Jan Dittrich commented on the post, fsA+U-Umfrage zur Gesundheits- und...
Ist die Umfrage an alle Studierenden aller Fakultäten gerichtet? Ich dachte zuerst es ist Architektur/Urbanistik-spezifisch; die erste Frage ist aber die nach der Fakultät.
View ArticleJan Dittrich wrote a new blog post Freitag wieder Linux-Nachmittag im MR in...
Nachdem hoffentlich alle gut im neuen Jahr gelandert sind, treffen wir uns am morgigen Freitag Nachmittag wieder ab 15:00 Uhr im Maschinenraum um gemeinsam an unseren Linuxen und Unixen...
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Bernd Naumann wrote a new blog post antisplash.sh in the group MASCHINENRAUM
Wer sich wie ich, haeufiger mit diversen Weimarnetz Routern verbindet um sich ins Internet einzuwaehlen, dem ist dies sicherlich nur als zu gut bekannt. Jedes mal darf man mit seinem Browser eine...
View ArticleJan Dittrich wrote a new post, learning with videos, on the site ForDes
I love to use (and to contribute) to free educational resources. It was and is a big trend to use videos as a ›modern‹ way to get information across. There are quite a lot of these online. Since some...
View ArticleJan Dittrich wrote a new post, Brainstorming: it sucks (says science) , on...
Brainstorming is a rather well known Method for generating ideas. The participants generate as many as possibly ideas without judging the ideas. Since Osborn introduced it in his work »Applied...
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Jan Dittrich wrote a new post, little hack , on the site ForDes
When shopping in my local supermarket I always wondered about one thing at the checkout: The cashier was always pushing one of these separation-bars back, along the movement direction of the conveyor...
View ArticleBernd Naumann wrote a new blog post Dual-Networking in the group MASCHINENRAUM
In den letzten Wochen hat sich hier einiges am Netzwerk getan. Nachdem wir Opfer einer verseuchten Windows-Viren-Spam-Botnet-Kiste geworden sind, die einer der Netzwerkgäste mit sich rumträgt, hat uns...
View ArticleJan Dittrich wrote a new post, Open Source Social Reserach, on the site ForDes
I rely mainly on open source Software. I would use proprietary software as well but I think open source has some advantages: to be able to just install software on several computers being able to...
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Thanks for telling me the link. I corrected it. (And Thanks for programming this nice software!)
View ArticleJan Dittrich wrote a new post, Hidden Weimar – done, on the site Bauhaus...
On Saturday, 10th May, we had a special guided tour through Weimar. We met in front of the student club Kasseturm in order to explore the city from a different perspective, even reaching the outskirts...
View ArticleJan Dittrich wrote a new post, Audio-Recordings of Interviews: Indispensable...
Reading in the literature on Interviewing almost everybody recommends audio recording [1] as well as additional video [2][3]. Nevertheless I wondered how important these recordings might be especially...
View ArticleJan Dittrich wrote a new post, Tree-top trail in national park Hainich, on...
June 8th, 2014 Walking through the National Park Hainich along the “Baumkronenpfad” (tree-top trail) was a precious experience! We wanted to get to know the place we are living in and enjoy Thüringens...
View ArticleJan Dittrich wrote a new post, International Summer Festival 2014, on the...
The International Summer Festival, which meanwhile has been a tradition, took place this year on 12th of June at the Haus am Horn. Organised by the Bauhaus Internationals, StuRa of the HfM Weimar and...
View ArticleJan Dittrich wrote a new post, Climbing Park Hohenfelden - Kletterpark...
On Saturday 14th June 2014 we had a fun and exciting day at the climbing park in Hohenfelden! 7 stations with 118 climbing elements, fitness, adventures and risk in 2-15m height with increasing...
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Jan Dittrich wrote a new post, Sketchy Theme for Prototyping in Code, on the...
A major problem of prototyping in code is that the prototype may be mistaken for a (nearly) finished product and that the focus shifts from the interactions towards colors and fonts. Some mockup...
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Jan Dittrich wrote a new post, Design as a Structured Process?, on the site...
I have a Love/Hate relationship with design method frameworks, these diagrams and flows showing what happens afters which step in a design process: »Human Centered Design« or »Design Thinking« to name...
View ArticleJan Dittrich wrote a new post, Online: A Beginner’s Guide to Finding User...
My Beginner’s Guide to Finding User Needs is online. The text is aimed at students and professionals who want to learn about qualitative user research. It is written in a hands-on manner and the...
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*feine Sache* In reply to - Jan Dittrich wrote a new post, Online: A Beginner’s Guide to Finding User Needs, on the site ForDes My Beginner’s Guide to Finding User Needs is online. The text is aimed at...
View ArticleJan Dittrich wrote a new blog post Jetzt auch kompatibel: Macs und...
Viren und Trojaner – kein Ding für Macnutzer. Das gibt es schließlich nur für Windows. Ist natürlich Quatsch. Aber ich muss zugeben, dass ich Mac-Schadsoftware nie »live« und nur auf...
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Jan Dittrich wrote a new blog post Schönere Mailman-Templates in the group...
Mailman ist eine Server-Software zum Anlegen und Verwalten von Mailinglisten. Mailman bietet einige praktische Funktionen wie z.B. dass Nutzer der Mailingliste Einstellungen machen können (wie...
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Jan Dittrich wrote a new post, Visual Interviews and Visual analysis, on the...
a beginner friendly method for user need research While interviews and observations are popular methods for data gathering they can be hard to handle for beginners: Asking open questions, avoiding...
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Jan Dittrich wrote a new post, The Educational Power of Examples, on the site...
I think that teaching-by-examples is an awesome and empowering method. Instead of a universal principle given by some authority a way to solve a problem is suggested. Example for an Example (meta,...
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mt wrote a new blog post Die Freifunk Weimar Firmware in the group MASCHINENRAUM
Häufige Gäste der M18 kennen es vielleicht: Jeden Dienstag Abend sind die “Freifunker” im Maschinenraum. Was verbirgt sich hinter Freifunk und dem lokalen Ableger namens Weimarnetz? Und wie...
View ArticleJan Dittrich wrote a new post, Heiligabend mit den Internationals, on the...
Am 24 Dezember, 20:30 Uhr, trafen sich ca. 20 Internationals in der M18, um den Heiligabend zusammen zu verbringen. Im einen Raum gab es Glühwein und Kekse für alle und auch viel Musik. In dem...
View ArticleJan Dittrich wrote a new post, Trip to Saalfeld Fairy Grottoes, on the site...
It was a wonderful autumn day in November 2014: the sun was shining above Thüringen and in the faces of 15 international students meeting in the morning at Weimar main station heading toward Saalfeld....
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Jan Dittrich wrote a new post, Activity co-documentation, on the site ForDes
In a previous blogpost I demonstrated some methods for mapping social relations as well as emotions/liked-and-less-liked-parts-of-a-process. In this blogpost, I will show some ideas on documenting the...
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Jan Dittrich wrote a new blog post Warum freie Software in der Lehre? in the...
Nach langer Schreib- und Vorbereitungsarbeit ist es endlich da: Unserer Appell an die Lehrenden der Bauhaus-Universität, mehr freie Software in der Lehre benutzen. Wir denken, dass die Nutzung von […]
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Jan Dittrich wrote a new blog post Icons designen in Inkscape in the group...
Ab und an fehlt ein passendes Icon auf einer selbstgebauten Website – und man muss selber eines bauen. Selbiges geschah mir letzte Woche. Das Icon sollte skalierbar sein, also als Vektorgrafik...
View ArticleBernd Naumann wrote a new blog post MP3, Metadata und Podcasts in the group...
Nach langem Warten gabs es nun mal wieder eine neue Ausgabe der Audiopiazza. … … Und ich war enttaeuscht. Ich war enttaeuscht. Also jetzt nicht enttaeuscht vom Inhalt, denn es hat mir fast die ganze […]
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mt wrote a new blog post Die Freifunk Weimar Firmware (2) in the group...
..weiter geht’s. Teil I war ein Rundumschlag mit allgemeinen Geplänkel und jetzt wird es konkreter. Wir schauen uns an wie die Firmware an. Ziel soll sein selbst etwas an der Firmware ändern zu können....
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Jan Dittrich wrote a new post, Designers attitudes towards steps in the...
⚠ Exploratory Research ahead This is a little study that explores Designer’s attitudes to steps in the design process The idea was based on the observation that some steps are part of almost any design...
View ArticleJan Dittrich edited the blog post Hilfe zur Selbsthilfe: Webdesign in the...
…Die Folien zu dem heutigen Vortrag gibts hier zum Download. Natürlich könntet ihr auch einfach diese Links klicken. Oder im Kunst-Technik-Labor schauen, auch eine Linksammlung für Anfänger im...
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Jan Dittrich wrote a new post, summing up visual user research documents, on...
In my posts on Visual Interviews and Visual analysis I had only a brief section on analysis. It was fairly conventional: search for patterns and list them as text. However I thought that it might be...
View ArticleJan Dittrich wrote a new post, Embracing Openness: The most difficult skill...
TL;DR: beginners in user need research have trouble dealing with the openness of possible outcomes in research. User need research is used for discovering the motivations, activities and problems of...
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Jan Dittrich wrote a new post, Free and Open User Research Resources, on the...
A collection of free-as-in-freedom resources for user research. Each resource has a brief description, a source and the license. However, to be sure you should look up the license on the source (this...
View ArticleJan Dittrich edited the blog post Mailinglists explained in the group...
Mailinglists are a great possibility to create online communities. However, we often saw fellow students struggle with this idea. Here is a (hopefully) simple explanation. Catherine moved in a new...
View ArticleJan Dittrich wrote a new post, National Park Hainich, on the site Bauhaus...
On Sunday, May 10th, Bauhaus and Liszt Internationals organised a trip to National Park Hainich. On this sunny day joined us 45 students from 21 countries. A meeting point was in front of the train...
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Jan Dittrich wrote a new post, Qualitative Research Mini-Barcamp, on the site...
A colleague and I organized a small barcamp-like meetup for qualitative researchers at the Bauhaus University Weimar. We met on the 21st of May 2015at the neudeli, the Bauhaus University’s startup...
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Jan Dittrich wrote a new post, agasdg agf a, on the site X Mediaarchitecture
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View ArticleJan Dittrich wrote a new post, More Free Ethnography Videos, on the site ForDes
…some more libre ethnography videos under CC Licenses. this means you can use them for your teaching and even cut them, (re-) dub them, remix them with other videos for comparison, whatever – as long...
View ArticleJan Dittrich wrote a new post, Moved Blog to fordes.de, on the site ForDes
I changed my blog’s engine to Pelican and its location to fordes.de.
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