Discussion Archive: August 2006

31 Aug 2006 - 5:52pm
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Robert Hoekman, Jr.
2005

What makes an RSS reader good ...

> Regarding comment #5 below, what *does* make a good RSS reader?
> (just curious for opinions on this)

As soon as I find one, I'll let you know. ;)

But seriously ...

I'd like to be able to take notes about a post and save them with post
snippets and a link back to the post. I'd like navigation that doesn't
involve a treeview control (gasp!).

31 Aug 2006 - 2:51pm
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Steve Mulder
2004

New personas book

Hi all -

Just a quick note to announce the release of my book on user research
and personas, with the understated title "The User Is Always Right: A
Practical Guide to Creating and Using Personas." If you attended the IA
Summit in Vancouver, you might have heard me give a preview of some of
the book's content on adding more science to persona creation.

31 Aug 2006 - 9:33am
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6 years ago
5 replies
Leah Cunningham
2006

NetVibes?

Hi all,

What do people think about the netvibes.com experience? Sure it gets
points for the coolness factor...

...

Leah Cunningham
Sr. Information Architect

Sequel Studio
12 West 27th Street, 15th Floor
New York, NY 10001

212 660 7863 direct
646 935 0582 fax

www.sequelstudio.com
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crosoft\Signatures\www.sequelstudio.com>

31 Aug 2006 - 8:52am
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Mark Schraad
2006

Philips

Jim Joula is a cognitive psych professor/researcher and is one of the early pioneers in HCI research. He published like 40+ papers on the topic in the course of first 10 years of personal computing. Jim just headed back to Philips in Europe to do some more research early this year. Philips is not afraid to invest aggressively in R&D and are becoming more and more user/customer focused. I would expect to see more great things from them in coming years.

Mark

31 Aug 2006 - 8:30am
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6 years ago
1 reply
Dave Malouf
2005

This is too cool for school ... Philips' "Entertaible" (name to be discussed elsewhere)

http://www.research.philips.com/initiatives/entertaible/index.html

Philips creates a tabletop screen to take high-tek board games to the
next level.

I love it!!!

-- dave

--

David (Heller) Malouf
dave(at)synapticburn(dot)com
http://synapticburn.com

AIM: bolinhanyc // Y!: dave_ux //
MSN: hippiefunk(at)hotmail.com // Gtalk: dave.ixd(at)gmail.com

31 Aug 2006 - 6:41am
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6 years ago
1 reply
seele@obso1337.org
2005

Scholarships and Grants for IxDers?

Hey all,

I am a graduate student in the University of Baltimore's Interaction Design
and Information Architecture program. I will be working on my thesis next
summer and was looking for ways to possibly fund 3-6 research credits this
spring and my last 6 credits for the actual thesis.

Are there any scholarships or grants available to IxDers? I always come
across ones for fields such as computing and engineering, but nothing which
covers HCI, usability, or interaction design.

31 Aug 2006 - 1:57am
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Volker Scarpate...
2006

Ars Electronica

Hi everybody,

Saying hello from Barcelona, beeing this my first post on this quite
interesting list of which I´m really happy of having found it. Probably
known to many of you, the Ars Electronica Festival, first-player in
competion of cyber-, and interactionarts, in Austria is starting today.
Have a look at their site: http://www.aec.at

Saludos,
Volker

--
Volker Scarpatetti
Dirección Interactiva - Advertis Interactiva

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Mail.

30 Aug 2006 - 10:58pm
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6 years ago
8 replies
Vinay Rao
2006

Top Ten IxD examples? What it takes

This thread is already interesting.

Michael Tuminello wrote:
"...The big one that leaps to mind would be the iPod/iTunes music store
combo..."

It would be interesting to know the size (and profile) of the team that
would typically work on such a project i.e. the iTunes player Music
Store and Player.

I hear Apple has (only) 8 industrial designers for its physical product
design, and works with partners to put some of those extreme design
intents into engineering and production. I suspect that their
interaction design team should be much much larger.

Best
Vinay

30 Aug 2006 - 8:24pm
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7 years ago
3 replies
Danna Hudson
2005

IxDA F2F &#173; Los Angeles, CA

IxDA F2F ­ Los Angeles, CA
Date: Sunday, September 10, 2006
Time: 3:00 PM - ???

LOCATION:
Generous IxDA Members Home
Santa Monica, CA
[address provided to those interested in attending]

DESCRIPTION:
This F2F will be a backyard potluck BBQ held at a generous IxDA member¹s
home in Santa Monica. We will eat hot dogs, hamburgers, sit in the sun,
drink, discuss interaction design, drink, and discuss usability.

Let me know if you are interested in attending and I will add you to the
Evite.

30 Aug 2006 - 2:14pm
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andersr
2005

BarCamp NYC, Sep. 30/Oct. 1st

It's time again for another BarCamp "unconference" in NYC.

What is BarCamp?
BarCamp is an ad-hoc gathering born from the desire for people to
share and learn in an open environment.