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Jan Dittrich

Everything is best for something and worst for something else – Bill Buxton

I mainly doing interaction design, often in open source projects. Beside of this I am dealing with cognitive psychology and neuroaesthetics research (@ the University of Jena)

I publish term-wise a collection of HCI-related classes at the uni

Current Projects

Develop lightweight user research methods
Werkmodul HumanCenteredDesignResearch Teaching concept. Students learn to use needfinding and evaluation research techniques by designing for the university's library.

Old Projects

Literature Research and case studies for my Bachelor's Thesis on intuitive interaction for novel interface paradigms. The NEtspeak-Interface Redesign served here as an example of an innovative interface which is nervertheless intuitively usable.

Crowdsourcing@mozilla 1, 2 3: Mozilla Crowdsourcing is a international team of students redesigning Mozilla's outreach to the UX-Designer community.

Bimanual Interaction Research @ Media Computer Science Weimar. Paper published at MobileHCI 2012 (Coauthor)

Interface-Entwurf Netspeak

Usability for Search Interfaces: Netspeak Netspeak is a search engine for words in the context of a sentence.While the normal use requires the user to lear a wildcard syntax, the novel design allows just to click on the words in question to get a list of alternatives.

IFD:Designing For Action-Werkmodul: Concept for a Werkmodul, teaching the basics of Interaction Design: user research, best Practices, prototyping and testing. Mozilla publishes a series of blog posts about the course: project start

Icon Design

bringing usability to touch

FirefoxMobile-SmartTabs How can we ease the recognition of webpages by creating good represenations? Was a little project in order to improve the tabs in Firefox Mobile.

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 =Jan Dittrich=
+''Everything is best for something and worst for something else'' – Bill Buxton
 I mainly doing [[wikipedia:Interaction Design|interaction design]], often in open source projects.
 Beside of this I am dealing with [[wikipedia:Cognitive psychology|cognitive psychology]] and [[wikipedia:Neuroaesthetics|neuroaesthetics]] [http://www.anatomie1.uniklinikum-jena.de/url.php?/page/34  research] (@ the University of Jena)
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 == Old Projects==
-* Literature Research and case studies for my Bachelor's Thesis on intuitive interaction for novel interface paradigms.
+* Literature Research and case studies for my Bachelor's Thesis on intuitive interaction for novel interface paradigms. The NEtspeak-Interface Redesign served here as an example of an innovative interface which is nervertheless intuitively usable.
 * [http://mozillalabs.com/conceptseries/2010/08/04/week-1-status-update-from-the-crowdsourcing-project/#more-398 Crowdsourcing@mozilla 1], [http://mozillalabs.com/conceptseries/2010/08/27/crowdsourcing-project-summary-of-key-learnings/ 2][http://mozillalabs.com/conceptseries/2010/10/07/crowdsourcing-project-%E2%80%93-team-1-3-phase-2/ 3]: Mozilla Crowdsourcing is a international team of students redesigning Mozilla's outreach to the UX-Designer community.
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 [[File:Netspeak_altUI.png|thumb|right|Interface-Entwurf Netspeak]]
-* Usability for Search Interfaces: [http://www.netspeak.cc/ Netspeak] Netspeak ist eine Software zum kontextsensitiven suchen von Wörtern. Der Interfaceentwurf erweitert das Suchfeld durch bekannte UI-Komponenten, die es ermöglichen, das Wort, für das Alterantiven gesucht werden sollen, einfach auszuwählen. Die zuvor genutzte Wildcard-Syntax ist nichtmehr nötig.
+* Usability for Search Interfaces: [http://www.netspeak.cc/ Netspeak] Netspeak is a search engine for words in the context of a sentence.While the normal use requires the user to lear a wildcard syntax, the novel design allows just to click on the words in question to get a list of alternatives.
 * [[IFD:Designing For Action]]-Werkmodul: Concept for a Werkmodul, teaching the basics of Interaction Design: user research, best Practices, prototyping and testing. Mozilla publishes a series of blog posts about the course: [http://mozillalabs.com/conceptseries/2010/11/09/student-outreach-bauhaus-university-class-embarking-on-open-interaction-design/ project start]
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 * [[IFD:Bringing Usability To Touch|bringing usability to touch]]
-* [[FirefoxMobile-SmartTabs]] How can we ease the recognition of webpages by creating good represenations?
+* [[FirefoxMobile-SmartTabs]] How can we ease the recognition of webpages by creating good represenations? Was a little project in order to improve the tabs in Firefox Mobile.
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