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Listen to Jeff Dachis’ “User Experience as a Crucial Driver of Social Business Design” talk at IDEA 2009
Everything that can be digital will be. Why? Because it’s faster, better, and cheaper. UX in the digital world will be the key definer of value. UX design now means to embrace a whole new set of behaviors and characteristics. Social Business Design is a framework to understand and think about the multi-faceted users and the way they participates inside a business ecosystem in meaningful ways [...]
Posted in design, information technology, trends Also tagged Boxes and Arrows, CNBC, CNN, current CEO, design, Entrepreneur, information technology, Interaction Design, Jeff Dachis, leadership, microsoft, New York, producer, Razorfish, speaker, United States, USD, user experience, User experience design, user research Leave a comment
Listen to Luke Wroblewski’s “Impact of Social Models” talk at IDEA 2009
As Richard Farson’s truism “no one smokes in church no matter how addicted” points out, context informs almost everything that happens in an environment. Online social experiences are no exception. How a product’s social model is set up can impact not only who contributes, but how much, and why. From permission-based subscriptions to one-click follows, Luke will discuss the attributes and implications of several popular social models by looking at data and behavior in the Web’s most popular social applications [...]
Posted in design, information technology, trends Also tagged Boxes and Arrows, Human-computer interaction, Interaction Design, Interaction Design Association, internet, IxDA, Luke Wroblewski, Richard Farson, social applications, Social Networks, speaker, user experience, User experience design, Web Design, World Wide Web, Yahoo Leave a comment
Watch Maya Design’s “What is Information?” short film
This is a short film by MAYA Design about information: although most of us think we know what we mean when we say "information," we sometimes confuse the medium with the message.
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Listen to Andrew Hinton’s “You are (Mostly) Here: Digital Space and The Context Problem” talk at IA Summit 2009
Lead Information Architect in Vanguard’s User Experience Group, Andrew Hinton provides engaging examples (including Mr. Spock, a speeding trolley, and a Dada urinal), illustrating how language powerfully affects context, and vice-versa. Andrew connects this understanding with real-life Information Architecture design issues such as Twitter’s syntax or Facebook’s Beacon and challenges us to think more carefully about how we shape context in the digital dimension [...]
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Listen to Dorelle Rabinowitz’s “Motivating Teams: Inspiring People To Do Great Work” talk at IA Summit 2009
How does a manager deal with an inherited team, rather than a team she hand-picked? Sometimes a manager has to motivate someone who applied for that manager’s job – and is extremely resentful. What about the differences between innies and outies? Dorelle Rabinowitz, lead of the Design Systems Group at eBay, shares stories from both managers and individual contributors about how they either inspired their teams to do great things or how things fell apart [...]
Posted in design, information technology Also tagged Boxes and Arrows, Design Review, eBay, IA summit 2009, Information Architect, Interaction Design 1 Comment
Listen to Christina Wodtke’s “Business-Centered Design” talk at IA Summit 2009
In this talk, Christina Wodtke, founder of Boxes and Arrows and product developer at LinkedIn, walks through the most common business models, the desired user behavior that supports them, and how those business models affect the architecture of the website including features and functionality [...]
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Listen to Joe Sokohl’s “A Real Nowhere Man: Managing Remote Teams Remotely” talk at IA Summit 2009
Not only do we work with people across the hall, across town, and across the country, but we also work with people we never meet from countries we know about only through Wikipedia or the Travel Channel. UX Lead for PracticeWorks, Joe Sokohl discusses principles to live by when managing teams remotely including: communication, flexibility, sensitivity, courage, and the best tool of all, empathy [...]
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Listen to Dan Brown’s “Designing Rules: The Engine of User Experience” talk at IA Summit 2009
Co-founder and principal at EightShapes, Dan Brown lays the groundwork for how we think and talk about this aspect of our work and provides a rationale for why thinking about rules is important. He distinguishes good rules from bad and offers a framework for designing and documenting them [...]
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Listen to Adrienne Massanari’s “Personas and politics: The Discursive Construction of The User” talk at IA Summit 2009