Archive for March 2008

13 Mar 2008 0657H

In the end, it’s not enough to have it work

People have to love the product and be passionate about it. How then to build this factor in? I think the answer is in something called kansei engineering, the design of “feeling” into the product. Maybe you could label them as “desirability studies” as Nielsen Norman did with Microsoft. 

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11 Mar 2008 0754H

The wisdom of crowds?

Quote: “Blogger Robert Scoble offered his observations over Twitter: ‘The audience is asking Zuckerburg better questions than Lacy did.’”

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10 Mar 2008 2135H

Revisiting Tog’s First Principles of Interaction Design

The first principles are required reading, but should be fleshed out to make them living examples.
Just thought I’d throw this out here because a lot of folks are coming into IA/IxD work and they don’t really teach this stuff in library and info science or instructional design or whatever passes for undergrad or even graduate [...]

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09 Mar 2008 1121H

Lifetime value propositions

There’s been a lot of hubbub lately about designers jumping ship from one retailer to another, and the fickle tastes of the consumer, say, in softlines, impacting profitability because of the long lead times from the drafting tables in New York City to the factories in Mexico, Southeast Asia, Central America, and then back to [...]

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06 Mar 2008 0906H

Reworking wireframes

Probably one of the most frustrating things about this type of work is the amount of rework that is required due to changing or poorly gathered business requirements, and in fact, sometimes the business side is actually using hard code and layouts as a kind of sandbox for their own ideas before rejecting or accepting [...]

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06 Mar 2008 0711H

The importance of convention

A coworker said yesterday, someday I’d like to write a book on Defying Convention. Well, the problem is that the book was written and it was the irrational exuberance of the dotcom era, Web 1.0, which for all of its innovation, was, I feel, ultimately a search for convention, a search for standards. People defy [...]

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