[IxDA Discuss] A Semi-Theoretical Question

[Dave Malouf]

Janine,
Two undercurrents come to mind when I read the below:

Enterprise Application Design
Platform Application Design

Enterprise applications are always personalized, configured and 
customized and thus the product out of the box is never the same product 
that the end-user experiences.

Platform Application Design is related because to do the former well, 
you need to have a solid platform foundation for developers/system 
integrators to work within.


Another thought, is the narratives ... interaction design as story telling.


it might be interesting to start creating some sort of categorization of 
these ideas as some are angled toward the theoretical and others toward 
the practical and within them, some are for specific environments, 
contexts or mediums and others are more transportable horizontally.

--d ave

Janine Griffin wrote:
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> Designing for a user interface that is configured for specific (and 
> diverse) applications in the marketplace. What the business distributes 
> is a more "generic" UI that you know is going to support a lot of 
> different configurations. The configuration tool (with its own set of 
> users) filters the whole set of functionality to program the product 
> only with the functions a particular customer needs.
>
> Another topic would be designing a UI for a family of products. 
> Especially a challenge when the other members are just words on a wishlist.
>
> Regards,
> Janine
> +++++
> Janine Griffin
> Pounamu Interaction Design Ltd
> www.pounamu.com
>
> Dan Saffer wrote:
>   
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>> If there was a book that covered advanced topics in interaction  
>> design, what would those topics be?
>>
>> By "advanced" I mean, light on methods. No tips for putting together  
>> wireframes--that wort of thing.
>>
>> I have a few topics: cross-cultural design, creating design  
>> languages, turning research into design implications, and situated  
>> interactions for example.
>>
>> What would your topics be?
>>
>> Dan
>>
>>     
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