[IxDA Discuss] Looking for guidance

[W Evans]

Bill's book is great - I try to read a little every day - it's a tomb! Alot
of good discussions in there about IxD.

Also check out the debate/conversation:
"DesignVision: A conversation about the role of design-driven leadership in
the product development
process<www.lukew.com/resources/articles/DesignVision.pdf>"
which is a thoughtful discussion between LukeW, Bob Baxley, Jim Leftwich and
Dirk Knemeyer... It's a fun read. Along those same lines - check out Bob
Baxley's article in Boxes&Arrows Introducing Interaction Design
<http://www.boxesandarrows.com/view/introducing_interaction_design>

Some ideas off the top of my head - some have been done, some are
contentious, some could use more research...

1. Ethical Issues for Interaction Designers
2. Myths of the perfect interface metaphor
3. Why Agile wants to kill User Centered Design
4. AJAX Web 2.0 Goodness - Just because you "can" do something (using
scriptalicous etc) - doesn't mean it's good interaction design
5. Designing for Privacy: Why Interaction Designers Should Think Before
Creating Yet Another Social Networking App.

At least those things are interesting to me if I had alot more free time to
research them.



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~ will

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http://interaction08.ixda.org/
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will evans
user experience architect
wkevans4 at gmail.com
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On 10/2/07, Michael Micheletti <michael.micheletti at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> Hi Holly, and welcome!
>
> Bill Moggridge's book "Designing for Interactions" has good stories about
> how different designers solved a variety of problems. It's a big book that
> touches on design issues over the last couple of decades.
>
> Themes I get from the book include: How do you focus tightly in order to
> create the exact right thing? What do breakthroughs look like and how do
> they happen? How did the great shops like Xerox Parc and IDEO consistently
> turn out great work? What are the roots of modern interaction design and
> what can we learn from them? You get the idea. Bill's book is a
> provocative
> "How We Came To Be Here" overview of our craft. You may find in it
> somewheres that pebble in the water that expands into your paper. Hope
> this
> is helpful, good luck in your work,
>
> Michael Micheletti
>
> On 10/1/07, Holly Murphy <hollithia at gmail.com> wrote:
> >
> > ...
> > Any personal issues that are faced repeatedly or books and/or articles
> > that would be helpful are greatly appreciated.
> >
> > Thanks,
> > Holly
> >
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