Discussion Archive: May 2010

Re: [IxDA] websites designed as pages on larger virtual canvas?

Do you mean...

Pictory Crush + Lovely Thinking for a Living

On 10-05-20 9:48 AM, "Navid" wrote:

> Hi > > I am wondering if people can share examples of websites where the concept is > a larger virtual canvas and the browser is currently showing just a portion > of the canvas.  For example, imagine a canvas with a 3 pages in a row > horizontally.

Rare IX humor link- If Super Mario Brothers was designed in 2010

Someone at work sent this to me and mentioned it is rare to find interface design humor .

We really that serious most of the time? This will make us laugh at ourselves because you and I

know we would get asked at some point to implement something like this.

If Super Mario Brothers was designed in 2010

http://www.hiwiller.com/2010/04/29/if-mario-was-designed-in-2010/

Ergonomics / UX / Human factors / Interaction design / Usability specialists : I get confused

Hello,

I'm french and I work as what we call an "ergonome". I'm a bit confused about all the terms that are used to speak about "UX/usability/interaction" related jobs in the english speaking world : I read things about "Interaction designers", "Human factor specialists", "User experience specialist", "Usability specialists", "Information architects", and I'm... lost.

Death of the Desktop

Do old school IxDers / dackers (designer + hacker) really thought that the user is that stupid that the only way for them to properly use a computer was to invent a metaphor... and use it EVERYWHERE.