Good design is hard to do. The very nature of human centred design is confronting, challenging and often uncomfortable. Every project builds up a collection of challenges along the way, which can pose significant risk to the project’s success, and if we don’t tackle them head on they can be detrimental for everyone involved. How can we share and learn from each other’s challenges? … »
Who has never pulled a push door? Or pushed a door that is supposed to be pulled to open? If it is a basic knob, it’s hard to know which way it opens. … »
How do YOU design nature? Whether we like it or not, nature evolves, following its own path towards the future. But is it really its own path? It’s probably fair to say that most people agree that Darwinian evolution is still happening today – natural evolution, survival of the fittest, species evolving to best fit their ever-changing environments. But what about the kind of evolution that some may consider, not so “natural”? Man-made species, genetically modified organisms, test-tube body parts, and creatures that have been forever tweaked by human interference.
In-person user research used to be the only game in town, and as with most industry practices, its procedures were developed, refined, standardized, and then became entrenched in the corporate R&D product development cycle. Practically everything gets tested in a lab, hallway, or conference room nowadays: commercial web sites, professional and consumer software, even video games. But nowadays we’ve got remote usability testing. … »
Next week, Josephine Green will be delivering the closing keynote at The Web and Beyond 2010. I was able to chat with Josephine to get a sneak peek into her closing presentation and learn more about her experience performing Strategic Design over the years. … »
On the third day of the conference we got another series of great UX workshops. They varied from hands-on sessions to speaker presentations, but everywhere the quality was high. It were three thought provoking days and I hope next year will be at least just as good. … »
Yesterday was a day of listening, today was a day of acting. UX London day two was split up and attendees could join workshops in the morning and afternoon. With the full-is-full philosophy in the back of their heads people rushed through the building to catch a seat at their prefered workshop. We managed to check out six of them for you. … »
Day three was a binge of amazing keynote speakers. I definitely expect that everyone’s head was completely filled by the end of the day. Besides the amazing talent that was there, UXLX in its association with the brand new Want Magazine presented clips of the newest videos that were launched that very day with the online magazine itself.
Day 2 of UX Lisbon included presentations on seduction, creative uses of Twitter, and the secret sauce of design.
UXLX or User Experience Lisbon[i], was the brain child of organizer Bruno Figuierro. Bruno put on an amazing event. It was clear from the moment I stepped off the plane and was greeted by Bruno[ii] (and Donna Spencer) that Bruno was putting out all the stops. His team crafted an experience that was one of the best conferences I have been to.
