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Fave idea of the week : April 4th, 2008
Working in a user experience company, I use a bunch of words to describe user-centered design: user experience, user engagement, interaction design, experience design, there’s a lot of words out there...
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Fave idea of the week : Apr 25, 08
There’s something interesting about disconnecting natural and intuitive. They really aren’t the same thing, yet I have often assumed they are. If you look up intuitive, you’ll find synonyms:Â...
View ArticleEPIC workshop on See>Sort>Sketch
I just got back from the beautiful city of Copenhagen, where my colleague Leah Buley and I presented a workshop at EPIC 2008. We worked with 25 people on the topic of See>Sort>Sketch : pen &...
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Sailing the C’s of Change
Tomorrow (Wed 12/17/08) I’ll be presenting an Adaptive Path virtual seminar on Sailing the C’s of Change. I’ve been thinking, wondering and tracking four themes over the past 18 months. In this...
View ArticleSlides from SXSW : Pen & Paper Tools for getting from Research to Design
Last week I attended SXSW for the first time and had a great time. It was fantastic to meet so many interesting people and hear what they are working on. On Saturday I hosted a session called Pen &...
View ArticleTune in for the annual Bathroom Blogfest
As part of the Bathroom Blogfest 2007, I’ve joined up with 22 other female bloggers to spend this week blogging about the customer experience of bathrooms. All my posts are on the Adaptive Path blog,...
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Lean UX Meetup Hits Vegas
Plan to be in Vegas? Join the next Lean UX – Vegas Meetup and become part of this growing movement. As part of the Downtown Project, I spent last week at the Luxr Las Vegas office, kicking off...
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Sketchnotes from UX bookclub SF :: Microinteractions with Dan Saffer
Last night I spent the evening talking about small things…the little touches that make a product feel different, human, awesome. I was at the UX Bookclub SF with Dan Saffer [@odannyboy] discussing his...
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Sketchnotes from Lean UX Meetup :: Mixing Lean UX & Agile Development with...
The Lean UX Meetup strikes gold again! The latest session featured Courtney Hemphill [@chemphill] of CarbonFive talking about Mixing Lean UX & Agile Development. Her talk was well-structured, easy...
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Sketchnotes from Design Thinking Meetup :: Sparkle-ize It! with Audrey Crane
Do you have a favorite rant? Ever gone to a meetup where the speaker has the same rant but has discovered a way to introduce it in a calm and thoughtful manner that is awesome? That was my experience...
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Clarify team skills with the Balanced Team Pie
The Balanced Team Pie is a quick activity to help product teams see what skills they need and what skills they have. It’s short, easy and actually kinda fun. In the activity, you create a visualization...
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Sketchnotes from O’Reilly Webcast :: The Three Reasons Users Don’t Convert,...
Hear Laura rage against the machine on why users don’t convert. Laura Klein is the author of UX for Lean Startups, a prolific blogger and writer on user research and design, and is also a fabulous...
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Sketchnotes from IxDA Pair Design event :: Pair Design Twosday Talkshops
Turns out two brains are a lot are better than one. On August 12, 2014, IxDA-SF hosted a great event on Pair Design (details.) Hosted at the Pandora office in Oakland and MC’d by Nick Cawthon, the...
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Sketchnotes from Tradecraft Mentor :: 7 Things I Wish I Knew as a New UX...
What would an expert want to know if he could go back in time to the start of his UX career? That’s the topic that George Hu from Salesforce focused on in a mentor talk at Tradecraft. In his October 7...
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Sketchnotes from Tradecraft Mentor :: Design Research: the Most Powerful Tool...
How should designers think about User Research? I had the pleasure of hearing some great answers in a mentor talk by Mary Wharmby, UX designer, leader and teacher. Mary spoke at Tradecraft in September...
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Sketchnotes of “Beyond the UX Tipping Point” with Jared Spool [Mar 2017]
On March 8, 2017 I got to hear Jared Spool (of UIE) speak about the UX Tipping Point. About ~100 folks attended the Lean UX Meetup at Pivotal Labs in San Francisco. Jared spun (true) tales of...
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Sketchnotes of “Storytelling + Emergent Tech + Prototyping” with Apurva Shah...
On March 16th, guest speaker Apurva Shah spoke to the Story class and the Prototyping class at CCA. He spoke on the overlaps of storytelling, emerging tech and rapid prototyping. From his time at...
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Graduation Address to 2018 graduates of CCA Master of Design in Interaction Design The following is a short talk given to the 2018 class of Masters of Interaction Design at the California College of...
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How long will this take? A podcast sketchnote
Laura Klein and I host a podcast of two old ladies drinking and fighting about UX. In the June 4th episode, we tackle the challenge of time estimating. How long will something take? Honestly, it’s...
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Are Metrics Undermining Your Business? A Sketchnote
When “metrics-gone-mad” makes the cover of HBR, it’s time to pay attention. A chilling overview of how our love of metrics can lead to terrible outcomes. The article by Michael Harris and Bill Tayler...
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