IxDA's Annual Board Meeting
Fellow IxDA Members,
In about two weeks, the IxDA Board of Directors will come together for
our annual Board Meeting. At this meeting our board members
(http://www.ixda.org/about_leadership.php) come together to plan for
IxDA's future. These meetings are vitally important to our
organization:
* At our first retreat in 2005, we established our mission, and
decided to incorporate our organization.
* At our second retreat in 2006, we identified two key initiatives
to focus on—our recently launched web site, and our forthcoming
conference, Interaction08.
* Our next retreat will be in November 2007—the end of this month.
We're writing now to share our plans and get your input.
At this upcoming retreat, we expect to focus on a variety of topics, including
* reviewing day-to-day operations, (finances, IT, and legal.)
* reviewing ongoing initiatives, (the conference, Local Groups, etc)
* reviewing governance and leadership plans
But most importantly, we will spend the majority \of our time
envisioning the future of the organization. In that light, we'd love
to hear from you. In particular, we plan to discuss:
* the Local Groups program—how can we encourage and strengthen
this key initiative?
* our leadership and governance—how can we cultivate leadership
within the community? Where will future initiative and board members
be found?
* our Web Site and our electronic Community of Practice—what's
next for this critical hub of our community?
Please take a few moments to share your thoughts with us. If you
answered our recent survey, thank you for your input! If not, please
write to us, on list or off.
You can contact us off-list at info (at) ixda (dot) org.
We will of course share the results of the Retreat with you all.
Thank you very much for being a part of this fantastic group, and
thank you in advance for your participation!
--
Robert Reimann
President
Interaction Design Association (IxDA)
Associate Creative Director
frog design
Seattle, WA
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Hi all,
Just sending a reminder. Please keep sending us your your thoughts,
suggestions, feedback, etc.
Our Board meeting begins this Friday, and we'd love to hear from
you:
What can IxDA do for the community?
What can the community do for IxDA?
What can we do for we?
Post your thoughts here, or write to:
info at ixda dot org.
Thanks again!
-- Josh Seiden
Secretary (and List Mom),
IxDA
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Posted from the new ixda.org
http://www.ixda.org/discuss?post=22389
Hey Josh,
One thing - as a local chair - I'd love to have is somewhere on the site for
the local organizers to collaborate. Somewhere we can communicate and share
ideas, events and locations that have been successful (or not so) with each
other. Also, where we can share ideas we have for future events that have
not been tried yet. Right now, I'm only getting snippets of views into other
locals by reading their [EVENT] announcements.
This could also be a great place to get requests from IxDA members for local
events/classes/stuff they want. I mean, we are only as good as the members
let us be... :-)
Cheers!!
~Lisa
IxDA Boston
On Tue, 13 Nov 2007 07:27:28, Josh Seiden <joshseiden at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> Hi all,
>
> Just sending a reminder. Please keep sending us your your thoughts,
> suggestions, feedback, etc.
>
> Our Board meeting begins this Friday, and we'd love to hear from
> you:
>
> What can IxDA do for the community?
> What can the community do for IxDA?
> What can we do for we?
>
> Post your thoughts here, or write to:
> info at ixda dot org.
>
> Thanks again!
>
> -- Josh Seiden
> Secretary (and List Mom),
> IxDA
>
I am with you Lisa.
I agree that there should be something, somewhere for the local organizers
where we can share the
things. A platform where we can communicate, suggest and know events going
on and the future
prospects.
Cheers..
Keyur.
On Nov 13, 2007 9:50 AM, Lisa deBettencourt <ldebett at gmail.com> wrote:
> Hey Josh,
>
> One thing - as a local chair - I'd love to have is somewhere on the site
> for
> the local organizers to collaborate. Somewhere we can communicate and
> share
> ideas, events and locations that have been successful (or not so) with
> each
> other. Also, where we can share ideas we have for future events that have
> not been tried yet. Right now, I'm only getting snippets of views into
> other
> locals by reading their [EVENT] announcements.
>
> This could also be a great place to get requests from IxDA members for
> local
> events/classes/stuff they want. I mean, we are only as good as the members
> let us be... :-)
>
> Cheers!!
> ~Lisa
> IxDA Boston
>
> On Tue, 13 Nov 2007 07:27:28, Josh Seiden <joshseiden at gmail.com> wrote:
> >
> > Hi all,
> >
> > Just sending a reminder. Please keep sending us your your thoughts,
> > suggestions, feedback, etc.
> >
> > Our Board meeting begins this Friday, and we'd love to hear from
> > you:
> >
> > What can IxDA do for the community?
> > What can the community do for IxDA?
> > What can we do for we?
> >
> > Post your thoughts here, or write to:
> > info at ixda dot org.
> >
> > Thanks again!
> >
> > -- Josh Seiden
> > Secretary (and List Mom),
> > IxDA
> >
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Lisa, as we use google groups for local stuff. Could the same not be
setup at a higher level for the chairs?
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Posted from the new ixda.org
http://gamma.ixda.org/discuss?post=22389
Hi Lisa,
at last year's retreat we created an initiative called the "play
book". the idea was to convert it into a wiki that could be used as
a collaboration space for anyone doing or even thinking about doing.
We just never got it off the ground due to lack of resources and
other pressing endeavors and for most of the last year a lull in
local group activities. Boston, Bangalore, Mumbai and Chicago really
kicked things up the 2nd half of this year. Woooo!
I'd love to see this get done.
One of the issue is that local-leaders seem to be focused totally
locally, but what we are talking about here is a global initiative to
help local groups. Sometimes you need to think locally and act
globally. ;)
As for Pauric, I don't think a simple discussion group is what Lisa
is envisioning here. As that already exists as an email list for
local leaders. It has been hard to keep that list active over the
years.
-- dave
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Posted from the new ixda.org
http://www.ixda.org/discuss?post=22389
On Tue, 13 Nov 2007 11:40:41, David Malouf <dave at ixda.org> wrote:
One of the issue is that local-leaders seem to be focused totally
locally, but what we are talking about here is a global initiative to
help local groups. Sometimes you need to think locally and act
globally. ;)
Since Boston has just gotten started, I've definitely looked to the other
local leaders for help and insight and input - and they've graciously
responded with support and tips. I've reached out to them on a number of
occasions and hope to someday return the favor as others get off the ground,
and as the "older" ones continue to move forward.
I agree that we're locale-focused, but I'm of the belief that we (we=Boston)
can't possibly keep up the pace of thinking up new ideas every month without
getting ideas from other local groups and members. Like this whole Pecha
Kucha thing (or whatever it is). What is it and how is it run? I keep seeing
it, but I have no idea what it is. If there was a "Local" (Wiki or Resources
or...) on the site, I could check it out, read up on it and see if we could
adapt it for Boston instead of trying to piece it together. I would also
share back things that we did and what worked for us. Or ideas we have for
future events, but haven't quite worked out the details and want to open it
up for input and for others to take and run with.
Not to mention posting pictures of our events. Like where can I find the pix
of the NYC IxDA event I attended last month? ;-)
In addition, I think it's important to have a global IxDA calendar that
lists all local events. The local chairs would be responsible for posting
their own events and anyone could go there and see what was happening
locally to them while seeing just how much cool IxDA stuff is happening
'round the globe.
And so on and so on... for now, we are using the tools we have at our
disposal for local coordination - like Pauric said, Google Groups. I look
forward to the IxDA site owning our content instead of Google. :-)
~Lisa
Robert Reimann kirjoitti 10.11.2007 kello 20:58:
> * Our next retreat will be in November 2007—the end of this month.
> We're writing now to share our plans and get your input.
A question-built-in-a-rant follows,
I don't know if this should be in the agenda for IxDA (what do you
think?) ... but many developers and most of the media still don't know
what designing for behavior is.
They don't even know that 1) such craft is necessary or 2) it exists.
Inter... what?! They understand what they can look and/or feel (=
atoms, pixels, sometimes code), but they don't know that for digital
products that's not the whole story.
Hopefully during year 2008, if some company introduces a product that
has behaves exceptionally well, at least some journalists would
mention (explicitly) that the product behaves exceptionally well; not
(only) its form, its marketing, its hype, the look&feel, "ease of
use", feature set, fanboy crowd, "revolutionary GUI", platforms or
business alliances, but the _behavior_ of the product is exceptionally
good. Polite, considerate, fudgable, empowering and so on.
Really, if you look back to 2007, has there been any mainstream
stories in the mainstream media that would mention good behavior as
the main driver for why a product or a service has made a difference?
Best,
Petteri
--
Petteri Hiisilä
Senior Interaction Designer
iXDesign / +358505050123 /
petteri.hiisila at ixdesign.fi
"Simple is better than complex.
Complex is better than complicated."
- Tim Peters
Evangelizing the discipline has always been a core mission of the
organization for sure.
Petteri, do you have any suggestions on how we can do this? It is a
really hard piece to knock out of the park considering some of the
more tactical things we are working on.
To answer your question more directly, in N. America anyway, there
was a piece in BusinessWeek in 07 (or was it 06) about interaction
design. (at least one)
1. Was by Liz Danzico and I think was about or included a lot of info
about Dan Saffer's book.
2. The other I think was a piece on Bill Moggridge's book.
Yup, token examples to be sure, but ya gotta start somewhere.
Evangelizing this discipline is really difficult. It is a rare
example (if not the only example) of a design discipline that at its
core actually doesn't make/design "things".
-- dave
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Posted from the new ixda.org
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Has the IxDA considered some form of partnership with AIGA? I am
member of AIGA and have found they are very receptive to user
experience and interaction design. They sponsored publication of
Saffer's book, and when i visited the NY hq, Ux/Ix was literally right
up there on the wall along with all the other fields of design. I
think they've done a pretty good job in the last decade evangelizing
design as a whole. Perhaps they could provide some insight on PR
efforts.
I had also suggested sponsoring research that would be available to
all. It would further legitimize the organization and be a resource
for designers and the press to draw from.
-Dan
On Nov 13, 2007, at 6:12 PM, dave malouf wrote:
> Evangelizing the discipline has always been a core mission of the
> organization for sure.
>
> Petteri, do you have any suggestions on how we can do this? It is a
> really hard piece to knock out of the park considering some of the
> more tactical things we are working on.
Lisa: "Google Groups. I look forward to the IxDA site owning our
content instead of Google."
David: "I don't think a simple discussion group is what Lisa is
envisioning here."
I just want to make a small point on resources and tools.
Lisa, I agree. However with google 'owning' the content they also
take ownership of the maintenance. Its a tradeoff.
David, google groups as we've been using it in Boston is far more
than a mail list. The Pages function is for all intents a basic wiki
with the added benefit of being hooked in to a mail list.
While this isnt perfect, I do get a little bee in my bonnet when I
see people shoot for the ideal when there's a work-able alternative
and your resources can be better allocated.
I dont have a boner for google, but I'd rather see development on
more critical issues - the resources section, bugs in gamma etc. And
make do with 3rd part tools that meet the 80/20 requirements.
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Posted from the new ixda.org
http://gamma.ixda.org/discuss?post=22389
Pauric,
You do have a valid point. Google Groups is working great for us here in
Boston (note: we're only using it to coordinate events and don't yet have it
open to local members, although we certainly could) and I'd be happy to
adopt this solution with local leaders if that was what the IxDA Board
decided was the right thing to do to get us rolling with tools with little
work.
It's a workable solution, and I believe that even some of the functionality
can be shown directly on the ixda.org site (esp. the calendar). Could be the
path of least resistance...
Anywho, I believe there are a few ideas out there that they'll take under
advisement. =)
dave malouf kirjoitti 13.11.2007 kello 18:12:
> Evangelizing the discipline has always been a core mission of the
> organization for sure.
>
> Petteri, do you have any suggestions on how we can do this? It is a
> really hard piece to knock out of the park considering some of the
> more tactical things we are working on.
Fair question - I've thought this since yesterday and three things
come into mind. ("Don't ask what to association can do for you, ask
what you can ...")
1) Expand and polish the Wikipedia entries (as you mentioned earlier,
didn't you?). This is mainly a community effort, but the association
can encourage and remind us to do so. These articles can be improved,
IMHO:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Interaction_design, which should be
linked to:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Design_research
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Personas
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scenario_%28computing%29
... / Framework Definition (doesn't exist or isn't linked)
... / Design Refinement
... / Development Support
(I guess someone should discuss about the IA and semantics of those
terms/articles, but I'm not going to contribute to that part of the
effort. I don't care if a paper prototype is a paper, a prototype or
both. Just gimme the URL.)
Putting semantics and IA aside, I think that #1: fixing Wikipedia
entries would help our cause during year 2008. Using Wikipedia can
hardly do harm for the cause, and anybody in this list can fix an
entry without asking for permission. If you write something that is
useful for developers and journalists, they'll Google it out and share
with their colleagues.
2) We need to talk about IxD in some popular podcasts. If anybody is
friends with Leo Laporte or John C., find an opportunity to get into
their shows. Seriously. Your mother-in-law maybe doesn't listen to
TWiT.tv, but hundreds of thousands of geeks and tech journalists do.
3) Is there a trivial way to track how we are doing with Wikipedia?
For example, can we somehow make a page that displays the latest
entries _which have something to do with IxD_ ? Maybe the smart masses
who can code, could solve this for the rest of us?-)
Thanks,
Petteri
--
Petteri Hiisilä
Senior Interaction Designer
iXDesign / +358505050123 /
petteri.hiisila at ixdesign.fi
"Simple is better than complex.
Complex is better than complicated."
- Tim Peters