8. October 2009 by admin.

On Thursday, October 29th you will be receiving your eye tracking equipment training.  You will need to have a 4-5 images of your intended design ready for the session. Each training session will only be about 30 minutes long, and you will be in self-organized groups of 4-5 students (your tables again?).  As a courtesy, I’d like to stack  the appointments. Are any of the following 2 hour blocks resonable?12-2: Thursday: October 292-4: Thursday October 29th4-6: Thursday October 29thThese sessions replace your normal class session on 10/29, providing you ample time to work or shift your schedule.   Your 11/2 class session will be substituted with a self organized usability paper session or eye tracking session.Please respond as a comment to this thread. As a cohort, I assume most of you have similar class scheduling conflicts.  Again, it would be best if we simply put everyone in the same 2 hour block (4 half hour group sessions).  We will talk about this in class too.

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15. September 2009 by admin.

Hey guys, I’m sure you have enjoyed using google to find your worst websites, but I’m going to ban any of the top order list of “worst websites” lists provided by other blogs and design oriented sites.  A few examples of resources you can no longer use:

http://www.manolith.com/2009/08/25/worst-website-designs/

http://www.pcworld.com/article/127116/the_25_worst_web_sites.html

http://www.blog.spoongraphics.co.uk/articles/the-5-worst-website-designs-in-the-world

http://www.downloadsquad.com/2009/03/20/fugly-friday-the-worlds-worst-website/

http://alecrios.com/how-to-make-the-worst-website

You will find the exercise much more useful if you use your own design criteria to determine what is bad and what is not. Anyone can use someone’s else’s opinion, you’ll be paid to use your own, or at least combine yours with a bunch of others.  You may however use these lists as jumping off points for investigating other sites that may fill your criteria for a bad site.

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8. September 2009 by admin.

If you would like to be able to get to this site quickly, use the following URLs:

http://art355.lgrace.com/

http://interactiondesign.professorgrace.com/

Thanks.

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7. September 2009 by admin.

Please not the following requirements when posting your good links/bad links:

• Include observations related to the weekly design topics or technical discussions.  Citing your understanding of our “design anthropology” and usability will help demostrate your mastery of the course topics.
• Create two postings - one for good link, one for bad link.
• Include your name in your posting.
• Avoid using personal websites, instead use commercial or professional sites that aspire toward good design.  Last week a few people posted sites that aspired to be bad to demonstrate design principles.  Technically, a site that seeks to demonstrate bad design, and does so well, is not a bad site, it’s a good site because it succeeds at what it endeavors.
• I encourage you to comment on each other’s links, as I have done for you last week.

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3. September 2009 by admin.

The following URLS have substantial browser prohibitive use cases. This serves as demonstration that beside the fight over XHTML standards, the infamous browser wars continue to exist. Most of the conflicts occur because the designers and developers elect to support technology supported by a narrow set of web browsers. Others are simply clumsy oversights by the designer or developer.

• TNT.tv
• First Data Merchant Services
• PepsiCo: Careers
• http://www.mlxchange.com

I pulled this list from a forum topic on Maclife:http://www.maclife.com/forums/topic/112689

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31. August 2009 by admin.

This is the course blog for Miami University’s ART355 Interaction Design course, Fall 2009.  Please post your comments and links on this site.  You should make sure you have categorized your post correctly and please remember this is a public website

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31. August 2009 by admin.

 Here are a few of the links and resources I shared with you from week 1:

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  http://www.keithtyson.com/

• http://www.justaddnewzealanders.com/
• http://www.boston.com/bigpicture/

The game we played:

• http://www.crayonphysics.com/

The designers et al. we discussed:

• Dunne and Raby
• Jakob Nielsen
• Edward Tufte
  

 And an organization with which you should be familiar: The W3C

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