While I agree with Craig's points I find surveys inappropriate for gathering user data for yet another very important reason. What users say and do are almost...
User Experience Designer, Herndon, VA | 60-95k My client is looking for someone who can create user-centric process flows & page layouts from functional...
... Isn't that really the design teams fault? If you get a lot of survey results that all say "I want X because of problem Y" just going ahead and doing X...
Users typically respond to interviews and surveys based on their perception of the product or of their tasks. The responses, therefore, are as inaccurate or...
Hello Friends, This is an announcement of the September Usability workshop. Usability testing & Interaction Design Short Course A 2 Day participatory course...
Is interaction design a science? Is usability a science? With technology changing both for the hardware and software, do you need a fixed set of 'Heuristics'...
... [snip] Yes. If a design team blindly implements the features that the user asks for then they're idiots. That was my point ;-) However, you can use the...
Hey, wait a minute: heuristics explains how people make decisions; it’s not a set of rules. How people make decisions is not a particularly orderly ...
At 05:27 AM 9/4/2006, detached soul wrote: [If you want me to take you seriously, you should consider using a real name. I don't know why you need to be...
Common Sense is an oxymoron anyway, there is nothing common about good sense. And there is nothing common sense about good design either. Just remember: "for...
... For the record, Experience Design *is* a science (albeit a very young one), and some of us are spending significant portions of our research budget trying...
Hey, I'm looking for some cool experiences to visit in NY for a couple of podcasts. We have a good starter list here, but I know someone always has something...
[ Sorry for any duplicates -- Jared ] Greetings, I go to 20+ conferences a year and while many of the conferences have excellent programs, I often find myself...
Experience design, like most design (except the most engineering-driven), is still in part an art form, Jared. Each design still is idiosyncratic, unique....
If anything, design--all design--is an applied art. For all its interest in technology, whether technologies that produce it or how it produces technologies...
... and ... First, design may have artistic qualities, but it is a science. There is a body of knowledge. There is ongoing research. There are experimental...
Thanks, Jared, for explicating your meaning. You do your lab justice. I would still contend that design is an art, and that science and research for the most...
I felt that this is worth sharing. While people generally don't put much effort into the text they put in when they're attempting to join a group/discussion...
Forwarding from another list for those in 'the valley'. "Richard I. Anderson" <riander@...> wrote: Hi, "Managing User Experience Groups" is the title of...
We are expanding our team to tackle new and interesting initiatives and we have a pressing need for mid/senior-level (experienced) UX practitioner, with really...
When was the term "experience design" first coined? A few years back, I had a conversation with John Rheinfrank where he showed me the article in which he had...
Just a thought. I have a placeholder in my head to discover the relevancy in the differences between Joe Pine's focus of Experience Design (creating new and...
... I don't think "perceptions" ever get "fulfilled". They get validated or proved wrong. Needs get fulfilled. ... Again, I think your use of the word...
Nice thought - and I hope I'm not jumping into wrong spot in the middle of a thread here [I'm a newbie to this list] - I definitely see a contrast, but also a...
On this fifth anniversary of September 11th, I thought that I would excerpt from a piece I wrote soon after September 11, 2001 for a magazine called ...
Experience Designers-- We now have a complete program, and this is the last week for discounted registration! http://ideaconference.org/ To jog your memory:...
On Wikipedia, the user Ronz has offered several critical responses to the article on Experience Design, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Talk:Experience_design As...
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