designing for user experience conference DUX07

dux07 Changing roles & shifting landscapes

Social media and networks are creating new design challenges. How do we inspire and enable people’s ability to contribute, create, personalize, and share experiences? How are design roles changing in the face of this shifting landscape?

Intercontinental Hotel
Chicago, Illinois
November 5–7, 2007

Tree and Leaves

Describing a system by writing User Stories is like sketching a tree by drawing the leaves first. UCD sketches the tree by first drawing it in broad strokes, and providing a vision of where the leaves will eventually fit.
- Jeff Patton (http://www.agileproductdesign.com)

Clash of the Titans: Agile and UCD

http://www.uxmatters.com/MT/archives/000153.php

Oft-quoted UX dude

Ultimately, we are deluding ourselves if we think that the products that we design are the “things” that we sell, rather than the individual, social and cultural experience that they engender, and the value and impact that they have. Design that ignores this is not worthy of the name.

http://www.billbuxton.com/

Effective UI

www.effectiveui.com

You got UX in my Agile…

Here is a white paper Eric found from Thoughtworks in the UK that identifies the similarities and stark differences between UCD/UX and Agile development methods. They propose a method of blending the two.

Discuss.

User Centered Design in Agile Application Development by Marc McNeill

UX Intensive IA and IxD Slides

The following links go to large PDF files of the slides from the Adaptive Path UX Intensive conference I went to in April. Click the download slide links and follow the instructions.

Interaction Design
Login: daythree
Password: platforms

Information Architecture
http://uxichicago2007.adaptivepath.com/information-architecture
Login: dayfour
Password: metadata

Blog for the event:
http://uxichicago2007.adaptivepath.com/