Update to Information Architecture Day Slides
posted at 7:04 PM on June 19, 2009
We just posted a new version of the deck which includes the transition slides that help frame the topics.
You can download the fresh version here by clicking on “Session Slides”.
Hang with Adaptive Path Tonight. Twice.
posted at 10:22 AM on June 18, 2009
It’s here. The last day of UX Intensive. And you survived. Well, it’s still early, so maybe you didn’t, but we’re hopeful, so congratulations! Come have a drink on us and pat your fellow workshop survivors on the back.
First, head to O Izakaya lounge in Hotel Kabuki at 5pm (until 6:30pm), for cocktails and tasty bites. Relive your favorite moments from the week, like, “Hey, remember when it was so cold in the conference room? Yeah, that was awesome.” Or, “OMG, did you eat lots of bacon? I ate lots of bacon!”
Second, mosey on over to Adaptive Path offices for our open house and studio tour as part of San Francisco Design Week. Here are the details:
Adaptive Path
363 Brannan Street (Btwn 2nd & 3rd Streets)
San Francisco, CA 94107
(here’s a map)
Starts at 6pm and ends at 9pm.
See you there. And there.
–Pam
Day 4 Slides Posted
posted at 8:15 AM on June 18, 2009
Andrew’s Interaction Design slides have been posted here. Just click “Session Slides” to download a PDF version.
Day 3 Slides Posted
posted at 11:00 AM on June 17, 2009
To download Kate’s slides go here and click “Session Slides” to download a PDF version.
Day 2 Slides Posted
posted at 4:03 PM on June 16, 2009
You can download Paula’s slides here by clicking on the “Session Slides” link.
Strategy day worksheets
posted at 3:34 PM on June 16, 2009
By request, here are the worksheets we used in the four exercises yesterday. And if you’re interested in a template for the first exercise on sensing business strategy, you can find a downloadable PowerPoint file with this blog post.
— Brandon
Design Strategy notes and links
posted at 4:28 AM on June 16, 2009
Thanks everyone for your participation in today’s workshop. I really appreciate the smart questions and the interesting ideas you shared about design strategy. There’s a couple of things I promised to share right away:
- Here’s a PDF file of the slides from the workshop.
- A couple of months ago I did a design strategy case study podcast with Lulu Pachuau and Bob Medcalf of Provoke, a design consultancy in New Zealand. Lulu attended a past UX Intensive event and then integrated much of what she learned into a project for Industrial Research Limited. The podcast and associated presentation share many ideas of how you might adapt and integrate the tools into your work.
- I made reference to the Adaptive Path report, “Leveraging Business Value: How ROI Changes User Experience.” We’re now allowing you to download the full ROI report for free. In it, you’ll find detailed explanations of the UX Value Chain and the Linking Elephants model.
Also, I wanted to provide a list of the many references and ideas that were brought up in the workshop and during discussions:
- A blog post detailing one of my examples of experience strategy, the Target ClearRX drug delivery system. There’s several links within to articles and the backstory behind the pill bottle redesign.
- I made a couple of references to Michael Porter and his seminal essay, “What is Strategy?” Unfortunately it’s $6.50 from Harvard Business Review, but it’s also a great read. Also a good read is a recent interview Michael Porter did with the Wharton School of Business explaining why “being the best” isn’t a strategy (requires sign-up).
- And if you want to use numbers to help you make your case for design and UX, Henning Fischer’s essay on Business Case Modeling for Design Initiatives is a great how-to, plus you can download his spreadsheet that shows all his math.
- The value curve example comes from Blue Ocean Strategy, but the authors prior article in HBR is cheaper and a faster read, if you’re looking for short cuts. Another example of a value curve is Scott Weisbrod’s example of the value curve for the Wii.
- I talked about the value of creating tangible expressions of he strategy to define what the strategy is or could be. One of my favorite examples of prototyping and testing new experience-based strategies comes from Kevin Cheng’s presentation on Communicating Concepts through Comics.
- Here’s the Charmr video that I shared, a great example of creating a clear vision of what an experience could be. Here’s more on the Charmr project.
- One way to quickly get to Definition is the sketchboard technique. Here’s an essay on sketchboads with details behind that movie on how we do it and downloads to the tools we use.
- I also referenced this presentation by Leah Buley, How to Be a UX Team of One”. If your interested in these ideas and the sketchboard method, we’ll be teaching both at workshops during UXWeek 2009 this September.
- Elevator Music | Beck
- Saturday Night | Blitzen Trapper
- Rotary Ten | R.E.M.
- Keep on Dancing | The Commodores
- Accuracy | The Cure
- Cha Cha Twist | The Detroit Cobras
- (I Can’t Get No) Satisfaction | Devo
- Neon Beanbag | Stereolab
- 7 and 7 Is | Love
- Budos Rising | The Budos Band
- I Feel It All | Feist
- Oceans Of Venus | Dengue Fever
- Bang On | The Breeders
- Chicago Falcon | The Budos Band
- Nobody’s Baby | Sharon Jones & The Dap-Kings
- After It All | Cat Power
- Erase You | ESG
- I’m Always Drunk in San Francisco | Nancy Wilson
- 52 Girls | B-52’s
- Hanging on the Telephone | Blondie
- Sun It Rises | Fleet Foxes
- I Burn Today | Frank Black
- Ten Feet Tall | XTC
- Tiny Spark | Brendan Benson
- Belle Isle | Grand Ole Party
- Road Runner | The Modern Lovers
- In the Heat of the Morning | The Last Shadow Puppets
- Dark Lines | The Gossip
- Intergration | Dengue Fever
- Bryn | Vampire Weekend
- People Think They Know Me | Sloan
- San Franciscan Nights | Eric Burdon & The Animals
- This Time (I’m Gonna Try It My Way) | DJ Shadow
- Off The Grid | The Beastie Boys
- Australia | The Shins
- Making Plans For Nigel | Nouvelle Vague
- I Turn My Camera On | Spoon
- La la La | The Bird And The Bee
- Gronlandic Edit | Of Montreal
- Pump it Up | Elvis Costello
- Aurora Borealis | Meat Puppets
- Helen Wheels | Paul McCartney & Wings
- This Must Be the Place (Naïve Melody) | Talking Heads
- Rats | Sonic Youth
- Barock – Plastik | Stereolab
- True Love, Pt. 2 | X
- Sittin’ on My Sofa | The Kinks
- (Do The) Instant Mash | Joe Jackson
- Before We Begin | Broadcast
- Big Sky | Kinks
- Fillmore Blues | Chuck Berry
- Act Of The Apostle | Belle & Sebastian
- The Beat | Elvis Costello
- Black Tambourine | Beck
- The Bones Of An Idol | The New Pornographers
- Amsterdam | Peter Bjorn and John
- All I Need | Radiohead
- Artistiya | Amadou & Mariam
- A Change of Scene | Citizens Here and Abroad
- Another Nail for My Heart | Squeeze
- The Actor’s Opprobrium | Of Montreal
- Diamond Dancer | Bill Callahan
- Birds | Quasi
- Don’t You Evah | Spoon
- House Of Cards | Radiohead
- 2 More Dead | RJD2
- Earthquake Weather | Beck
- Upon This Tidal Wave Of Young Blood | Clap Your Hands Say Yeah
- Easy | The Beta Band
- Jesus, etc | Wilco
- Tell Me | Sharon Jones & The Dap-Kings
- Failsafe | The New Pornographers
- Knee-High Boogie Blues | Richard Swift
- A Taste of Honey | Herb Alpert & The Tijuana Brass
- Gut Feeling | Devo
- Hang On To Your Ego | The Beach Boys
- Held | Smog
- Three-Way | The Magnetic Fields
- Catch Yer Own Train | The Silver Seas
- If Looks Could Kill | Camera Obscura
- You Got Yr. Cherry Bomb | Spoon
- Going On | Gnarls Barkley
- No One Listen | Ray Davies
- Once Around the Block | Badly Drawn Boy
- Ballad of Humankindness | Dears
- Mirror In the Bathroom | The English Beat
- Police & Thieves | The Clash
- Top Yourself | The Raconteurs
- The Underdog | Spoon
- The Way I Walk | Cramps
- The Passenger | Iggy Pop
- Got To Let Go | The Bees
- Go Places | The New Pornographers
- Mr. Tough | Yo La Tengo
- Hot Tomale | Jackie Mittoo
- Higher Ground | Stevie Wonder
- Inspiration Information | Shuggie Otis
- Walken | Wilco
- The Rat Cage | The Beastie Boys
- One Glass of Water | The Bees
- Life On Mars? | David Bowie
- Punk Rock Girl | The Dead Milkmen
- What’s It Gonna Be | Dusty Springfield
- The Girl from Ipanema | Herb Alpert & The Tijuana Brass
- The Last Time | Gnarls Barkley
- Mary Jane’s Last Dance | Tom Petty & The Heartbreakers
- Ladies of Cambridge | Vampire Weekend
- Beyond Belief | Elvis Costello & The Attractions
Thanks everyone for a great first day!
Brandon
Name that Tune
posted at 9:33 PM on June 15, 2009
Like the tunes you’re hearing during breaks at UX Intensive? Here’s our playlist, give or take a few songs.
Day 1 Slides Posted
posted at 3:00 PM on June 15, 2009
Brandon’s slides from the Design Strategy day have been posted.
Download them here.
Welcome!
posted at 8:25 AM on June 15, 2009
I’m really happy to be having UX Intensive in San Francisco this week. Finally on our home turf and we’re expecting a lot of friendly faces and some new friends.
This time, we’ve got a nice intimate group of designers which will make for some really dynamic workshop sessions. When we say intensive, we mean it, and I know that the Interaction Design day attendees will have to work hard on Thursday.
I look forward to sharing some of the insights that we’ve had around the process of interaction design. And, I’m hoping we won’t need the first aid kit when we start building physical prototypes.
Follow the conference at @uxintesive for some great back channel conversation. Plus, if you’d like to follow me, look for @andrewcrow.
See you on site!
Tag your photos uxisf2009 on flickr.com
Location
Hotel Kabuki
1625 Post Street
San Francisco, CA 94115