From rhill at asis.org Tue Sep 1 16:05:47 2015 From: rhill at asis.org (Richard Hill) Date: Tue, 1 Sep 2015 16:05:47 -0400 Subject: [Sigia-l] Save the date for RDAP16! Message-ID: <384-2201592120547144@LEN-dick-2011> Save the date for RDAP16! (with apologies for cross-posting) The 2016 Research Data Access and Preservation Summit will be held May 4-6, Omni Atlanta Hotel at CNN Center, Atlanta, GA. Please mark your calendars and keep an eye out for more information over the coming months. Call for proposals will go out in late October/early November 2015. For the latest RDAP news: Visit our website - http://www.asis.org/rdap/ Join our listserv - http://mail.asis.org/mailman/listinfo/rdap Follow us on Twitter - https://twitter.com/RDAPsummit Check out our Facebook page - https://www.facebook.com/ResearchDataAccessPreservation And, send any questions to either of the RDAP16 program chairs, Lisa Zilinski at ldz at cmu.edu and Kate Dillon at katherine.dillon at sjsu.edu. Hope to see you in Atlanta! Richard Hill Executive Director Association for Information Science and Technology 1320 Fenwick Lane, Suite 510 Silver Spring, MD 20910 FAX: (301) 495-0810 (301) 495-0900 From tdonehower at gmail.com Mon Sep 14 15:36:20 2015 From: tdonehower at gmail.com (Tom Donehower) Date: Mon, 14 Sep 2015 12:36:20 -0700 Subject: [Sigia-l] Graduate programs for UX Message-ID: Any recommendations for graduate programs for UX in SOCAL or remote? I was surprised to find UCLA does not offer HCI masters. Best, -Tom From jgjournalist at gmail.com Mon Sep 14 16:12:55 2015 From: jgjournalist at gmail.com (Julian Gautier) Date: Mon, 14 Sep 2015 13:12:55 -0700 Subject: [Sigia-l] Graduate programs for UX In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: Hi Tom, This wiki lists some more graduate programs: http://uclainformatics.pbworks.com/w/page/9718943/Human-Computer%20Interaction#ACADEMICPROGRAMS Missing among them is U. of Washington's human centered design program ( http://www.hcde.washington.edu/) and a fairly new HCI masters program ( http://mhcid.washington.edu/). Hope this helps! Julian Gautier, MLIS (exp. 2016) 760-810-9726 | Linkedin On Mon, Sep 14, 2015 at 12:36 PM, Tom Donehower wrote: > Any recommendations for graduate programs for UX in SOCAL or remote? I was > surprised to find UCLA does not offer HCI masters. > > Best, > > -Tom > ------------ > 2015 IA Summit > April 22-26, 2015 > Minneapolis, MN > ----- > When replying, please *trim your post* as much as possible. > *Plain text, please; NO Attachments > > Searchable Archive at http://www.info-arch.org/lists/sigia-l/ > ________________________________________ > Sigia-l mailing list -- post to: Sigia-l at asis.org > Changes to subscription: http://mail.asis.org/mailman/listinfo/sigia-l > From danpsho at gmail.com Mon Sep 14 16:27:14 2015 From: danpsho at gmail.com (Daniel Pshock) Date: Mon, 14 Sep 2015 16:27:14 -0400 Subject: [Sigia-l] Graduate programs for UX In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: US News and World lists the top-ranking schools in the LIS field, which often encompasses HCI/UCD, and the top one in SOCAL seems to be UCLA: http://grad-schools.usnews.rankingsandreviews.com/best-graduate-schools/top-library-information-science-programs/library-information-science-rankings I would reach out to the program coordinators of these schools and research how well the school meets your needs, how many faculty focus on HCI/UCD, etc. Like Julian said U of Wash is a great option, their IS school is also top-ranked (the two schools likely co-mingle) Best of luck. On Mon, Sep 14, 2015 at 3:36 PM, Tom Donehower wrote: > Any recommendations for graduate programs for UX in SOCAL or remote? I was > surprised to find UCLA does not offer HCI masters. > > Best, > > -Tom > ------------ > 2015 IA Summit > April 22-26, 2015 > Minneapolis, MN > ----- > When replying, please *trim your post* as much as possible. > *Plain text, please; NO Attachments > > Searchable Archive at http://www.info-arch.org/lists/sigia-l/ > ________________________________________ > Sigia-l mailing list -- post to: Sigia-l at asis.org > Changes to subscription: http://mail.asis.org/mailman/listinfo/sigia-l > From parsonsp at purdue.edu Mon Sep 14 23:34:47 2015 From: parsonsp at purdue.edu (Parsons, Paul) Date: Tue, 15 Sep 2015 03:34:47 +0000 Subject: [Sigia-l] Graduate programs for UX In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: Hi Tom, Although not in SOCAL, there is a new human-centered design and development (HCDD) program starting up at Purdue. I am one of the faculty members involved in this. We?re in the process of getting an HCDD specialization approved in our current masters program, and will hopefully be offering it in fall 2016. https://polytechnic.purdue.edu/degrees/human-centered-design-and-development Best, Paul ---------------------------- Paul Parsons, Ph.D. Assistant Professor Dept. of Computer Graphics Technology Purdue University parsonsp at purdue.edu web.ics.purdue.edu/~parsonsp/ Knoy 341 | 765.494.0511 On 9/14/15, 3:36 PM, "Sigia-l on behalf of Tom Donehower" wrote: >Any recommendations for graduate programs for UX in SOCAL or remote? I was >surprised to find UCLA does not offer HCI masters. > >Best, > >-Tom >------------ >2015 IA Summit >April 22-26, 2015 >Minneapolis, MN >----- >When replying, please *trim your post* as much as possible. >*Plain text, please; NO Attachments > >Searchable Archive at http://www.info-arch.org/lists/sigia-l/ >________________________________________ >Sigia-l mailing list -- post to: Sigia-l at asis.org >Changes to subscription: http://mail.asis.org/mailman/listinfo/sigia-l From kevinwbishop at gmail.com Wed Sep 16 22:46:49 2015 From: kevinwbishop at gmail.com (Kevin W Bishop) Date: Wed, 16 Sep 2015 16:46:49 -1000 Subject: [Sigia-l] Sigia-l Digest, Vol 115, Issue 1 In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: Hi Tom, *I have a few comments to share with you which I've injected into your message below.* *For clarity they shall all be in bold. * ------------------- On Mon, Sep 14, 2015 at 9:36 AM, wrote: Searchable list archive: http://www.info-arch.org/lists/sigia-l/ Today's Topics: 1. Axure and Development Specification (Tom Donehower) Message: 1 Date: Mon, 30 Mar 2015 10:50:23 -0700 From: Tom Donehower To: ia-55 , sigia l Subject: [Sigia-l] Axure and Development Specification Message-ID: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 [snip] I'll share with you my own experience. Initially I have tried to use the specification output from Axure, but just found it too inflexible and too unwieldy. I ended up importing the spec in Google Docs and then a colleague and I manually annotated the document, which was easier than specifying in Axure, but still isn't the method I would recommend. *The MSWord document that Axure creates uses a template that, I agree, is somewhat inflexible but there is room for improvement. You can, for example, save instances of the specification generation tailored to a specific prototype so that titles, summaries, authorship, and other fields in the document can be created every time you generate the spec. * I have heard of others who specify a use case for every interaction and then publish the use case to the clickable prototype. I have not tried this but am curious what others think. *Not quite sure I understand but this sounds laborious. * I have also heard of others who create sticky notes as dynamic panels that can be turned off and on as needed in the clickable prototype to describe behaviors. *Those "sticky notes" are automatically created in the generated prototype unless otherwise deselected in the Generator's settings for that particular prototype. Always customize your Generator for each and every project!* *For example, some readers of the spec may not need to read the interaction notes (the faux .js); others may want to read only interaction notes and not UI annotations. I learned this only recently, that you can configure the notes for different audiences. Very cool! (Learned from a video I reviewed on udemy.com by Packt Publishing entitled "Learning Axure RP" by Stuart Cooper. I highly recommend it b/c it taught a veteran user of Axure RP 7.0 like me quite a few new tricks I never had the need to discover before.) * *The Generator settings also allows you to determine some of the formatting in the Word document. * What are your thoughts? In this day and age when building digital products, is a massive spec document still needed? Is just a clickable prototype enough with some annotation? *And on the heels of my previous comment, customize the Notes panel for every project! You can name each and every column header in the tables it generates, determine whether the value for the column is selected from a drop-list (helpful when wanting to normalize naming conventions for UI elements and enforcing other controlled vocabularies and/or UX patterns), or by default be a "number" or "date" instead of plain text. * *In sum, most of the projects I've worked on using Axure required only Specs or Prototypes. As a result, I've had to learn how to maximize the benefits of each type of generator output separately but once you learn them both, prototyping for multiple audience types and for both outputs will become powerfully effective. * Of course nothing replaces face to face communication and that will always be part of the development process, but what I'm trying to get a better sense of is the level of specification needed for distributed teams and the best form of that specification and how it's maintained specifically when using Axure. *I'd be remiss if I didn't mention that a whole new generation of prototyping tools have been released in the last years or so and merit your own, personal investigation. * *Happy Prototyping! * *-kevin w bishop* From tdonehower at gmail.com Wed Sep 30 14:48:42 2015 From: tdonehower at gmail.com (Tom Donehower) Date: Wed, 30 Sep 2015 11:48:42 -0700 Subject: [Sigia-l] Examples of long-form submission UX Message-ID: Hi All, I'm looking for some examples of great long-form submission user experiences. What comes to mind is something like the Get A Quote process at progressive.com. I'm trying to weigh the pros and cons for wizard type UX vs. the simplicity of long single page forms. I'm designing for an enterprise user in this instance and the barriers of learning a new experience would be outweighed by the speed and efficiency of submitting the form once the user if familiar with the system. Current form has over 100 fields. Any thoughts or great form/onboarding examples greatly appreciated. Best, -Tom