Discussion Archive: April 2011

Touchscreen Hardware

We're embarking on project that requires touchscreen / kiosk-style presentation. We confident that we don't need multi-touch features, but we need a display that would be good outside during the summer months, i.e., good at glare reduction.

Does anyone have any field experience with contemporary hardware / screen offerings?

::mick

Michael Rejniak | Engagement Director | Hooky Interactive

Metrics or Experience related to making Tealeaf play nice with jQuery?

I am looking for some insight or information on how to make jQuery work within the framework of Tealeaf.

I know that jQuery is a widely adopted javascript library and that many large companies use Tealeaf to track metrics. There has been some concern raised that jQuery scripts will break the Tealeaf tracking from the back end and that we will lose start to end transactions for tracking: drop offs, click rates, etc.

Teaching first-year HCI students about mobile UI

I'm looking for materials I could incorporate into a first-year grad course. The course is a broad survey intended to appeal to all CS students, not necessarily people who are focusing on UX for their graduate degree. I would like to add in a unit that gives some basic introduction to creating interfaces for mobile devices (particularly phones). Ideally this would cover things like basic gestural interaction, as well as some of the technical things behind creating such UIs.

Suggestions?

AIGA's One Day for Design "Conversation"

This past Wednesday, April 13, 2011, the American Institute of Graphic Arts (AIGA) -- a professional membership organization founded in 1914 -- held an ambitious online event entitled One Day for Design. It was ositioned as "an open, global dialogue on the meaning and future of design, and on the meaning and future of professional associations in our field." While it took place primarily on Twitter, participation was also available on the project website.