[The intro informs us that Antenna Design is a boutique firm–five people–that’s been around for many years and has won a large number of awards. Note: this session was more of a slideshow of Sigi’s firm’s accomplishments and doesn’t really come across well as a blog entry. I only had my iPhone camera and it […]
Interaction08: Experience Design, Convergence, and the Digital Agency by David Armano
Look at the definition of Interaction Design in Wikipedia (“WIKI”); it’s great. Three essentially elements: – Human – Technical – Aesthetic Gurus from the Past – usability experts (Jakob Nielsen) – tacticians – creative geniuses – web consultants (marchFIRST) Present – Tim Brown – Robert Greenberg – Alex Bogusky Teams past: – designer – developer […]
Interaction08: Conversations with Everyday Objects by Bill DeRouchey of Ziba Design
[Bill handed out a four page paper to accompany the talk; the slides are available at http://www.slideshare.net/billder. Room is *packed*, lots of people standing.] The article I handed out is the theory; we’re going to spend most of our time talking about practice here in the talk. People are surrounded by technology, everywhere they look, […]
Interaction08: Dramatic Features in Interaction Design by Chris Conley from Gravity Tank
I’m here to give somewhat of an exploratory talk–these are brand-new ideas for me (hopefully for you as well). I want you to help me think through some of the issues I’m going to foist on you. Hopefully, it’s a little provocative and I want it to be collaborative. But I don’t want to get […]
Interaction08: Concept Ideation and IxD by Gretchen Anderson from Lunar
I missed the first minute or two of introduction from Gretchen; she talked a bit about the idea of “commander’s intent” and how in the military a lot of decisions are made by looking at the commanding officer’s intent. She then talked about how boxes and arrows don’t tell a story to a lot of […]
Interaction08: Sarah Allen on Cinematic Interaction Design
Cinematic Interaction Design by Sarah Allen (Laszlo) [This isn’t a good sign; the laptop/projector link isn’t working, and given the highly visual nature of the talk, hmm…] Who in the room has heard the term “Cinematic Interaction Design”? [A smattering of hands is raised.] This term was coined by the founder of Laszlo Systems [ugh] […]
Interaction08: Dan Brown and Jared Spool
Concept Models by Dan Brown [I missed Dan’s introduction and story-telling. The room is packed.] Let’s start talking about Concept Models with a mock assignment of building an expense report. He shows some hideous screenshot of an expense report and talks about our desire to make things better. You might have requirements and personas; now […]
Interaction08 Friday Keynote: Alan Cooper
Robert Reimann kicked off the first (full) day of Interaction08. He started with a charged introduction, telling us that this is the first-ever conference of the IxDA group and represented a major milestone in the emergence of “Interaction Design” as the pre-eminent discipline involved in the creation of digital products. The energy level in the […]
At Interaction08 Today
Arrived in Savannah last night for Interaction08, the first conference of IxDA, the Interaction Design Association. I’ll be blogging the sessions I attend for as long as I have battery life. 🙂 The biggest difference between this and the legion of technical conferences I’ve attended in my career is the male:female ratio, which much closer […]
Ben Galbraith 