL PROTECTED] Unsubscribe http://www.ixda.org/unsubscribe List Guidelines http://www.ixda.org/guidelines List Help .. http://www.ixda.org/help
Re: [IxDA Discuss] What font organizer do you use?
I believe that someone else on this list recommended Linotype Font Explorer X a while back. I have it installed on my various design machines and it works pretty well. It's still in beta, and every time I've reported a bug to them they replied no it's not, so I gave up telling them stuff, but the price is right (for now at least): free. The program lets you enable and disable fonts or groups of them. It stores the original font files in its own little folder and then activates them as you tell it to. If you have a large number of fonts, you need to spend a fair amount of time arranging them in the application before it is of much use. But after that you can choose to enable all the blackletter fonts for your goth clothing designs and then disable those and activate all your dingbat fonts for icon work. The location on the web: http://www.linotype.com/fontexplorerX It looks like they have a Mac version now too. Michael Micheletti On Nov 9, 2007 7:21 AM, Bryan Minihan [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Can anyone recommend a good Font organizer for Windows? Free would be nice but I'd pay for something really useful. *Come to IxDA Interaction08 | Savannah* February 8-10, 2008 in Savannah, GA, USA Register today: http://interaction08.ixda.org/ Welcome to the Interaction Design Association (IxDA)! To post to this list ... [EMAIL PROTECTED] Unsubscribe http://www.ixda.org/unsubscribe List Guidelines http://www.ixda.org/guidelines List Help .. http://www.ixda.org/help
[IxDA Discuss] JOB | Senior Business Analyst/Information Architect |Northern NJ|Recruiter|Full Time
Senior Business Analyst/Information Architect Are you passionate about creating compelling user experiences and finding ever-better ways to engage users online and to deliver meaningful, personalized content? Are you an interdisciplinary thinker who likes to wrestle with sophisticated customer-marketing strategies and forward-looking technical architectures? We, a healthcare marketing company, are looking for a sharp, ambitious and creative Sr. Business Analyst/Information Architect to help bridge the gaps between strategy, requirements, and implementation. The position requires strategic thinking as well as creativity, with strong organizational and project management skills and a detail-oriented approach to documentation a must. As a key liaison between our account strategy, creative design, and technology teams, and as a senior member of our dynamic organization, you will have the opportunity to tackle a wide variety of business and user experience issues and to impact project and company strategies at a high level. Responsibilities: *Create and maintain detailed, clear, and concise functional specifications documents; *Work closely with the design team to create compelling and intuitive user interfaces and ensure effective integration with the underlying systems and data structures *Work with the QA team to help define test cases and validate functionality and underlying business logic; *Maintain an ongoing familiarity with trends and best practices in online CRM and related industries and disciplines, and actively share your findings and recommendations within the organization and with our clients. Required Skills: *5+ years of work in Business Analysis and User Experience Design, or related endeavors, with demonstrated experience guiding projects from the requirements phase through to successful deployment, evaluation, and refinement; *Exceptional written and oral communication skills, supported by writing samples for both technical audiences (e.g., functional specifications) as well as client or non-technical users (e.g., strategic briefs); *Strong diagrammatic and information design skills, as evidenced by a portfolio of multiple document types including 1 wireframes and user flows (strong illustration and/or graphic design skills are a plus); *Familiarity with web technologies, such as HTML, CSS, AJAX, C#, J2EE, and .NET is desirable; *Ability to quickly understand and internalize new business and strategic issues; *Ability to simply and effectively articulate complex ideas; *Ability to manage multiple projects at once and to work across multiple teams and disciplines. The company's systems and applications are most similar to those found in traditional CRM models, and comprise Web Applications, Multi-Platform DB's, ETL, Campaign Management and Data Mining components. They are in the early stages of proprietary technology development, and candidates for this position will have a significant opportunity to help direct our growth. This full time, permanent position offers a base salary plus an excellent benefits package, a business casual work environment, and the opportunity to be part of a progressive team that is shaping the future of their product offerings and the online customer relationship landscape. Brian Chenensky Account Executive Adam Personnel, Inc. 11 East 44th Street New York, NY 10017 Phone 212-557-9150 mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] www.adampersonnel.com *Come to IxDA Interaction08 | Savannah* February 8-10, 2008 in Savannah, GA, USA Register today: http://interaction08.ixda.org/ Welcome to the Interaction Design Association (IxDA)! To post to this list ... [EMAIL PROTECTED] Unsubscribe http://www.ixda.org/unsubscribe List Guidelines http://www.ixda.org/guidelines List Help .. http://www.ixda.org/help
Re: [IxDA Discuss] What font organizer do you use?
Incidentally, it appears the Bitstream Font Navigator (which I loved, and appeared to do much the same as Linotype's tool) is still available (sort of) and has been written up here: http://www.noscope.com/journal/2004/09/font-management-solution If you take the time to try it out you might agree it's extremely useful (and I agree with the blogger's comments). Bryan http://www.bryanminihan.com *Come to IxDA Interaction08 | Savannah* February 8-10, 2008 in Savannah, GA, USA Register today: http://interaction08.ixda.org/ Welcome to the Interaction Design Association (IxDA)! To post to this list ... [EMAIL PROTECTED] Unsubscribe http://www.ixda.org/unsubscribe List Guidelines http://www.ixda.org/guidelines List Help .. http://www.ixda.org/help
Re: [IxDA Discuss] What font organizer do you use?
Thanks Michael and Linda, much appreciate the recommendation. I just checked their site where they seem to have taken down the Windows beta version, but asked to keep checking back occasionally. I'll keep an eye out =] Much appreciated...anyone want to start a fight about TTF vs Postscript fonts? Anyone? ;D Bryan http://www.bryanminihan.com -Original Message- From: Michael Micheletti [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, November 09, 2007 2:12 PM To: Bryan Minihan Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [IxDA Discuss] What font organizer do you use? I believe that someone else on this list recommended Linotype Font Explorer X a while back. I have it installed on my various design machines and it works pretty well. It's still in beta, and every time I've reported a bug to them they replied no it's not, so I gave up telling them stuff, but the price is right (for now at least): free. The program lets you enable and disable fonts or groups of them. It stores the original font files in its own little folder and then activates them as you tell it to. If you have a large number of fonts, you need to spend a fair amount of time arranging them in the application before it is of much use. But after that you can choose to enable all the blackletter fonts for your goth clothing designs and then disable those and activate all your dingbat fonts for icon work. The location on the web: http://www.linotype.com/fontexplorerX It looks like they have a Mac version now too. Michael Micheletti On Nov 9, 2007 7:21 AM, Bryan Minihan [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Can anyone recommend a good Font organizer for Windows? Free would be nice but I'd pay for something really useful. *Come to IxDA Interaction08 | Savannah* February 8-10, 2008 in Savannah, GA, USA Register today: http://interaction08.ixda.org/ Welcome to the Interaction Design Association (IxDA)! To post to this list ... [EMAIL PROTECTED] Unsubscribe http://www.ixda.org/unsubscribe List Guidelines http://www.ixda.org/guidelines List Help .. http://www.ixda.org/help
[IxDA Discuss] JOB: User Experience Designer - 185579 - Microsoft, Redmond, WA
Company:Microsoft Corporation URL:http://www.microsoft.com http://www.microsoft.com/careers http://www.microsoft.com/design Location: Redmond, WA Position: User Experience Designer - 185579 Duration: Full Time The Microsoft Windows User Experience team is seeking exceptional interaction designers to make the personal computer more powerful, engaging, and rewarding to use. This is an opportunity to reinvent how people interact with computers, to turn new technology into positive user experiences, and to deliver a product that reaches millions of customers. If you are inspired by these plans, then this is the team for you. As an Interaction focused User Experience Designer, you will work alongside some of the world's most talented product designers, usability specialists, and software developers to build the next generation of the Windows operating system. You will help set the vision for the future Windows user experience, serving as a user advocate to ensure the highest level of usability, desirability and customer satisfaction. You will research, design, and prototype product experiences that meet demanding quality standards, and you will drive your work through the software development process. You will collaborate with teams across the company to ensure we maintain industry leadership, delivering innovative, exciting and emotionally engaging products. Candidates should have outstanding skills in designing interaction and visuals for software or the web. We require a proven ability to articulate ideas through high fidelity prototypes. You should be an excellent communicator and presenter, and show experience applying user research throughout the design process. Qualifications include a 4-year degree in industrial design, interaction design, or related field. Industry experience in developing software products for large markets is preferred. Expert knowledge of major multimedia, design, and operating system software (Photoshop, Flash or Director, Windows, Office) is expected. If interested please submit resumes (link to portfolio or work samples attached is required) to [EMAIL PROTECTED] Due to the high volume of resumes received only qualified candidates will be contacted. For additional information about design at Microsoft please visit http://www.microsoft.com/design. D'Andrea Turner Prospecting Recruiter with Volt at Microsoft 425-421-9559 (O) 206-948-3494 (C) [EMAIL PROTECTED] [cid:image001.gif@01C822C5.F2A85940]http://www.viewmyworld.com/ inline: image001.gif *Come to IxDA Interaction08 | Savannah* February 8-10, 2008 in Savannah, GA, USA Register today: http://interaction08.ixda.org/ Welcome to the Interaction Design Association (IxDA)! To post to this list ... [EMAIL PROTECTED] Unsubscribe http://www.ixda.org/unsubscribe List Guidelines http://www.ixda.org/guidelines List Help .. http://www.ixda.org/help
[IxDA Discuss] JOB: User Experience Designer - 185275 - Microsoft, Redmond, WA
Company:Microsoft Corporation URL:http://www.microsoft.com http://www.microsoft.com/careers http://www.microsoft.com/design Location: Redmond, WA Position: User Experience Designer - 185275 Duration: Full Time Microsoft is looking for a design leader. Someone who thinks strategically about brands and can invent, drive, and inspire great visual and interaction design to influence the course of the world's most used software product - Windows, and its new suite of integrated online services, Windows Live. You'll be working with the world's best developers, visual and interaction designers, UX researchers, and brand managers, all dedicated to revolutionizing software design. You need to be somebody that loves software, thinks deeply about brands, is hands-on with technology, focuses on the customer, and absolutely exudes a passion for great design. You and your team will responsible for infusing and influencing the world's most recognized brand with great visual and interaction design. This is not any design lead position. This is the big time. Join us in the quest to make software that hundreds of millions of people world-wide love. Responsibilities include: * Drive strategic thinking around the Windows and Windows Live brands, and deliver the associated design components. * Effectively balance long-term strategic issues around branding, visual identity, and interaction design with day-to-day tactical issues. Fluidly move from oversight/art direction to hands-on, 'in the tools' design. * Deliver world-class interaction and visual design for Windows and Windows Live. * Collaborate across multiple disciplines: research, editorial, planning/marketing, legal, PM, and software engineering. Work closely with Legal on the IP protection of brand assets. * Understand and evangelize user centered design and product development processes. * Lead innovation workshops and group brainstorms to generate design concepts. Create compelling visual presentations and communicate to all levels of management. * Demonstrate excellent interpersonal, leadership, management, and coaching skills that can inspire, lead, challenge and motivate a creative team. Qualifications include: * Experience defining, designing, and evolving brands. Expertise with brand strategy, naming, brand DNA, visual ID, and value prop/messaging. * 6 years minimum work experience as a Lead Designer or 3+ years in an Art Director or Lead Interaction Designer role at a leading online company or agency. * Exceptional understanding of fundamental design principles (typography, layout, grid systems, hierarchy, color, composition, animation). Deep understanding for Microsoft design language and the ability to translate it into future design of Windows and Windows Live. Keen eye for detail and a passion for pixel-perfect fit and finish. * Strong proficiency in Adobe CS, HTML/DHTML/XML, CSS/CSSX, Dreamweaver, Ajax, Flash, and Silverlight. Familiarity with scripting languages a plus. Familiarity with different platforms and browsers, and their design constraints on the Web and in client software. Expertise in the application of tools and technologies across web, client and devices (mobile phone, tv). * Management experience directing a creative team and collaborating with writers, usability engineers, marketing/brand managers, program managers and software developers. * Ability to produce sketches, storyboards, scenarios, design prototypes, flows, interaction models, and visual design specs. * Applicants should be detail-oriented, self-motivated, highly organized, and able to work in a team environment under tight deadlines. Must be organized and able to switch rapidly between different projects in a fast-paced and exciting environment. Experience shipping products for large consumer audiences and comfortable working on many products simultaneously. * This position involves being acutely aware of what the industry and consumers need from the Windows platform and Live services, and requires a customer-focused thinker who can pro-actively communicate and lead in creative, business, and technical discussions. If interested please submit resumes (link to portfolio or work samples attached is required) to [EMAIL PROTECTED] Due to the high volume of resumes received only qualified candidates will be contacted. For additional information about design at Microsoft please visit http://www.microsoft.com/design. D'Andrea Turner Prospecting Recruiter with Volt at Microsoft 425-421-9559 (O) 206-948-3494 (C) [EMAIL PROTECTED] [cid:image001.gif@01C822C5.F2A85940]http://www.viewmyworld.com/ inline: image001.gif *Come to IxDA Interaction08 | Savannah* February 8-10, 2008 in Savannah, GA, USA Register today: http://interaction08.ixda.org/
[IxDA Discuss] Microsoft Sync article in the Seattle Times
There was an interesting article today in the automotive section of the Seattle Times about Microsoft Sync. It's a set of voice-activated controls installed in a 2008 Ford Focus. Mark Phelan, the Detroit Free Press reviewer, thought it worked pretty well (better than the car it was installed in). Don't know if maybe a few 'softies on this list might have worked on the project and would like to comment. For your Friday reading pleasure: http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/motoring/2004002472_fordfocus09.html Michael Micheletti *Come to IxDA Interaction08 | Savannah* February 8-10, 2008 in Savannah, GA, USA Register today: http://interaction08.ixda.org/ Welcome to the Interaction Design Association (IxDA)! To post to this list ... [EMAIL PROTECTED] Unsubscribe http://www.ixda.org/unsubscribe List Guidelines http://www.ixda.org/guidelines List Help .. http://www.ixda.org/help
Re: [IxDA Discuss] portal taxonomy
Hi, thanks a lot to both of you for your (long!) replies. Bryan: We found when we described processes rather than technologies or application-sets, people had a much easier time finding them (Manage a Project is where you go to request conference lines, document and meeting management space, rather than Collaboration, then Connectivity). On the other hand, we always had to provide a second perspective for those who look for specific apps or technologies. Does that mean that you also included items in multiple process/task menus, such as for example team room both in manage a project and attend a meeting? One other note about the Workplace category: I don't know how big the company is, or how refined your taxonomy will be, but only in a small-ish company would folks be able to meet all of their workplace needs under one category called Workplace. People use a tremendous number of resources in No in fact the organisation is somewhat big. Of course all other categories are also meant to me used in the context of the user's work, the workplace label should include more or less all tools for important, repeating core daily work. May I ask for your suggestion? (: Susan: Not sure whether you mean top-down, as in you're making the decisions and users will be adopting whatever you decide on? Actually I mean that we do not approach the project in a bottom-up way, using content inventory techniques, categorizing and meta data, but we try to create a hierarchical structure from the upper side. The former might suggest not so much input from users. In this organisation, in the past the users of the respective business area were responsible themselves for the menu structure inside the workplace menu. But in most cases, they just used their internal org chart to group their menu items, in some rare cases they use business processes for the menu folders, among with items such as tools, web sites or databases. So for our new approach, we are planning working closely with users for each role, but we try to first create a general structure for the 2-3 top menu layers, which is valid for the whole portal (every role) and it's apps/contents. User-centred approaches to this problem did not yet result in homogenous labels and structures. The difficulty of course is that our persona could be every single user in the whole company, in deeper layers it is much easier to find the right people for user research because there are concrete, business context specific problems to solve. Because this problem is common in every large organisation, I ask here to find some best practices models for the top level, and then apply user-centred techniques to the design of deeper levels and of single, specialized business roles. But if you just mean the latter, I'd suggest investing effort into initial discovery--i.e., finding out how users already organize these concepts, literally, physically, and how they frame them up in their minds (i.e., mental models)--as well as doing quick, frequent, iterative usability/validation testing to see how this schema works for the users. Up front you might want to do some card-sorting Of course I am also interested in suggestions for doing user research for a everyone user, in order to define the top level structure matching user mental models. On a semantic note...not sure this is a taxonomy. If it were the basis for multiple purposes (as per above---adopted and leveraged more broadly for multiple purposes, beyond internal portal navigation) it would be a taxonomy. It will be a hierarchical structure mainly for the portal, but also including the classic intranet and some custom apps, as well as templates for solution and role design going from the user's desktop to single content elements. So navigation schema seems appropriate to me, thanks! milan -- milan guenther * interaction design ||| | | || | || | || designing the information workplace +49 173 285 66 89 * www.guenther.cx *Come to IxDA Interaction08 | Savannah* February 8-10, 2008 in Savannah, GA, USA Register today: http://interaction08.ixda.org/ Welcome to the Interaction Design Association (IxDA)! To post to this list ... [EMAIL PROTECTED] Unsubscribe http://www.ixda.org/unsubscribe List Guidelines http://www.ixda.org/guidelines List Help .. http://www.ixda.org/help
Re: [IxDA Discuss] What font organizer do you use?
It has been ages since I used a font organizer. Aside from working with fonts clients supply ... I think we have evolved to not need one. If I remember right, it was because RAM and memory was expensive and software not very smart. Wonder why it just dropped my radar maybe because I now use Windows. :) Does Adobe still sell ATM? . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Posted from the new ixda.org http://gamma.ixda.org/discuss?post=22360 *Come to IxDA Interaction08 | Savannah* February 8-10, 2008 in Savannah, GA, USA Register today: http://interaction08.ixda.org/ Welcome to the Interaction Design Association (IxDA)! To post to this list ... [EMAIL PROTECTED] Unsubscribe http://www.ixda.org/unsubscribe List Guidelines http://www.ixda.org/guidelines List Help .. http://www.ixda.org/help
Re: [IxDA Discuss] What font organizer do you use?
I agree that the need for a Font organizer seems to have gone by the wayside over the years. I recently found myself more in the graphic-designer role in a small company, coming from a big one where we only used 2-3 basic fonts for everything. I guess now that I'm closer to the marketing edge, I find myself looking for a way to manage the 1500 or so I've acquired over a dozen years. I remember ATM, that goes way back =]. I should look around to see if I can find it. IIRC, they charged for it, which is why I tried the Corel product... My hesitation in just installing all my fonts is that I'm also running development environments and lots of other goodies for the web-dev and prototyping side of my brain, so I'm hesitant to slow my machine down with too many unused fonts (even 2GB RAM fills up quickly). Maybe XP doesn't really care how many fonts are installed, but I recall it being a big problem with Win98 W2K. Thanks =] Bryan -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Parth Upadhye Sent: Friday, November 09, 2007 1:59 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [IxDA Discuss] What font organizer do you use? It has been ages since I used a font organizer. Aside from working with fonts clients supply ... I think we have evolved to not need one. If I remember right, it was because RAM and memory was expensive and software not very smart. Wonder why it just dropped my radar maybe because I now use Windows. :) Does Adobe still sell ATM? . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Posted from the new ixda.org http://gamma.ixda.org/discuss?post=22360 *Come to IxDA Interaction08 | Savannah* February 8-10, 2008 in Savannah, GA, USA Register today: http://interaction08.ixda.org/ Welcome to the Interaction Design Association (IxDA)! To post to this list ... [EMAIL PROTECTED] Unsubscribe http://www.ixda.org/unsubscribe List Guidelines http://www.ixda.org/guidelines List Help .. http://www.ixda.org/help *Come to IxDA Interaction08 | Savannah* February 8-10, 2008 in Savannah, GA, USA Register today: http://interaction08.ixda.org/ Welcome to the Interaction Design Association (IxDA)! To post to this list ... [EMAIL PROTECTED] Unsubscribe http://www.ixda.org/unsubscribe List Guidelines http://www.ixda.org/guidelines List Help .. http://www.ixda.org/help
Re: [IxDA Discuss] What font organizer do you use?
I find it useful to manage fonts when I'm working in Photoshop or InDesign especially. The font lists just get too long and unwieldy otherwise. A fast machine doesn't help much when you need an exceptionally steady hand to pick exactly one of a couple hundred fonts. Much easier to just chop the list down, work from a smaller set, and then reset the font list for the next job. Michael Micheletti On Nov 9, 2007 2:37 PM, Bryan Minihan [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I agree that the need for a Font organizer seems to have gone by the wayside over the years. I recently found myself more in the graphic-designer role in a small company, coming from a big one where we only used 2-3 basic fonts for everything. I guess now that I'm closer to the marketing edge, I find myself looking for a way to manage the 1500 or so I've acquired over a dozen years. *Come to IxDA Interaction08 | Savannah* February 8-10, 2008 in Savannah, GA, USA Register today: http://interaction08.ixda.org/ Welcome to the Interaction Design Association (IxDA)! To post to this list ... [EMAIL PROTECTED] Unsubscribe http://www.ixda.org/unsubscribe List Guidelines http://www.ixda.org/guidelines List Help .. http://www.ixda.org/help
Re: [IxDA Discuss] What font organizer do you use?
Check out fontexplorer by linotype. It's free and really good. I'm pretty sure they have a version for windows (though I can't say how it stacks up). Michael Lisboa Creative Director Kizmo 414 Mason Street, Suite 702 San Francisco, CA 94102 Office: 415-398-1220 Mobile: 415-513-6929 www.kizmodesign.com This message contains information that is or may be confidential and privileged. Unless you are the addressee (or authorized to receive for the addressee), you may not use, copy or disclose to anyone the information contained in or attached to the message. If you have received the message in error, please advise the sender by replying [EMAIL PROTECTED] delete the message and any attachments. Thank you. -Original Message- From: Parth Upadhye [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: November 09, 2007 1:59 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [IxDA Discuss] What font organizer do you use? It has been ages since I used a font organizer. Aside from working with fonts clients supply ... I think we have evolved to not need one. If I remember right, it was because RAM and memory was expensive and software not very smart. Wonder why it just dropped my radar maybe because I now use Windows. :) Does Adobe still sell ATM? . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Posted from the new ixda.org http://gamma.ixda.org/discuss?post=22360 *Come to IxDA Interaction08 | Savannah* February 8-10, 2008 in Savannah, GA, USA Register today: http://interaction08.ixda.org/ Welcome to the Interaction Design Association (IxDA)! To post to this list ... [EMAIL PROTECTED] Unsubscribe http://www.ixda.org/unsubscribe List Guidelines http://www.ixda.org/guidelines List Help .. http://www.ixda.org/help *Come to IxDA Interaction08 | Savannah* February 8-10, 2008 in Savannah, GA, USA Register today: http://interaction08.ixda.org/ Welcome to the Interaction Design Association (IxDA)! To post to this list ... [EMAIL PROTECTED] Unsubscribe http://www.ixda.org/unsubscribe List Guidelines http://www.ixda.org/guidelines List Help .. http://www.ixda.org/help
Re: [IxDA Discuss] What font organizer do you use?
I blogged about a little tool called FontCard a couple weeks back that might interest you, although it's Mac-only. http://designaday.tumblr.com/post/15073080 Jack Jack L. Moffett Interaction Designer inmedius 412.459.0310 x219 http://www.inmedius.com The World is not set up to facilitate the best any more than it is set up to facilitate the worst. It doesn't depend on brilliance or innovation because if it did, the system would be unpredictable. It requires averages and predictables. So, good deeds and brilliant ideas go against the grain of the social contract almost by definition. They will be challenged and will require enormous effort to succeed. Most fail. - Michael McDonough *Come to IxDA Interaction08 | Savannah* February 8-10, 2008 in Savannah, GA, USA Register today: http://interaction08.ixda.org/ Welcome to the Interaction Design Association (IxDA)! To post to this list ... [EMAIL PROTECTED] Unsubscribe http://www.ixda.org/unsubscribe List Guidelines http://www.ixda.org/guidelines List Help .. http://www.ixda.org/help
Re: [IxDA Discuss] portal taxonomy
On Fri, 2007-11-09 at 17:44 -0500, Bryan Minihan wrote: Apologies for the long post, Milan =]...I get started and can't stop... In fact I intended it as a compliment - I do appreciate that, it's great that you take the time for such a detailed discussion of the topic! milan -- milan guenther * interaction design ||| | | || | || | || designing the information workplace +49 173 285 66 89 * www.guenther.cx *Come to IxDA Interaction08 | Savannah* February 8-10, 2008 in Savannah, GA, USA Register today: http://interaction08.ixda.org/ Welcome to the Interaction Design Association (IxDA)! To post to this list ... [EMAIL PROTECTED] Unsubscribe http://www.ixda.org/unsubscribe List Guidelines http://www.ixda.org/guidelines List Help .. http://www.ixda.org/help
Re: [IxDA Discuss] What tools do you use for prototyping?
Andrei, The final product is a prototype for the next iteration. The best possible prototype, indeed. When making the final product (Hi-Fi prototype) is not time consuming (time is very relative here), than high fidelity prototyping is preferable. The feedback will be much richer. The low fidelity prototypes are needed to save time between iterations of design concept. To test simple form factors or interaction paths. These tests will produce approximate and inferior results. These results should be useful and should save time nevertheless. Should designers to be able to write production code to make Hi-Fi prototypes? No, they do not have time to keep up with the latest developments in programming. -- Oleh, attempting to channel Hemingway. PS Kudos for the Nabokov reference, the style was more like Joyce though - less florid. On Nov 8, 2007 12:18 PM, Andrei Herasimchuk [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Nov 8, 2007, at 10:39 AM, Katie Albers wrote: To me this argument is like saying that if you test in a room with a prism in the window and users spend their time captivated by the pretty shiny thing, that is user feedback. I think that's a bit of a stretch. The thing I'm talking about are distractions related to the product itself, not general world environment. If you were testing the room, the analogy would be correct, but outside distractions are not nearly the same things as distractions inherent in the design of the product itself. My general preference is to separate the elements that need to be tested and test them separately insofar as is possible and then roll them progressively into a more nearly complete entity which gets tested. Often, when the elements bang up against each other they alter previous results, but that enriches previous findings. It doesn't render them irrelevant. Agreed. We tend to largely work like this as well. But the feedback when the prototype reaches critical mass is often far more intense, rich and detailed than at earlier stages. And far more useful in making the kind of adjustments needed in my experience. The challenge for me is how to get to that stage as quickly as possible while still being able to iterate. And since the question of the car prototype keeps coming up, I would just ask that we keep in mind that prototyping a car starts with drawings - external, internal, elevations andand so on; then the external becomes a clay model that is tested for drag, efficiency, etc and refined, while the question of the interior becomes a separate set of tasks that -- again -- starts from drawings and elevations and becomes more and more tightly specified and measured and examined by potential drivers and is tested against human ergonomic requirements -- often by doing a mock up of a seat, steering wheel and paper prototypes of gauges and controls and so on...until gradually you have an actual functioning prototype car. Beyond being a excellent Nabokov impersonation, I agree. The problem I have is that people too often in this field attempt to avoid going for this approach for a variety of factors that seem unnecessary. I'm erring on the side of being dogmatic towards a process that builds a high fidelity prototype -- where paper is design tool, not a prototyping tool -- because in my experience, too often in the high technology field, people tend to avoid them like the plague because they require coding. -- Andrei Herasimchuk Principal, Involution Studios innovating the digital world e. [EMAIL PROTECTED] c. +1 408 306 6422 *Come to IxDA Interaction08 | Savannah* February 8-10, 2008 in Savannah, GA, USA Register today: http://interaction08.ixda.org/ Welcome to the Interaction Design Association (IxDA)! To post to this list ... [EMAIL PROTECTED] Unsubscribe http://www.ixda.org/unsubscribe List Guidelines http://www.ixda.org/guidelines List Help .. http://www.ixda.org/help -- Oleh Kovalchuke Interaction Design is the Design of Time http://www.tangospring.com/IxDtopicWhatIsInteractionDesign.htm *Come to IxDA Interaction08 | Savannah* February 8-10, 2008 in Savannah, GA, USA Register today: http://interaction08.ixda.org/ Welcome to the Interaction Design Association (IxDA)! To post to this list ... [EMAIL PROTECTED] Unsubscribe http://www.ixda.org/unsubscribe List Guidelines http://www.ixda.org/guidelines List Help .. http://www.ixda.org/help
