In September of this year I delivered at talk about emotional interface design at Webdagene, an amazing conference in Oslo, Norway. The conference organizers were kind enough to record the talk, which can view on their website in case you missed it in Norway.
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Video of Learning to Love Humans: Emotional Interface Design
The UX Sketchbook in Action at Future of Web Design
I ran a day long workshop at Future of Web Design called “Interface Design Bootcamp“. In the workshop we learned how to conceptualize an app to connect people at an event like the Future of Web Design Conference using design personas and sketchboards. Ryan Carson sat in on my workshop and wrote a nice post on Think Vitamin about the sketchboarding process.
The workshop was so perfectly timed as the UX Sketchbook I’ve been working on had just rolled off the presses, and it was time to take it for a serious test drive. As I mentioned earlier here, the UX Sketchbook was really designed to support quick ideation, and specifically, sketchboarding.
I snapped a few pics from the conference to document the fun we were having with the new sketchbooks. You can view all of the workshop photos on Flickr.
Idea To Interface: Sketchnotes From Future of Web Design London
I recently gave a talk at Future of Web Design London entitled “Idea To Interface” in which I challenged and hopefully inspired my fellow web designers to create side projects to fuel creative thinking, and inform the work we do at our day jobs. I worked with the amazingly talented Mike Rohde, illustrator for Rework on the illustrations for the slide deck. As a sketchnote guru, Mike was the perfect fit for this talk as it’s all about capturing one’s ideas on paper or in a simple prototype.
Links and Resources From An Event Apart Talk “Idea to Interface”
Links and resource came fast and furious in my talk at An Event Apart Boston. To make your life easier, I’ve assembled all of the resources I mentioned into a handy little list. Feel free to share this with your colleagues.
Domo Boom! at LAUNCH Conference
Jason Calacanis put on a hell of a conference this past week in San Francisco. LAUNCH gave a series of startups the opportunity to demo their products to a panel of expert judges (including your truly), the tech press, and a crowd of industry pros. Some amazing products were presented. My favorites were Hipmunk, a mobile and web app that does travel booking the right way, and Chute, a mobile app that get’s you to “photo 0″ by facilitating photo sharing and backup to the cloud.
The final demo on the day I was judging was Domo, a mobile app that helps you find people with similar interests in your vicinity. It’s a cool idea, though perhaps not the best design execution. The presentation, however, was brilliant. You’ve got to see it to believe it.
Interface Design Bootcamp: Future of Web Design Workshop
I recently conducted a day long “Interface Design Bootcamp” workshop in New York at the Future of Web Design. We covered a lot of territory including user research, personas, wireframes, sketchboards, prototypes, and usability testing. There are so many useful resources freely available on the Web that make the job of a user experience designer easier. Here are a few of the UX resources discussed and the slides from the workshop.
Slides From Talk “Learning to Love Humans: Emotional Interface Design”
It’s been a busy year. I’ve been traveling an awful lot talking at some great conferences like An Event Apart, Future of Web Design, Future of Web Apps, and Web Directions US. The talk I’ve been giving is entitled “Learning to Love Humans: Emotional Interface Design”, and it explores how emotion in design can help you build a devout following, foster good will that will come in handy should something go awry with your app or site, and encourages evangelism.
Christopher Fahey: The Human Interface
Presented at The Web and Beyond conference in Amsterdam, Christopher Fahey discusses how to design human interfaces, and why products are people too.
