Discussion Archive: July 2009

6 Jul 2009 - 12:36pm
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Louis Beauregard
2009

[Event] Interest in a Montreal IXDA face-to-face in September?

I'm seeking fellow Montrealers to organize (or just attend) an IXDA
face-to-face in Montreal next September. Please contact me if you are
interested.

Best,

Louis B.

6 Jul 2009 - 12:36pm
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Reena Shah
2009

Job: Lead User Experience Designer; Company: Method; Location: New York; Full-time

Create and direct excellent user experience design and deliverables for
Method projects, according to user-centered design principles and Method
standards. The Lead User Experience Designer will be the voice on a project
for Method’s UX approach, within the project team and in interactions with
clients.

6 Jul 2009 - 11:42am
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Jerome Ryckborst
2007

Itching for haptic feedback

I'm just itching for haptic feedback. I read about mobile-phone screens that
have the capacity to simulate a clicking feel, so a flat screen pushes back
to mimic what your finger would feel if there were a mechanical button to
press.

I'd like that, but on a much larger scale. I want something the size of a
desk that lets me drag objects between the flat and the upright part of my
workstation, and lets me feel the edges of things as I push them across my
desktop with my fingers.

6 Jul 2009 - 10:37am
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Amy Jones
2009

Question about survey design

I'm working on a survey for our users as part of an effort to get
quantitative data that will feed both into metrics and into a persona
project. I'm asking about usage and using the SUS for the metrics
piece.

My question regards the layout of the questions and responses. Is
there any work out there that assesses reliability, validity,
response rates, etc, for different question layouts?

An example is below; hopefully the formatting isn't entirely
incomprehensible.

6 Jul 2009 - 8:02am
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Andy Howard
2009

[JOB] : Junior Information Architect / User Experience Designer - Edinburgh, UK - Permanent

We're looking for a junior information architect / user experience
designer to join Bunnyfoot Edinburgh. We're a user centred design
agency (particularly skilled with usability testing), we work with
friendly clients and have some stellar projects in the works. Recent
work by Bunnyfoot UK includes http://www.vhiphotels.co.uk/ , and up
here at Bunnyfoot Edinburgh we're working on some interesting stuff
right now.

5 Jul 2009 - 10:13pm
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Tonia M Bartz
2008

[Event] IxDA Phoenix - Tuesday July 28 6pm - Blending Product and Interaction Design

IxDA Phoenix will hold its third meet up Tuesday, July 28th at 6pm.
Gangplank (http://www.gangplankhq.com) in Chandler has once again
opened their space up to us for this event. Gangplank is a
collaborative workspace so laptops, cameras, and other gadgets are
encouraged.

IxDA Phoenix is focused on not only bringing the community in Phoenix
together, but also bringing the community together for a purpose.

5 Jul 2009 - 6:07pm
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Dave Malouf
2005

On education: Different take on programs

What do people think of educational programs like these?
http://www.hyperisland.se
http://bdw.colorado.edu/

Also, I'm interested if anyone here is involved in the BDW program at CO.

-- dave

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Dave Malouf
http://davemalouf.com/
http://twitter.com/daveixd
http://scad.edu/industrialdesign
http://ixda.org/

5 Jul 2009 - 5:37am
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Steve Joseph Bayer
2008

Aptitude tests for interaction designers and practitioners of related fields

Can aptitudes tests for measuring a persons potential to be an
interaction designer, experience designer, design researcher, etc..
be used to promote ixd awareness and the amount of practitioners?

While aptitude tests (paper or interactive) can be gamed, they could
encourage students and professionals, who scored favorably in the
test, to look at interaction design and related fields.

I'm currently unaware of aptitude tests available to career
counsellors or the general public that evaluates a person's
'innate' ability for interaction design/experience design/design
research etc...

4 Jul 2009 - 9:11am
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jkolko
2010

Call for Participation: Tangible, Embedded and Embodied Interaction

TEI'10 - THE FOURTH INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON TANGIBLE, EMBEDDED,
AND EMBODIED INTERACTION

January 25-27, 2010
MIT Media Lab - Cambridge, MA, USA
http://tei-conf.org/

Submission Deadlines and Categories
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Note: different from last year

August 3, 2009: Papers
August 3, 2009: Studios
October 2, 2009: Explorations
October 2, 2009: Student Consortium

July 10, 2009: Submission opens
January 25-27, 2010: TEI Conference at the MIT Media Lab

Keynote speaker announced: Professor John Frazer
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3 Jul 2009 - 11:56pm
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Mark Schraad
2006

In 10 words or less, what is software design to you?

arranging code to perform a function on a computer

On Fri, Jul 3, 2009 at 10:08 PM, Russell Wilson <russ.wilson at gmail.com>wrote:

> At the end of a recent interview, the candidate asked me “What is software
> design to you?” I can probably come up with a thousand different answers
> but the one that popped into my mind immediately that day was “*software
> design is making the ordinary extraordinary*.”
>
>