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Internationally, User Experience is a hot topic in terms of web development. Sleepy South Africa is only just awakening to the UX day.  (Maybe that's just my perspective, since I started learning about User Experience Design within the last 3 years after picking up a copy of Don't Make Me Think.  I'm more aware of it now.)

My perspective is also that SA is ripe for UX pickings.  Only a few South Africans have the capability and experience to promote UX services in our Software Development Industry.  I wonder why that is?

It could be a facet of ignorance - Not many companies know about the benefits of User Experience Design.
It could also be about arrogance -  Many companies think that Usability doesn't need to be tested.  That their design work is perfect.
It could also be about perceived costs - It's seen as an unnecessary cost on an already expensive software project.

User testing is a humbling process and needn't be expensive.  The initial cost is an investment. The outcomes of a User Test promote better software, acceptable software.  All that's left is our ignorance.

How can I educate myself in UX matters?

University-related Training opportunities in Usability and HCI are quite limited locally.  UNISAs B.Sc curriculum in Information Technology only offers 2 modules over the course of 3 years.  UCT are doing HCI research in their Faculty of Science, but I don't see any mention of courses tailored to User Experience.

Human Factors International (with a branch in Pretoria) offer a set of very short certificate courses, they're niche but decidedly expensive.

If your time and budget are restrictive, you could always resort to reading the relevant books. I recommend:

• The Design of Everyday Things by Prof. Donald Norman
• Observing the User Experience: A practitioner's guide to User Research by Mike Kuniavsky

Is there a local community?

It took a Bright Boy from Johannesburg to start the SA UX Forum which is open to anyone with an interest in UX.  Since its inception in April 2007 its member base has expanded to 95 souls.

More recently, we've had GeekDinner-style Meet-ups to create awareness and network.  (The next Cape Town meetup is scheduled for the 20th of August, why not pop by?)  The meet-ups have proved a great opportunity for learning and meeting those with similar experiences.

Who can guide us?

Well, Phil Barrett is one. Director of Flow Interactive and general User Experience Guru who emigrated to South Africa last year or so.  Phil has been the proverbial awareness gypsy, presenting numerous talks at StarCamp, 27 Dinners and Heavy Chef cookups.  Now Phil is central to the Cape Town happenings of the SA UX forum.

He's the sorta guy that would gladly visit your office and give a presentation on User Experience Design and explain why it's so important for any software development project.

Where to now?

Beyond the likes of Phil and Jason Hobbs in Johannesburg, it's up to us.

Talk about it, ask questions.  Mingle with the right folks. Promote UXD within your company.

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A line from the closing paragraph of Zacharek's post resonated with me: "The numbers in Lauzen's study don't trouble me as much as the pervasiveness of the idea that critics -- the last line of defense between moviegoers and studio-generated hype -- no longer matter." It is obviously not the case that critics no longer matter. And Zacharek herself in the same post observes that film criticism is not dying: "I don't believe film criticism overall is dying -- it thrives, in many different forms and at many different levels of quality, on the Web. But the chances of being able to make a living at it are growing increasingly slim." So the issue here, as before with the death of literary criticism, is that the dedicated critic at a mass media outlet appears to be no longer a viable profession.

Without taking a position on that--and I can't see how it would help anyone if I did--I'd like to point out the largest cultural implication of this phenomenon: cultural criticism, like cultural production (e.g., YouTube, blogs, and SecondLife), is increasingly out of the hands of professionals at mass media outlets, and increasingly in the hands of devoted amateurs. And although intuitively one might assume that the amateurs are categorically worse than professionals--and it is no challenge at all to find examples of this--nonetheless, my own research has shown that some amateur criticism is in fact nuanced, sophisticated, and high quality. A team of my grad students and I have a paper currently under review about critical standards among the bloggers on virtual fashion in Second Life, and we found that their critical vocabulary has matured over the years and today can be quite sophisticated.

That in turn leads to some new questions: How can we Web users find high quality amateur criticism? How can educators, interaction designers, and Web 2.0 community participants and community managers encourage and support the emergence of high quality amateur cultural criticism? How can those engaged in cultural production--amateur or professional--leverage amateur cultural criticism? How can we theorize around these monumental shifts in critical practices? To what extent are contributions from women, minorities, and traditionally underrepresented groups in cultural gatekeeping practices still excluded or marginalized--or are they? And finally, and not least, how can we economically support those critics who are providing us with this service?

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So I scrolled down to the bottom of the mail and clicked on the unsubscribe link, which took me to the Monarch website and asked me to sign in to change my preferences. This was the first thing that annoyed me I just wanted to unsubscribe not change my preferences. Anyway I didn't know I had an account so tried my usual username and password and that didn't work so I went through the trial and error process of putting everything I could think of in until it finally let me in. I used the trial and error process rather than requesting a new password because by this point I had already lost confidence in the site, and though that the password retrieval process would take longer than guessing.

So I finally got in and then expecting to be greeted with a screen that would allow me to unsubscribe. Oh no, I was just dumped on my account page telling me that I was already unsubscribed so just to be sure I clicked through and found out that I was indeed unsubscribed and had some vague recollection of unsubscribing a couple of months ago.

So thats half an hour of my life wasted and still receiving spam from Monarch. Thanks Monarch I have now lost all confidence in you holding my data if you can't do something simple like check that I would like to receive email before you send it to me.

Here's what IMHO Monarch should have done.

Customer. I want to opt out of you email marketing.

Monarch. Oh, okay we are sorry to hear about that. Please get in touch with us if you change your mind.

Customer. Thanks, I will.

Simple as that and it stops negative PR from blog posts like this.

Above image is home page of "aaqua - mini" which says its a mobile version of "aaqua". After getting inside "aaqua mini", you can search for any keyword. I just tried searching for pesticides and something popped up like this :

Here i do not understand the significance of leaving the bottom space and giving pagination like 1|2|3|4. It feels like they have not done proper utilization of the space. One more interesting thing i found out is,

Once you open some link which requires registration, you see a red colored statement saying " warning - you have to login to access this feature" (shown in the above image). This seems very strange, something like it is trying to scare by saying "warning", you have done some biggest mistake by clicking this link.

Though i appreciate the effort of connecting agricultural experts and farmers which helps them grow better. "aaqua" has been awarded two times.

最近在師大校園內的餐廳發現這個小玩意兒

當你在櫃檯點完餐 服務生會給你一個小飛碟

找個位子坐下來 先喝飲料

等到小飛碟裡的 LED 閃了 以及發出震動時

就可以到櫃檯領餐

差不多和一個杯墊一樣的大小

放在桌上閃亮的 LED 還滿漂亮的

整個設計非常實用 美觀

並且省去店員的大聲吼叫

達成的技術門檻也很低

卻讓整個點餐的活動顯得優雅 從容 簡便 值得期待...

這樣的互動設計, 我想不亞於人行道專用燈的走路小綠人

I go and meet with a potential client. This client is something like a high-powered PR firm, and all the women who work there are older and somewhat icy and forbidding. They don't have offices, but instead all the women sit at a long front desk, like a reception area, and greet people there.

The woman I talk to has a 3-D printer at her desk for prototyping. We discuss a project and she prints out a blob of plastic for us to review. I walk down the line of desks and pick up business cards from everyone.

I go back to my house on Prescott Drive and go into the basement. I look up K.V.s blog and realize that I had written him a note on his blog asking if he wanted to get together, and he had replied on the blog so I hadn't seen it. He had also commented about Tamara's blog. I write back to him that if he's interested in plastic flies (like toy rubber houseflies) then I know where to get some.

Then Luke comes down the stairs and I quit working to talk to him.

@_@   Wow!

Questi dell'ECAL (Media & Interaction Design Unit) di Losanna sono dei mostri... Magari avessimo anche noi dello IUAV i mezzi necessari per fare questo genere di progetti!!

Bravi, comunque!

As is typical for me, I have some quotes I want to share. I'll start with a short blurb about the program from their Web site:

The School of Visual Arts MFA in Design Criticism - the first of its kind in the United States - seeks to cultivate design criticism as a discipline and contribute to public discourse with new writing and thinking that is imaginative, historically informed and socially accountable.

I find it important to see the notions of "rigor" (previous quote) juxtaposed with the key goals of the program: imaginative, historically informed, and socially accountable discourse. In the engineering and social science dominated field of HCI, "rigor" is typically tied to empirical evaluation, rather than critical thinking. Let us consider each of these three areas of value and their presence in HCI.

Social accountability is increasingly mainstream in HCI, from Scandinavian "political" approaches to HCI to the meteoric rise of sustainable interaction design (such as the work of my illustrious colleague, Eli Blevis). Imagination is something, IMO, that HCI is not particularly good at. I don't mean to say it's not there--there are lots of people in HCI with plenty of imagination. But does HCI have a stable way to think about, evaluate, or teach imagination with "rigor"? I think not. As to the third value--being historically informed--HCI is only now starting to confront its own historicity (e.g., Bodker's essay on the three "waves" of HCI). What one rarely sees is any writing in the field that treats the history of a design artifact as historical, as having a history, a genealogy, or precursors. Yet this sensibility is absolutely basic to criticism, from literary and film criticism to design criticism.

OK, enough of that. This next quote is a treasure. It comes from Linda Cooper Bowen's article, "Teaching Design Criticism," which is in the May/June issue of Communication Arts magazine, which is how I found out about this new MFA program in the first place.

Aside from acquiring an appropriate critical vocabulary and a professional perspective, a professional critic needs to have a distinct individual voice, be passionate, witty, provocative, angry or possibly ambivalent, but always, unequivocally, well-informed. Critics need the courage of their convictions since they may express a point of view that is not popular.... Yes, one can be taught to write well, learn design speak and the history of every area of design, but cannot be trained to express why design matters culturally and socially. The primary role of critical writing is to create attention to areas of design that are commonly accepted without question.

There's a lot going on here, but I want to cut right down to the core. In this formulation, the critic is unique. She or he is not representative of the user. She or he is not performing a replicable and established research methodology. Instead, the critic is someone with a unique voice and a special capacity to call attention to details that are simultaneously overlooked and that also get right at the sociocultural significance of the design. Critics offer an individual point of view; this individual perspective is not a liability and critics don't attempt to strip it away in the name of objectivity. And far from being dispassionate, they are passionate, angry, ambivalent. The point of view is the eyes through which the critic sees (here I'm echoing Gadamer a bit). This point of view can be "unpopular," which again means that the critic is not a barometer or predictor of user or public satisfaction, but someone who gets at something deeper and more significant than the users themselves are aware of. And for all that, it can be done with rigor.

The last quote, also from Bowen's article, is from Alice Twemlow, chair of the program. It expands on the significance of history in design criticism.

It is somehow overlooked that one needs to know that there is a whole history that led up to this point in ... design. When I am looking for good critics I am looking for good historical writers. We will be devoting 30 weeks of the first year to design history classes.

Of course, 30 weeks, for those readers who are safely out of academia, is an entire academic year. I'll let this last quote speak for itself.

The biggest problem for me at the moment is deciding between graduate school and an entry-level job/internship. I actually rather love to work, but I'm concerned that I'm not ready for the work force. Perhaps I'm second-guessing myself, but I'm also worried that I won't want to go back to school after working. Simultaneously, I'm worried about entry level jobs. I can't find any that I want. I guess beggars can't be choosers. But I don't want to live in Middle-of-Nowhere, USA.

However, if there's a bright spot to all this, I found a neat little quote that sums up how I want to be/what I want to possess:

The precision of an artist and the passion of a scientist.

How's that for a thought?

The example above from Remember The Milk's sign-up form points out how easy registering for a product or service should be. It looks so easy, but in reality making it seem easy take experience, empathy and real work.

As a result, you're probably not going to find the answer to the question "How do I design a great registration form?" in a single blog post. (At least not one written by me.)

So where to look then? Let me suggest that you check out some of the insightful writing of Luke Wroblewski. I've read Luke's articles before on his site, Functioning Form as well as Boxes and Arrows, and A List Apart—he's worth reading.

If you came here looking for information on creating well designed forms, I'd suggest you read the articles linked here and then give his new book a spin.

Selected articles by Luke Wroblewski:

• Sign up Forms Must Die
• Sign-up Forms Patterns
• Natural Selections: Colors Found in Nature and Interface Design
• Visible Narratives: Understanding Visual Organization

Books by Luke Wroblewski:

Web Form Design: Filling in the Blanks

By Luke Wroblewski. Rosenfeld Media, May 2008.
Reviews of Web Form Design

• Boxes and Arrows
• Goodreads
• Interaction Design Association

Site-Seeing: A Visual Approach to Web Usability

By Luke Wroblewski. Wiley, June 2002.

Have a suggestion for an article or book you think I should read about web form design? Leave a comment, I'd love to hear what you think.

But when it comes to the nitty gritty "email validation rules" and "auto-numbering schemes" and "what happens if a and b and c happens..." and "what happens if a and b and z happen," I easily tire. I've always known I'm not a details person, that I much prefer the up front creative work and like to hand off to someone to wrap things up.

Does this make me a bad user experience person? Isn't the devil in the details? Aren't the details where people get tripped up? Should I be paying more attention, be involved longer?

What do you think?

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What if dates were displayed in a circle instead of a line?

For us it's a great opportunity to make something solid, simple, fun, immediate and aimed directly at kids - something we haven't done directly since the Virtual Puppeteers project... although it has to be said that children have explored and had fun with several of our other projects.

Virtual caterpillars, projected onto the sandpit, react to the physical topography of the sand, and can be enclosed by sand walls, scared by children's hands and fingers, and attracted to each other. When they meet, magical things begin to happen...

Technically, the project uses a Point Grey Bumblebee stereo camera to capture depthmap information from the sandpit in real time - using software and ideas first developed for Driftnet during a Research Fellowship at Arts Institute Bournemouth in 2007. See here for another experiment with the Bumblebee.

Camera view of sandpit, and depthmap (red near, blue far)

Bumblebee on tripod

Trial setup

Physically, the piece is going to need to be strong - not only to survive the elements outdoors in a playground, but also to survive the children! Currently the ideas revolve around a large 3 or 4-legged dome-shaped structure (steel and tent material) that will shield the equipment and the sandpit itself from the elements, and also some light.

I'm walking around the warehouse and a couple of policemen show up with a giant Great Dane. The dog comes over and bites my head, basically engulfing my whole head in its slobbery mouth. It drools. The cops tell me to stay calm so they can get the dog to stop biting me.

As always, i am very much interested in gestural interaction and physical computing i saw one art istallation called "remapping firenze". There are two industrial treadmills in front of a huge screen display renderings of a deserted Florence.

The 3D images are put into motion by the physical effort made by the viewer(s)/runner(s)/performer(s). Sensors placed in the handle bar detect movements, and allow the viewer to determine which direction should be followed and what will be the intensity of the images traversed.

This is somewhat similar like de Nijs' famous installation Run, Motherfucker Run.

The runner can only hear the field recordings when navigating slowly through the geometry of the streets and buildings. When they accelerate, contact with human voices and noises is lost. Which touches upon one of the most impressive characteristics of Remapping Firenze: running and slowing down/stopping on the treadmill provides the public with a totally different perspective.While you adopt a gentle walking pace, the city looks real and recognizable in all its touristic cliches and beauty.

courtesy : we make money not art

On the 27th and 28th May I spent two days at Mobile User Experience conference Mex 2008 as a volunteer reporter.

This well organised and enlightening event involved keynote speeches, breakout sessions, panel discussions and was centered around the Mex Design competition.

Ten manifesto points were covered during the conference:

1. Content itself will be the interface of the future
2. Handsets are no longer just for the hand
3. Fragmentation is the enemy of innovation
4. Fashion is stronger motivator than functionality
5. The developing world is the new frontier for mobile user experience
6. Search requires a radically different approach in the mobile environment
7. Intelligent contact lists are the future centres of the user interface
8. Mobile payments herald the next generational shift
9. Users as individuals: Uniquely complex and contradictory
10. The potential of Smart Voice

The winner of the Mex Design Competition went to Taptu
a mobile search engine.

The event was also featured on Reuters.

Here’s a summary from the event organiser Marek Pawlowski.

http://www.mobileuserexperience.com/?p=570

BumpTop is a prototype graphical user interface, designed to enhance traditional computer desktop functionality by more closely supporting the normal behavior of a real world desk. It is aimed at stylus interaction, making it more suitable for tablet pcs and palmtops. It was created at the University of Toronto as Anand Agrawala's Masters Thesis. Anand Agarawala also gave a presentation at the TED conference about his idea.

In BumpTop, documents are described by three-dimensional boxes lying on a virtual desk. The user can position the boxes on the desk using the stylus or mouse. Extensive use of physics effects like bumping and tossing is applied to documents when they interact, for a more realistic experience. Boxes can be stacked with well-defined stylus gesture. Multiple selection is performed by means of a LassoMenu, which fluidly combines into a single stroke the act of lasso selection and action invocation via pie menus.

I would say its an intelligent and metaphoric extension of our normal mac or windows desktop.