Category: Allgemein

Adding to what is already out there, this pattern library is the result of a Master project at FH Potsdam. I think it’s well done! http://niceone.org/infodesign/

I found this video-summary on youtube about the amazing next steps of the iphone 3G. To watch the complete keynote please visit Apple’s website.

I just watched this summary but not yet the complete keynote. So there’ll be some more stuff on this entry I think 😉

On april 29th an 30th I had the opportunity to take part on a workshop called “From User Stories to User Interface Design“ held by catalysts, (Christoph Steindl and Christian Federspiel). These guys are rather not User Interface Designers but more Software Engineers and Project Managers who got a lot of experience in software development projects at e.g. IBM, Siemens and VAI. So I was very curious about the workshop.

Actually I just had time to visit the second day, but nevertheless it was a great experience and brought me some kind of aha-effects, which I’ll try to describe.

Bill Buxton’s book “Sketching User Experiences” layed the base for most of the examples we went through. But get a bit more into detail. Of course every UI Designer knows about Paper Prototyping. But when was the last time you built a paper prototype in a group of 3 to 4 Interaction Designers, tested it with real users, redesigned it and presented the whole stuff to an audience? And all that within one hour?

pictures: http://www.nngroup.com

Of course one and one the most stunning points is quality & speed. When you create a paper prototype, test it (with three to five users) redesign it on base of this feedback and do this process again.

Using e.g. HTML prototypes for this procedure normally takes me several days. Concentrating too early on the graphic-design is also one of the problems I have to face as a designer. But the second (and maybe far more interesting) point for me is that when I use paper for a prototype (which takes me normally 30 to 60 minutes) I have absolutely no problem to throw it away again. And this is definitely not the case with my HTML prototypes: “Well, now I spend that much time yet, I can’t do this all again. Let’s see what we can use”. The barrier for making a compromise is much, much lower with paper. And that’s an interesting argument, I think.

As mentioned, several examples can be found in Bill Buxtons book. Here is one I really love …

For over 40 years Bob Spence has pursued research in two fields, engineering design and human-computer interaction. He is a fellow of the IEEE and a fellow of the Royal Academy of Engineering.

trotz fußball-em gibts einen nächsten interaction design stammtisch. vielleicht gibts ja beiträge zu interaction design/usability im kontext fußball 🙂

dienstag, 10.6.2008 um 19:00 uhr
im werkzeugH, 1050 wien, schönbrunnerstrasse 61, statt. [öffis: u4 pilgramgasse, 14a, 13a, 12a, 59a]

“bring 2 folien” hat bei den letzten stammtischen super funktioniert und darum: jeder der möchte bringt 1-2 slides über sachen, die ihn gerade im bereich interaction design, usability, … beschäftigen/interessieren mit, und stellt sie vor.

der interaction design stammtisch findet jeden monat am 2. dienstag statt. jeder der sich für die themen interaction design, usability, accessibility, user interface design, … interessiert ist herzlich eingeladen. anmeldung ist keine notwendig.

The way most organizations think and work on products and services isn’t suited to the unpredictable world we live in. Instead, companies need new ways of think…

link to the video

Die Londoner Underground als letztes Refugium.

Nachdem ich hier im Blog noch immer nix darüber gelesen hab 😉

Die Mai-Ausgabe des PAGE-Magazins titelt mit “Infodesign interaktiv”. Der Beitrag kommt recht hübsch daher, die Links zu den vorgestellten Beispielen gibts auch gesammelt: http://www.page-online.de/weblog/infodesign_interaktiv .

Dem Ersten (m/w), für den die vorgestellten Links allesamt ein alter Hut sind, zahl ich ein Bier o.ä. beim nächsten Stammtisch 🙂

Was mir unter anderem nicht eingefallen ist: die Hyperbolische Geometrie, Hyperbolic Tree, etc. Wiederentdeckt für die Information Visualisierung unter anderem durch diese Herrschaften.

Es gibt eine ganze Menge von Papers und Anwendungen rund um dieses Thema, um nur einige zu nennen: Map of the Market^archive.org; Ben Fry hat eine gute Zusammenfassung geschrieben: Organic Information Design.

der nächste interaction design stammtisch findet am:

dienstag, 13.5.2008 um 19:00 uhr
im werkzeugH, 1050 wien, schönbrunnerstrasse 61, statt. [öffis: u4 pilgramgasse, 14a, 13a, 12a, 59a]

“bring 2 folien” hat bei den letzten stammtischen super funktioniert und darum: jeder der möchte bringt 1-2 slides über sachen, die ihn gerade im bereich interaction design, usability, … beschäftigen/interessieren mit, und stellt sie vor.

der interaction design stammtisch findet jeden monat am 2. dienstag statt. jeder der sich für die themen interaction design, usability, accessibility, user interface design, … interessiert ist herzlich eingeladen. anmeldung ist keine notwendig.

Drawings and sketches can be powerful and persuasive representations of ideas, events, sequences, systems and objects. As part of a larger collaborative design process, hand drawing can serve as a key method for thinking, reasoning and exploring opportunities, yet inherently differs from wire-frames and conceptual models. Innately, interaction designers employ a variety of methods for representing ideas and information, both internally in a cognitive sense, and externally in the devices we employ to record, share and reflect…

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