Re: [IxDA Discuss] IxD Greats?

2009-02-18 Thread Angel Marquez
Ford, HenryHR Giger On Tue, Feb 17, 2009 at 11:35 PM, Andrei Herasimchuk aherasimc...@involutionstudios.com wrote: On Feb 17, 2009, at 5:09 PM, dave malouf wrote: But in general, your list is my list. If you're going to use software technology examples, considering we are still in

Re: [IxDA Discuss] IxD Greats?

2009-02-18 Thread Angel Marquez
That metatools guy that did kai's power goo. Those interfaces were amazing on mac os 7.5.3 3D has come along way since ray dream designer and specualr indiniD. I think 3DS max has the 'best' ux going on these days even though it is PC only. I agree, the clone wars were minimal when bryce and

Re: [IxDA Discuss] IxD Greats?

2009-02-18 Thread Steve Baty
Angel, After Andrei's post I thought of Kai's Power Tools as well. Kai Krause was the guy's name. Along with Phil Clemenger a little later on. Steve 2009/2/18 Angel Marquez angel.marq...@gmail.com That metatools guy that did kai's power goo. Those interfaces were amazing on mac os 7.5.3

Re: [IxDA Discuss] IxD Greats?

2009-02-18 Thread Steve Baty
Correction: Phil Clevenger was the other guy's name. 2009/2/18 Steve Baty steveb...@gmail.com Angel, After Andrei's post I thought of Kai's Power Tools as well. Kai Krause was the guy's name. Along with Phil Clemenger a little later on. Steve 2009/2/18 Angel Marquez

Re: [IxDA Discuss] IxD Greats?

2009-02-18 Thread Angel Marquez
Hey Steve, Yea, I just looked him up. I have pleasant memories of the people the time and how that was all introduced to me. I started my professional career path' on mac 7.5.3, illustrator 7 photoshop 4. It has been interesting to see how things have synthesized over the years. On Wed, Feb 18,

Re: [IxDA Discuss] IxD Greats?

2009-02-18 Thread Angel Marquez
Kai Krause http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kai_Krause Welcome to the Interaction Design Association (IxDA)! To post to this list ... disc...@ixda.org Unsubscribe http://www.ixda.org/unsubscribe List Guidelines

Re: [IxDA Discuss] Designer inbreeding?

2009-02-18 Thread Eirik Midttun
Thanks for your reply Dave! I'm not really sure what to assume about my background. I have looked at some programs and the relevance of my degree seems to span from I'm already there and I don't know anything, and in between I haven't found much. For me the obvious choice is to seek out the

Re: [IxDA Discuss] CAPTCHAs and conversion rates

2009-02-18 Thread Harry
Thanks everyone for their input. Really helpful! I'm a little unconvinced but the statement In general, if you're being attached by spam, using a captcha is a good idea It's not that clear cut - captchas have costs and benefits. It makes sense to at least start by trying the approaches that

Re: [IxDA Discuss] CAPTCHAs and conversion rates

2009-02-18 Thread Harry
Thanks everyone for their input. Really helpful! I'm a little unconvinced but the statement In general, if you're being attached by spam, using a captcha is a good idea captchas have costs and benefits. It's not that clear cut. It makes sense to at least start by trying the approaches that

Re: [IxDA Discuss] Terms Every IxD Should Know

2009-02-18 Thread Jarod Tang
It would be nicer to add a list of vocabulary as non-ux but related items? And better, put them into different boxes, :) Regards, Jarod On Mon, Feb 16, 2009 at 9:38 AM, Dan Saffer d...@odannyboy.com wrote: At I09, there were a lot of calls for a vocabulary we can all understand, no matter

Re: [IxDA Discuss] IxD Greats?

2009-02-18 Thread Ferran Alvarez
Do we already need a 'hall of fame'? Do we really need a 'hall of fame'? . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Posted from the new ixda.org http://www.ixda.org/discuss?post=38833 Welcome to the

Re: [IxDA Discuss] CAPTCHAs and conversion rates

2009-02-18 Thread Adrian Howard
On 17 Feb 2009, at 09:01, Mark B. wrote: A response from Luis von Ahn of reCAPTCHA: Some of our big customers have done A/B tests that show that using reCAPTCHA does not change conversion rates for them. In general, if [snip] Of course folk visiting big customers may be willing to expend

Re: [IxDA Discuss] Preparing a presentation on Fireworks

2009-02-18 Thread Amanda Jahn
Julie - Might be worth checking the find and replace tool, you can actually find a specific typeface and size and replace it with a different typeface, style and size. It's still not perfect but it does the job! . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Posted from

Re: [IxDA Discuss] Designer inbreeding?

2009-02-18 Thread Boon Chew
Erik, One option is to do a Masters in Human-Computer Interaction, which has slightly more emphasis in psychology, with a sprinkling of design, anthropology, systems thinking, etc. I'm currently enrolled as a Masters student at University College London for their Human-Computer Interaction with

[IxDA Discuss] A business case for switching Mac

2009-02-18 Thread Nik Lazell
Hi all, Currently our UX team are PC-based and use Visio. I would like to move back to Mac and start using Omnigraffle again. I have been asked to write a business case for switching. Does anyone have an suggestions or experience of writing such a case? Thanks, Nik

Re: [IxDA Discuss] Designer inbreeding?

2009-02-18 Thread Eirik Midttun
If you all can stand a bit of sw dev talk, here is an excerpt from Embedded Muse, a newsletter for embedded programming. The topic CS education and embedded software: It's certainly true that universities could do more to teach good software design and process (or even good coding practices for

Re: [IxDA Discuss] A business case for switching Mac

2009-02-18 Thread Chauncey Wilson
As an aside, it would be interesting to have Mac devotees list the negative aspects of the Mac or a person who uses both the PC and Mac highlight the differences. I use both a Mac and PC, everyday, and find the single menu on the Mac antiquated (it fits the philosopy of the original Mac and has

Re: [IxDA Discuss] A business case for switching Mac

2009-02-18 Thread Patrick Neeman
Somewhere, somehow, you have to highlight the efficiencies of Omnigraffle over Visio, and show that it costs the company money. If you're working for a consultancy, that's going to make it even harder because usually they bill that back to the client. I recently worked for a company that was

Re: [IxDA Discuss] A business case for switching Mac

2009-02-18 Thread Dan Brown
Nik, A couple thoughts: How much do you have to share files with other members of your team? Do your developers read the Visio files or can they work from PDFs? If collaboration is important, the latest version of Graffle does open Visio files nicely. For the documentation consulting side of

[IxDA Discuss] html forms and autosaving

2009-02-18 Thread vlad
Good evening everyone! I've been asked to write a letter of recommendation on topapply.com Usually, they have very lenghty forms, as you might imagine. Mine had 5-6 textboxes, as well as other elements. I hit Save for Later and the form resets.Only the first textbox remained filled. I hit Back,

Re: [IxDA Discuss] IxD Greats?

2009-02-18 Thread Nina Eleanor Alter
I don't think anybody knows who any of the below mentioned men are, East of the Sacramento River. Physical architecture has been around and celebrated as a celebrity- worship-worthy vocation, for thousands of years. *Everybody* in a given region also sees buildings, whereas not everybody

Re: [IxDA Discuss] Long / Large forms

2009-02-18 Thread Alicia Wood
I am using emailmeform.com to create my forms and so far I am satisfied with it. They are mostly for online forms ( forms will send emails when filled up and submitted ) but it can also be used for offline forms . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Posted from the

Re: [IxDA Discuss] Terms Every IxD Should Know

2009-02-18 Thread Bo Lora
I can't resist. Hub and Spoke hasn't been mentioned... That will get a whole room going in circles. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Posted from the new ixda.org http://www.ixda.org/discuss?post=38736

Re: [IxDA Discuss] Preparing a presentation on Fireworks

2009-02-18 Thread Christopher Rivard
I've been testing a few different prototyping tools including Fireworks CS4. There are a couple of online tutorials at Adobe - the one I remember was with David Hogue from Fluid (dude, where's my hop up!?). It seems like the real power comes with the ability to simulate rich interactions.

Re: [IxDA Discuss] IxD Greats?

2009-02-18 Thread John M. Morse
If you take the view that the simplest form of interaction is reading the written word..(tenuous?) then I'd submit Nevil Brody Personal hero of mine;) John Morse Information Architect Professional Services Group UPA,Prince 2, ISEB IT Architect, AIIM, MBCS Eduserv innovative technology

Re: [IxDA Discuss] A business case for switching Mac

2009-02-18 Thread Alex Horstmann
Hi Nik, I am a huge Mac fan and Mac laptops are a great machines to use - especially for guerrilla testing using Silverback, giving presentations using Keynote and general day to day work. However, I feel that Visio is a far more powerful tool for producing UX deliverables. I love Omnigraffle,

Re: [IxDA Discuss] [Event] IxDA Dublin, Ireland: February Meeting %u2013 Mon 16th, 6:30 - 8:30pm

2009-02-18 Thread Cristina Suarez Corzo
Hi Seamus, I was in the Bill Caemmerer talk last Monday. I was just wondering, are the slideshows somewhere online? Other people from my company couldn't go and they asked me. Thanks, Cristina . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Posted from the new ixda.org

Re: [IxDA Discuss] A business case for switching Mac

2009-02-18 Thread Nik Lazell
Dan, Thanks for your reply. The creative team all use macs hooked up to the network so incorporating it into our infrastructure isn't a problem. Only the UX team will use the Visio/Omnigraffle files, so whilst compatibility is important it's only really us opening previous revisions of

Re: [IxDA Discuss] IxD Greats?

2009-02-18 Thread Eirik Midttun
You may not think of Linus Torvalds as an interaction designer, but he is sort of a rock star in the software and open source community. And if you think of Linux as a product for scientists, engineers, sys admins, and programmers, he really has made it user friendly by sticking to interfaces

Re: [IxDA Discuss] IxD Greats?

2009-02-18 Thread Will Evans
I would say it's most important to not think about people based on whether their profession was IxD or not - given that the term and title have only been around for less than a decade, yet people have been 'doing' just that for a bit longer. Leonardo Di Vinci was certainly not an

Re: [IxDA Discuss] IxD Greats?

2009-02-18 Thread marianne
I love these exercises. They are the IxD equivalent of fantasy dinner parties. To the excellent lists below, I would add: Peter Checkland, who developed and promoted Soft System Methodology Bruce Mau, for his Massive Change project John Ive, because his products delight and mesmerize me even

Re: [IxDA Discuss] IxD blog aggregator site - are you interested in contributing?

2009-02-18 Thread Matthew Nish-Lapidus
I actually like that idea.. rather than an aggregator, which doesn't help you filter, we could have a Design is Kinky or K10K type site for UX/IxD. A curated aggregator as it were... or is there already a site like this that i'm forgetting? On Tue, Feb 17, 2009 at 6:36 PM, J. Ambrose Little

Re: [IxDA Discuss] Designer inbreeding?

2009-02-18 Thread Adrian Howard
On 18 Feb 2009, at 00:50, Eirik Midttun wrote: [snip] Catch-up classes isn't a problem for me, but I don't see that presented as an option. [snip] Could well be worth asking even if there's nothing obvious presented. In the dim and distant past when I was in academia folk were more than

Re: [IxDA Discuss] IxD blog aggregator site - are you interested in contributing?

2009-02-18 Thread Mary Specht
Harry, I'll throw in my yea vote. I haven't seen anything like this. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Posted from the new ixda.org http://www.ixda.org/discuss?post=38802 Welcome to the

Re: [IxDA Discuss] A business case for switching Mac

2009-02-18 Thread Andrei Herasimchuk
On Feb 18, 2009, at 2:25 AM, Nik Lazell wrote: Currently our UX team are PC-based and use Visio. I would like to move back to Mac and start using Omnigraffle again. There is no reason to switch to a Mac if your only goal is to use Omnigraffle. That's like asking your spouse that you'

Re: [IxDA Discuss] IxD blog aggregator site - are you interested in contributing?

2009-02-18 Thread Andy Edmonds
I'd throw in a YES too and strongly dispute the waste of time proposition. Planet sites serve a variety of purposes for different audiences. Two of my favorites are:http://planet.socialmediaresearch.org/ http://planet.mozilla.org I would encourage folks submitting RSS to use a targeted category

Re: [IxDA Discuss] A business case for switching Mac

2009-02-18 Thread Nik Lazell
Hi Jennifer, Thanks very much that kind of structure is fantastically helpful! -Nik From: jennifer.r.vign...@jpmorgan.com [mailto:jennifer.r.vign...@jpmorgan.com] Sent: 18 February 2009 15:08 To: Nik Lazell Subject: Re: [IxDA Discuss] A business case for switching Mac Hi Nik:

Re: [IxDA Discuss] IxD Greats?

2009-02-18 Thread Dan Saffer
On Feb 18, 2009, at 1:39 AM, Ferran Alvarez wrote: Do we already need a 'hall of fame'? Do we really need a 'hall of fame'? Yes and yes. We should recognize and understand the history of our field and celebrate those who created the interaction design paradigms like cut and paste that

Re: [IxDA Discuss] A business case for switching Mac

2009-02-18 Thread charles Sue-Wah-Sing
First of all I have no love for Microsoft. I once relied heavily on Visio but I find Graffle satisfies 95% of what I need to do. I also have an understanding that MS is the necessary bitter pill that comes with this business. So putting that aside... When we started up our business a couple of

Re: [IxDA Discuss] IxD Greats?

2009-02-18 Thread Dan Saffer
On Feb 17, 2009, at 11:35 PM, Andrei Herasimchuk wrote: If you're going to use software technology examples, considering we are still in early stages of that tech, we should acknowledge that most of the great interaction designers up until now haven't been designers at all. They've been

Re: [IxDA Discuss] Using qualifying questions to create a semi-walled garden?

2009-02-18 Thread Anderson, Douglas W.
Hi Anthony, Does Marketing think that a potential customer in Zip Code X doesn't know anyone in Zip Code Y? Sounds to me as though they are dead-set on preventing prospects from recommending products to one another. Of course they aren't, but that is one potentially significant effect of the

Re: [IxDA Discuss] IxD Greats?

2009-02-18 Thread dave malouf
This is an interesting exercise. I think that moving forward we should actually look at those people who have either moved their conscious understanding of what they do to interaction design, or who currently understand what they do as interaction design. Why do I say this. I might have invented

[IxDA Discuss] Should IxDA support a US National Design Policy?

2009-02-18 Thread Josh Seiden
Folk, Recently, a group of leaders from various US design organizations came together to discuss the question of a US National design policy. This summit meeting resulted in 10 design policy recommendations, which can be found here: http://www.designpolicy.org/usdp/policy-proposals.html (The

Re: [IxDA Discuss] IxD Greats?

2009-02-18 Thread Nina Eleanor Alter
BTW- I haven't seen Joy Mountford or any other women mentioned... and I know there were a couple of other ladies in the 'ol-skool PARC and Apple UI teams. We've got lots of men and Americans, women? Intl? n On Feb 18, 2009, at 7:22 AM, Dan Saffer wrote: On Feb 18, 2009, at 1:39 AM,

Re: [IxDA Discuss] IxD blog aggregator site - are you interested in contributing?

2009-02-18 Thread dave malouf
The reason I voted waste of time is not hap-hazzard. It is based in my experience. I got way too much redundancy between my own feed agregation and by having feed aggregators out there. I get this still here and there, but often now I use the redundancy as a sorta ad hoc digg effect. But with

[IxDA Discuss] UIs for Image Comparison

2009-02-18 Thread Rob Tannen
I'm looking for examples of applications that support the task of comparing images, specifically multiple perspectives of the same object. For example simultaneously comparing before and after photos, or looking at an object from different angles at the same time. I am particularly interested

Re: [IxDA Discuss] IxD Greats?

2009-02-18 Thread Dan Saffer
On Feb 18, 2009, at 8:05 AM, Nina Eleanor Alter wrote: BTW- I haven't seen Joy Mountford or any other women mentioned... and I know there were a couple of other ladies in the 'ol-skool PARC and Apple UI teams. We've got lots of men and Americans, women? Intl? When I made my list, this

[IxDA Discuss] Usability Testing Challenge

2009-02-18 Thread pendar
Hi all, I am a UI designer for a start up company and I'm conducting a usability test for our web product for the first time. I've read a few books including handbook of usability testing and a practical guide to usability testing, and I've read a ton of resources online. The product we are

Re: [IxDA Discuss] Designer inbreeding?

2009-02-18 Thread Jason de Runa
Two years ago, I was in a similar position as Eirik. I started my career in web development than transitioned to consumer electronic GUIs. I never had any formal design degree other than learning through books and applying it as I go. However, one thing I realized is that I didn't possess the

Re: [IxDA Discuss] Long / Large forms

2009-02-18 Thread J. Ambrose Little
Hi Chris, I think it's pretty common to use the Wizard pattern (HTMLhttp://quince.infragistics.com/Patterns/Wizard.html /Quince http://quince.infragistics.com/#/Main/ViewPattern$pattern=Wizard) for these. TurboTax is a long-standing example in that space from what I've seen, though doubtless

Re: [IxDA Discuss] Usability Testing Challenge

2009-02-18 Thread krushford
Hello, I work on similar usability labs and my task lists always start with some exploratory tasks. Even if they may do some of the widget related tasks during that period, I would still ask the specific tasks associated with the goals of the widget. Hope that helps and good luck! Kaden On Wed,

Re: [IxDA Discuss] UIs for Image Comparison

2009-02-18 Thread Maxim Soloviev
Rob, You might want to take a look at Adobe Lightroom 2.0, it has functionality similar to what you describe. On Wed, 18 Feb 2009 08:20:15, Rob Tannen rtan...@bresslergroup.com wrote: I'm looking for examples of applications that support the task of comparing images, specifically multiple

Re: [IxDA Discuss] IxD Greats?

2009-02-18 Thread mark schraad
or Muriel Cooper. On Wed, Feb 18, 2009 at 11:05 AM, Nina Eleanor Alter ninav...@bigwheel.netwrote: BTW- I haven't seen Joy Mountford or any other women mentioned... and I know there were a couple of other ladies in the 'ol-skool PARC and Apple UI teams. We've got lots of men and Americans,

Re: [IxDA Discuss] IxD Greats?

2009-02-18 Thread Christopher Fahey
On Feb 18, 2009, at 7:58 AM, dave malouf wrote: ... many of the engineers that were mentioned, I doubt they do and I would suggest that we do need to understand the difference between engineering interactive systems and designing interactions. I recently read Mitch Kapor's Software Design

Re: [IxDA Discuss] Should IxDA support a US National Design Policy?

2009-02-18 Thread Gabby Hon
I'm in the 'absolutely not' column. The proposal is too airy-fairy impractical with overtly political items ('carbon neutral', for example) thrown in. The United States is dealing with huge problems that would not have been helped by 'design thinking'. And the last thing we need is more levels

Re: [IxDA Discuss] Should IxDA support a US National Design Policy?

2009-02-18 Thread Phillip Hunter
Josh, I think this is a matter of not whether but how and to what extent. I had been thinking about something like this for Obama's Citizen's Briefing Book, but that is over and this is better anyway. I'm curious about which items on the list were disagreed with. The problem I see with the

Re: [IxDA Discuss] IxD Greats?

2009-02-18 Thread Dan Saffer
On Feb 18, 2009, at 8:53 AM, Christopher Fahey wrote: Twenty-five years ago, the ideas of interaction design and software engineering had not yet become distinct -- much in the same way that, say, in the year 1660 physics, chemistry, alchemy, religion, and philosophy had not yet separated

Re: [IxDA Discuss] Should IxDA support a US National Design Policy?

2009-02-18 Thread Maurice Carty
KEEP GOVERNMENTS OUT OF OUR CREATIVE SPACE!!! I'm a definate NO . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Posted from the new ixda.org http://www.ixda.org/discuss?post=38901 Welcome to the Interaction

Re: [IxDA Discuss] Should IxDA support a US National Design Policy?

2009-02-18 Thread mark schraad
This effort frustrates me. I really appreciate and applaud the effort that went into it. But items 2 and 3, while admirable, really have no business being on this list. They are not only political agendas but are highly charged and likely to sink the entire effort. These two items need, and are

Re: [IxDA Discuss] Usability Testing Challenge

2009-02-18 Thread pgreasby
I would urge you to not focus so much on the 'time' element unless they take excessive time to notice or do things. You're more interested in their interpretation and actions based on the 'think-aloud' method, and you need to focus on this more than time along IMO. Allowing users time to explore

Re: [IxDA Discuss] A business case for switching Mac

2009-02-18 Thread Alexandra O'Neal
Our creative team likewise live in a Mac world, in a company dominated by PCs. The IAs have VMware to switch back forth and use Visio. Comparing VMware to Parallels, one of our top IAs reports preferring Parallels because it feels more like you're running a Windows app in an OS X environment, so

Re: [IxDA Discuss] Should IxDA support a US National Design Policy?

2009-02-18 Thread Will Evans
I have said this before - on their blog site, in conversations with DaveM, other places. I think they are misguided bordering on clueless. It's one thing to bring together a cabal of policy wonks, academics, and bureaucrats to create a national design policy; it's another act of hubris to

Re: [IxDA Discuss] Usability Testing Challenge

2009-02-18 Thread Dana Chisnell
Hi Pendar, I've read a few books including handbook of usability testing and a practical guide to usability testing, and I've read a ton of resources online. I am so psyched that you've read Handbook of Usability Testing. I hope it was the second edition. I was one of the authors. (Oh

Re: [IxDA Discuss] Usability Testing Challenge

2009-02-18 Thread Ron Perkins
You've got the right approach. After the open ended part of the session, you'll know whether the widget stands out enough to be noticed on it's own merit. Then stop and ask whether the test participant ever does 'x' where x is the thing that the new widget does. 'x' is not the widget name,

Re: [IxDA Discuss] Preparing a presentation on Fireworks

2009-02-18 Thread Al Abut
And for those that couldn't make it live, here's the archived presentation: http://experts.na3.acrobat.com/p13197444/ It definitely is a bit rambling and almost entirely lacking in bullet points, like a proper Tufte acolyte :) but I'd definitely love any questions or feedback, since the audience

Re: [IxDA Discuss] Should IxDA support a US National Design Policy?

2009-02-18 Thread Angel Anderson
I particularly like 8, 9, 10 but I feel that overall, the list is a bit lofty. Even if we gave the rubber stamp they want, what would that mean in a practical sense for IxDA members? Probably not much. Also, how would we reconcile such ties to the US government when we're supposed to be an

Re: [IxDA Discuss] IxD Greats?

2009-02-18 Thread Andrei Herasimchuk
On Feb 18, 2009, at 8:53 AM, Christopher Fahey wrote: The difference you describe exists today, but it didn't exist ten or twenty years ago. We can hardly blame folks in the 1980's and earlier for blurring engineering and user experience design, as they were doing both. Thomas Edison

Re: [IxDA Discuss] IxD Greats?

2009-02-18 Thread dave malouf
I agree with you Chris and Dan, whole-heartily. I was trying to bring structure and purpose to the exercise, b/c it seemed to me that almost anyone from Dyson to Ford who thought about any aspect of human needs and motivations in their designs (of success) could be put in this category of IxD

Re: [IxDA Discuss] Designer inbreeding?

2009-02-18 Thread Ripul Kumar
On Tue, 17 Feb 2009 15:16:03, Eirik Midttun emidt...@gmail.com wrote: I'll just introduce my own background so you know where I stand: I have a Master's Degree in Networks and Telecommunications which mixes CS and EE. I started my career in embedded development, and I now do GUI design and

Re: [IxDA Discuss] IxD Greats?

2009-02-18 Thread Will Evans
Again - I think the importance here is 'intentionality' - Galileo could not possibly think of himself or his work as interaction design but if I ripped open my time machine and presented Englebart with IxD as I understand it, he would jump on board, until he jumped off it again because his

Re: [IxDA Discuss] Should IxDA support a US National Design Policy?

2009-02-18 Thread dave malouf
A few thoughts: 1) The total list is a draft and they are looking for feeback. Its a sketch being evaluated. I have problems w/ the after party invite as opposed to getting invited to the awards ceremony itself, but I can move on from that. 2) Government in any professional space. Whether a

Re: [IxDA Discuss] IxD Greats?

2009-02-18 Thread mike myles
Lot's of wonderful discussion! To the IxDA's mission points of Evangelism and Education, should we work to create a Hall of Fame site touting the accomplishments of innovators in computer interaction design? We can learn from our history, and demonstrating the progressive advancement of the

Re: [IxDA Discuss] IxD Greats?

2009-02-18 Thread Andrei Herasimchuk
On Feb 18, 2009, at 11:02 AM, mike myles wrote: To the IxDA's mission points of Evangelism and Education, should we work to create a Hall of Fame site touting the accomplishments of innovators in computer interaction design? Two things: 1. Hall of Fame is an awful way to think of it. The

Re: [IxDA Discuss] IxD Greats?

2009-02-18 Thread Joel Eden
Something I keep thinking about seeing all of these individual names is that as opposed to e.g., paintings that are easier to think of as being created by one person, so much of the work done by the names on these lists were really team/group efforts. Aren't we continuing to sell one of the the

Re: [IxDA Discuss] Should IxDA support a US National Design Policy?

2009-02-18 Thread Harlan Weber
I agree with Philip for the most part, though I share Mark's split between frustration and appreciation. Although it's understandably a weird feeling to have government involvement in what has purely been a creative space, I also feel there's a lot of opportunity to do good here - There are a ton

Re: [IxDA Discuss] Usability Testing Challenge

2009-02-18 Thread pendar
Thank you krush and pgreasby for the wonderful feedback. As a usability testing virgin I do appreciate the tips. Dana, it is a wonderful surprise to read your reply. Indeed I read the second edition and found the book very insightful, using some of its templates in conjunction with other to

[IxDA Discuss] ...and don't forget to laugh

2009-02-18 Thread Gary Zamchick
While in pursuit of the simple, the clear, the intuitive, the new, I'd like to give whimsy, surprise, and um, the warm embrace of stupidity, their due. No matter the domain, – virtual or tangible, high tech or high touch, interfaces or environments, – innovative thinking is accompanied by the

[IxDA Discuss] Managing test script branching

2009-02-18 Thread Scott Weidman
I'm looking for a good tool to manage a multi-branch moderator's guide for a usability study. There are a number of shared tasks but some ordering variation, and I'm trying to avoid updating the same task/probe multiple times. Any suggestions? -Scott

Re: [IxDA Discuss] Should IxDA support a US National Design Policy?

2009-02-18 Thread Andrei Herasimchuk
On Feb 18, 2009, at 10:50 AM, dave malouf wrote: 1) The total list is a draft and they are looking for feeback. Its a sketch being evaluated. I have problems w/ the after party invite as opposed to getting invited to the awards ceremony itself, but I can move on from that. After party

Re: [IxDA Discuss] IxD Greats?

2009-02-18 Thread Elizabeth Bacon
Hi folks, I'm enjoying this thread very much, albeit dismayed at the lack of cited women too. (Anybody see Maren Costa's work at Amazon at DUX 2005?) Anyways, I wanted to let folks know that the IxDA Board is playing around with the idea of creating an IxD timeline that would allow IxDA members

Re: [IxDA Discuss] IxD Greats?

2009-02-18 Thread mike myles
Liz, The timeline concept sounds like a great one. It strikes me that people (teams individuals), projects, products and publications all work in concert to show the evolution of interaction design. A timeline could be an effective way to tie all those items together and enhance understanding

Re: [IxDA Discuss] Should IxDA support a US National Design Policy?

2009-02-18 Thread j . scot
Like Angel, I like 8, 9, and 10, and though I understand frustrations others have expressed, I agree with Dave and Andrei about the overall initiative. I therefore support engagement, focused on asserting our collective informed opinion, and attempting to moderate misguided or overly ambitious

Re: [IxDA Discuss] Managing test script branching

2009-02-18 Thread Nicholas Iozzo
How many participants in the study? I just go the old fashion way. I print out 1 copy per participant and then reorganize the pages to control for presentation bias. I dislike taking notes on a laptop when I do a utest... feels too clinical. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

[IxDA Discuss] VMWare vs. Parallels (was Re: A business case for switching Mac

2009-02-18 Thread j. eric townsend
VMWare also doesn't slow down your OSX install the way Parallels does due to how the virtual machine is implemented. I regularly develop for linux and OSX, running linux under a VMWare partition with no hassles. When needed, I also run a xp pro instance under VMWare, and it's also quite

Re: [IxDA Discuss] Should IxDA support a US National Design Policy?

2009-02-18 Thread Jack Moffett
Certainly, it isn't perfect. However, I view it as a foot in the door. This is the only venture in this direction I know of that seems to have legs. I think it is worth getting behind, even if we don't agree with everything on it. Furthermore, let's pretend that it does have legs and

Re: [IxDA Discuss] Should IxDA support a US National Design Policy?

2009-02-18 Thread Lisa
The IxDA should absolutely participate in and support the US National Design Policy. The current draft proposal is attempting to shine a light on the importance of Design and design in every day life. Why would IxDA not want to help shape a national design policy? If the group decides against

Re: [IxDA Discuss] Should IxDA support a US National Design Policy?

2009-02-18 Thread Caroline Jarrett
From Jack Moffett snip Another point of reference is the work of Richard Buchanan and Tony Golsby-Smith with the Australian Tax Office, which started by looking at a redesign of the tax forms but ended up redesigning the entire tax system. Jack, could you give me some references to

Re: [IxDA Discuss] VMWare vs. Parallels (was Re: A business case for switching Mac

2009-02-18 Thread Angel Marquez
Parallels is great for running the Mac OS and a Windows OS simultaneously. Example, when chaining audio applications you can have a PC only app open and chained to a Mac app, with dual monitors this is great. Can this be done with VMWare? I was dual booting with Fedora on my mac but those fine

Re: [IxDA Discuss] IxD Greats?

2009-02-18 Thread Angel Marquez
That is like me saying their should be more mexican people on the list. I wouldn't say that. Which brings me this mental model book I am reading where the author is a woman. All of her second person references are 'she'. After reading enough to draw a conclusion I'm not sure me and 'her' are

Re: [IxDA Discuss] Using qualifying questions to create a semi-walled garden?

2009-02-18 Thread Anthony Hempell
Thanks all for your comments on this, it's been a busy few days and the IxDA list does not like my webmail app, so haven't been able to respond. Does anyone know of actual hard data as to how much dropoff extra steps/questions cause within a purchasing flow? Although this is not a

[IxDA Discuss] Using this list: How do I change my subscription email address?

2009-02-18 Thread Mike Caskey
Help? I searched the profile page and saw no option for editing this. It notes that I should remove my subscription and re-subscribe, but my email address stays there. Thanks! Mike Welcome to the Interaction Design Association

Re: [IxDA Discuss] Should IxDA support a US National Design Policy?

2009-02-18 Thread Phillip Hunter
I am no fan of big government, but let's face it that some very large initiatives simply need some regulatory heft behind them. Perhaps this is one and I believe it should be explored. The comments about keeping government out of creative efforts seem odd. Are we better or worse off for

[IxDA Discuss] [Fwd: Using this list: How do I change my subscription email address?]

2009-02-18 Thread Mike Caskey
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Re: [IxDA Discuss] Good stock imagery resources, anyone?

2009-02-18 Thread Emarson Victoria
http://www.sxc.hu has a good collection of free stock images. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Posted from the new ixda.org http://www.ixda.org/discuss?post=38775 Welcome to the Interaction

Re: [IxDA Discuss] Should IxDA support a US National Design Policy?

2009-02-18 Thread Jack Moffett
On Feb 18, 2009, at 4:37 PM, Caroline Jarrett wrote: Jack, could you give me some references to this work? Due to my fascination with forms in general and tax forms in particular, I'd love to find out more about this claim, which I'd not heard about previously despite a few contacts here

Re: [IxDA Discuss] Should IxDA support a US National Design Policy?

2009-02-18 Thread Joshua Seiden
Thanks for all the input folks. Let me put a finer point on what participation means. Participation means that YOU feel motivated to work on one of these 10 initiatives. Do you? If so, how? Would you put a group of IxDA members together to drive one of these initiatives forward? if not, what

Re: [IxDA Discuss] Using qualifying questions to create a semi-walled garden?

2009-02-18 Thread Angel Marquez
The qualification algorithm is much more granular.My cromagnum understanding of algorithms is that they are as granular as they need to be. Nothing more nothing less. Did you ask someone and assume that this is the case or you are grabbing the reins and are certain this is true? If it doesn't

Re: [IxDA Discuss] Usability Testing Challenge

2009-02-18 Thread Ron Perkins
I like to ask as few questions as possible when someone is interacting to keep them from artificially paying attention and thinking about things-- doing is more revealing than talking. Ron Sent from my iPhone On Feb 18, 2009, at 11:43 AM, pendar legof...@legofish.com wrote: Thank you Ron,

Re: [IxDA Discuss] Long / Large forms

2009-02-18 Thread Jarod Tang
Hi chris, A side question: maybe the first is to think about reducing the length? Jarod On Mon, 16 Feb 2009 02:45:13, Chris McLay ch...@eeoh.com.au wrote: Hi, I'm looking for examples of very long forms, or forms for gathering lots of data. Forms that have multiple questions (20+) for

Re: [IxDA Discuss] Using qualifying questions to create a semi-walled garden?

2009-02-18 Thread Anthony Hempell
Thanks Angel... When this project explodes seconds after takeoff I will be sure to have some more evasive technical jargon at the ready. On 18-Feb-09, at 3:56 PM, Angel Marquez wrote: The qualification algorithm is much more granular. My cromagnum understanding of algorithms is that they

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