Archive for category Interaction Design

Ahem? i thought MS had invested a lot in UX!!

Posted by Kshipra in Interaction Design on May 12th, 2008

outlook

ScreenShot of Outlook 2007

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Agile and UCD, clash or collaboration?

Posted by Kshipra in Featured Post, Interaction Design on April 30th, 2008

After being conditioned to UCD in grad school, Agile or Extreme Programming can be quite unnerving when you initially start out in a company that practices this methodology.

Here are some resources out there to start an initial phase of “getting used to”

Adapting Usability Investigations for Agile User-Centered Design
by Desiree Sy
Source Journal of Usability Studies, Volume 2, Issue 3, May 2007, pp. 112-132
[Do download the pdf of the Article Adapting Usability Investigations for Agile User-Centered Design ]

Clash of the Titans: Agile and UCD
By Richard F. Cecil
Source UX matters, Published: December 18, 2006

How to incorporate user-centered design into agile development methodology
Activator: Pawan Vora
Source Usability Professionals’ Association (UPA 2004 Idea Markets)

I found a lot of resources in slideshare and added them to my favorites with the tag “agile”.

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Adobe Kuler and ColourLovers.com

Posted by Kshipra in Interaction Design on April 23rd, 2008

Came across this topic that talked about Kuler being ripped off from ColourLovers.com
I am not being biased with any group but i think both the interfaces do not match each other and their interactions are totally different.

I  first started out with Abobe Kuler, got the hang of creating themes sooner than ColourLovers.com
ColourLover.com seemed more community based with lot of things happening, which i really didnt have time to check out.

I just needed to create combinations and deploy them on my design at work and the time factor matters!!
Whenever i have some time or a break, i go back to re-edit the name and tags at Kuler.

I agree with the differences (comments) stated by Josh Chernoff on Chad Udell ‘s site that:

  1. colourlovers is more community based. forums and blogging and a better commenting rating system
  2. Kuler is more technical and logical. Provides CMYK, LAB and RGB with color theories and a over all a better color wheel).
  3. Kuler is more API friendly with a great deal of redevelopment emphasis.
  4. The web technologies are different. Kulers was in a way to provides a better understanding of Action Script’s capabilities as kuler surfaced just about the same time AS3 was introduced.

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