Discussion Archive: April 2007

9 Apr 2007 - 7:14pm
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Brooke Mackay
2007

JOB: Interaction Designer - long term contract - Redmond, WA - FILTER/TALENT (recruiter)

Interaction Designer
Have you ever had someone reply all to a message sent to a large
distribution list when they just meant to reply directly to the sender?
Have you ever sent mail to someone only to find out later that they are
out of the office? Have you ever sent email to someone only to get a
bounce message back, and been unable to figure out what the problem was?

FILTER/TALENT has a long-term opportunity for a skilled interaction
designer to help solve these problems!

9 Apr 2007 - 1:49pm
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6 years ago
1 reply
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Jens Meiert
2004

25 excellent usability/UX articles and resources

25 excellent usability/UX articles and resources
http://meiert.com/en/blog/20070330/25-excellent-usability-ux-articles-and-resources/

Feeling free to post this here as I'm looking forward to comments and of course other references as well.

Regards,
Jens.

--
Jens Meiert
http://meiert.com/en/

9 Apr 2007 - 12:16pm
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6 years ago
3 replies
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Mark Schraad
2006

Simplicity (misinformation)

This conversation has one foot in design, another in engineering and yet a third in marketing.

Simplicity is about the usage of the product. It effects the user. Complexity as present here, the 'amount' of features is about the purchaser. These may or may not be the same person, but they definitely have different perspectives and the criteria for purchase and usage are different.

These are very different contexts. The reason that users buy a particular product is for the benefits (pardon my marketing hat).

9 Apr 2007 - 9:55am
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6 years ago
3 replies
bhekking
2006

In search of: User administration IxD examples

Hey all -

I'm looking for worthwhile IxD examples in the realm of user
administration 'enterprise' database applications (think SQL Server). We're
revamping ours and some new(-ish) ideas would be welcome.

Main users would be DBA's or system administrators tasked with setting up
and managing roles, users, & groups and their privileges with respect to
read/write data access, object creation/modification, and the like.

Maybe Vista user administration is worth a look? Are there less-known apps
you may know of that do this particularly well?

Thx,
Bret Hekking

9 Apr 2007 - 9:13am
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6 years ago
1 reply
John Grøtting
2006

Joost

I have just given out all of my Joost invitation tokens. I see there
is quite a bit of interest. If I get more, I will announce it to the
list again.

John Grøtting

Grøtting + Sauter
Barnerstr. 14B
22765 Hamburg
Germany

Tel +49.40.398.34342
SkypeIn +1.818.574.8440
Fax +49.40.398.34340
Mobile +49.172.4246.976
www.g-s.de
g at g-s.de

8 Apr 2007 - 10:50pm
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6 years ago
15 replies
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Dave Malouf
2005

Simplicity (again)

http://www.businessweek.com/innovate/NussbaumOnDesign/archives/2007/04/simplicity_ease.html?campaign_id=rss_blog_nussbaumondesign

What do people think about Nussbaum's equation of simplicity with
reduced features? I think he is pretty off the mark here.

-- dave

--
David Malouf
http://synapticburn.com/
http://ixda.org/
http://motorola.com/

8 Apr 2007 - 6:47pm
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6 years ago
4 replies
Dan Saffer
2003

Is interaction design the cure or the disease?

Provocative essay. Some good points mixed in with hogwash.

http://worrydream.com/MagicInk/

"For decades, the usability pundits have devoted vim and vitriol to a
crusade against frustrating interfaces.

6 Apr 2007 - 8:05pm
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6 years ago
1 reply
Greg Petroff
2004

[iai-members] NextD takes a slash at"Findability Information Architecture"

I like GK,

But........

I think he is totally missing the point. The Findability debate has more
to do with how the techologies of search and web 2.0 behaviors are
creating opportunities to build information systems without designed
ontologies. There is nothing against thinking strategically about how to
organize information and designing "information architectures" and there
are many many projects that this is an essential componenent of their
success.

6 Apr 2007 - 7:22pm
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Yury Frolov
2006

[JOB] Studio Asterisk* seeks Senior IA/IxD, Contract - SF Bay Area

Folks, we are urgently looking for senior level IA/IxD help.
Please take a look.
Thanks!
--------------------------------
Yury Frolov
Design Director
Studio Asterisk* Inc.
GUI Strategy | User Experience | Brand

v 415 374 7478
f 702 446 7840

http://www.studioasterisk.com
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Title: Senior IA/Interaction Designer
Location: San Jose area or TBD
Compensation: DOE, contract

We have several open reqs for Senior IA/Interaction Designer.
– One is an on-site engagement in the San Jose area working on an
internal softwa

6 Apr 2007 - 4:57pm
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W. Reid Cornwel...
2007

Appeal for Participation

Dear IxDA colleagues,

Most educational software, websites and content modules suck.