Jan Dittrich
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.
- Crowdsourcing@mozilla 1, 23: 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)
- Usability for Search Interfaces: 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.
- 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
- FirefoxMobile-SmartTabs How can we ease the recognition of webpages by creating good represenations?