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<title>Looking for Usability Partner in Russian and Singapore</title>
<link>http://www.ixda.org/discuss.php?post=34947</link>
<author>Joe Leech</author>
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Joe Leech.   Hi there, We have a possible new project where we need to run some user testing in Russia and Singapore. If you are interested in working with us please call me on the number...
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<pubDate>October 28, 2008 2:46am</pubDate>
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<title>3 (not 6) Metrics for Managing UI Design</title>
<link>http://www.ixda.org/discuss.php?post=34762</link>
<author>Russell Wilson</author>
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Russell Wilson.   This is the follow up to the original post on metrics for managing UI design (what we finally chose to use based on feedback from IxDA members and team members): http://www.dexodesign.com/2008/10/22/3-not-6-metrics-for-managing-ui-design/ I received some...
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<pubDate>October 23, 2008 7:05am</pubDate>
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<title>Why designers fail: the results</title>
<link>http://www.ixda.org/discuss.php?post=34591</link>
<author>Scott Berkun</author>
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Scott Berkun.   As promised, the survey results with some basic analysis is up at: http://www.scottberkun.com/blog/2008/why-designers-fail-the-report/ We had 389 people respond: Almost 34%  were designers, the rest were a mix of project managers, programmers, usability engineers...
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<pubDate>October 20, 2008 3:28pm</pubDate>
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<title>Question on Pros and Cons of Offshore UXD Collaboration</title>
<link>http://www.ixda.org/discuss.php?post=34390</link>
<author>Atul N Joshi</author>
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Atul N Joshi.   Hi everyone, Our group and I work in the area of User Experience Design in the Indian markets. Our focus has been primarily in three areas- 1) International and Indian Products and Services offered...
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<pubDate>October 16, 2008 5:10am</pubDate>
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<title>Can an interaction designer creat (great) interaction without (great) visual design skills?</title>
<link>http://www.ixda.org/discuss.php?post=34316</link>
<author>R. Groot</author>
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R. Groot.   Hi all, in my daily work as an interaction designer I mostly create wireframes and support the visual designers in their creation of the visual design for these wireframes. I notice though, that there...
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<pubDate>October 15, 2008 1:35am</pubDate>
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<title>Web 2.0 for Banking and Insurance industry</title>
<link>http://www.ixda.org/discuss.php?post=34445</link>
<author>Aadesh Mistry</author>
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Aadesh Mistry.   Hi, Nowadays, everyone is moving towards implementing Web2.0. Banking and Insurance are the sectors who are yet to adopt Web 2.0 Would like to have a discussion on what are the new ways of...
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<pubDate>October 14, 2008 10:07pm</pubDate>
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<title>Vive l'ergonomie?</title>
<link>http://www.ixda.org/discuss.php?post=34310</link>
<author>Billie Mandel</author>
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Billie Mandel.   Hey folks - I guess today's my day to open my trap on IxDA, which I haven't done in ages (*waving hello to everyone*) So, question of the day: what can you guys tell...
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<pubDate>October 14, 2008 12:41pm</pubDate>
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<title>Simple usability lab - suggestions?</title>
<link>http://www.ixda.org/discuss.php?post=34235</link>
<author>Kordian Piotr Klecha</author>
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Kordian Piotr Klecha.   We are thinking about building small and simple usability lab. The goal is to minimize the cost, retaining capabilities to quick test some own ideas and (especially) results of changes we made. I am...
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<pubDate>October 13, 2008 6:13am</pubDate>
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<title>Gathering Data from Training</title>
<link>http://www.ixda.org/discuss.php?post=34208</link>
<author>Bojhan Somers</author>
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Bojhan Somers.   Hi Everyone, I work with a lot of developers who give training on the system they develop, recently they noticed that a lot of their recommendations in usability issues come from their previous experience...
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<pubDate>October 11, 2008 3:28pm</pubDate>
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<title>Do you regard &quot;Interaction Design&quot; as good name for your design practice? else, what's your prefer?</title>
<link>http://www.ixda.org/discuss.php?post=34155</link>
<author>Jarod Tang</author>
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Jarod Tang.   As we found (interaction related) guys talk about the design in different names ( interaction design, user experience design or user interface design , etc). Myself also found shifting between the names back and...
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<pubDate>October 10, 2008 4:31pm</pubDate>
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<title>Standards of Professional Practice</title>
<link>http://www.ixda.org/discuss.php?post=34131</link>
<author>Kevin Silver</author>
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Kevin Silver.   Hi, Does anyone know of or use (abide by) Standards of Professional Practice other than the one AIGA has outlined?  I'm interested to see if there are any alternatives. Thanks, Kevin  
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<pubDate>October 10, 2008 6:55am</pubDate>
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<title>Finally! My Prayers Will Be Answered. In 3 years.</title>
<link>http://www.ixda.org/discuss.php?post=34117</link>
<author>Jared Spool</author>
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Jared Spool.   What I've been praying for, to learn what Facebook's business plan is,  will be finally answered! In 3 years, once Mark Zuckerberg figures it out. http://is.gd/3MSY Silicon Alley Insider: Zuckerberg: Facebook Will Have...
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<pubDate>October 9, 2008 5:27pm</pubDate>
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<title>Resiliency of IxDA Jobs in a Major Recession</title>
<link>http://www.ixda.org/discuss.php?post=34025</link>
<author>Damon Dimmick</author>
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Damon Dimmick.   Hey there, colleagues. With the financial crisis and credit crunch hitting the economy squarely in the wallet, my thoughts have been drifting towards musings on the viability and resiliency of IxDA (and related) jobs...
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<pubDate>October 7, 2008 4:44pm</pubDate>
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<title>The biggest problems</title>
<link>http://www.ixda.org/discuss.php?post=33964</link>
<author>Chris Noessel</author>
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Chris Noessel.   Aside from hate on User Centered Design, and perhaps more seriously, the looming global economy crisis, I'm interesting in hearing what IxDAers think are the largest problems facing the IxD practice today. Anyone have...
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<pubDate>October 6, 2008 5:28pm</pubDate>
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<title>why the hate-on User-centered Design? (was  practice vs. discipline &amp; roles vs. people</title>
<link>http://www.ixda.org/discuss.php?post=33885</link>
<author>Christina Wodtke</author>
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Christina Wodtke.   Lately a lot of senior folks seem to be railing on user-centered design. Now, I thought UCD was the idea of putting the users in the center of the design choices. To do that,...
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<pubDate>October 5, 2008 7:35pm</pubDate>
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<title>Article in Today's New York Times on Design and Design Thinking</title>
<link>http://www.ixda.org/discuss.php?post=33877</link>
<author>Chauncey Wilson</author>
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Chauncey Wilson.   Today's Sunday New York Times has an article on design and design thinking. It is accessible at: http://www.nytimes.com/2008/10/05/business/05unbox.html? _r=1&amp;amp;ref=business&amp;amp;oref=slogin (Note, you might have to have a subscription to this read) A few quotes from...
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<pubDate>October 5, 2008 6:58am</pubDate>
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<title>practice vs. discipline &amp; roles vs. people</title>
<link>http://www.ixda.org/discuss.php?post=33500</link>
<author>David Malouf</author>
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David Malouf.   Andrei said. &amp;quot;We won't truly agree on much of the larger picture until you change your stance that &amp;quot;interaction&amp;quot; designers need not understand fully the fundamentals of graphic design as part of the job...
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<pubDate>September 25, 2008 5:28am</pubDate>
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<title>Why Understanding Business Models is Important to Ix Designers</title>
<link>http://www.ixda.org/discuss.php?post=33433</link>
<author>Jared Spool</author>
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Jared Spool.   Interaction design is hard enough to do when the business model is  clear. When the designer knows exactly how making a better design will  increase the value of the company, (thereby increasing...
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<pubDate>September 24, 2008 4:23am</pubDate>
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<title>Clients are funny</title>
<link>http://www.ixda.org/discuss.php?post=32291</link>
<author>Marty DeAngelo</author>
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Marty DeAngelo.   Just thought I would pass along this little treat. I got an email about an hour ago telling me that our client was concerned that the video player on one of our projects pages...
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<pubDate>August 25, 2008 12:27pm</pubDate>
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<title>ING sues PNC over alleged similarities of Web sites</title>
<link>http://www.ixda.org/discuss.php?post=32090</link>
<author>G. Jason Head</author>
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G. Jason Head.   Interesting enough it has to do a bit with the user interface on the PNC Virtual Wallet site: &amp;quot;The site features several orange balls used to highlight products and services PNC offers. ING alleges...
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<pubDate>August 15, 2008 1:16pm</pubDate>
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