I found a sunrise alarm clock at a yard sale a few years back. Basically,
it's a clock/lamp that slowly brightens in the minutes leading up to your
awake time. A bit after that, a typical alarm will softly ring and build in
intensity.
It's quite nice since you don't wake up in fight-or-flight
On Jun 20, 2008, at 9:09 PM, Christine Boese wrote:
The best thing grad school did for me was FORCE me to get into
theoretical areas that I had natural resistances to, and FORCE me to
justify and defend the theories that I wanted to hang on to like
sacred cows.
The thing that's been
On Jun 21, 2008, at 5:33 AM, Todd Zaki Warfel wrote:
School teaches you primarily theory, while field work teaches you
primarily practical experience. The best designers will be the ones
that are equipped with both.
Good schools teach both. I not only learned theory in grad school, but
I found the following interesting as it pertains to curriculum development
for an IxD program:
Jon Kolko's article Mixing Disciplines in Anticipating of Convergence: A
Curriculum for Teaching Interaction Design to Industrial Designers
*http://tinyurl.com/5zc3sa
And from his site on courses he
For some reason - this discussion brought me back to thinking about
Strategic Design and Designing thinking - in this way: just like design
happens whether a designer is in the room or not (thanks Todd); curriculum
development is going to happen with or without us (the community of IxDA) -
so we
The most interesting thing I learned in grad school is that day-to-day
practice is saturated with theory, which guides the actions. It is often
subconscious or unenunciated theory, but all action is guided by SOME sort
of internalized theory, even if it is just a guy over a beer saying I've
got a
Pencil/pen and paper or whiteboard, then onto tool of choice
(Fireworks/Smartdraw/Visio, plus SnagIt) for more formal
wireframes.
I'm still trying to determine which of the 3 I like best for
wireframing. Just started trying out Fireworks CS3 but have used
Smartdraw forever and it seems to be my
I second that emotion.
On Jun 20, 2008, at 12:05 PM, Robert Hoekman Jr wrote:
I find sketching out interactions on a big pad of paper to be far
superior
to working from a whiteboard
The simple act of standing up to use a giant whiteboard is
perspective-altering. Great for getting out
Guillermo,
I'm still a student, so take anything I say with a grain of salt.
That said, I might think about keeping the sidebar and using it as a
means to filter searches further. Depending on the weight your
sidebar has in the overall design, removing it altogether may be a
jarring change for
I'm wondering how many, if any of you use pencil/pen and paper to work out
wireframes?
I find sketching out interactions on a big pad of paper to be far superior
to working from a whiteboard or a piece of software. It's quick, portable,
and stores the work progression -- and it helps foster
Great opportunity to work at a high profile online company as a Senior User
Interface Designer.
Jazel is looking for an Interactive/UI Designer that has experience with
complex consumer sites. We are looking for a candidate that has experience
bringing new ideas to life by making them accessible
Here's Don Norman's take on the topic:
http://www.jnd.org/dn.mss/to_school_or_not_to.html
Mike
On Fri, Jun 20, 2008 at 2:54 PM, Jonathan Abbett [EMAIL PROTECTED]
wrote:
I have a CS degree, a family, and roughly the same amount of experience,
mostly in UI implementation (with ad hoc design)
Adam,
I've seen similar discussions in the software engineering field, where I
come from. And you see similar answers. Those who have invested in
schooling tend to want to defend it as important, which makes perfect
sense--nobody wants to think they wasted their time and money, and higher
And PhD's have routinely been bottom of the wrung candidates,
(seriously) . We consider a PhD to be a negative, with candidates
having consistent issues such as - premadonna, no business sense, no
real world sense, poor design skills, poor coding skills, (in a make
it happen type of world) .
Why
I partially agree with Rony. Is the target audience primarily from one
country? I am American, and I am accustomed to our 10-digit string,
only using '1' when calling from a land-line. I am willing to bet
that most Americans aren't even aware that the '1' is our
international calling index.
I personally think at some point this point will be moot--in that the degree
that does not exist will be defined by an entirely new paradigm. The curriculum
will encompass the combination of the many facets that have enriched this new
breed: psychology, graphic design, industrial design,
Anti-intellectualism had a good run through the 8 years of the Bush
administration, but I think it may have finally played itself out. It is
just too worthwhile to have the director of FEMA actually have some
EXPERTISE in administering emergency services, rather than the cronyism that
seemed to
Hi,
A few quick and loose thoughts on what is probably the most important topic
facing our industry - the education of new talent to actually do the huge
amounts of work that are coming across our respective desks:
- Two things that aren't generally taught in either undergraduate or
graduate
On Jun 20, 2008, at 8:13 AM, Guillermo Ermel wrote:
I'm assisting the design team to create an e-commerce website. The
website has a few hundred items, with the typical product-category
left navigation bar in the home page and listings page, with 10 to
20 categories and probably
I am using Windows XP.
On Fri, Jun 13, 2008 at 10:54 AM, Todd Moy [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Oliver -
what platform are you on? Dia is an alternative, but not one I'm terribly
crazy about. http://www.gnome.org/projects/dia/ and runs on unix, osx, and
windows.There's also Denim, which is an
What a GREAT conversation.
Angel, I'm sorry if for some reason you are feeling dissed in any
way. I think I've said it before. I have 15 years of experience with
no degree. Sit me in a room with anyone with a degree as a designer I
can hold my own pretty well, I think. However, I also know when
On Sat, Jun 21, 2008 at 3:25 PM, dave malouf [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I am feeling from some who are arguing against degree need, that they
are also arguing against degrees for anyone.
Not I. Higher degrees of education have their purpose, to be sure.
I would argue that purely
organic
I like that, the journey-person model. My dad became an electrician 40+
years ago, first as IBEW apprentice, then journeyman, then foreman. So long
as we get the benefits that come with it (the union or guild, for instance).
Can we join the Freemasons too? I want to have a lodge and wear funny
On Jun 20, 2008, at 2:47 PM, Andrew Boyd wrote:
Now... if you want to be immersed in a challenging environment where
your every assumption has to be justified to your clients, your
boss, other business areas that have different agendas, your boss's
boss, and their boss's boss (the head of
The passion in this thread is outstanding, I had no idea it would get
this long when I posed the question.
Joining back in now, I have to say that I too appreciate the
journeyman model, but then its very similar to how I arrived at where
I am today so why wouldn't I :)
For me the part that
On Sat, Jun 21, 2008 at 6:06 PM, Christine Boese [EMAIL PROTECTED]
wrote:
I like that, the journey-person model. My dad became an electrician 40+
years ago, first as IBEW apprentice, then journeyman, then foreman. So long
as we get the benefits that come with it (the union or guild, for
as my younger sister would say:
unions? ei!
On Sat, Jun 21, 2008 at 5:10 PM, J. Ambrose Little [EMAIL PROTECTED]
wrote:
On Sat, Jun 21, 2008 at 6:06 PM, Christine Boese
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
wrote:
I like that, the journey-person model. My dad became an electrician 40+
years ago, first
you are a true saint.
what a convenient opportunity to let everyone know about your chivalry.
On Sat, Jun 21, 2008 at 5:10 PM, Adam Connor [EMAIL PROTECTED]
wrote:
The passion in this thread is outstanding, I had no idea it would get
this long when I posed the question.
Joining back in now,
you are a true saint.
what a convenient opportunity to let everyone know about your
chivalry.
Angel - not sure at all what that was supposed to mean, but I'm
assuming it was a shot at me. Can't quite figure out what I did to
deserve such a shot, but I'm disappointed you found it necessary.
. .
Serena Composer isn't open source, but it is free.
http://www.serena.com/products/prototype-composer/home.html
Its been mentioned in previous threads and I've been meaning to try
it out myself, but haven't gotten around to it. If you give it a
shot, let me know how you like it.
. . . . . . .
Hi Ambrose,
while I think that the mentor model is necessary, it is not all that
is needed here.
Interaction design is NOT just craft. There is real research thought
leadership going on in this area. IxD is as much an intellectual
endeavor as it is one of craft and it is the marrying of the two
Nah, I'm just dizzy. I think it's the hearing loss that comes with dyslexia.
Chris
On Sat, Jun 21, 2008 at 8:10 PM, J. Ambrose Little [EMAIL PROTECTED]
wrote:
On Sat, Jun 21, 2008 at 6:06 PM, Christine Boese
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I like that, the journey-person model. My dad became an
I'm baffled at the existence of a monolithic entity known as IxD.
Scott
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(The key to joy is disobedience
There is no guilt and there is no shame) - COIL
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