Discussion Archive: November 2009

16 Nov 2009 - 7:45pm
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Chicago IxDA4
2007

[EVENT] - Chicago, November 18 - Sears - how UX leads the way.

A reminder about this week's Chicago event event:

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Sears – the $50 billion startup. And how UX leads the way.
Get answers to the $50 billion question: How do you change a
multi-billion dollar corporation into a multi-billion dollar startup?

The UXSears team is hosting the Nov. 18 IxDA event and will showcase
some of our thinking, designs and ideas for the future of Sears … and
of all online retail.

16 Nov 2009 - 5:58pm
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3 years ago
18 replies
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Chris Rink
2009

Prototyping Tool Recommendations

Hello, i have recently been given the task of identifying prototyping
tools to test high fidelity and high functionality. Our goal is to
have prototypes that will be high enough quality to work as design
specs.

I have looked at Axure and iRise but am unsure about their ability to
handle interactions like resizing and Drag n Drop.

Has anyone used found a tool that handles those dynamic aspects well?
Am I just better off using a javascript library?

16 Nov 2009 - 11:41am
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2 years ago
18 replies
Sourabh
2009

MS in Interaction Design, Usability, User Research, User Experience, Information Architect

Hello Group,

I am back again with the same request. As, I have been looking for
the college and university to continue master degree in Interaction
Design, Usability, User Research, User Experience, Information
Architect.

My curiosity is...

1. Whether the courses are available under one roof or need to learn
individually?

2. Anyone knows the particular college or university where i will get
the above courses?

3. Any member in the group has completed master degree in information
architect? And, in which college? Any link?

4.

16 Nov 2009 - 10:04am
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Todd Holmberg
2009

Inline audio and text translations

Hello, everyone. Thanks for the constant stream of useful information.
I've lurked and learned from this list for a while. It's great.

Has anyone seen/built an interface for presenting inline audio
translations of journal or magazine articles? A customer would like
to include translations for small blocks of an article. The blocks
will be of an arbitrary length. Each block would have a corresponding
Spanish and Chinese translation of the original English text. Their
idea is to include an icon at the end of each block that will play an
audio translation of that block.

16 Nov 2009 - 2:27am
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Arjan Haring
2003

Essential disciplines for successful technology, what's your idea?

Hi there,

Within my conference team we have been extensively discussing the
disciplines needed in creating successful technology.

After 2 years of pondering, we came up with a framework that includes
Experience Design, Persuasive Technology and Analytics (Evidence Based
Marketing).

Further distillation of the main objectives and insights of these
disciplines lead us to 3 fundamental ideas that project to future
application of the disciplines (and we thought they were rather
big):

1st Big idea: From Persuasion to Morality
2nd Big idea: from Experience to Happiness
3rd Big idea: from Evidenc

15 Nov 2009 - 6:08pm
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Thomas Petersen
2008

Design observation

Dashboards are for multiple interpretations of the same data source,
not for multiple data sources interpreted the same way.

Thoughts?

15 Nov 2009 - 5:49pm
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3 years ago
1 reply
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Chris Khalil
2009

[JOB] Senior Experience Architect - News Digital Media | Sydney, Australia | Full Time

Come and join one of the best, most experienced and innovative User
Experience teams in Australia and an award winning
(http://bit.ly/3zDzxG) global organisation which is deeply committed
to User Experience.

It's a high visibility role looking after some of Australia's most
highly trafficked and influential sites like news.com.au, MySpace,
The Australian, Daily Telegraph, Herald Sun,
Courier Mail, ThePunch, Moshtix, Vogue, Taste, Carsguide.com.au and
TrueLocal to name just a few (we have over 90 sites in our network).
http://b

15 Nov 2009 - 4:46pm
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Erico Fernandes...
2009

NEW POST-GRADUATE IN BRAZIL

I'm coordinating a post-graduate in User-Centered Design with the Universidade
Positivo <http://www.up.edu.br/ingles/> in Curitiba.
The course brings the experience of designers and engineers of
CESAR<http://www.cesar.org.br/english/>,
professionals / researchers from Curitiba and brings a professional discuss
for the area of interaction design and user experience.
The path chosen is the user-centered design, the same used by renowned
companies such as IDEO, CESAR, Apple, Intel, IBM, Nokia, Ad

15 Nov 2009 - 10:18am
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3 years ago
3 replies
Manuel Pineault
2009

Site map, reasoning and how to present it.

Just a quick post to this, I think most of the way information is
structure comes out of cultural norms or mental models.

If you went to a website, where are you most likely to find the
address. If it were me, I would likely go to the contact section.

So to answer your question, I think, technically, it is possible to
visually explain the reasoning, but it would be a long explanation.

I think it has to do more with user interaction behaviour.

15 Nov 2009 - 10:12am
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3 years ago
3 replies
Weston Thompson
2005

Representing visually the reasoning behind the sitemap.

This might be a good time to use a storyboard or comic representation of key
use scenarios. Those can embody all of the UX research/rationale and also
how that translates into pathways in the site. You could also try site path
diagramming (see Wodtke p.