This list is for people who want to discuss issues, theories, methods, etc. about interaction design practice. http://www.ixda.org Custom http://www.ixda.org/discuss.php?post=33972#33972 Peter Boersma Peter Boersma. Jonas wrote: Or, in short: User Centered *Design*, not Engineering. Peter -- Peter Boersma | Senior Interaction Designer | Info.nl http://www.peterboersma.com/blog | http://www.info.nl ... October 7, 2008 3:41am http://www.ixda.org/discuss.php?post=33971.0243#33971.0243 Craig Pickering Craig Pickering. >>In the latter case, there's usually an intention of creating some baseline that often can't be met because what's lacking is simply good designers on the job. Good designers consistently do two things: 1) Define and understand the problem... October 7, 2008 2:43am http://www.ixda.org/discuss.php?post=33971#33971 Jonas Löwgren Jonas Löwgren. Jared provides a fine summary of the history of UCD. I believe the most important point to be that UCD is fundamentally rooted in usability, utility, goals and tasks -- most often work-related and externally motivated.... October 6, 2008 11:38pm http://www.ixda.org/discuss.php?post=33970#33970 Sachin Ghodke Sachin Ghodke. When I viewed what Oleh has done for Microsoft, it gave me the impression that I was looking at a table of contents / index of a book (no offense meant). A not so comfortable feeling when I was... October 6, 2008 10:05pm http://www.ixda.org/discuss.php?post=33967#33967 Joshua Seiden Joshua Seiden. Hi Mary, Thanks for your questions. I've actually just returned from Vancouver where the IxDA Board of Directors was meeting to plan our next conference (Interaction '09!) and to reaffirm our organizational mission. So your questions come at a... October 6, 2008 6:53pm http://www.ixda.org/discuss.php?post=33968#33968 Kontra Kontra. These apply pretty much to *all* disciplines, not just to design or its sub-domains. -- Kontra http://counternotions.com ... October 6, 2008 6:30pm http://www.ixda.org/discuss.php?post=33966#33966 Jared Spool Jared Spool. On Oct 6, 2008, at 7:19 PM, Andrei Herasimchuk wrote: GIRL FIGHT! GIRL FIGHT! (It had to be said. With apologies to all the real girls out there.) Andrei is correct. UCD had nothing to do... October 6, 2008 6:28pm http://www.ixda.org/discuss.php?post=33965#33965 Itamar Medeiros Itamar Medeiros. There was a very interesting post on Luke Wroblewski (are you reading this, Luke? ) entitled "Factors Limiting the Organizational Influence of Design" (http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/FunctioningForm/~3/405788516/entry.asp); His conclusions are based on his experience of presenting the "Influencing Strategy by Design" workshop... October 6, 2008 6:14pm http://www.ixda.org/discuss.php?post=33964 Chris Noessel Chris Noessel. Aside from hate on User Centered Design, and perhaps more seriously, the looming global economy crisis, I'm interesting in hearing what IxDAers think are the largest problems facing the IxD practice today. Anyone have any thoughts? Chris ... October 6, 2008 5:28pm http://www.ixda.org/discuss.php?post=33969 Paul Turner Paul Turner. Hi all, "We're looking for double threat: interaction design and visual design." "We're looking for stronger visual skills." "What's interaction design? " "What widgets have you created? " Do these snippets sound familiar, yet? I'm about to start... October 6, 2008 5:06pm http://www.ixda.org/discuss.php?post=33963#33963 Andrei Herasimchuk Andrei Herasimchuk. On Oct 6, 2008, at 3:46 PM, Peter Merholz wrote: If you'd like to get into a conversation over who can call the other snippy names or pontificate on motives in flowery language in attempt to... October 6, 2008 4:19pm http://www.ixda.org/discuss.php?post=33962#33962 Peter Merholz Peter Merholz. While you're wailing and gnashing your teeth over wounded pride, it's worth nothing that the term and philosophy of UCD had to be coined because at some point "design", as it was widely understood, meant styling,... October 6, 2008 3:46pm http://www.ixda.org/discuss.php?post=33961#33961 USABILITY MEDIC USABILITY MEDIC. Norman, Assuming you really want to stay at such a short sighted org, And assuming you think you still have a shot to change their minds, you may want to tap into Jeff Patton (Agile expert). He... October 6, 2008 3:09pm http://www.ixda.org/discuss.php?post=33959.1503#33959.1503 Judah J. Gould Judah J. Gould. Who, Christina, what a strange and in my opinion, ridiculous, article by Don Norman. He writes under "What Adapts? Technology or People? " that it's some kind of corollary that technology comes first, then humans adapt. He writes... October 6, 2008 3:03pm http://www.ixda.org/discuss.php?post=33960#33960 Andrei Herasimchuk Andrei Herasimchuk. I was just handed this book today by one of our interns here. It is quite frankly, a great book and I'm adding it to the list. Design Sketching, Umea Institute of Design, by Erik Olofsson and Klara... October 6, 2008 2:57pm http://www.ixda.org/discuss.php?post=33959#33959 Andrei Herasimchuk Andrei Herasimchuk. On Oct 6, 2008, at 2:11 PM, Christina Wodtke wrote: The trick to all this -- imho -- is understanding what a good designer actually does. Regardless if that designer is designing cars, clothes, products or... October 6, 2008 2:49pm http://www.ixda.org/discuss.php?post=33958#33958 Christina Wodtke Christina Wodtke. this may be the most notable http://www.jnd.org/dn.mss/human-centered.html On Mon, Oct 6, 2008 at 9:28 AM, Ben Bashford <bashford at gmail.com> wrote: ... October 6, 2008 2:11pm http://www.ixda.org/discuss.php?post=33957#33957 Robert Hoekman Jr Robert Hoekman Jr. Thirded. (That so should be a word.) BTW, without a designer (or someone trained in design approaches) they will Seconded. -r- ... October 6, 2008 1:47pm http://www.ixda.org/discuss.php?post=33956#33956 Jared Spool Jared Spool. On Oct 6, 2008, at 1:23 PM, mark schraad wrote: You & Sarah Palin ... October 6, 2008 1:41pm http://www.ixda.org/discuss.php?post=33955 Jared Spool Jared Spool. [Apologies for any duplication] Greetings, The User Interface 13 Conference is next week and I wanted you to have a chance to save $1000 by registering now and avoiding the walk-in price. If you've thought about signing... October 6, 2008 1:20pm