Adrienne Massanari, Instructor of New/Digital Media in the School of Communication at Loyola University – Chicago, assesses the problematic relationship between new media designers and “users” in texts written about user-centered design. Read More…
Everything that can be digital will be. Why? Because it’s faster, better, and cheaper. User Experience in the digital world will be the key definer of value. User Experience 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. Read More…
At some point in your career, you’ll be called upon to sell User Experience (UX) to someone in your organization. You’ve probably already done it. Perhaps you’ll need to justify what you do in an organization or industry that’s just beginning to adopt UX methods or sell UX to secure your position within an organization or get future projects. So, what do you need to know to help you sell UX? What challenges might you face? In this talk, Daniel Szuc will:
When?
December 11th, 2009 6:30PM
Where?
Autodesk
399, Pu Dian Road, Pudong New District, Shanghai, 200122, P.R. China
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Daniel Szuc | Apogee
Daniel Szuc is the UPA Vice President and a Principal Consultant at a Apogee Usability Asia Ltd, based in Hong Kong. He has spent ten years implementing usability for a range of companies, including the Asian Development Bank, PCCW, CSL, Hang Seng Bank, Marriott, Yahoo!, eBay, HSBC, CSL, Sunday, Netvigator, IBM GSA, and Telstra. Daniel is the co-author of Usability Kit, an implementation guide providing best practices and guidelines for usability teams, and author of several contributions to leading internet resources in UX.
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. Read More…
Submissions are now open for the Interaction Design Association (IxDA) Global Student Interaction Design Competition. Submissions are due by November 30th, 23:59, US/PST. Read More…
Building sophisticated educational tools out of cheap parts, Johnny Lee demos his cool Wii Remote hacks, which turn the $40 video game controller into a digital whiteboard, a touchscreen and a head-mounted 3-D viewer. Read More…
In the midst of a global conversation about change, many designers are pondering their own impact in the world. How does our experience in software interfaces, web sites, and physical products prepare us to address the profound issues humanity is facing? These issues involve many complex systems, systems too big to fit into the scope of any single company or institution. Design methods are potent at large scale and scope, but what does it take to be effective as a practitioner, as a team, as a company? What is it like to actually achieve a meaningful, sustainable, positive difference in life? Read More…
