Discussion Archive: February 2009

Teaching to program: arrays.

It could be that they don't understand (clearly enough) the material that
you present immediately before you present the arrays. Is the following
accurate?

They can handle the basic drawing canvas.
Draw a line from here to there.
Draw a bezier curve with these parameters.
Draw a figure with these parameters.

They can handle iteration.
Draw a line. Move down.
Draw a line. Move down.

They can barely handle the two notions together.
Draw a complex figure here, then change the parameters.

To understand that, they need to be very clear about:
1. The input parameters
2.

What music for interaction designers

What kind of music do you listen (when you can) while brainstorming,
analysing, designing interactions?

Are there any songs that would make our design flow better?

Let's make a playlist :)

IxDA Infrastructure Initiative: Survey results

Hello IxDA Members,

This message is a progress report from the IxDA Conan infrastructure
team to share the results from our recent survey about IxDA.org which
we conducted at the start of February. Please visit the IxDA Board
Blog at: http://board.ixda.org/node/9 for more information and access
to the survey results. Thanks!

Best,
Liz Bacon

IxDA Vice-President

IxDA SF Presents Interaction09 Redux - Saturday, March 14, 2009

IxDA SF presents Interaction09 Redux - Saturday, March 14th

Earlier this month, 460 interaction designers converged in Vancouver to
discuss, debate, and share a spectrum of topics that are important to
our community
of practice. The Interaction09 conference featured three days of tactical
workshops, smart sessions filled with practical advice, and a fantastic
collection of inspirational keynotes.

As you might expect, many of the contributors to the event came from our own
Bay Area backyard.