The IxDA has announced its first ever conference, IxDA Interaction 08! The conference will be held in Savannah, Georgia, February 8-10.
The program looks like it will be a great event, just waiting for registration to open.
Until then, check out the conference site at: interaction80.ixda.org.
So by now most of you have heard about Google Gears. If not here's the deal:
"Google Gears is an open source browser extension that lets developers create web applications that can run offline."
Google Gears is a fully functioning relational database that lives within a browser plugin and gives programmers access to it to it's structure. This allows for off-line editing of data and post-off-line syncing.
So the question is: What does Google Gears mean for Interaction Designers who design web applications?
Well, it looks like this may be the year of multi-touch. Last week, Microsoft announced a new multi-touch digital coffee table called Surface, to be released Winter 2007. Below is the first of three videos they released.
Bill Scott of Yahoo! posted a short article about how he uses an "Interaction Matrix" to document rich interactions. I really like this approach because of how it explicitly details out each actor and state within the interaction.
Luke Wroblewski wrote a piece over at UX Matters on the topic of Selection-Dependent Inputs. In short, these are forms that have fields that depend on a choice made previously in the form. Luke goes on to give 8 solutions/patterns for this type of UI problem. While the solutions are good, it got me thinking about good experiences that I have had with forms.
Software that claims to make the documentation process easier always catches my eye. I am a big sucker for it. They make claims such as: time wasted creating boxes and arrows will no longer be, life will be better for everyone, and documentation will be more agile and easy to create and maintain.
Have you ever actually had this experience?
