marc rettig's place

I'm available
For customer research, translation of research insights into design, team coaching and training, contact me at
Fit Associates.

For speaking engagements, feel free to contact me directy: mrettig @ well.com.

Credentials:
My C.V. and publication list

contact
mrettig@well.com

 

 

news and travels

Fit Associates
My professional affiliation these days is with the company I started in Pittsburgh, called Fit Associates.

Interaction Design is Language Design
I visited the New York Chapter of the Interaction Design Association, and gave a talk there. My topic was "Interaction Design is Language Design" -- ramblings on the idea that when we design interfaces to systems, we are designing languages; perhaps insights from linguistics will be helpful to us. Download the slides (3.7meg PDF), and let me know what you think!

Camera obscura
One Spring weekend, two of us turned our hotel room into a giant pinhole camera. This was astonishing; the greatest thing ever. Check the photos, if you're interested in such things.

 

 

 

 

writings

designing for experience
Slides from a popular talk, c o-presented with Aradhana Goel of MAYA Design, at Adaptive Path's User Experience Week.Includes in-depth case study of a library redesign (environment, information displays, systems), and many tools we use in designing for quality of experience.

atoms are better than bits
A presentation to the About, With and For 2004 conference. Discusses the point that translating customer research into design requires whole-team collaboration, and that such work is better facilitated by making things together (sketches, stories, frameworks, timelines, prototypes, etc. and more cetera) rather than by reading one another's electronic documents. Includes examples from projects. You're welcome to...
download it (PDF, 1.7 meg).

interaction design history
Slides from a lecture: interaction design history in a teeny little nut shell (PDF, 3.6 meg). Updated April '04: a few errors fixed, more links, a small resource page.

older stuff
Interaction design case study - from DUX 2003 (PDF, 700K)

Interface design in seven weeks - story of an interface design class

"Designing for Small Screens" (PDF, 1.4 meg)