[Sigia-l] International Interface Design?

Tue Apr 23 12:39:14 EDT 2002

Dave,

Concrete help?  My suggestion is to learn a few ethnographic techniques.
Anthropologists have been getting inside other cultures for decades.  Folks
who practice IA, UE, etc. would find the anthropological perspective very
helpful indeed.

Cheers,

Dave Fiorito

-----Original Message-----
From: Dave Robertson [mailto:daver at criticalmass.com]
Sent: Tuesday, April 23, 2002 10:40 AM
To: SIGIA List
Subject: FW: [Sigia-l] International Interface Design?

Folks

Donna wrote: "When is a website not international??"

Quoting Duich McKay in brief: "When it is created without an awareness for
its audience, wherever they are."

Which is exactly what I'm trying to avoid - and if anyone can offer some
concrete assistance on how I might do this, I would appreciate it. I
apologize if this wasn't clear in the note, but my intent is try to and
learn about the issues surrounding some of things that have been alluded to
in other posts. (Thank you, Duich!)

Dave

Dave Robertson
Information Architecture
Critical Mass

Phone: 403.206.4319
E-mail: daver at criticalmass.com
http://www.criticalmass.com

-----Original Message-----
From: sigia-l-admin at asis.org [mailto:sigia-l-admin at asis.org]On Behalf Of
Gordon Montgomery
Sent: Tuesday, April 23, 2002 3:52 AM
To: sigia-l at asis.org
Subject: Re: [Sigia-l] International Interface Design?

Donna wrote: "When is a website not international??"

Exactly!

I find the frequent Americano-centric view on this and other
lists often debilitating...it's the whole "World Series" debate all
over again. Sure, you speak from your point of knowledge but
it is the WWW now not the US DoD ARPANET any more.

Never should a site be designed - "just for us".

That is the same *exclusion by stealth* that occurs with:
o overly graphical sites
o sites requiring plug-ins, downloads or a different browser to run in
o non-accessible sites [at least optionally]
o sites needing high-bandwidth connections
o products priced only in dollars with no conversion options...
...

I could go on :) but won't...

thx.
g.
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