Archive for the ‘Lectures’ Category
Saturday, September 20th, 2008
Speaker: Colleen Murray, Jump Associates
Date: September 20, 2008
The origins of scenario planning
Developing and communicating scenario worlds
Frameworks
Make sense of what you see
Build mental models, maps and metaphors
Use needs to highlight opportunities
Imperatives
Suggest directions and principles for development
Offer guidelines for prioritizing and making decisions
Observations
See the world with fresh eyes
Listen and Learn
Find ...
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Sunday, March 16th, 2008
In July, 2007, I attended Edward Tufte’s “Presenting Data and Information” one-day lecture. For me, that was one of the most in depth introduction to the techniques of data presentation.
At the time I was playing with 37singlas' document managament and file sharing tool “Backpack”. Naturally I created a page ...
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Friday, February 8th, 2008
Carolyn Wei, User Experience Researcher at Google, shared the 5 UX challenges Google facing to make useful, desirable, and delightful products.
Challenge 1. Understanding our users
These different sources of information provide different part of the story at different stages.
User experience research
Logs
Customer support
Quantitative market research
Live online experiments (A/B tests)
Challenge 2. Consistency
Consistency ...
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Friday, January 11th, 2008
Tim Briggs, Senior User Experience Researcher at Microsoft Office Design Group did a seminar in the “Current Issues in Technical Communication” lecture. He talked about the process of software instrumentation through case study on Office 2007 development.
What is Documenting instrumentation?
The ability to track people’s clicks. Which is essentially ...
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Hello, my name is Janet. I am a designer working for an online casual game company in Seattle. 
by Stephen M. Kosslyn
