Discussion Archive: September 2007

IxD definition WAS Interaction Design forESLTextbooks?

On Sep 14, 2007, at 1:13 PM, Jeff White wrote:

> That is way different than saying that every possible human
> interaction is the province of interaction designers.

Perhaps this statement encapsulates our disagreement. Just because I
believe that an Interaction Designer can be of value in most cases of
human interaction, doesn't mean that I think I am king of that
domain.

IxDA @ UI12

Just checking - been away because of the New Years!

Wanted to see - since our Boston IxDA group is just getting up and running -
wanted to know if any other people on the list are planning on coming to
Cambridge/Boston for UI12.

Personas

That sort of artificial persona/personality design is a frequent component
of over-the-telephone speech recognition systems that occurs before the UI
design is created. It even gets done well sometimes. :)

And actually, even though vocal interaction leads to much more of the
perception, I think we've discussed before that personality traits are often
ascribed by users to visual interaction as well.

User Awareness Cycle?

I don't know what to call this, but I'm searching for any literature,
knowledge or what-have-you on the "user awareness lifecycle."

Sales folks have models for prospecting:

Awareness, Interest, Consideration, Purchase, Support (and so forth)

Where their prospects are in the awareness lifecycle helps them manage
their time, focus their attentions in the right way, and so forth.

Has anyone seen a similar extension of the lifecycle to the user
experience?

Perhaps it would be similar:

Awareness, Interest, Consideration, Purchase, Receipt, OOBE, 1st Use,
1st Support, 1st disappointm