January 5
Recent IxDA discussions of interest
by Karen Lin
I recently caught up on some interesting IxDA threads highlighted below that may interest you as well. Wishing everyone a wonderful and happy new year!
o1. Firefox Home Tab Challenge
IxDA has partnered with Mozilla Labs and Johnny Holland for a design challenge. The submission deadline is February 14 for a concept video explaining how the new Firefox home tab should work. Anyone interested in forming a Molecular team to tackle this??
- The Home Tab Design Challenge Winter ’09 website: http://design-challenge.mozillalabs.com/winter09/
- More details from this IxDA thread: http://www.ixda.org/discuss.php?post=48090
02. GLIDE ’10 Call for Papers
This is a biennial virtual conference sponsored by the National Science Foundation and AIGA UP ST NY dedicated to research on topics related to interaction between designers and global communities. The theme this year is cross-cultural collaboration with indigenous and underserved communities. Abstract submissions are due February 15. Conference takes place on October 27.
- More details from this IxDA thread: http://www.ixda.org/discuss.php?post=48057
03. Google’s Above-the-Fold App
This new app let’s you see in a transparent gradient kind of way which parts of your site is viewable by percentile.
- Enter any URL into Browser Size to see the map: http://browsersize.googlelabs.com/
- More details from this IxDA thread: http://www.ixda.org/discuss.php?post=48056
04. Shopping/ecommerce trends
Someone asked the group about what trends people were seeing with online shopping and here were the recommended resources:
- Pew Internet research topic of “Shopping”: http://www.pewinternet.org/topics/Shopping.aspx
- Webinars and resources on www.shop.org (requires membership)
- A recent book called Shoptimism by Lee Eisenberg
- More details from this IxDA thread: http://www.ixda.org/discuss.php?post=47953
o5. Andrew Daniels on uxSEARS
A virtual meeting featuring the UX director of Sears hosted by IxDA Chicago called “The $50 Billion Startup Revolution and How UX Leads the Way”:
- Video, also embedded below: http://www.ustream.tv/recorded/2588473 (7:50 to skip past housekeeping stuff)
- Presentation slides in PDF: http://tinyurl.com/ykkn6vn
- More details from this IxDA thread: http://www.ixda.org/discuss.php?post=47718
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