On Blogging Australia

I had a whale of a time blogging live from Oz-IA.

What I’ve ended up with is a heap of posts written in mobloggerese - shorthand notes that don’t mean much of anything to anyone but me. Here’s an example, based on a presentation on ethics by my friend Donna:

I will… not you should…

Designing in an ethical way

I will care about the people I design for: Designing for people means understanding the people we design for - UCD for user-centred… design fr people rather than do interviews because we should do intervews

I wil cause no harm: doesn’t cause stress, make people feel useless or hurt. We have the tools to do this - we need to understand how people work and how they work in groups

I will design for real inclusivity: accessibility has evolved to mean vision impairment, when really what we should be doing is design for all the people who are our users, and make sure that it works for them, for real people. Not just for blind people.

I will make good design decisions.

…make informed decisions - user research, your own experience, look at case studies, collaborate.

…understand my decisions - why did I do that and was it the right thing to do. Deconstruct your designs - how did I get from here to there? facsnet example (look at the wireframe slide)

Understand and consider the consequences of your design decisions. vodahone example, candle example (no IA roles, no design roles - but there are these roles.)

I need to take these notes and flesh them out - they are currently incomplete. I wrote a posting like the above on every presentation that I saw, so there is plenty to keep me busy When they’re complete I’ll post them on HumaneIA.