Discussion Archive: July 2010

FW: [IxDA] How do you scale great UI design?

Hi Russ, I'd like to build on what both Chauncey and Alan suggested. That is, I’d recommend taking a lightweight stakeholder-centric approach to: . per Chauncey, promote and position great UI design . per Alan, utilize your designers as agents of change, modeling new role, positioning design for more impact

Without knowing much about your company’s culture or readiness for change, here's a possible approach to consider: . Use your designers' skills to employ a customer research approach to identify your stakeholders, prioritizing the few stakeholders critical to your success.

Interaction 12 - Co-host Selection

The Call for Proposals to co-host Interaction 12 has now formally closed. I'd like to thank all of the groups who showed interest in the process and the opportunity to bring the IxDA's conference to their city.

Submissions will be reviewed and evaluated over the coming few days. Groups may be contacted for clarification of their proposal, but material changes to the submission will not be permitted.

Re: [IxDA] How can a wiki be made more user-friendly?

On Tue, Jul 27, 2010 at 1:03 PM, Elizabeth P wrote:

Has anyone done a heuristic or usability tests on a wiki?

Re: [IxDA] Actually, You Might Be Your User

On 25/07/2010 18:16, Yvonnia Martin wrote: > Those self checkout systems in the grocery stores have fallen victim > to my rants, because not only do I experience the system, I evaluate > it and make recommendations. So there I am at register 6--yelling > about how one of the buttons is mis-labled or how some part of the > process is counterintuitive. And then my husband has to tell me to > shut up and keep walking . My only concern is "am I subjecting my work > to a bias?"

Ooh ooh me too.