Discussion Archive: March 2008

IxDA Thread Digests

Over the past few years our traffic has grown quite a bit, from
around 50 posts a week in 2004 to as many as 50 posts a day in 2008.
More than a few of you are grappling with how to cope with this rising
tide of e-mail. That's why the website and the RSS feeds exist, but I
know that some of you prefer to stay in contact via your inbox.

So here's a new touchpoint. Thread digests are halfway between the
full e-mail subscription and traditional daily digests. The daily
digests that we were using before were pretty basic.

Semantics: "Design Research" and "User Research"

I often see (and use) the terms Design Research and User Research interchangeably, although I believe they are overlapping, but different.

-Design Research: This is the broader term. It can refer to the study of design itself (meta-research, if you will). It can also refer to research done in the context of design, but that can include research on materials, processes, users, etc.

Finding Stuff: Search, Browse, Whatever

Hi folks,

Apologies in advance for any topic duplication, banality, or blatant
ignorance I show here. I only dabble in IA/IxD.

I have this current thinking that goes something like this:

1. Search (be it for a Web site, application, whatever) should always just
start with a single, keyword box. No "advanced" options.
2. Search results should always be limited to 50 items or less (no paging,
no configurably changing max items returned)
3.

Looking for Touchscreen/Interactive Gestures Documentation Examples

Hi.

I'm working on the "Documenting Gestural Interfaces" chapter of my
upcoming book Interactive Gestures: Designing Gestural Interfaces:

<http://www.designinggesturalinterfaces.com>

I'd like to include in this chapter some "real-world" examples of
documentation you might have for touchscreens, environments, etc. I'm
looking for wireframes, task flows, storyboards, movies, and
animations.