Re: [IxDA Discuss] getting into a master's program when youhavepoorundergraduate grades?
It never hurts to contact someone in the program, or the head of the program and just ask how seriously they take grades. Some schools put a lot of value on things like GRE / portfolio / work experience, but sometimes it is simply a matter of what the admissions committee for a specific program thinks is important. -- jet / KG6ZVQ http://www.flatline.net pgp: 0xD0D8C2E8 AC9B 0A23 C61A 1B4A 27C5 F799 A681 3C11 D0D8 C2E8 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] Is blogging about work OK?
Prachi Sakhardande wrote: Hi There Here's a question to all the avid bloggers on this list. How do you draw the line between what work related stuff you can blog about? I think it depends on where you work, both in terms of the firm and the country. In the US, we have this recent thing called SOX compliance for public companies. At some companies, SOX compliance includes company rules like this: - only designated representatives for the company can discuss anything about the company, its market, or competing companies in any online/electronic forum. There is a reason for this -- a corporation doesn't want J. Random Customer Support Person posting to their personal blog information that would cause changes in the stock price. Something like, Oh man, we just released the 2.0 version of WebFrobinator and we are getting so many customer support calls about how much it sucks. I think I'm going to ask for a transfer, our customers are seriously pissed and all going to the competition. I hope we're around long enough for me to find new work if I don't get a transfer. On the other hand, some companies have wording so strict that you can't post your resume on your personal website or list your current employer on facebook. This seems a bit draconian (and unenforceable) to me, but it's up to each person to make their own call. Odds are there's some sort of Employee Policy Manual (equiv) where you work that has guidelines for this sort of thing. Read it, talk to HR, and see what is reasonable to post. -- jet / KG6ZVQ http://www.flatline.net pgp: 0xD0D8C2E8 AC9B 0A23 C61A 1B4A 27C5 F799 A681 3C11 D0D8 C2E8 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] Importance of Masters Degree for IxD Professionals
Uday Gajendar wrote: Speaking as a Master's degree holder, i'm biased but I'd say the advantages are primarily: That pretty much lines up with my desire to go back to grad school, especially #3. I've got a ton of industry experience in related disciplines, but taking a year or two off of everything to focus on design thinking 24/7 at a name school would make a huge difference in my way of thinking and my way of working. It's one thing to read _Designing Interactions_ or _Design for the Real World_ over the course of a few evenings at home after work; another entirely to read those as part of a structured learning event and then debate/discuss it with my peers over the course of a week (or four). -- jet / KG6ZVQ http://www.flatline.net pgp: 0xD0D8C2E8 AC9B 0A23 C61A 1B4A 27C5 F799 A681 3C11 D0D8 C2E8 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] Importance of Masters Degree for IxD Professionals
I'm sorry, but what's your point? Angel Marquez wrote: spectator On Fri, Jun 20, 2008 at 5:11 PM, j. eric townsend [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Uday Gajendar wrote: Speaking as a Master's degree holder, i'm biased but I'd say the advantages are primarily: That pretty much lines up with my desire to go back to grad school, especially #3. I've got a ton of industry experience in related disciplines, but taking a year or two off of everything to focus on design thinking 24/7 at a name school would make a huge difference in my way of thinking and my way of working. It's one thing to read _Designing Interactions_ or _Design for the Real World_ over the course of a few evenings at home after work; another entirely to read those as part of a structured learning event and then debate/discuss it with my peers over the course of a week (or four). -- jet / KG6ZVQ http://www.flatline.net pgp: 0xD0D8C2E8 AC9B 0A23 C61A 1B4A 27C5 F799 A681 3C11 D0D8 C2E8 Welcome to the Interaction Design Association (IxDA)! To post to this list ... [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Unsubscribe http://www.ixda.org/unsubscribe List Guidelines http://www.ixda.org/guidelines List Help .. http://www.ixda.org/help -- jet / KG6ZVQ http://www.flatline.net pgp: 0xD0D8C2E8 AC9B 0A23 C61A 1B4A 27C5 F799 A681 3C11 D0D8 C2E8 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] Update: CMU's Master of Tangible Interaction Design
More info on the new Master of Tangible Interaction Design, including instructions on how to apply: http://code.arc.cmu.edu/mTID -- jet / KG6ZVQ http://www.flatline.net pgp: 0xD0D8C2E8 AC9B 0A23 C61A 1B4A 27C5 F799 A681 3C11 D0D8 C2E8 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] Article: Is Google Making Us Stoopid? from The Atlantic.com
Benjamin Ho wrote: Instead of the catchy title naming Google, the author should have called it, Is the Internet making us stupid? I've been taking some classes at CMU with people half my age. It's amazing how few of them are familiar with the research tools I grew up on, say, the Readers Guide to Periodical Literature. We did some research projects on clothing in one class, and out of ~20 of us, there were only 3-4 of us pulling history/art books off the shelf in the library, scanning images on the massive (and free!) scanner, then putting them into our projects. Pretty much everyone else had the same stock images from teh interwebs. Looking at the results, I'm not sure if it's much different from people copying each other's work in the 80s instead of doing library research. Maybe the Internet doesn't make it easier to do research, it just makes it easier to copy off of someone else's research? -- jet / KG6ZVQ http://www.flatline.net pgp: 0xD0D8C2E8 AC9B 0A23 C61A 1B4A 27C5 F799 A681 3C11 D0D8 C2E8 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] Adaptive Path's Aurora ... Discuss
Shaun Bergmann wrote: (however yes, the repetitive strain injuries yet to be discovered are going to be fun to watch for) Why are those 3d/space balls always sitting way forward on someone's desk? Why not beside the chair, or held in the lap like a game controller? In the dark ages I tried making a strap for a spaceball so I could hold it on my thigh, but it was just too damned heavy. Also, see Gorilla Arm in the Hacker's Dictionary: http://www.ccil.org/jargon/jargon_22.html gorilla arm /n./ The side-effect that destroyed touch-screens as a mainstream input technology despite a promising start in the early 1980s. It seems the designers of all those spiffy touch-menu systems failed to notice that humans aren't designed to hold their arms in front of their faces making small motions. After more than a very few selections, the arm begins to feel sore, cramped, and oversized -- the operator looks like a gorilla while using the touch screen and feels like one afterwards. This is now considered a classic cautionary tale to human-factors designers; Remember the gorilla arm! is shorthand for How is this going to fly in real use?. -- jet / KG6ZVQ http://www.flatline.net pgp: 0xD0D8C2E8 AC9B 0A23 C61A 1B4A 27C5 F799 A681 3C11 D0D8 C2E8 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] best practices for login security?
Meredith Noble wrote: Hi folks, Does anyone know where I could find a list of best practices around login security? I'm looking for an overview of the most common techniques and how they relate to both security and user experience -- pros and cons. Putting on my professional security hat for a moment, I don't think there are a general set of security best practices. There are specific sets of best practices depending on what your general security requirements are, but it's difficult to state a set of general best practices that aren't so vague as to be useless. (ex: Be functional, don't annoy the user, etc.) Ask yourself what the value is of what you're protecting? What is the cost of a breach and who absorbs the cost? How often do you need to authenticate and under what circumstances? Who are the potential attackers and what resources do they have? If you don't have one in-house or if the client doesn't have one, I suggest you find a good security consultant and get a set of security requirements and start from there. -- jet / KG6ZVQ http://www.flatline.net pgp: 0xD0D8C2E8 AC9B 0A23 C61A 1B4A 27C5 F799 A681 3C11 D0D8 C2E8 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] best practices for login security?
One other note: - Emailing lost passwords to users Never, ever, ever store passwords in the clear, anywhere. If a user forgets their password, generate a temporary one and ask them to create a new password. Plenty of people re-use passwords on different sites, all it takes is for one of those sites to store passwords in the clear to compromise the accounts of multiple sites. On a smaller scale, all it takes is hacking an individual's email account and doing lots of lost password requests to get one or two of their common passwords. -- jet / KG6ZVQ http://www.flatline.net pgp: 0xD0D8C2E8 AC9B 0A23 C61A 1B4A 27C5 F799 A681 3C11 D0D8 C2E8 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] best practices for login security?
Meredith Noble wrote: I meant more of email a reset password link to users. Then again, your approach might be better because people can navigate to the site on their own rather than trusting a link in an email (which could be phishing them, technically). Would you agree? Well, it's not phishing them if it's a legitimate link. :-) But yes, emailing them a temp password then setting the system to force a password change on next login is a reasonably good practice. If an attacker is trying to jack their account they'll get the email and can take appropriate action. My personal preference is to never mail sensitive links (login, password reset), but amazon and eBay do it and seem to survive somehow. -- jet / KG6ZVQ http://www.flatline.net pgp: 0xD0D8C2E8 AC9B 0A23 C61A 1B4A 27C5 F799 A681 3C11 D0D8 C2E8 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] twitter and IxDA once again
seth b wrote: Think of it as a blog with smaller updates. Many of the people I know who use twitter will ignore it for hours at a time during the day and *not* come back and play catchup. These days, if I want a specific person to know something, I stick to the email. -- jet / KG6ZVQ http://www.flatline.net pgp: 0xD0D8C2E8 AC9B 0A23 C61A 1B4A 27C5 F799 A681 3C11 D0D8 C2E8 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] twitter and IxDA once again
David Malouf wrote: What makes twitter work where other micro-blogs fall short? Critical mass. Seriously, I tried the other ones but not enough of my friends were there to keep me there. Sames goes for LiveJournal -- I don't use it because of the feature set, but because it has critical mass of my friends and communities. If my friends/news sources all moved from twitter to Pounce, I probably would as well, ads be damned. -- jet / KG6ZVQ http://www.flatline.net pgp: 0xD0D8C2E8 AC9B 0A23 C61A 1B4A 27C5 F799 A681 3C11 D0D8 C2E8 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] Is Chrome bad for designers?
Alan Wexelblat wrote: Google's EULA for Chrome claims the right to use, redistribute, and profit from, any content created in Chrome. If so, ow on earth can that be legal, much less enforceable? -- jet / KG6ZVQ http://www.flatline.net pgp: 0xD0D8C2E8 AC9B 0A23 C61A 1B4A 27C5 F799 A681 3C11 D0D8 C2E8 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] The New Facebook Redesign: The Beginning of The End?
Damon Dimmick wrote: This reminds me on a few years back when Salon.com (which I admit I don't read much except for articles by Paglia) was going down the tubes, tried a pay-subscription based solution (which didn't work) and ended up shifting its model. Salon still has paid memberships, you get to read the site sans ads. I'm not sure I'd pay for FB, tho. -- jet / KG6ZVQ http://www.flatline.net pgp: 0xD0D8C2E8 AC9B 0A23 C61A 1B4A 27C5 F799 A681 3C11 D0D8 C2E8 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] password strength usability studies?
I haven't seen this posted yet, Bruce Schneier on how to pick a secure password. Some good information in here, and while he's not a usability expert, Schneier totally gets the security-vs-usability problem: http://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2007/01/choosing_secure.html -- jet / KG6ZVQ http://www.flatline.net pgp: 0xD0D8C2E8 AC9B 0A23 C61A 1B4A 27C5 F799 A681 3C11 D0D8 C2E8 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] The New Facebook Redesign: The Beginning of The End?
For Facebook or Salon? I (willingly) pay for Salon as part of a package deal, in part so I don't have to wade through ads. For FB? I dunno. They can't even implement a model that keeps me logged in correctly, I'm not sure I'd tolerate ads on top of that. However, I get little value out of FB, especially when compared to the value I get out of Salon's news/entertainment articles. Damon Dimmick wrote: Would you be willing to watch similar ads at log-in time? Just curious. -Damon j. eric townsend wrote: Damon Dimmick wrote: This reminds me on a few years back when Salon.com (which I admit I don't read much except for articles by Paglia) was going down the tubes, tried a pay-subscription based solution (which didn't work) and ended up shifting its model. Salon still has paid memberships, you get to read the site sans ads. I'm not sure I'd pay for FB, tho. -- jet / KG6ZVQ http://www.flatline.net pgp: 0xD0D8C2E8 AC9B 0A23 C61A 1B4A 27C5 F799 A681 3C11 D0D8 C2E8 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] Felt boards
About 10 years ago when I was making my own magnets, blank fridge magnets were much cheaper at craft stores than at office supply stores and there was a wider range of sizes/shapes. Chauncey Wilson wrote: You can buy magnetic sheets and print out whatever you want at most of the large office supply stores in the USA (Staples and similar stores). They are useful for things like information architecture, menu design, and brainstorming. The same stores now sell 100 magnets in business card size and you can stick labels on those if you are using words or very simple symbols. The magnet sheets recommend that you don't put them through a laser printer - inkjet only on the ones that I've used. There are a number of studies using magnets and stick-ons. The FIDO study by Tom Tullis and colleagues is a good example of the use of magents in design. http://www.bentley.edu/events/agingbydesign2004/presentations/tedesco_chadwickdias_tullis_fido.pdf You can create nice flow diagrams with a whiteboard and magnet symbols (supplemented with stickies). Chauncey On Sat, Oct 4, 2008 at 8:27 AM, Rob Tannen [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Shaun - You're not out of your mind. Designers and design researchers have been usng felt boards and similar materials for years. Best example is Liz Sanders co-creation methods, where participants use such materials to envision designs of products and environments (see esp. page 8-11): http://www.maketools.com/pdfs/CoCreation_Sanders_Stappers_08_preprint.pdf . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Posted from the new ixda.org http://www.ixda.org/discuss?post=33836 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 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 -- jet / KG6ZVQ http://www.flatline.net pgp: 0xD0D8C2E8 AC9B 0A23 C61A 1B4A 27C5 F799 A681 3C11 D0D8 C2E8 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] The biggest problems
David Malouf wrote: 1) Why is the only way up, out? Why can't we do what Luke Wroblewski and others at Yahoo have done and go the route of the Design Principal, the non-management role? This is the sort of thing that's been done with engineering for at least a couple of decades (that I know of). I've seen it work in companies where the Principal Engineers were motivated and given free reign to experiment, innovate, and most importantly, fail or go down the wrong path. I've also seen it backfire when Principal Engineers treated the position as a corner office where they could just futz around a few hours a day before going home. Personally, I decided to avoid both management and principal engineer tracks and instead broaden my skills by going to design school. I think there's value in either going up or out assuming it's a calculated decision. (We'll see how right I am in a few years. :-) -- jet / KG6ZVQ http://www.flatline.net pgp: 0xD0D8C2E8 AC9B 0A23 C61A 1B4A 27C5 F799 A681 3C11 D0D8 C2E8 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] Twitter
Regnard Raquedan wrote: My issue with twitter is that discussions I don't think I'd ever try having a dicussion over twitter. IMHO, twitter was designed for @jennyholzer and the rest of us are just tagging along for the ride. -- J. Eric jet Townsend, CMU Master of Tangible Interaction Design '09 design: www.allartburns.org; hacking: www.flatline.net; HF: KG6ZVQ PGP: 0xD0D8C2E8 AC9B 0A23 C61A 1B4A 27C5 F799 A681 3C11 D0D8 C2E8 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] Design Research: Practice noticing stuff and telling stories
Will Evans wrote: Does anyone have a 'suitcase' where the stick stuff they find? When I was taking undergraduate design classes, this was called a sketchbook. :-) As much as I like the computers and tah wehbs, I still prefer working with tangible objects. Lately if I see something online that I like I print it out and paste it in. I've also started carrying StudioTac (or some other double-sided tacky stuff) in my sketchbook so I can swipe things in the field. On the mac, I've been experimenting with Yojimbo for URLs to papers and to index papers that I've downloaded. I've been trying Scrivener for outlining and writing, my brain is so wired for emacs/TeX that it's hard to break my old workflow of ascii-notes-to-final-draft. -- J. Eric jet Townsend, CMU Master of Tangible Interaction Design '09 design: www.allartburns.org; hacking: www.flatline.net; HF: KG6ZVQ PGP: 0xD0D8C2E8 AC9B 0A23 C61A 1B4A 27C5 F799 A681 3C11 D0D8 C2E8 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] Design Research: Practice noticing stuff and telling stories
I've been doing this with my xv6800 (and before that, the 6700). I take pictures of stuff then when I sync, they get transferred to my incoming photo directory for me to sort/massage as needed. I've also started shooting video this way -- the xv6800 camera is 2M and shoots some pretty nice video for a camera/pda. Will Evans wrote: Does anyone use their iPhone/mobile device to send notes to themselves? How about refer back to their ideas that the posted to Twitter to follow up - with images attached? Just trying to get a feel for all the ways we keep track of the constant assault on our senses, how we process, store, and return to those inspirations, thoughts, ideas. On Mon, Oct 27, 2008 at 10:54 AM, adrian chan [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I hadn't even thought of the back of the hand -- that's great. I once had both my thumbs broken at the same time and walked about with both arms in casts -- had I been so inclined, they might have made for a great note-taking device, and a semi-public one at that. In fact the history of writing on the body is long indeed. (some argue that writing itself began with ritual practices of a violent graphism excercised during rites of passage and similar ceremonies...) But seriously tho, I like to draft thoughts within blogger some times -- I find that using blogger even to take notes puts me in a narrative mind set. a On Oct 26, 2008, at 1:52 PM, Jeff Howard wrote: I keep notes in a small gridded Moleskin notebook. But more important is simply having something to write with. Always. In a pinch I'll jot down observations on the back of my hand between the thumb and index finger. I never knew you could write there until I saw the movie Memento, but it's a really nice affordance. The only formal process I have for non-project related research is collecting local papers when I travel. Helps to see the world though a different set of eyes. // jeff . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Posted from the new ixda.org http://www.ixda.org/discuss?post=34828 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 cheers, adrian chan 415 516 4442 Social Interaction Design (www.gravity7.com) Sr Fellow, Society for New Communications Research (www.SNCR.org) LinkedIn (www.linkedin.com/in/adrianchan) 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 -- J. Eric jet Townsend, CMU Master of Tangible Interaction Design '09 design: www.allartburns.org; hacking: www.flatline.net; HF: KG6ZVQ PGP: 0xD0D8C2E8 AC9B 0A23 C61A 1B4A 27C5 F799 A681 3C11 D0D8 C2E8 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] Design Research: Practice noticing stuff and telling stories
Andy Polaine wrote: I have 33 notebooks going all the way back to my university days when I first started numbering them - these days they're mostly Moleskines or Miquel Rius ones (if I can my hands on them). It's not a terribly formal process though. They switch from being notebooks to journals to sketches to remember the milk. But I like the mix because it's a more honest record of things. I used to be really anal and ended up carrying around 2-4 notebooks, one for drawing, one for writing, one for remember the milk, one for sake tasting. What I do now is just have one and start from the front for serious stuff and from the back for remember the milk. When those get close to one another I start a new journal. With the current set, I'm also playing with the idea of having tabbed pages/sections for things that I update infrequently and that only take a line or three. It's working pretty well for sake tasting and the like, and I can just scan those two-three pages and stick them with related pages from the next notebook. -- J. Eric jet Townsend, CMU Master of Tangible Interaction Design '09 design: www.allartburns.org; hacking: www.flatline.net; HF: KG6ZVQ PGP: 0xD0D8C2E8 AC9B 0A23 C61A 1B4A 27C5 F799 A681 3C11 D0D8 C2E8 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] question for tablet pros -- where do you use it?
Other than, On the computer. Where do you use it relative to your keyboard -- which I'm (incorrectly) assuming is directly in front of you. Do you hold it on your lap? Put it where your mouse pad would go? Prop it on the keyboard? I'm just getting around to learning to use an Intous3 6x9 with photoshop and I have it where I'd normally have my mouse pad (I use the Intous mouse as my regular mouse much of the time). But it feels really awkward, as I normally draw with a sketchbook or pad in my lap or on a drawing table. Translating the arm movements needed to draw isn't working out well -- is this something I'll eventually figure out, or am I doing it wrong? thx, --jet -- J. Eric jet Townsend, CMU Master of Tangible Interaction Design '09 design: www.allartburns.org; hacking: www.flatline.net; HF: KG6ZVQ PGP: 0xD0D8C2E8 AC9B 0A23 C61A 1B4A 27C5 F799 A681 3C11 D0D8 C2E8 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] anyone here from Newsweek?
The Secrets of the 2008 Campaign is an excellent read, but there's a really screwy navigation flaw. When you get done with each chapter (which are divided into pages much longer than my screen), you can't just click go to next chapter or something. You have to remember what chapter you're on (it's not on screen) then go click on the next Chapter tab at the top of the screen. The current chapter *title* is prominent, but not the number. The Chapter tabs at the top of the page only have numbers, not titles. Really annoying if you're reading it in fits and starts while doing other work. Still, a very fascinating read. -- J. Eric jet Townsend, CMU Master of Tangible Interaction Design '09 design: www.allartburns.org; hacking: www.flatline.net; HF: KG6ZVQ PGP: 0xD0D8C2E8 AC9B 0A23 C61A 1B4A 27C5 F799 A681 3C11 D0D8 C2E8 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] Clock Burn-In
Mark Ahlenius wrote: Trust me this is a pain. I think right now if I had to purchase another appliance, I'd go out of my way to not get one with a clock. ;-} No wonder so many households have the flashing 12:00's on their (old) VCRs. Or at least a way to dim or turn off the display. I've threatened to take dikes to all the random clocks in the house and somewhat permanently fix the problem. -- J. Eric jet Townsend, CMU Master of Tangible Interaction Design '09 design: www.allartburns.org; hacking: www.flatline.net; HF: KG6ZVQ PGP: 0xD0D8C2E8 AC9B 0A23 C61A 1B4A 27C5 F799 A681 3C11 D0D8 C2E8 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] Clock Burn-In
William Brall wrote: the on pixels off. This will prevent burn in, as all the pixels will get exactly the same amount of wear, Just to be pedantic, this will not prevent burn-in. This solution causes the display to fail sooner-but-evenly. *All* the pixels will wear out at the same time -- and sooner -- than they would if the display had been powered down. -- J. Eric jet Townsend, CMU Master of Tangible Interaction Design '09 design: www.allartburns.org; hacking: www.flatline.net; HF: KG6ZVQ PGP: 0xD0D8C2E8 AC9B 0A23 C61A 1B4A 27C5 F799 A681 3C11 D0D8 C2E8 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] dead technologies ( Any thoughts on placement of company contact information?
Andy Polaine wrote: The assumption is that a faxed document is somehow a proof of veracity than an EPS signature on an electronic document. They are, of course, both easily faked. I've been in security for a long time now, and while I know that things are easily faked, I also know what makes the lawyers happy. -- J. Eric jet Townsend, CMU Master of Tangible Interaction Design '09 design: www.allartburns.org; hacking: www.flatline.net; HF: KG6ZVQ PGP: 0xD0D8C2E8 AC9B 0A23 C61A 1B4A 27C5 F799 A681 3C11 D0D8 C2E8 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] Spatial Interaction Design
Lindsay Watt wrote: Hey folks, This may interest some of you. Oblong Industries has created a mind-blowing Minority Report-like operating system. Be sure to watch the (3 minute) video in its entirety. http://oblong.com/ v. cool looking, but my arms got tired just watching that... Maybe if they invent the slouch-o-matic version I can use while I'm sprawled out on the couch? -- J. Eric jet Townsend, CMU Master of Tangible Interaction Design '09 design: www.allartburns.org; hacking: www.flatline.net; HF: KG6ZVQ PGP: 0xD0D8C2E8 AC9B 0A23 C61A 1B4A 27C5 F799 A681 3C11 D0D8 C2E8 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] Readability of Reverse Color Text
Disregarding how quickly or efficiently studies have shown that we can parse text under different color combinations... I'm somewhat light sensitive and I can easily say that black text on a white screen is something I can only handle for an hour or two at most when I'm looking at a computer screen. I use a Mac and Adobe CS*, so this means I take breaks on a regular basis to let my eyes cool down. When I'm writing code, however, green or orange text on a black background is wonderful. I can sit in front of an editor all day long in these colors and only take breaks to stretch my arms. It might be more difficult for me to read the text (I honestly haven't noticed a difference) but the overall amount of light hitting my eyes is much lower and I can work more hours. Back in the late 80s, I remember reading studies showing that medium-orange on black was one of the best combinations in terms of readability and eye strain. No idea who did the study or if it was ever backed up with further research. -- J. Eric jet Townsend, CMU Master of Tangible Interaction Design '09 design: www.allartburns.org; hacking: www.flatline.net; HF: KG6ZVQ PGP: 0xD0D8C2E8 AC9B 0A23 C61A 1B4A 27C5 F799 A681 3C11 D0D8 C2E8 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] Declaration of User Rights by Dan Saffer
Andy Polaine wrote: Seriously, though, the reality of many goods and services isn't once bitten, twice shy but once bitten, forever a walking vampire of whatever system bit you. Buy a Nikon DSLR and a few Nikon lenses, it's a bit switch to move to Canon. ...but at least you get to take all your images with you during the switch without any extra hassle. If I switched brands today, I'd still be able to access all the images I took with the previous brand without owning any special hardware. If I have an iPod full of music purchased from Apple, how easy is it for me to switch to a non-Apple media player and take all my tracks with me? I think that's what Dan was getting at -- control of things you have a legal right to. -- J. Eric jet Townsend, CMU Master of Tangible Interaction Design '09 design: www.allartburns.org; hacking: www.flatline.net; HF: KG6ZVQ PGP: 0xD0D8C2E8 AC9B 0A23 C61A 1B4A 27C5 F799 A681 3C11 D0D8 C2E8 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] Retain obvious instructions?
For what class of users can we assume that? I ask because I'm around a few 60+ people who have trouble with many sites on the web and the feeling they have to re-learn how to use the bank website because it changed. Can you better define the people who are going to be using this? It would seem that if you're working on a product designed for professionals in a business setting, I can see where maybe you can make more assumptions about skill-sets. (But don't make too many, my dentist's receptionist still uses a paper date book with a pencil... :-) Dye, Sylvania wrote: In this case, I'd say it doesn't depend. It used to be that we couldn't assume users had this basic understanding of how to use Web sites, but these days, this sort of helpful text really does nothing but increase visual noise, page complexity, and cognitive load by adding elements that the user has to ignore to complete their tasks. Links are for clicking, and users know this. Beyond that, I tend to treat in-place instruction as a last resort, even when usability testing shows that users are having problems. The problem with in-place instruction is that users read it once (maybe), after which it's just persistent visual noise, muddying up the interface. A better solution is to make the interface itself communicate it's function so that the instructional text isn't needed. Cheers! Sylvania User Experience Designer TechSmith Corp. -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Jonathan Abbett Sent: Monday, November 24, 2008 4:38 PM To: IxDA Subject: [IxDA Discuss] Retain obvious instructions? I've been working on a redesign of the web-based user interface for a personal health record platform, and I began to wonder -- do I need to retain the one-line instruction that seems to be on the top of every major data listing (medications, lab tests, immunizations, etc.): Click any item in the list to see more detail (or something similar to that effect) The title of each list item is hyperlinked with underlined, blue text. I guess the bigger questions are: Do I assume my users' basic browsing abilities at my own peril? Does even a basic task of web usage need to be field-tested? I'm already prepared for the it depends answers! ;) Thanks, Jon 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 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 -- J. Eric jet Townsend, CMU Master of Tangible Interaction Design '09 design: www.allartburns.org; hacking: www.flatline.net; HF: KG6ZVQ PGP: 0xD0D8C2E8 AC9B 0A23 C61A 1B4A 27C5 F799 A681 3C11 D0D8 C2E8 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] Public Transportation Experiences
Peter Bird wrote: shows the projected physical locations of trains in Switzerland based on the published timetables. Which is what, a junior high word problem in algebra? If a train leaves Zurich at 0900 and has an average velocity of 148kph, at what time will it arrive at Winterthur? I suspect the terrorists have people who can compute these timings or simply observe them and compute averages. -- J. Eric jet Townsend, CMU Master of Tangible Interaction Design '09 design: www.allartburns.org; hacking: www.flatline.net; HF: KG6ZVQ PGP: 0xD0D8C2E8 AC9B 0A23 C61A 1B4A 27C5 F799 A681 3C11 D0D8 C2E8 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] Google by default
Juan Ruiz wrote: Interesting thread. A new trend that we are noticing on the standard internet users is that instead of bookmarking a page, they are remembering the keywords on which they found the site (page). I'm curious -- in what context(s) are you seeing this? Using their own computers, shared computers, public kiosks? -- J. Eric jet Townsend, CMU Master of Tangible Interaction Design '09 design: www.allartburns.org; hacking: www.flatline.net; HF: KG6ZVQ PGP: 0xD0D8C2E8 AC9B 0A23 C61A 1B4A 27C5 F799 A681 3C11 D0D8 C2E8 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] Interaction Designers: What is your elevator pitch?
Angel Marquez wrote: what's a vcr? Those who do not study history are doomed to repeat it. :-) -- J. Eric jet Townsend, CMU Master of Tangible Interaction Design '09 design: www.allartburns.org; hacking: www.flatline.net; HF: KG6ZVQ PGP: 0xD0D8C2E8 AC9B 0A23 C61A 1B4A 27C5 F799 A681 3C11 D0D8 C2E8 Welcome to the Interaction Design Association (IxDA)! To post to this list ... disc...@ixda.org Unsubscribe http://www.ixda.org/unsubscribe List Guidelines http://www.ixda.org/guidelines List Help .. http://www.ixda.org/help
Re: [IxDA Discuss] Strategic Interaction Design
[note: I'm looking at this as someone who's done a fair amount of engineering/project integration across disciplines, not as a designer. So maybe strategic means something very different for me. If that's true, it does for lots of other people outside the design field, and it will have to be very carefully defined for outsiders reading your book. --jet] Steve Baty wrote: Dan, In addition to the excellent responses you've already received from Mark, Tania, Andrew, Fred and others, I would include the need to understand the concepts of differentiation and positioning (in a business sense) and the ways in which interaction design can contribute to corporate (or organizational) strategy in these areas. I think another great example of this sort of thing is Europa Cafe. It's not just a well designed cafe in terms of the space and flow where you can order food online. Their online services and print media are all tightly integrated with the physical cafes both in visual design, flow and business goals. The website isn't a simple order for takeout, it includes a well-thought-out food management system for people who routinely order food for other people and for people who care about calories and ingredients on a fine-grained level. My guess is that the strategic design here was that there was a single person/team driving all these different design disciplines and making sure they all worked together for the better good. I'm guessing that they were also good at resolving a number of significant conflicts between the different design and business teams. (Having said that, the lead designers for Europa Cafe are going to come out of the woodwork and correct my every word.) -- J. Eric jet Townsend, CMU Master of Tangible Interaction Design '09 design: www.allartburns.org; hacking: www.flatline.net; HF: KG6ZVQ PGP: 0xD0D8C2E8 AC9B 0A23 C61A 1B4A 27C5 F799 A681 3C11 D0D8 C2E8 Welcome to the Interaction Design Association (IxDA)! To post to this list ... disc...@ixda.org Unsubscribe http://www.ixda.org/unsubscribe List Guidelines http://www.ixda.org/guidelines List Help .. http://www.ixda.org/help
Re: [IxDA Discuss] Thinking about an abuser and not only a user
Both of their books are excellent reading. They're short and to the point, with line staff and QE managers as the target audience, not security professionals. a...@amroha.dk wrote: I am watching a discussion with Dr. Herbert Thompson: Dr. Herbert Thompson is an internationally renowned expert in application security testing, research and training. He was Security Innovation’s second employee, joining Founder Dr. James Whittaker in 2002. Dr. Thompson earned his PhD in Applied Mathematics from Florida Institute of Technology and is co-author or editor of 12 books, including “How to Break Software Security: Effective Techniques for Security Testing.” Dr. Thompson has authored more than 50 academic and industrial articles on software security. He talks about IT firms forgetting security threats/issues when developing IT products. We as Interaction Designers also stress the importance of user interaction but do we include abusers too? Dr. Thompson talks about an airline incident where he was able to hack into a system due to boredom. He believes that the developers 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 Welcome to the Interaction Design Association (IxDA)! To post to this list ... disc...@ixda.org Unsubscribe http://www.ixda.org/unsubscribe List Guidelines http://www.ixda.org/guidelines List Help .. http://www.ixda.org/help -- J. Eric jet Townsend, CMU Master of Tangible Interaction Design '09 design: www.allartburns.org; hacking: www.flatline.net; HF: KG6ZVQ PGP: 0xD0D8C2E8 AC9B 0A23 C61A 1B4A 27C5 F799 A681 3C11 D0D8 C2E8 Welcome to the Interaction Design Association (IxDA)! To post to this list ... disc...@ixda.org Unsubscribe http://www.ixda.org/unsubscribe List Guidelines http://www.ixda.org/guidelines List Help .. http://www.ixda.org/help
Re: [IxDA Discuss] Password reset / retrieval Best Practices?
I'd be interested in seeing that as well. However, (putting on my security hat) do not store passwords in any form that can be retrieved and displayed to the user. Store them in some sort of one-way encryption or hash and require the user to reset the password if they've forgotten it. It's easy to do and probably supported by every login mechanism out there. Signed, Was once on the wrong side of ...they cracked our system and stole all the user logins and passwords. spatr...@amig.com wrote: Hi all, Can anyone point me to a resource on best practices for password reset/retrieval? Does anyone have any good information to share? Thanks! Susan Patrick User Interface Designer III The Midland Company - CONFIDENTIALITY STATEMENT: This e-mail transmission contains information that is intended to be confidential. It is intended only for the addressee named above. If you receive this e-mail in error, please do not read, copy, or disseminate it. If you are not the intended recipient, any disclosure, copying, distribution or use of the contents of this information is prohibited. Please reply to the message immediately by informing the sender that the message was misdirected. After replying, please erase it from your computer system. Your assistance in correcting this error is appreciated. Welcome to the Interaction Design Association (IxDA)! To post to this list ... disc...@ixda.org Unsubscribe http://www.ixda.org/unsubscribe List Guidelines http://www.ixda.org/guidelines List Help .. http://www.ixda.org/help -- J. Eric jet Townsend, CMU Master of Tangible Interaction Design '09 design: www.allartburns.org; hacking: www.flatline.net; HF: KG6ZVQ PGP: 0xD0D8C2E8 AC9B 0A23 C61A 1B4A 27C5 F799 A681 3C11 D0D8 C2E8 Welcome to the Interaction Design Association (IxDA)! To post to this list ... disc...@ixda.org Unsubscribe http://www.ixda.org/unsubscribe List Guidelines http://www.ixda.org/guidelines List Help .. http://www.ixda.org/help
Re: [IxDA Discuss] The UX Challenge organizers might be insane
Jay Morgan wrote: Todd wrote: Part of the challenge is getting there. I left that out of my other message, but this was another part of it. There are barriers to getting there. There are barriers to entering. There are barriers to participating. The playa would be much cheaper and more challenging. No room service, of course, or A/V techs, or running water... -- J. Eric jet Townsend, CMU Master of Tangible Interaction Design '09 design: www.allartburns.org; hacking: www.flatline.net; HF: KG6ZVQ PGP: 0xD0D8C2E8 AC9B 0A23 C61A 1B4A 27C5 F799 A681 3C11 D0D8 C2E8 Welcome to the Interaction Design Association (IxDA)! To post to this list ... disc...@ixda.org Unsubscribe http://www.ixda.org/unsubscribe List Guidelines http://www.ixda.org/guidelines List Help .. http://www.ixda.org/help
[IxDA Discuss] VMWare vs. Parallels (was Re: A business case for switching Mac
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 peppy. Biggest drawback (imho) is wasting all the disk and core space on another operating system. Alexandra O'Neal wrote: 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 the switch is less jarring. Personally, I move back and forth between separate Windows Mac environments, and prefer Mac for most things, but I don't think an either-or world is necessary. And a few years ago when I did network administration in a Mac + Windows + Unix environment, I did find Macs much easier to network and support than Windows. bests, Alex O'Neal UX manager -- The best time to plant a tree is twenty years ago. The next best time is now. Patrick wrote: I recently worked for a company that was totally committed to the PC world, and the ENTIRE UX team were Macheads. Personally, I live in both worlds, and I don't see as much of a difference between Visio and Omnigraffle, and actually have work for clients stored in both formats (I run Parallels). I prefer to do work on the Mac, but it's not as much as a dealbreaker for me to work in Visio. Welcome to the Interaction Design Association (IxDA)! To post to this list ... disc...@ixda.org Unsubscribe http://www.ixda.org/unsubscribe List Guidelines http://www.ixda.org/guidelines List Help .. http://www.ixda.org/help -- J. Eric jet Townsend, CMU Master of Tangible Interaction Design '09 design: www.allartburns.org; hacking: www.flatline.net; HF: KG6ZVQ PGP: 0xD0D8C2E8 AC9B 0A23 C61A 1B4A 27C5 F799 A681 3C11 D0D8 C2E8 Welcome to the Interaction Design Association (IxDA)! To post to this list ... disc...@ixda.org Unsubscribe http://www.ixda.org/unsubscribe List Guidelines http://www.ixda.org/guidelines List Help .. http://www.ixda.org/help
Re: [IxDA Discuss] Why are there no Executive MFA / IxD programs? (response to RPI online HCI program phase out)
(No research here, just my personal experience/opinion) I worked my way through college for my first undergrad degree (BA Journalism/CS, took me 7 years) and tried to work while going to school for my second degree (BFA ID). I finally gave in and took unpaid leave to get a Master's, and I'm very glad I went this route. I'm getting so much more out of classes now that I can focus %100 of my time and energy on learning/trying/doing instead of having work interruptions and continual context shifts. Also, I've taken classes with people in the MFA Interaction Design program at CMU, and I think part of the value is that you focus on nothing but school and research for two years. I know that some of the students keep part-time jobs, but I honestly believe they're missing out on some important experiences in the studio when they're not doing assignments. IMHO, if you have the choice of not working and living on loans and getting the degree in 2 years, do it. Having the mental freedom to think wide and deep is worth it in the long run. Phil Chung wrote: Interesting, I didn't know online HCI grad programs even existed. On a related note, I do wish that a premier design school (e.g. RISD, Art Center, SVA, New School, CMU) would step up and address the need for online / part-time IxD executive MFA program for practitioners, along the executive MBA model with a mix of online learning and on campus sessions. Forgive me if I've overlooked an existing program, but it seems (just based on this discussion list) that there is a significant demand for this option, particularly with the current economic pressures. Employed designers could leverage company sponsorship to work towards their executive MFA using online materials with infrequent on campus (2-3 all weekend sessions per semester) crits / intensive workshops to address the need for face-to-face interaction. It seems like the field has matured to a point where programs like this should exist, does it not? From: Becky Reed br...@healthwise.org To: sharon sharongreenfi...@gmail.com; IxDA disc...@ixda.org Sent: Wednesday, February 25, 2009 11:45:52 AM Subject: Re: [IxDA Discuss] Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute phasing out online HCI program I wonder how much of it goes back to findability and information architecture (but I can be a little biased thinking most problems come back to these things). Placement in search engine isn't really high (and didn't even seem them for online hci program and the like) and then the description provided seemed accidental and had an odd subdomained URL that didn't give you the university's name or program in it. When you go to the program site you arrive at from some of the more obscure search terms, I didn't see a mention of format (online vs oncampus). There was a link for working professionals. Mmmm...here's the mention: live on-campus and, by electronic means. I guess in the months I spent searching for an online program I never Googled for masters program HCI electronic means. In my experience, disambiguating on-campus only programs from distance ones was a challenge. Trying to winnow them down via search engine alone was impossible and even as noted above...it was kind of a treasure hunt on their program sites. I went with an barely online Human Factors program through U of Idaho last year and would have certainly looked at Rensselaer's HCI program as I could have taken it by electronic means. Becky -Original Message- From: discuss-boun...@lists.interactiondesigners.com [mailto:discuss-boun...@lists.interactiondesigners.com] On Behalf Of sharon Sent: Tuesday, February 24, 2009 4:23 PM To: IxDA Subject: [IxDA Discuss] Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute phasing out online HCI program Why is noone interested in this program? There are only two online HCI programs to my knowledge - Rensselaer's and Brigham Young University. RPI's name has cachet and prestige. I know some nuclear engineers who graduated from RPI - smart school for smart people. I think they are phasing the online HCI program out because they didn't have enough applicants. Does no one have an interest in working while getting a degree remotely? Just checking the temperature here... Welcome to the Interaction Design Association (IxDA)! To post to this list ... disc...@ixda.org Unsubscribe http://www.ixda.org/unsubscribe List Guidelines http://www.ixda.org/guidelines List Help .. http://www.ixda.org/help Welcome to the Interaction Design Association (IxDA)! To post to this list ... disc...@ixda.org Unsubscribe http://www.ixda.org/unsubscribe List Guidelines http://www.ixda.org/guidelines List Help .. http://www.ixda.org/help
Re: [IxDA Discuss] Teaching to program: arrays.
Leonardo Parra Agudelo wrote: Hi all, I have been teaching how to program to non-engineers, mostly designers, artists and a few musicians, and it all goes well until we hit the arrays. I've seen similar problems, and I usually find that physical world examples help introduce the concept before we start talking about coding syntax. Depending on the audience's characteristics, I've used everything from a map of Manhattan to our inter-office mailboxes. -- J. Eric jet Townsend, CMU Master of Tangible Interaction Design '09 design: www.allartburns.org; hacking: www.flatline.net; HF: KG6ZVQ PGP: 0xD0D8C2E8 AC9B 0A23 C61A 1B4A 27C5 F799 A681 3C11 D0D8 C2E8 Welcome to the Interaction Design Association (IxDA)! To post to this list ... disc...@ixda.org Unsubscribe http://www.ixda.org/unsubscribe List Guidelines http://www.ixda.org/guidelines List Help .. http://www.ixda.org/help
Re: [IxDA Discuss] Joel Spolsky claims the Program Manager role does UI design... ????
Russell Wilson wrote: Admittedly maybe a few for programming: Software Engineer Software Programmer At my past three software engineering jobs, I was a Member of Technical Staff on paper, as was pretty much everyone who did anything remotely technical, from QE to circuit board design. On the very senior technical people had titles, then it was Architect or Principle Engineer, no matter what they actually did. -- J. Eric jet Townsend, CMU Master of Tangible Interaction Design '09 design: www.allartburns.org; hacking: www.flatline.net; HF: KG6ZVQ PGP: 0xD0D8C2E8 AC9B 0A23 C61A 1B4A 27C5 F799 A681 3C11 D0D8 C2E8 Welcome to the Interaction Design Association (IxDA)! To post to this list ... disc...@ixda.org Unsubscribe http://www.ixda.org/unsubscribe List Guidelines http://www.ixda.org/guidelines List Help .. http://www.ixda.org/help
Re: [IxDA Discuss] Joel Spolsky claims the Program Manager role does UI design... ????
Andrei Herasimchuk wrote: If the title in the software world is going to be called interaction design then that person needs to know these hard skills: Interesting list. I can think of a number of graduating seniors here who can handle 2/3 of your list pretty well and who are catching up on the rest of the list. The one exception: * Understand how algorithms, code, frameworks, databases and other software engineering aspects of the product work under the hood I think this is a set of knowledge that rarely gets distributed outside of the computer science classroom. CMU teaches an intro-to-programming class (15-100) in Java and has recently added a section taught in Processing by Golan Levin. I've talked to a couple of seriously non-technical/artsy types who took it and came out with a vague understanding of how computers actually work and, more importantly, the desire to learn more about what they can do using code as a tool. But it's certainly not a required class for ixd and it's a risky class to take as an elective as it can fuck up you GPA. -- J. Eric jet Townsend, CMU Master of Tangible Interaction Design '09 design: www.allartburns.org; hacking: www.flatline.net; HF: KG6ZVQ PGP: 0xD0D8C2E8 AC9B 0A23 C61A 1B4A 27C5 F799 A681 3C11 D0D8 C2E8 Welcome to the Interaction Design Association (IxDA)! To post to this list ... disc...@ixda.org Unsubscribe http://www.ixda.org/unsubscribe List Guidelines http://www.ixda.org/guidelines List Help .. http://www.ixda.org/help
Re: [IxDA Discuss] What music for interaction designers
Mayur Karnik wrote: Adrian's comments are noteworthy... I was just thinking the other day how workplace environments have changed over the last decade. As 'open offices' and laptop / docking cultures manifest (now it seems, just about everywhere), there is an increasing clamour for private space. Are there still design firms that have one-big-room with a net jukebox ala Vivid in the 90s? -- J. Eric jet Townsend, CMU Master of Tangible Interaction Design '09 design: www.allartburns.org; hacking: www.flatline.net; HF: KG6ZVQ PGP: 0xD0D8C2E8 AC9B 0A23 C61A 1B4A 27C5 F799 A681 3C11 D0D8 C2E8 Welcome to the Interaction Design Association (IxDA)! To post to this list ... disc...@ixda.org Unsubscribe http://www.ixda.org/unsubscribe List Guidelines http://www.ixda.org/guidelines List Help .. http://www.ixda.org/help
Re: [IxDA Discuss] Berkeley\'s MIMS vs Carnegie Mellon\'s MDes in IxD
The first question is, What do you want to do after you graduate?. If you have a good idea as to the answer, compare what people from these programs end up doing. I have a lot of respect for the students in the IxD program at CMU and have learned a *lot* taking classes with them. However, I didn't apply to the IxD program because I'm much more interested in 3D/researchy things than 2D/applications and getting a job as an IxD type at A4/g5/M$. CMU is also big on interdisciplinary work, so while you're doing the IxD program, you have the opportunity to take classes in other disciplines. Your options range from things like Introductory Robotics taught by a leader in the field to one-off classes like Interactive Technology and Live Performance (http://plitforms.ning.com/) taught by Golan Levin and Matt Gray. Someone from Bezerkeley should chime in as to why their program roxxors. --jet -- J. Eric jet Townsend, CMU Master of Tangible Interaction Design '09 design: www.allartburns.org; hacking: www.flatline.net; HF: KG6ZVQ PGP: 0xD0D8C2E8 AC9B 0A23 C61A 1B4A 27C5 F799 A681 3C11 D0D8 C2E8 Welcome to the Interaction Design Association (IxDA)! To post to this list ... disc...@ixda.org Unsubscribe http://www.ixda.org/unsubscribe List Guidelines http://www.ixda.org/guidelines List Help .. http://www.ixda.org/help
Re: [IxDA Discuss] Kinetic Design (Core77 article)
From the article: Presently, there is no specifically designated class of designers qualified to decide how products move. I can't argue for/against that, but there is a solid history of artists who have worked in kinetics as an art form that we can look to for inspiration. Whether it's Arthur Ganson or Survival Research Labs, it's not hard to find people who have made motion visually compelling. --jet dave malouf wrote: for all you hardware interaction designers, this bit was just an amazing piece on Core77 about Kinetic Design. I think some of us might think this is just interaction design, but to me the discussion of aesthetics of motion really touches my heart string in a wondrous way. There was this Pratt ID student I met a couple of years ago who did his thesis on this, and it also really resonated with me back then. Anyway, take a read of this pretty deep look at Kinetic Design (aesthetics of physical motion). http://www.core77.com/blog/featured_items/kinetic_design_and_the_animation_of_products_by_ben_hopson_12642.asp (http://tr.im/hFYj) I think that for the virtual world this speaks to what I've been calling abstraction, but in Gestural Design should resonate much more tangibly. Enjoy! -- dave Welcome to the Interaction Design Association (IxDA)! To post to this list ... disc...@ixda.org Unsubscribe http://www.ixda.org/unsubscribe List Guidelines http://www.ixda.org/guidelines List Help .. http://www.ixda.org/help -- J. Eric jet Townsend, CMU Master of Tangible Interaction Design '09 design: www.allartburns.org; hacking: www.flatline.net; HF: KG6ZVQ PGP: 0xD0D8C2E8 AC9B 0A23 C61A 1B4A 27C5 F799 A681 3C11 D0D8 C2E8 Welcome to the Interaction Design Association (IxDA)! To post to this list ... disc...@ixda.org Unsubscribe http://www.ixda.org/unsubscribe List Guidelines http://www.ixda.org/guidelines List Help .. http://www.ixda.org/help
[IxDA Discuss] ixd failure(?) exploited for voting fraud
The entire article is worth reading (and has actual hot links), but I'll call out how the design failure(?) was exploited by pollworkers to change votes: http://www.crypto.com/blog/vote_fraud_in_kentucky/ [...] The Kentucky officials are accused of taking advantage of a somewhat confusing aspect of the way the iVotronic interface was implemented. In particular, the behavior (as described in the indictment) of the version of the iVotronic used in Clay County apparently differs a bit from the behavior described in ESamp;S's standard a href=http://www.essvote.com/HTML/docs/iVotronic.pdf;instruction sheet for voters [pdf - see page 2]/a. A a href=http://www.essvote.com/HTML/iVotronicDemo1/demo.html;flash-based iVotronic demo available from ESamp;S here/a shows the same procedure, with the VOTE button as the last step. But evidently there's another version of the iVotronic interface in which pressing the VOTE button is only the emsecond to last/em step. In those machines, pressing VOTE invokes an extra confirmation screen. The vote is only actually finalized after a confirm vote box is touched on that screen. (A different flash demo that shows this behavior with the version of the iVotronic equipped with a printer is available from ESamp;S a href=http://www.essvote.com/HTML/iVotronicDemo2/index.html;here/a). So the iVotronic VOTE button doesn't necessarily work the way a voter who read the standard instructions might expect it to. p The indictment describes a conspiracy to exploit this ambiguity in the iVotronic user interface by having pollworkers systematically (and incorrectly) tell voters that pressing the VOTE button is the last step. When a misled voter would leave the machine with the extra confirm vote screen still displayed, a pollworker would quietly correct the not-yet-finalized ballot before casting it. It's a pretty elegant attack, exploiting little more than a poorly designed, ambiguous user interface, printed instructions that conflict with actual machine behavior, and public unfamiliarity with equipment that most citizens use at most once or twice each year. And once done, it leaves behind little forensic evidence to expose the deed. [...] -- J. Eric jet Townsend, CMU Master of Tangible Interaction Design '09 design: www.allartburns.org; hacking: www.flatline.net; HF: KG6ZVQ PGP: 0xD0D8C2E8 AC9B 0A23 C61A 1B4A 27C5 F799 A681 3C11 D0D8 C2E8 Welcome to the Interaction Design Association (IxDA)! To post to this list ... disc...@ixda.org Unsubscribe http://www.ixda.org/unsubscribe List Guidelines http://www.ixda.org/guidelines List Help .. http://www.ixda.org/help
Re: [IxDA Discuss] ixd failure(?) exploited for voting fraud
Speaking as someone who has done security in consumer electronics for 10+ years, I've never been asked by any sort of designer to be involved in the design process. It's usually the case that engineering receives the requirements docs, then I go through those and start looking for problems. One of the things I hope to achieve by going back to design school is learning not only design, but how to talk to designers in their language for those instances where I'm just the engineer on a project. Den Serras wrote: I'm curious, how many of you Ix designers actually work with, hire, or consult with security experts before finishing a project? Of course this wasn't even a high-tech attack but the equivalent of telling the voters to use pencils and then erasing them. Does anyone even have a user testing program that includes people trying to f*ck with the system? . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Posted from the new ixda.org http://www.ixda.org/discuss?post=40458 Welcome to the Interaction Design Association (IxDA)! To post to this list ... disc...@ixda.org Unsubscribe http://www.ixda.org/unsubscribe List Guidelines http://www.ixda.org/guidelines List Help .. http://www.ixda.org/help -- J. Eric jet Townsend, CMU Master of Tangible Interaction Design '09 design: www.allartburns.org; hacking: www.flatline.net; HF: KG6ZVQ PGP: 0xD0D8C2E8 AC9B 0A23 C61A 1B4A 27C5 F799 A681 3C11 D0D8 C2E8 Welcome to the Interaction Design Association (IxDA)! To post to this list ... disc...@ixda.org Unsubscribe http://www.ixda.org/unsubscribe List Guidelines http://www.ixda.org/guidelines List Help .. http://www.ixda.org/help
Re: [IxDA Discuss] Designing (for) Experiences
Todd Zaki Warfel wrote: I'm only aware of two distinct architectural titles: Architect and Landscape Architect. They don't bother distinguishing between an Architect who designs train stations vs. small houses. Oh, they have other titles, they just save them for people who aren't architects. For example, I've heard archis use the title interior design when talking down about someone else's work or dismissing concerns about textiles or furnishings. The lines are drawn to exclude just as much as they are to include. -- J. Eric jet Townsend, CMU Master of Tangible Interaction Design '09 design: www.allartburns.org; hacking: www.flatline.net; HF: KG6ZVQ PGP: 0xD0D8C2E8 AC9B 0A23 C61A 1B4A 27C5 F799 A681 3C11 D0D8 C2E8 Welcome to the Interaction Design Association (IxDA)! To post to this list ... disc...@ixda.org Unsubscribe http://www.ixda.org/unsubscribe List Guidelines http://www.ixda.org/guidelines List Help .. http://www.ixda.org/help
Re: [IxDA Discuss] JJG's IA Summit 2009 Keynote
marianne wrote: Machiavelli said it best, truth is the outcome, regardless of the title. Who went to IDEA? Both. Who went to Interaction09? Both. Who went to SXSW? Both. Who went to IA Summit 10? Both. For me it is about engagement. Engagement with information through systems facilitated by design. That's what I do. I am defined by what I do and not by my title. And who went to TEI? -- J. Eric jet Townsend, CMU Master of Tangible Interaction Design '09 design: www.allartburns.org; hacking: www.flatline.net; HF: KG6ZVQ PGP: 0xD0D8C2E8 AC9B 0A23 C61A 1B4A 27C5 F799 A681 3C11 D0D8 C2E8 Welcome to the Interaction Design Association (IxDA)! To post to this list ... disc...@ixda.org Unsubscribe http://www.ixda.org/unsubscribe List Guidelines http://www.ixda.org/guidelines List Help .. http://www.ixda.org/help
Re: [IxDA Discuss] JJG's IA Summit 2009 Keynote
Score one for making assumptions, I thought that the Tangible and Embedded Interaction conference was well known: http://www.tei-conf.org. Todd Zaki Warfel wrote: TEI? On Mar 30, 2009, at 8:54 AM, j. eric townsend wrote: TEI Cheers! Todd Zaki Warfel Principal Design Researcher Messagefirst | Designing Information. Beautifully. -- *Contact Info* Voice: (215) 825-7423 Email: t...@messagefirst.com mailto:t...@messagefirst.com AIM: twar...@mac.com mailto:twar...@mac.com Blog: http://toddwarfel.com http://toddwarfel/ Twitter: zakiwarfel -- In theory, theory and practice are the same. In practice, they are not. -- J. Eric jet Townsend, CMU Master of Tangible Interaction Design '09 design: www.allartburns.org; hacking: www.flatline.net; HF: KG6ZVQ PGP: 0xD0D8C2E8 AC9B 0A23 C61A 1B4A 27C5 F799 A681 3C11 D0D8 C2E8 Welcome to the Interaction Design Association (IxDA)! To post to this list ... disc...@ixda.org Unsubscribe http://www.ixda.org/unsubscribe List Guidelines http://www.ixda.org/guidelines List Help .. http://www.ixda.org/help
[IxDA Discuss] Why vs.? Why not both? Re: Command line vs. menu driven interface
Jared Spool wrote: If you really want to get Old School, in 1985, at Symbolics (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Symbolics), we had a combined window-based and command line system. (You can see what a screen looked like here: http://is.gd/oE1s) (I'll save my Symbolics fanboying for later... :-) I still don't get why it has to be cli VERSUS gui, when each has its merits. Way back when, the Amiga implemented both nicely, and many of us from the workstation era would argue that CLI and GUI both have their merits and would balk at using a system that only had one of the two. While I was at General Magic, I learned that the secret to being a Real Power Mac User was getting MPW and using it as a CLI, so I would argue it's not just a *nix weenie thing. Sure, there can be a learning curve for using bash on the Mac (via Terminal), but that effort is rewarded with the ability to do some complex tasks very quickly. I don't expect the average Mac user to learn bash, but it's certainly worth the effort if you do things like manipulate large numbers of files by name, pattern and extension. This semester I'm doing a lot of time-lapse photography and it's really convenient to stuff files into folders using the CLI instead of shift-clicking hundreds of icons at a time. Looking at software packages, EAGLE and AutoCAD are two that support both GUI and CLI. It's pretty inspiring watching an AutoCAD expert switch between mouse and CLI, using each when it is the optimal tool for the specific task. But the new user can stick to just the GUI until they learn the ropes and only learn the CLI as needed. Speaking as someone learning EAGLE, I find it easier to type, VALUE R1 10k R2 100k than to take my hand off the keyboard, select R1 on the screen, right-click, select value, then put my hand back on the keyboard to type 10k and so on. -- J. Eric jet Townsend, CMU Master of Tangible Interaction Design '09 design: www.allartburns.org; hacking: www.flatline.net; HF: KG6ZVQ PGP: 0xD0D8C2E8 AC9B 0A23 C61A 1B4A 27C5 F799 A681 3C11 D0D8 C2E8 Welcome to the Interaction Design Association (IxDA)! To post to this list ... disc...@ixda.org Unsubscribe http://www.ixda.org/unsubscribe List Guidelines http://www.ixda.org/guidelines List Help .. http://www.ixda.org/help
Re: [IxDA Discuss] Command line or GUI
Alan Salmoni wrote:
made a lot easier with a CLI. As I said in another thread, a former
lecturer of mine mentioned some research she did way back when which
showed sys admins performing more efficiently with a CLI than a GUI.
Speaking as a sysadmin of one sort or another for the past 22 years,
that's because only a chump does tasks that the computer could do for
you. Why should I manually scan a list of hundreds of processes and
click on checkboxes for the ones I want to terminate when I can simply
do something like this:
sudo ps -ax | grep -i naughty_program | awk ' { print $1 } ' | xargs
kill -9
One sweet spot these days, IMHO, is package management on linux using
apt. There's the power-user CLI interface for people comfy with the
shell and there's also a user-friendly GUI interface (synaptic) that is
up there with OSX in ease of use.
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Re: [IxDA Discuss] Command line or GUI
Something I forgot to ask earlier Ananya Vetaal wrote: I am working on redesign of a product having a command line interface and as of now it seems users are pretty comfortable with that. Why are you redesigning it? If the users are comfortable with the interface and there's no outside requirement to change the interface to a GUI resolve other issues, why change from a CLI in the first place, why not improve the CLI? Are there new features that might benefit from a GUI or marketing requirements that a GUI might support? -- J. Eric jet Townsend, CMU Master of Tangible Interaction Design '09 design: www.allartburns.org; hacking: www.flatline.net; HF: KG6ZVQ PGP: 0xD0D8C2E8 AC9B 0A23 C61A 1B4A 27C5 F799 A681 3C11 D0D8 C2E8 Welcome to the Interaction Design Association (IxDA)! To post to this list ... disc...@ixda.org Unsubscribe http://www.ixda.org/unsubscribe List Guidelines http://www.ixda.org/guidelines List Help .. http://www.ixda.org/help
Re: [IxDA Discuss] JJG's IA Summit 2009 Keynote
Gabby Hon wrote: We still can't force anyone to use the titles appropriately or to copy and paste our version of job descriptions. Architects and Interior Designers seemed to have figured something out. -- J. Eric jet Townsend, CMU Master of Tangible Interaction Design '09 design: www.allartburns.org; hacking: www.flatline.net; HF: KG6ZVQ PGP: 0xD0D8C2E8 AC9B 0A23 C61A 1B4A 27C5 F799 A681 3C11 D0D8 C2E8 Welcome to the Interaction Design Association (IxDA)! To post to this list ... disc...@ixda.org Unsubscribe http://www.ixda.org/unsubscribe List Guidelines http://www.ixda.org/guidelines List Help .. http://www.ixda.org/help
Re: [IxDA Discuss] the alignment of the practices and outcomes of IA and IxD
Jim Leftwich wrote: It will always come down to the same directive: Just stop talking and do the work. Shut up and skate. -- J. Eric jet Townsend, CMU Master of Tangible Interaction Design '09 design: www.allartburns.org; hacking: www.flatline.net; HF: KG6ZVQ PGP: 0xD0D8C2E8 AC9B 0A23 C61A 1B4A 27C5 F799 A681 3C11 D0D8 C2E8 Welcome to the Interaction Design Association (IxDA)! To post to this list ... disc...@ixda.org Unsubscribe http://www.ixda.org/unsubscribe List Guidelines http://www.ixda.org/guidelines List Help .. http://www.ixda.org/help
Re: [IxDA Discuss] Password Strength Requirements
Alan Cox wrote: Does anyone have any evidence, anecdotal or formal, about how different password strength requirements impact the usability of a web-based application? Tangental, but here's a great article by Bruce Scheneier on Choosing Secure Passwords based on how people actually attack passwords: http://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2007/01/choosing_secure.html I think that your security purists (love that phrase) need to define the value of what you're protecting and determine an appropriate set of password rules. Are you protecting my checking account or my preferences at wunderground.com? -- J. Eric jet Townsend, CMU Master of Tangible Interaction Design '09 design: www.allartburns.org; hacking: www.flatline.net; HF: KG6ZVQ PGP: 0xD0D8C2E8 AC9B 0A23 C61A 1B4A 27C5 F799 A681 3C11 D0D8 C2E8 Welcome to the Interaction Design Association (IxDA)! To post to this list ... disc...@ixda.org Unsubscribe http://www.ixda.org/unsubscribe List Guidelines http://www.ixda.org/guidelines List Help .. http://www.ixda.org/help
Re: [IxDA Discuss] Password Strength Requirements
Katie Albers wrote: This is true. Which is why password fields that you *can't* make strong are evil. All password fields should at the very least *accept* all typeable characters. To go to the trouble of entering a strong password and then be told that you can only use upper and lower case letters, or letters and numbers, or whatever, is just plain non-sensical. Completely agree. Requiring me to use a strong password for a critical asset: good; preventing me from using a strong password: bad. However, requiring appropriately strong passwords isn't worth anything if you save my password in the clear and email it to me after I've registered. I think this is why it's important for design people to dip their toe into the security pool just as security purists need to step back a bit and think about usability. -- J. Eric jet Townsend, CMU Master of Tangible Interaction Design '09 design: www.allartburns.org; hacking: www.flatline.net; HF: KG6ZVQ PGP: 0xD0D8C2E8 AC9B 0A23 C61A 1B4A 27C5 F799 A681 3C11 D0D8 C2E8 Welcome to the Interaction Design Association (IxDA)! To post to this list ... disc...@ixda.org Unsubscribe http://www.ixda.org/unsubscribe List Guidelines http://www.ixda.org/guidelines List Help .. http://www.ixda.org/help
[IxDA Discuss] JOB User Interface Designer Alviso, CA, TiVo, 6mo contract
[disclaimer: I've worked for TiVo as a security/privacy engineer for ~8 years, am currently on leave to finish my MS Design. I can answer questions about the general work environment, but don't know details about this particular opening other than what is in the listing. --jet] http://www.jobvite.com/Jobvite/Job.aspx?m=n45bafwej=oXNbVfwA User Interface Designer TiVo San Jose, CA, United States Contractor DURATION: six-month contract The User Experience department (UI Design, Visual Design Prototyping, Research, Writing, and Field Trials) works closely with Customer Support, Product Management, and Engineering teams to gather information on our products. We have a collaborative, team-oriented, consensus-building approach to design, and we believe in taking input and feedback from a wide variety of sources. We are looking for an energetic, multi-talented, and motivated individual to join the team as a UI Designer for our DVR and related products. It is critical for candidates to work well with other teams and to have a strong leadership presence. Candidates must be able to understand the balance of user experience, business case, and time-to-market, and make tradeoffs where appropriate. Here is what you get to do: * Create and iterate UI designs of DVR applications, producing detailed written specifications for Engineering * Work with Visual Designers, Web Developers, and Prototypers to create mockups and functional prototypes of your designs * Partner with User Research to test and refine your designs * Plan with Product Management to define feature/product requirements * Work with Engineering to understand architecture and development issues and make appropriate design tradeoffs * Team up with Customer Support to understand issues subscribers have with the current UI This is what you'll need to be successful: * At least 5-7 years user-interface design experience in a consumer application software development environment * Excellent design skills and a proven track record of designing consumer-targeted applications and writing detailed UI/functional specifications * “Big picture” design ideas * Extreme detail orientation and an obsession for consistency * Clear, organized writing, communication, and presentation skills * Logical, analytical thinking * Reasonable understanding of underlying technical issues * An affinity for entertainment in multiple media * Mobile or embedded-system application design experience preferred * Familiarity with Flash-based design and prototyping preferred -- J. Eric jet Townsend, CMU Master of Tangible Interaction Design '09 design: www.allartburns.org; hacking: www.flatline.net; HF: KG6ZVQ PGP: 0xD0D8C2E8 AC9B 0A23 C61A 1B4A 27C5 F799 A681 3C11 D0D8 C2E8 Welcome to the Interaction Design Association (IxDA)! To post to this list ... disc...@ixda.org Unsubscribe http://www.ixda.org/unsubscribe List Guidelines http://www.ixda.org/guidelines List Help .. http://www.ixda.org/help
Re: [IxDA Discuss] Password Strength Requirements
Lost in this discussion of password strength is, how do we handle multiple failed logins, forgotten passwords, and compromised passwords? If your overall design (is this where we get into service design?) is put together correctly, a compromised password (or an attack on an account) isn't the end of the world. I worked at a US federal gov't site where the root/admin passwords were printed out for the admins in a mutated form. They were then told an algorithm that would un-mutate the password into something usable. If the wrong password was used three times as root/admin on any system, the system was locked down and security was notified. The passwords were immediately rotated and new base/mutation pairs generated. The goal was to give root/admin access to a large number of people without sharing passwords across systems, and it ended up working pretty well. -- J. Eric jet Townsend, CMU Master of Tangible Interaction Design '09 design: www.allartburns.org; hacking: www.flatline.net; HF: KG6ZVQ PGP: 0xD0D8C2E8 AC9B 0A23 C61A 1B4A 27C5 F799 A681 3C11 D0D8 C2E8 Welcome to the Interaction Design Association (IxDA)! To post to this list ... disc...@ixda.org Unsubscribe http://www.ixda.org/unsubscribe List Guidelines http://www.ixda.org/guidelines List Help .. http://www.ixda.org/help
Re: [IxDA Discuss] Mobile security vs. ease-of-use
Barbara Ballard wrote: I actually don't know of very many other folks who are using any sort of password protection on their phone. Google's Android has a really nice feature where the password protection is integrated into how you swipe the screen to unlock the phone. There are a grid of dots, and how you connect them as you swipe-to-unlock is actually your pass phrase. There's probably something similar for the iPhone but I've never seen anyone use it. -- J. Eric jet Townsend, CMU Master of Tangible Interaction Design '09 design: www.allartburns.org; hacking: www.flatline.net; HF: KG6ZVQ PGP: 0xD0D8C2E8 AC9B 0A23 C61A 1B4A 27C5 F799 A681 3C11 D0D8 C2E8 Welcome to the Interaction Design Association (IxDA)! To post to this list ... disc...@ixda.org Unsubscribe http://www.ixda.org/unsubscribe List Guidelines http://www.ixda.org/guidelines List Help .. http://www.ixda.org/help
Re: [IxDA Discuss] Mobile security vs. ease-of-use
Erik Wingren wrote: @ jet: That is a really clever twist - using the touchscreen interaction to make login fun! Is this from the Android OS-level security or an app running on Android? If the latter, which one? This is OS-level security on Android. -- J. Eric jet Townsend, CMU Master of Tangible Interaction Design '09 design: www.allartburns.org; hacking: www.flatline.net; HF: KG6ZVQ PGP: 0xD0D8C2E8 AC9B 0A23 C61A 1B4A 27C5 F799 A681 3C11 D0D8 C2E8 Welcome to the Interaction Design Association (IxDA)! To post to this list ... disc...@ixda.org Unsubscribe http://www.ixda.org/unsubscribe List Guidelines http://www.ixda.org/guidelines List Help .. http://www.ixda.org/help
[IxDA Discuss] Any IVR experts in the house?
I'm doing a really quick, one-off project for a class involving interactive voice response (IVR) systems. What I'm looking for is detailes on one or two really bad IVR systems, or maybe a study pointing out the N most egregious flaws of IVR systems. So far g5/Y! isn't getting me anything meaty, just obvious customer-relations things like, don't apologize for doing something you shouldn't do. I'm wondering if maybe there's some IVR-speak that I should be using in my searches, or if this tech goes by some other name that I should be searching for. If you (collective) have any advice/pointers, I'd appreciate them. (And if you reply off-list I will consolidate responses into a single post or two.) thx, --jet -- J. Eric jet Townsend, CMU Master of Tangible Interaction Design '09 design: www.allartburns.org; hacking: www.flatline.net; HF: KG6ZVQ PGP: 0xD0D8C2E8 AC9B 0A23 C61A 1B4A 27C5 F799 A681 3C11 D0D8 C2E8 Welcome to the Interaction Design Association (IxDA)! To post to this list ... disc...@ixda.org Unsubscribe http://www.ixda.org/unsubscribe List Guidelines http://www.ixda.org/guidelines List Help .. http://www.ixda.org/help
Re: [IxDA Discuss] Any IVR experts in the house?
Thanks for all the replies so far... My deadline is Tue am, but I'll continue to collect replies after that. Caroline Jarrett wrote: Jet asked for: advice/pointers on IVR Best resource I know of is the chapter on IVR, Designing Usable Voice User Interfaces, in HCI Beyond the GUI (edited by Phil Kortum). It's by Susan L. Hura who truly is an expert in the IVR space. Her business is SpeechUsability and she's got a selection of papers at: http://speechusability.com/?page_id=13 Note: the Kortum book is a hefty, academic tome that is thoroughly referenced. Best Caroline Jarrett www.formsthatwork.com Forms that work: Designing web forms for usability. -- J. Eric jet Townsend, CMU Master of Tangible Interaction Design '09 design: www.allartburns.org; hacking: www.flatline.net; HF: KG6ZVQ PGP: 0xD0D8C2E8 AC9B 0A23 C61A 1B4A 27C5 F799 A681 3C11 D0D8 C2E8 Welcome to the Interaction Design Association (IxDA)! To post to this list ... disc...@ixda.org Unsubscribe http://www.ixda.org/unsubscribe List Guidelines http://www.ixda.org/guidelines List Help .. http://www.ixda.org/help
Re: [IxDA Discuss] Bill Buxton just might be my design management hero
FWIW, that's an excellent write-up of why I went back to school to study design... mark schraad wrote: Holy cow, I wish that I had written this... http://www.businessweek.com/innovate/content/apr2009/id20090429_083139.htm?chan=innovation_innovation+%2B+design_top+stories Welcome to the Interaction Design Association (IxDA)! To post to this list ... disc...@ixda.org Unsubscribe http://www.ixda.org/unsubscribe List Guidelines http://www.ixda.org/guidelines List Help .. http://www.ixda.org/help -- J. Eric jet Townsend, CMU Master of Tangible Interaction Design '09 design: www.allartburns.org; hacking: www.flatline.net; HF: KG6ZVQ PGP: 0xD0D8C2E8 AC9B 0A23 C61A 1B4A 27C5 F799 A681 3C11 D0D8 C2E8 Welcome to the Interaction Design Association (IxDA)! To post to this list ... disc...@ixda.org Unsubscribe http://www.ixda.org/unsubscribe List Guidelines http://www.ixda.org/guidelines List Help .. http://www.ixda.org/help
[IxDA Discuss] game design, ixd, and making people cry
Nice write-up of Brenda Brathwaite's return to non-electronic game design: http://www.escapistmagazine.com/articles/view/conferences/tgc_2009/6021-TGC-2009-How-a-Board-Game-Can-Make-You-Cry One of many things it has me thinking about is how (if?) I can create emotional responses using only physical objects that carry emotional weight. -- J. Eric jet Townsend, CMU Master of Tangible Interaction Design '09 design: www.allartburns.org; hacking: www.flatline.net; HF: KG6ZVQ PGP: 0xD0D8C2E8 AC9B 0A23 C61A 1B4A 27C5 F799 A681 3C11 D0D8 C2E8 Welcome to the Interaction Design Association (IxDA)! To post to this list ... disc...@ixda.org Unsubscribe http://www.ixda.org/unsubscribe List Guidelines http://www.ixda.org/guidelines List Help .. http://www.ixda.org/help
[IxDA Discuss] seating and ergo Re: Tale of buying a chair
I had similar experiences buying a Hag Capisco here in PGH. There is a huge disconnect between the Hag company that designs/makes chairs and the antiquated distribution system of getting chairs to people. I spent more time trying to get the local dealer to order one than I did anything else. Not to start a chair thrash, but you should look at other high-end chairs and seating/ergonomic options. I liked the Aeron I had, but after doing a lot of ergo research (was out of work due to RSI for ~1.5 years) I've switched to perching instead of sitting. The Hag Capisco is an excellent perching chair, IME. I wrote something up about it a couple of years ago, and ~four years after buying it, I'm still just as happy with it: http://www.allartburns.org/2006/10/07/a-year-with-a-hag-capisco/ -- J. Eric jet Townsend -- designer, fabricator, hacker design: www.allartburns.org; hacking: www.flatline.net; HF: KG6ZVQ PGP: 0xD0D8C2E8 AC9B 0A23 C61A 1B4A 27C5 F799 A681 3C11 D0D8 C2E8 Welcome to the Interaction Design Association (IxDA)! To post to this list ... disc...@ixda.org Unsubscribe http://www.ixda.org/unsubscribe List Guidelines http://www.ixda.org/guidelines List Help .. http://www.ixda.org/help
Re: [IxDA Discuss] Who am I?
dave malouf wrote: So, I'd say, don't look for a position as a dual designer/coder. Look for a position as a designer or as a programer but just BE the designer/programmer that you are! As a writer/coder, I completely agree. My first degree is in Journalism and Computer Science, and I've had no problem getting jobs that use both sets of skills. I usually describe myself as an engineer that can write and design documents or a writer who can develop software and hardware, depending on the job I'm applying for. This is also how I'm formulating my post-graduation job search. Instead of looking for jobs that match my wacky set of skills, I'm looking for things that are interesting to me. I took a leave of absence to get my MS in Design, and if my employer doesn't have things for me to do with my new-and-improved skill set I'll start hitting the pavement. -- J. Eric jet Townsend -- designer, fabricator, hacker design: www.allartburns.org; hacking: www.flatline.net; HF: KG6ZVQ PGP: 0xD0D8C2E8 AC9B 0A23 C61A 1B4A 27C5 F799 A681 3C11 D0D8 C2E8 Welcome to the Interaction Design Association (IxDA)! To post to this list ... disc...@ixda.org Unsubscribe http://www.ixda.org/unsubscribe List Guidelines http://www.ixda.org/guidelines List Help .. http://www.ixda.org/help
Re: [IxDA Discuss] Interaction flow as subterfuge.
There are always slimeballs who will ask you to compromise your beliefs. Back in the webmaster-as-designer days, a marketing manager type came to me and said something to the effect of, I read that there's a bug in Netscape that lets websites get the email address of anyone who visits a site. How can we do that? It's not a privacy problem, if they visit our site they have no problem giving us their email addresses because they're interested in our product. -- J. Eric jet Townsend -- designer, fabricator, hacker design: www.allartburns.org; hacking: www.flatline.net; HF: KG6ZVQ PGP: 0xD0D8C2E8 AC9B 0A23 C61A 1B4A 27C5 F799 A681 3C11 D0D8 C2E8 Welcome to the Interaction Design Association (IxDA)! To post to this list ... disc...@ixda.org Unsubscribe http://www.ixda.org/unsubscribe List Guidelines http://www.ixda.org/guidelines List Help .. http://www.ixda.org/help
Re: [IxDA Discuss] On tactile feedback, I just can't place the analogy here...
I confess to checking the date of the post to see if we were being pranked. j...@smorgasbord-design.co.uk wrote: Saw this [1] and thought of all of the IxD people on here who deal with the haptic tactile. Now, there's something analogous to nature in this particular concept but I'll leave that to you to resolve. [1] http://bit.ly/JIAyd John Welcome to the Interaction Design Association (IxDA)! To post to this list ... disc...@ixda.org Unsubscribe http://www.ixda.org/unsubscribe List Guidelines http://www.ixda.org/guidelines List Help .. http://www.ixda.org/help -- J. Eric jet Townsend -- designer, fabricator, hacker design: www.allartburns.org; hacking: www.flatline.net; HF: KG6ZVQ PGP: 0xD0D8C2E8 AC9B 0A23 C61A 1B4A 27C5 F799 A681 3C11 D0D8 C2E8 Welcome to the Interaction Design Association (IxDA)! To post to this list ... disc...@ixda.org Unsubscribe http://www.ixda.org/unsubscribe List Guidelines http://www.ixda.org/guidelines List Help .. http://www.ixda.org/help
Re: [IxDA Discuss] Layar app - What do you all think this portends for IxD?
Fritz Desir wrote: [...] Video demo of Layar here: http://snurl.com/lncqj Setting aside ixd for a moment, it appears to run on Android, which means it isn't going to be limited to keitai.Something like that on a netbook would be pretty amazing for someone like a real estate agent, assuming one could make it actually usable for a potentially non-techie audience. -- J. Eric jet Townsend -- designer, fabricator, hacker design: www.allartburns.org; hacking: www.flatline.net; HF: KG6ZVQ PGP: 0xD0D8C2E8 AC9B 0A23 C61A 1B4A 27C5 F799 A681 3C11 D0D8 C2E8 Welcome to the Interaction Design Association (IxDA)! To post to this list ... disc...@ixda.org Unsubscribe http://www.ixda.org/unsubscribe List Guidelines http://www.ixda.org/guidelines List Help .. http://www.ixda.org/help
Re: [IxDA Discuss] HTC hero - what are your thoughts?
I haven't gotten to play with one yet, but (on my G1) I really like the haptic feedback they added in 1.5 for things like the screen unlock and other touch events. -- J. Eric jet Townsend -- designer, fabricator, hacker design: www.allartburns.org; hacking: www.flatline.net; HF: KG6ZVQ PGP: 0xD0D8C2E8 AC9B 0A23 C61A 1B4A 27C5 F799 A681 3C11 D0D8 C2E8 Welcome to the Interaction Design Association (IxDA)! To post to this list ... disc...@ixda.org Unsubscribe http://www.ixda.org/unsubscribe List Guidelines http://www.ixda.org/guidelines List Help .. http://www.ixda.org/help
Re: [IxDA Discuss] Getting a start in IxD from a technical background
Mark Goetz wrote: I'm looking for my first job in interaction design or something similar, having recently earned my Master of Science degree in HCI. I'm having a bit of difficulty with the job search, in part because I have a background in computer science and most of my experience is in web development. I'm looking at a similar situation, and the advice I've been getting (and that I plan on following :-) is to build a portfolio that shows my design chops. It might mean keeping my day job as an engineer and doing projects on the side for friends or on the cheap for charity organizations, but I need to show that my design skills are good enough to hire me as a designer first, coder second. -- J. Eric jet Townsend -- designer, fabricator, hacker design: www.allartburns.org; hacking: www.flatline.net; HF: KG6ZVQ PGP: 0xD0D8C2E8 AC9B 0A23 C61A 1B4A 27C5 F799 A681 3C11 D0D8 C2E8 Welcome to the Interaction Design Association (IxDA)! To post to this list ... disc...@ixda.org Unsubscribe http://www.ixda.org/unsubscribe List Guidelines http://www.ixda.org/guidelines List Help .. http://www.ixda.org/help
[IxDA Discuss] Macrovision's Rovi
Looks like Macrovision decided there is real money to be made in the licensed-UI department: http://www.engadgethd.com/2009/07/16/macrovision-re-invents-itself-as-rovi-kicks-off-with-new-guide/ -- J. Eric jet Townsend -- designer, fabricator, hacker design: www.allartburns.org; hacking: www.flatline.net; HF: KG6ZVQ PGP: 0xD0D8C2E8 AC9B 0A23 C61A 1B4A 27C5 F799 A681 3C11 D0D8 C2E8 Welcome to the Interaction Design Association (IxDA)! To post to this list ... disc...@ixda.org Unsubscribe http://www.ixda.org/unsubscribe List Guidelines http://www.ixda.org/guidelines List Help .. http://www.ixda.org/help
Re: [IxDA Discuss] Colors and Usability
Also remember that some users might need to change to colors that a designer might consider non-optimal.There's a strong belief that dark-on-white text is best for screen, but for those of us that are light sensitive, green or orange on black is best if we're manipulating large amounts of text. --jet Michael Micheletti wrote: A couple more links for you: Colorblindness simulator: http://colororacle.cartography.ch/ Accessibility in Interaction Design course at the Open University: http://openlearn.open.ac.uk/course/view.php?id=2057 NASA/Ames Research Center - Designing with Luminance Contrast: http://colorusage.arc.nasa.gov/design_lum_0.php These guys have great info and examples at their site, recommended. Michael Micheletti On Tue, Jul 14, 2009 at 11:24 PM, C K Vijay Bhaskar ckvijaybhas...@gmail.com wrote: One of the sites that talks on color and usability is : http://www.colormatters.com/usability.html. You can also google for more info on this topic. About the color and download speed: The fact is that any information over the internet is just binary data that is processed via the user's computer. The speed would depend on the connection speed, the inflow of color information, the ability of the browser to decipher the color based on its internal algorithm and properties and finally the ability of the graphic chip on the mother board to aid in the processing of the color on the user's screen. With the current advancement of technology, all this happens in a matter of milliseconds or less. Hope this helps. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Posted from the new ixda.org http://www.ixda.org/discuss?post=43732 Welcome to the Interaction Design Association (IxDA)! To post to this list ... disc...@ixda.org Unsubscribe http://www.ixda.org/unsubscribe List Guidelines http://www.ixda.org/guidelines List Help .. http://www.ixda.org/help -- J. Eric jet Townsend -- designer, fabricator, hacker design: www.allartburns.org; hacking: www.flatline.net; HF: KG6ZVQ PGP: 0xD0D8C2E8 AC9B 0A23 C61A 1B4A 27C5 F799 A681 3C11 D0D8 C2E8 Welcome to the Interaction Design Association (IxDA)! To post to this list ... disc...@ixda.org Unsubscribe http://www.ixda.org/unsubscribe List Guidelines http://www.ixda.org/guidelines List Help .. http://www.ixda.org/help
Re: [IxDA Discuss] Carnegie Mellon Admission Questions
Kevin Tu wrote: Not sure how heavily weighted GRE scores are for their Graduate Interaction Design program is, but can someone speak of an average or range of successful applicants? While I honestly have no idea (I didn't know they required GRE, even), I did take classes with many students in the program. Everyone I interacted with was pretty bright at a minimum, with a fair number of the students being scary bright. As in, Oh crap, I have to present after them? Why bother? I'm guessing that portfolio and work experience must play a significant part of people getting in, as pretty much everyone had substantial skills to go along with being smart and driven. I don't remember anyone being book-smart-but-useless on team projects. -- J. Eric jet Townsend -- designer, fabricator, hacker design: www.allartburns.org; hacking: www.flatline.net; HF: KG6ZVQ PGP: 0xD0D8C2E8 AC9B 0A23 C61A 1B4A 27C5 F799 A681 3C11 D0D8 C2E8 Welcome to the Interaction Design Association (IxDA)! To post to this list ... disc...@ixda.org Unsubscribe http://www.ixda.org/unsubscribe List Guidelines http://www.ixda.org/guidelines List Help .. http://www.ixda.org/help
Re: [IxDA Discuss] Interaction design can affect everyone, not just people who own a computer. What does this mean for IxD?
I think the problem is that we (I'm a USAian) tend to care less about our fellow humans and more about whatever specific product we're trying to sell and the bottom line. I just spent two weeks in Tokyo and I often felt like someone actually cared about me, even during impersonal interactions with computers. It's not that Japan has better interaction designers than us, it's just that someone actually seemed to care about me as a person when they were putting things together. (footnote: if you're in Tokyo, go to Toyota Mega Web and check out the Universal Design museum/showroom.) Compare my Japan experience to last week here in the states when I was basically forced to use a self-checkout at a box store because they had closed all the human-operated registers. The business didn't care about me on multiple levels, and if they actually hired designers, those people didn't care much about me either. In the end, not only was the interaction pretty poorly done leaving me an unhappy customer, but the box store used it as a way to replace several humans who could have helped me have a good experience. On the other hand, I have had the joy(?) of working for a number of companies where the CEO and exec staff and their families used or relied upon the product the company produced. Without breaking past NDA, I can easily say that when the families of the exec staff rely upon the product, the product is much better than it would have been if we only had customers. David Rondeau wrote: So what can we do right now as members of IxDA? It's what we can start doing right now as people. We need to start taking personal responsibility for how our work (design or otherwise) changes the lives of others. 1. Change our own thinking. Stop designing for customers and users and start designing for people we care about: our best friends, our parents, our kids, etc. How differently would you do something if you knew your kid had to use it every day, or if an elderly relative would have to rely upon it? Forget your freakin persona for a few minutes and imagine someone you know similar to that persona using it and calling you to tell you what they thought about. (And if you don't know anyone like your persona, how do you know your persona is correct or that your design is correct for that persona?) 2. Convince our clients to change their thinking as well. As a person coming from the privacy and security area, I've discovered that my clients and coworkers often change their opinion about our product when I make it personal to them instead of about an abstract customer. It's not a matter of arguing with them, leading by example and showing how much better a product or experience could be. -- J. Eric jet Townsend -- designer, fabricator, hacker design: www.allartburns.org; hacking: www.flatline.net; HF: KG6ZVQ PGP: 0xD0D8C2E8 AC9B 0A23 C61A 1B4A 27C5 F799 A681 3C11 D0D8 C2E8 Welcome to the Interaction Design Association (IxDA)! To post to this list ... disc...@ixda.org Unsubscribe http://www.ixda.org/unsubscribe List Guidelines http://www.ixda.org/guidelines List Help .. http://www.ixda.org/help
Re: [IxDA Discuss] How could I deal with my ex-employer for not releasing the design work I\'d done?
mark schraad wrote: The ugly reality here is that if you were an employee or a work-for-hire contractor you have no rights to access or show that work. Doesn't it depend on the contract? I've gotten away with using a photographer's contract that allows me to replicate things in my portfolio. And I know that as a client, I've signed off on contracts that let the designers use our deliverables in their portfolios. -- J. Eric jet Townsend -- designer, fabricator, hacker design: www.allartburns.org; hacking: www.flatline.net; HF: KG6ZVQ PGP: 0xD0D8C2E8 AC9B 0A23 C61A 1B4A 27C5 F799 A681 3C11 D0D8 C2E8 Welcome to the Interaction Design Association (IxDA)! To post to this list ... disc...@ixda.org Unsubscribe http://www.ixda.org/unsubscribe List Guidelines http://www.ixda.org/guidelines List Help .. http://www.ixda.org/help
Re: [IxDA Discuss] Are We The Puppet Masters? The Ethics of IxD.
Jared Spool wrote: Then Dr. John's Products released a line of children's power toothbrushes. (Subsequently acquired by Proctor Gamble.) The battery powered devices only have an On switch and automatically turn off after 3 minutes. The 3 minute run time forces the child to brush the entire period. To be pedantic, it forces the motor to run for 3 minutes. It certainly doesn't weld itself to the child's hand, take over their neurons, and force the toothbrush into the child's mouth. Children who use the toothbrush regularly demonstrate substantial better long-term oral health than children who don't. The real question is: why do they use it? Is it simply because the motor is on and it's fun? Because they know how long to use it? If the former, is there a less environmentally stressful way to make it fun? If the latter, would a simple egg timer have worked just as well and saved on natural resources? Sure, convincing kids to brush their teeth is something we can probably all agree is good, but is making a battery powered toothbrush the right way to go about it? What's the fully-loaded cost of that bit of kit compared to a traditional toothbrush + a little parent/child education? Would simply asking the parent to brush their teeth at the same time as their child solve the problem while creating a positive parent-child interaction? -- J. Eric jet Townsend -- designer, fabricator, hacker design: www.allartburns.org; hacking: www.flatline.net; HF: KG6ZVQ PGP: 0xD0D8C2E8 AC9B 0A23 C61A 1B4A 27C5 F799 A681 3C11 D0D8 C2E8 Welcome to the Interaction Design Association (IxDA)! To post to this list ... disc...@ixda.org Unsubscribe http://www.ixda.org/unsubscribe List Guidelines http://www.ixda.org/guidelines List Help .. http://www.ixda.org/help
[IxDA Discuss] game timers (was Re: Are We The Puppet Masters? The Ethics of IxD.
Brian Mila wrote: Civilization would display a message saying You've been playing for 3 hours, take a break. Naturally, I dismissed the dialog and I think Everquest was the first commercial MMORPG with the /played option that told you how long you'd been playing. I knew people who had something like 80 played days in a single year. One of my friends quit playing EQ when he realized out how many 24 hour days he'd spent in front of the computer other people posted their /played times as a badge of honor. -- J. Eric jet Townsend -- designer, fabricator, hacker design: www.allartburns.org; hacking: www.flatline.net; HF: KG6ZVQ PGP: 0xD0D8C2E8 AC9B 0A23 C61A 1B4A 27C5 F799 A681 3C11 D0D8 C2E8 Welcome to the Interaction Design Association (IxDA)! To post to this list ... disc...@ixda.org Unsubscribe http://www.ixda.org/unsubscribe List Guidelines http://www.ixda.org/guidelines List Help .. http://www.ixda.org/help
Re: [IxDA Discuss] Are We The Puppet Masters? The Ethics of IxD.
Jared Spool wrote: Over the past 20+ years, the ADA has tried a variety of solutions. Nothing has been as successful as the introduction of children's powered toothbrushes. Now, you can debate whether they missed something or the resulting design is somehow suboptimal. However, that misses the point of this discussion. Actually, I was off on a bit of a tangent, I was wondering out loud why motorized toothbrushes work and if there isn't a better way to implement that functionality. Has anyone other than the ADA studied this in other cultures, and what were their results? Is the mechanism really a complex one of subtle manipulation or is it simple novelty that makes it work? -- J. Eric jet Townsend -- designer, fabricator, hacker design: www.allartburns.org; hacking: www.flatline.net; HF: KG6ZVQ PGP: 0xD0D8C2E8 AC9B 0A23 C61A 1B4A 27C5 F799 A681 3C11 D0D8 C2E8 Welcome to the Interaction Design Association (IxDA)! To post to this list ... disc...@ixda.org Unsubscribe http://www.ixda.org/unsubscribe List Guidelines http://www.ixda.org/guidelines List Help .. http://www.ixda.org/help
Re: [IxDA Discuss] Are We The Puppet Masters? The Ethics of IxD.
Brad Nunnally wrote: Control is simply the absence of that choice. I always use supermarkets in the US as an example of controlling their customers behavior. On average, the most common thing people want when going to a supermarket is milk. The managers know this, and put it as far away as possible from the entrance, forcing customer to walk past other products. Customer just don't have the choice to by-pass other products, and their path is controlled by the store (to a certain extent). Supermarkets are a wonderful place to find this sort of thing. My favorite example is the on sale, limit N sign. Marketing types figured out that if the store puts a big on sale, limit N sign over something instead of a on sale sign, customers are more likely to buy N items than just one or two items. Is that simply good marketing or is it an unethical attempt to get people to do something they wouldn't normally do? -- J. Eric Townsend, IDSA Designer, Fabricator, Hacker design: www.allartburns.org; hacking: www.flatline.net; HF: KG6ZVQ PGP: 0xD0D8C2E8 AC9B 0A23 C61A 1B4A 27C5 F799 A681 3C11 D0D8 C2E8 Welcome to the Interaction Design Association (IxDA)! To post to this list ... disc...@ixda.org Unsubscribe http://www.ixda.org/unsubscribe List Guidelines http://www.ixda.org/guidelines List Help .. http://www.ixda.org/help
Re: [IxDA Discuss] We don\'t make consumer products, hence no need for a User Centered Design development process.
On Wed, August 26, 2009 08:18, Asbjorn wrote: Consumers don't equal users. Customers do. That's not universally true, especially here in the US. Motorola's customer for mobile phones are the carriers, not the end users. When Verizon had Motorola disable Bluetooth on the RAZR, it wasn't to benefit the end user (me), it was to benefit Verizon so they could sell me data transfer over the network by the byte. Another example is cable boxes -- I don't really have any say in the features of a STB, the cable company works with Scientific Atlanta or whomever to develop the features of the box.(Granted, CableCARD will change this dynamic quite a bit.) -- J. Eric 'jet' Townsend, IDSA Designer, Fabricator, Hacker design: www.allartburns.org; hacking: www.flatline.net; HF: KG6ZVQ PGP: 0xD0D8C2E8 AC9B 0A23 C61A 1B4A 27C5 F799 A681 3C11 D0D8 C2E8 Welcome to the Interaction Design Association (IxDA)! To post to this list ... disc...@ixda.org Unsubscribe http://www.ixda.org/unsubscribe List Guidelines http://www.ixda.org/guidelines List Help .. http://www.ixda.org/help
Re: [IxDA Discuss] We don\'t make consumer products, hence no need for a User Centered Design development process.
Jordan, Courtney wrote: People need to make an emergency call in as little time as possible - as you said, it can make the difference between living to tell this story and not. And that emergency call could just as easily be a senior who fell down the stairs in their home or a cyclist who crashed off the side of steep hill and mangled themselves pretty severely on the way down. -- J. E. 'jet' Townsend, IDSA Designer, Fabricator, Hacker design: www.allartburns.org; hacking: www.flatline.net; HF: KG6ZVQ PGP: 0xD0D8C2E8 AC9B 0A23 C61A 1B4A 27C5 F799 A681 3C11 D0D8 C2E8 Welcome to the Interaction Design Association (IxDA)! To post to this list ... disc...@ixda.org Unsubscribe http://www.ixda.org/unsubscribe List Guidelines http://www.ixda.org/guidelines List Help .. http://www.ixda.org/help
Re: [IxDA Discuss] We don\'t make consumer products, hence no need for a User Centered Design development process.
Joan Vermette wrote: With my old phone in that instance, I would have quickly dialed 911 and kept my thumb poised over the call button. The motion involved in that would have been: Flipping open phone. Feeling for raised keys on a keypad very like every other phone I've had since 1978. Glancing down for the call button. Placing my thumb on it. Holding phone in my hand. Exactly. We (USAians) haven't improved the mobile phone experience, we've turned computer-tethered PDAs into substandard mobile phones. I recently spent two weeks in Japan and spent a fair amount of time playing with their kick-ass phones and watching people use them around the country. Softbank has to give away iPhones, that's how much better Japanese ketai are than what we have in the states. Don't believe me? When's the last time you paid for your subway or lunch or vending machine with your iPhone? When's the last time you watched broadcast HDTV on your iPhone, or used your iPhone *instead of* owning a personal computer or laptop? Pretty much every phone I checked out had raised buttons, including the ones with 16:9 HD capable screens. I miss being able to blind-dial on my G1, while I saw plenty of Japanese people doing it while walking or riding the subway with cheaper phones. IMHO, replacing physical buttons with a touch-screen UI falls into the just because we can, doesn't mean we should bucket. -- J. E. 'jet' Townsend, IDSA Designer, Fabricator, Hacker design: www.allartburns.org; hacking: www.flatline.net; HF: KG6ZVQ PGP: 0xD0D8C2E8 AC9B 0A23 C61A 1B4A 27C5 F799 A681 3C11 D0D8 C2E8 Welcome to the Interaction Design Association (IxDA)! To post to this list ... disc...@ixda.org Unsubscribe http://www.ixda.org/unsubscribe List Guidelines http://www.ixda.org/guidelines List Help .. http://www.ixda.org/help
[IxDA Discuss] profit centered design
Adrian Howard wrote: And, a Todd says, if the majority of your customer base isn't replacing batteries - is it customer focussed to add a feature that they don't want or need? If you take away the choice before they ever have it, how do you know they want it? What if what the majority wants isn't actually good, or is not good for the customer base as a whole? Is every design nuance of the iPhone based on what the majority of the users wanted or what Jobs/Ives and the bizdev people at Apple wanted? The Android G1 has a battery that's easy to replace, which means I can carry a spare on the road or buy an extra-capacity one. It's an option I have, and there's enough people doing it that there are plenty of aftermarket batteries available. It doesn't make the phone any less reliable, I've dropped mine plenty of times and it's never fallen apart. (It's certainly never caught on fire or imploded or any such thing.) There are also enough iPhone owners interested in replacing the battery in their iPhone/iPod that there are outfits selling replacement batteries and upgrade kits online. Is it customer focused to make it difficult for the user to change the battery if the battery dies out of warranty and to make upgrade to a new model the repair option? (And haven't we learn anything from the planned obsolescence model of the US auto industry?) It's certainly good business sense to make repair difficult -- when the battery died in my 60G iPod, they wanted to give me %10 off a new iPod if I'd recycle the old one. Let's see, I can pay $360 for the current version of my iPod that holds slightly more music or replace a battery that probably costs $10. Which is the better deal for me and which is the better deal for Apple? I ended up getting a battery online for less than $20 with shipping, if you're handy with tools it's a trivial thing to replace. An Apple Store Genius could easily swap out a battery in less than 5 minutes, test it, and I'd have happily paid $25-50 for them to do it. -- J. E. 'jet' Townsend, IDSA Designer, Fabricator, Hacker design: www.allartburns.org; hacking: www.flatline.net; HF: KG6ZVQ PGP: 0xD0D8C2E8 AC9B 0A23 C61A 1B4A 27C5 F799 A681 3C11 D0D8 C2E8 Welcome to the Interaction Design Association (IxDA)! To post to this list ... disc...@ixda.org Unsubscribe http://www.ixda.org/unsubscribe List Guidelines http://www.ixda.org/guidelines List Help .. http://www.ixda.org/help
Re: [IxDA Discuss] Golden oldies: pre-web-era book recommendations
Murray Thompson wrote: 'Design for the Real World' by Victor Papanek (from 1971) Ethics for design, including ecological and sustainability principles I'd suggest the revised edition with Papanek's extensive updates. -- J. E. 'jet' Townsend, IDSA Designer, Fabricator, Hacker design: www.allartburns.org; hacking: www.flatline.net; HF: KG6ZVQ PGP: 0xD0D8C2E8 AC9B 0A23 C61A 1B4A 27C5 F799 A681 3C11 D0D8 C2E8 Welcome to the Interaction Design Association (IxDA)! To post to this list ... disc...@ixda.org Unsubscribe http://www.ixda.org/unsubscribe List Guidelines http://www.ixda.org/guidelines List Help .. http://www.ixda.org/help
Re: [IxDA Discuss] Google Maps Navigation Beta on Android
greg wrote: New version of Google maps navigation is pretty amazing. Take a look at this techcrunch write up. Navigation UI is worthless if the map data sucks. Google has dumped their prior vendor for map data and as of late their maps are often wrong to the point of being totally useless. I spent ~30 minutes last week trying to get from A Street to B Street only to discover that they never actually intersect, even tho google said they do. Likewise, people visiting our house are now told to drive a 1-lane dirt road up the back-side of a hill instead of taking the next road, a 2-lane paved road. Why? Because the current map data doesn't differentiate between a 2-lane paved road and a 1-lane dirt road. -- J. E. 'jet' Townsend, IDSA Designer, Fabricator, Hacker design: www.allartburns.org; hacking: www.flatline.net; HF: KG6ZVQ PGP: 0xD0D8C2E8 AC9B 0A23 C61A 1B4A 27C5 F799 A681 3C11 D0D8 C2E8 Welcome to the Interaction Design Association (IxDA)! To post to this list ... disc...@ixda.org Unsubscribe http://www.ixda.org/unsubscribe List Guidelines http://www.ixda.org/guidelines List Help .. http://www.ixda.org/help
Re: [IxDA Discuss] The newest generation of IxDers and our (lack of) exposure
David Farkas wrote: With that in mind I ask what are we, the new generation of designers, missing from the puzzle? Speaking from my experience as an engineer working with designers, history of the domain. Nobody can be an expert on everything, obviously, but you should know something about the history of the domain where you want to work. If you sell yourself as a designer in the PDA/smartphone space, it would behoove you to know how Palm helped General Magic commit business suicide or why the EO had ears that also held all the ports. Speaking as a recent student of design and thinking about my classmates, I think it's a love of a specific field (which probably gets you history of the field for free). The type nerds I met in design school spent their spare time reading about type, not playing sports. The guys (always guys :-) I knew who were into automotive design spent their free time working on cars, looking at cars, driving cars, etc. One thing I'm personally interested in is how non-designers will build toasters the way non-designers started being able to make posters after the advent of desktop publishing. As a fan of reflect on doing, I've decided to do and bought a cheap 3D FDM printer (http://www.makerbot.com) that I'm setting up and attempting to use as a normal household appliance. -- J. E. 'jet' Townsend, IDSA Designer, Fabricator, Hacker design: www.allartburns.org; hacking: www.flatline.net; HF: KG6ZVQ PGP: 0xD0D8C2E8 AC9B 0A23 C61A 1B4A 27C5 F799 A681 3C11 D0D8 C2E8 Welcome to the Interaction Design Association (IxDA)! To post to this list ... disc...@ixda.org Unsubscribe http://www.ixda.org/unsubscribe List Guidelines http://www.ixda.org/guidelines List Help .. http://www.ixda.org/help
Re: [IxDA Discuss] Process Books
Dan Zollman wrote: The CMU page seems to refer to design notebooks rather than deliverables. The others appear to have a strong focus on layout and graphic/information design, but they have the same types of content that I'd put in a design report. Process was a deliverable within class -- when you turn in an assignment you also have to turn in all of your process along with it. Some of us kept multiple sketchbooks because grading might not happen right away and we didn't want to be sans sketchbook. The ID types leaned towards traditional sketchbooks, the CD types seemed to have more formal portfolios filled with process. -- J. E. 'jet' Townsend, IDSA Designer, Fabricator, Hacker design: www.allartburns.org; hacking: www.flatline.net; HF: KG6ZVQ PGP: 0xD0D8C2E8 AC9B 0A23 C61A 1B4A 27C5 F799 A681 3C11 D0D8 C2E8 Welcome to the Interaction Design Association (IxDA)! To post to this list ... disc...@ixda.org Unsubscribe http://www.ixda.org/unsubscribe List Guidelines http://www.ixda.org/guidelines List Help .. http://www.ixda.org/help
Re: [IxDA Discuss] Selling Interaction 10 to Management
FWIW, I'm paying for it out of my own pocket and taking vacation days to go. When I get back I'll do a presentation on what I learned and hope it impresses them enough to pay for next year's trip. --jet David Shaw wrote: Thanks everyone for their comments. I'm actually surprised there hasn't been more discussion around this topic, but maybe that's because of the current economic state. David On Tue, Dec 1, 2009 at 3:20 AM, Michele Marut mmaru...@gmail.com wrote: Hi David, STC often provides this type of advice. Benefits Networking Support/reinforcement Shortcuts Alternate solutions Knowledge New Technologies Why not? Short staffed Will be out of the office Not in budget Can%u2019t send everyone It%u2019s never been done before What%u2019s in it for the company? The Proposal Process May be written, verbal, or some combination of both Anticipate the questions your company/boss/CFO will ask Ask at least one colleague to review it before submission from - http://74.125.93.132/search?q=cache:PYAGASZ-q4YJ:www.stcmidtenn.org/MeetingNotes/Presentations/STC's%20Annual%20Conference%20Experience.ppthttp://74.125.93.132/search?q=cache:PYAGASZ-q4YJ:www.stcmidtenn.org/MeetingNotes/Presentations/STC%27s%20Annual%20Conference%20Experience.ppt stc boss annual conferencecd=1hl=enct=clnkgl=usclient=safari See also - http://www.stc.org/intercom/PDFs/2007/200712_28.pdf I agree with the tip about having someone else read your proposal. - Michele . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Posted from the new ixda.org http://www.ixda.org/discuss?post=47711 Welcome to the Interaction Design Association (IxDA)! To post to this list ... disc...@ixda.org Unsubscribe http://www.ixda.org/unsubscribe List Guidelines http://www.ixda.org/guidelines List Help .. http://www.ixda.org/help -- J. E. 'jet' Townsend, IDSA Designer, Fabricator, Hacker design: www.allartburns.org; hacking: www.flatline.net; HF: KG6ZVQ PGP: 0xD0D8C2E8 AC9B 0A23 C61A 1B4A 27C5 F799 A681 3C11 D0D8 C2E8 Welcome to the Interaction Design Association (IxDA)! To post to this list ... disc...@ixda.org Unsubscribe http://www.ixda.org/unsubscribe List Guidelines http://www.ixda.org/guidelines List Help .. http://www.ixda.org/help
Re: [IxDA Discuss] Mint (ok now Intuit) CEO gets it
Jared Spool wrote: How does one show value for quality? How does one show value for technology? How does one show value for service? Answer those questions and you'll know how one shows value for design. Here's an example that's probably terribly uninteresting to most designers: post-sales customer support. Customer support is a huge cash suck for consumer electronics and software companies. A call to customer support answered by a human can easily cost $10, much more if that human has to be technically sophisticated and do more than follow a script.Let's say you're selling a video game or a monthly service for $50. A single call to CS just zero'd any profit. Multiple calls put you in the negative. If you end up having to roll a truck to the customer, you're probably in a world of hurt. If you can figure out a way to lower the cost of customer support using better design, you will get attention from execs. Find out what customer support is costing them across the board -- returned products, customer retention, phone bank and web site costs -- and show how you can lower those costs with better design. Maybe it's a better help forum, maybe it's a better phone tree, maybe it's better scripts for the CS reps. Sure, making the product better might lower costs in the next release, but that's speculation and not easily measured. Show that good design can cut costs in a well-understood and closely watched area of the business and maybe it will be easier to convince them of how good design can increase profits on the intake side of the business. -- J. E. 'jet' Townsend, IDSA Designer, Fabricator, Hacker design: www.allartburns.org; hacking: www.flatline.net; HF: KG6ZVQ PGP: 0xD0D8C2E8 AC9B 0A23 C61A 1B4A 27C5 F799 A681 3C11 D0D8 C2E8 Welcome to the Interaction Design Association (IxDA)! To post to this list ... disc...@ixda.org Unsubscribe http://www.ixda.org/unsubscribe List Guidelines http://www.ixda.org/guidelines List Help .. http://www.ixda.org/help
Re: [IxDA Discuss] Mint (ok now Intuit) CEO gets it
Evan Meagher wrote: about the complexity of customer service is a good example of this. If you stick to solid design and UX principles to make things easy to use out of the box, you'll prevent having to screw around with unproductive business practices later on. It's not just about reducing the number of calls, but reducing the cost of those calls. I worked on a project once where the less technical customers would call CS after every software upgrade to let us know the upgrade happened without any problems. -- J. E. 'jet' Townsend, IDSA Designer, Fabricator, Hacker design: www.allartburns.org; hacking: www.flatline.net; HF: KG6ZVQ PGP: 0xD0D8C2E8 AC9B 0A23 C61A 1B4A 27C5 F799 A681 3C11 D0D8 C2E8 Welcome to the Interaction Design Association (IxDA)! To post to this list ... disc...@ixda.org Unsubscribe http://www.ixda.org/unsubscribe List Guidelines http://www.ixda.org/guidelines List Help .. http://www.ixda.org/help
Re: [IxDA Discuss] are we an early indicator of economic recovery?
shelly wrote: I think its more an indicator that people are realising the need more for our line of work, which does not necessarily go hand in hand with the need for other professions. Companies have realised to survive they need to look at the best way to move their business forward. In a similar vein, none of the security engineers (coding or sysadmin) that I know have seen any real lack of work before or during the most recent downturn. The only person I know who had trouble finding work was a senior person looking for a senior position within a fixed distance from his house, and even he found something in a couple of months. -- J. E. 'jet' Townsend, IDSA Designer, Fabricator, Hacker design: www.allartburns.org; hacking: www.flatline.net; HF: KG6ZVQ PGP: 0xD0D8C2E8 AC9B 0A23 C61A 1B4A 27C5 F799 A681 3C11 D0D8 C2E8 Welcome to the Interaction Design Association (IxDA)! To post to this list ... disc...@ixda.org Unsubscribe http://www.ixda.org/unsubscribe List Guidelines http://www.ixda.org/guidelines List Help .. http://www.ixda.org/help
[IxDA Discuss] nomadic/cycling/research BOF at ixda10?
I'm working on a cycling-related portfolilo project and looking for people to share notes with. If you're interested in or working on things related to unsupported/untethered cycling, nomadic lifestyles, or testing products where the rubber-hits-the-road, let's get together and share notes. also posted to crowdvine at: http://interaction10.crowdvine.com/posts/7948739 -- J. E. 'jet' Townsend, IDSA Designer, Fabricator, Hacker design: www.allartburns.org; hacking: www.flatline.net; HF: KG6ZVQ PGP: 0xD0D8C2E8 AC9B 0A23 C61A 1B4A 27C5 F799 A681 3C11 D0D8 C2E8 Welcome to the Interaction Design Association (IxDA)! To post to this list ... disc...@ixda.org Unsubscribe http://www.ixda.org/unsubscribe List Guidelines http://www.ixda.org/guidelines List Help .. http://www.ixda.org/help
Re: [IxDA Discuss] [anthrodesign] Norman replies to Nussbaum
Jarod Tang wrote: Take for example food preservation. Before refrigerator ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Refrigerator#History), food is preserved by baking it or natural ice. Or pickling, canning, salting, etc. -- J. E. 'jet' Townsend, IDSA Designer, Fabricator, Hacker design: www.allartburns.org; hacking: www.flatline.net; HF: KG6ZVQ PGP: 0xD0D8C2E8 AC9B 0A23 C61A 1B4A 27C5 F799 A681 3C11 D0D8 C2E8 Welcome to the Interaction Design Association (IxDA)! To post to this list ... disc...@ixda.org Unsubscribe http://www.ixda.org/unsubscribe List Guidelines http://www.ixda.org/guidelines List Help .. http://www.ixda.org/help
Re: [IxDA Discuss] PINs for passwords
PINs aren't actually that secure. They can be easily compromised in all sorts of ways, do a search for ATM pin vulnerability or ATM pin theft for gory details. -- J. E. 'jet' Townsend, IDSA Designer, Fabricator, Hacker design: www.allartburns.org; hacking: www.flatline.net; HF: KG6ZVQ PGP: 0xD0D8C2E8 AC9B 0A23 C61A 1B4A 27C5 F799 A681 3C11 D0D8 C2E8 Welcome to the Interaction Design Association (IxDA)! To post to this list ... disc...@ixda.org Unsubscribe http://www.ixda.org/unsubscribe List Guidelines http://www.ixda.org/guidelines List Help .. http://www.ixda.org/help
Re: [IxDA Discuss] nomadic/cycling/research BOF at ixda10?
dave malouf wrote: There are quite a few SCAD IDUS cycling enthusiasts who have done projects for me in the past in this area. As classes are starting next week, I'll try to spread the word around a bit in case they aren't reading here (though they should be). -- dave Sweet! -- J. E. 'jet' Townsend, IDSA Designer, Fabricator, Hacker design: www.allartburns.org; hacking: www.flatline.net; HF: KG6ZVQ PGP: 0xD0D8C2E8 AC9B 0A23 C61A 1B4A 27C5 F799 A681 3C11 D0D8 C2E8 Welcome to the Interaction Design Association (IxDA)! To post to this list ... disc...@ixda.org Unsubscribe http://www.ixda.org/unsubscribe List Guidelines http://www.ixda.org/guidelines List Help .. http://www.ixda.org/help
Re: [IxDA Discuss] Thought experiment: Law against usability that's TOO good?
R. Groot wrote: Companies like Google and Apple have gotten so skilled in getting it right, in having such an outstanding user experience, that we are drawn to their products like months to a flame. They're also skilled in buying companies who got it right and burying it when they get it wrong. How many Google products were developed by Google and how many were purchased? Used Froogle lately? Do you use Google Video or do you use Youtube? How's your iPod Hi-Fi, hockey puck mouse, or G4 Cube working out? -- J. E. 'jet' Townsend, IDSA Designer, Fabricator, Hacker design: www.allartburns.org; hacking: www.flatline.net; HF: KG6ZVQ PGP: 0xD0D8C2E8 AC9B 0A23 C61A 1B4A 27C5 F799 A681 3C11 D0D8 C2E8 Welcome to the Interaction Design Association (IxDA)! To post to this list ... disc...@ixda.org Unsubscribe http://www.ixda.org/unsubscribe List Guidelines http://www.ixda.org/guidelines List Help .. http://www.ixda.org/help
Re: [IxDA Discuss] Thought experiment: Law against usability that's TOO good?
R. Groot wrote: Companies like Google and Apple have gotten so skilled in getting it right, in having such an outstanding user experience, that we are drawn to their products like months to a flame. They're also skilled in buying companies who got it right and burying it when they get it wrong. How many Google products were developed by Google and how many were purchased? Used Froogle lately? Do you use Google Video or do you use Youtube? How's your iPod Hi-Fi, hockey puck mouse, or G4 Cube working out? -- J. E. 'jet' Townsend, IDSA Designer, Fabricator, Hacker design: www.allartburns.org; hacking: www.flatline.net; HF: KG6ZVQ PGP: 0xD0D8C2E8 AC9B 0A23 C61A 1B4A 27C5 F799 A681 3C11 D0D8 C2E8 Welcome to the Interaction Design Association (IxDA)! To post to this list ... disc...@ixda.org Unsubscribe http://www.ixda.org/unsubscribe List Guidelines http://www.ixda.org/guidelines List Help .. http://www.ixda.org/help
