Discussion Archive: May 2006

13 May 2006 - 11:46am
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GIO MONTOYA
2006

european interaction design

I am very pleased the new Sweden interactive
community, so I know Swedish schools are gaining more
experience in interacrtive design and big companies
such as Volvo are increasingly its budgets researching
in this new filed of design.

Apart of this I know that German design in special BMW
is also experimenting very profound with interactivity
in its new vehicles and a few weeks ago I heard about
a German or some German workshops in Berlin in
interactive design.

Now I am pursuing my M.A.

12 May 2006 - 8:45am
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7 years ago
6 replies
Vishal Subraman...
2005

Folksonomy v/s Taxonomy

In my case, I need to categorize user created lists of places/
organizations. I can either have user defined categories or use tags.

My obvious concern with tags is that the use of synonyms can potentially
fracture the usefulness of the data and creation of meta-noise. For Eg.
if the users are creating a list of high-schools- they could be
potentially tagged as schools, school, educational institution etc. But
it does work well in Flickr/delicious etc.

So..when do I use one over the other?

Vishal
http://www.vishaliyer.com/

11 May 2006 - 6:12pm
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Josh Seiden
2003

[Local IxDA] Announcing IxDA Sweden

Congratulations Niklas, Fredrik, Theresa and Klas! Great job.

Keep us posted, please.

11 May 2006 - 5:40pm
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7 years ago
1 reply
niklasw
2005

Announcing IxDA Sweden

Hi All

I'm very proud to say that we on the 11th of May, 2006 have announced
that we are starting a local IxDA affiliate in Sweden.

Our premiere event will be a free seminar in relation to our F2F with
2-3 speakers who will talk about their view on Swedish interaction
design. We are currently waiting for confirmation from the speakers so
when the details are clear we'll send out an update.

11 May 2006 - 5:21pm
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Scott Weiss
2005

Mobile ESPN Usability Study Launched

Mobile ESPN is a US-based MVNO (Mobile Virtual Network Operator) built on
Sprint's network. It's all about a cool phone with a radically different UI,
built for sports nuts.

We've just launched our single-product usability study of Mobile ESPN at
http://www.usableproducts.com/publications/espnstudy.shtml. This study is
for sale.

11 May 2006 - 2:33pm
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7 years ago
1 reply
Stacy Surla
2003

Net Neutrality in Jeapordy - is this really a

MoveOn.org is running a campaign to tell Congress to preserve Net
Neutrality. Here's a link to a third-party article on the issue
(http://tiny.mitre.org/295).

11 May 2006 - 2:03pm
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jrrogan
2005

Net Neutrality in Jeapordy - is this really a bill in congress? What are we doing to keep neutrality?

Just curious what's everyone's take on a Bill in congress which will cause
Net Neutrality to be limited on a pay to play basis by Internet Providers.

Congress Votes Against Net Neutrality Bill (From NPR, April 27, 2006) -
http://www.freepress.net/news/15201

Here's a humorous site detailing the issues quite well -
http://www.askaninja.com/news/2006/05/11/ask-a-ninja-special-delivery-4-net-neutrality

I believe this is something that could adver

11 May 2006 - 9:31am
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Susan Dybbs
2006

Conference Announcement: Emergence 06 | Service Design

Conference Announcement: Emergence 06 | Service Design
September 8-10 | Pittsburgh PA

Carnegie Mellon's School of Design is pleased to announce the first
annual Emergence Conference. It will be a transdiciplinary conference
where emergent themes and practices in design are explored and
fostered.

10 May 2006 - 10:22pm
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7 years ago
9 replies
Dave Malouf
2005

What do these prototyping tools give me? (RE: Axure RP Pro prototyping tool)

If people concede the point about these tools not working well as a
conversion prototype > word platform (which is what I'm hearing), and then
it is just about prototyping, then ... Why these tools?
What do they offer that another development environment doesn't? I mean
iRise and Serena have pretty heft licensing costs. That is pretty hard to
justify when I can great prototypes in Dreamweaver or Flash or Flex 2.0 or
the upcoming tools in the Expression Suite from MS, just as easily.

What am I missing here?

10 May 2006 - 9:56am
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HUGE | Jen Turner
2006

HUGE is seeking Full-time Interaction Designer for Brooklyn, NY offices.

Interactive Design Agency seeks Interaction Designer

HUGE, a design and marketing agency in Brooklyn, NY, has openings for
Full-time Interaction Desginers obsessed with building great websites
and software.

Interaction designers at HUGE handle several key stages of product
development. You'll start with developing the correct conceptual model

-understanding exactly who the users are and describing and ranking

their goals and behaviors -- and end with the development of polished

design blueprints and specifications.