I spoke and gave a workshop on sketching at UX Australia a few weeks ago. Here’s my talk, which without the actual talking is perhaps a little obscure - I’m promised that the audio’s coming soon…
Coming up this week is OzIA. After seeing my sketchnotes from UX Australia (below), Eric was nice enough to sponsor me to be the official sketchnoter of the event. Thanks Eric! Can’t wait!
Web Directions
I was too slack and otherwise occupied to get a proposal in for Web Directions (boo!) but it’s on next week and the program looks like it’ll be a blast (yay!). I’m especially looking forward to hearing Mark Boulton talk about type, listening to Christian Crumlish talk about social interfaces, and playing with the augmented reality t-shirt, designed by Miss Failwhale herself, Yiying Lu and made technically possible by my mates at MOB. The whole week is set to be amazing, as it’s the inaugural Australian Web Week! After arriving in Australia two weeks too late to attend last year’s Web Directions, it feels like it’s about time I got to attend!
Edge of the Web
Last but certainly not least is Edge of the Web, out in Perth November 6th & 7th. I”m honoured to say I’ll be flying over to the left coast to talk about the train wrecks and best practices of online shop design, and attend the award ceremony for the Australian Web Awards, which I helped judge. Gary Barber was nice (or crazy) enough to let me ramble on about job titles to avoid, photography for failed painters and our the reality of augmented reality in a recent interview, which you can read here.
One of my favourite aspects of the Information Architecture Summit earlier this year was meeting and getting to know Dan Willis. He’s a consultant for Sapient (yawn) but far more importantly, he’s super smart, super funny, and scribbles like a demon. He also looks pretty suave wearing my hat.
My favourite bit is what Dan has to say about defining the problem that design is there to solve:
I don’t think it’s served design or designers well to run away from that part. I think designers need to step up their game. If they’re not able to step it up to where they’re really good at that, they should at least not be satisfied with being told what it is at the end of the day.
Thanks for the interview Dan!
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As I mentioned previously, it’s been quite a while since the IA Summit. The recent surge of inspiration and energy caused by UX Australia reminded me that I had a number of video interviews with some very smart people, just sitting around waiting to be uploaded.
So here’s the interview with Steve Baty, user experience strategist, one of the organisers of UX Australia, and an awfully nice man.
Thanks Steve!
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Can I ask a favour? Can you please ignore the fact that South by Southwest (SxSW) and the IA Summit were about five months ago? You can? Thanks, how kind of you!
At SxSW and the IA Summit this year, I continued a little project I started around this time last year when I was at Reboot — I sat down with smart people who use the word “design” to describe at least some of what they do, and asked them what the word means to them.
Videos don’t seem to be the kind of content that inspires too many comments, but judging by the links to my Reboot interviews, it seems like you’ve enjoyed them. Going on that—and considering how much I enjoyed meeting the folks I interviewed—I’m planning on continuing the series at dConstruct. I’ll only be there one day so it’s unlikely I’ll get that many interviews done, but there will be plenty of interesting folks there so I’ll do what I can. Top-of-the-list targets are Joshua Porter, Elliot Jay Stock and Leisa Reichelt, but I’m looking for more candidates. If you’ll be there and have something to say about design, @ me on twitter.
I was too slack and otherwise occupied to get a proposal in for Web Directions (boo!) but it’s on next week and the program looks like it’ll be a blast (yay!). I’m especially looking forward to hearing Mark Boulton talk about type, listening to Christian Crumlish talk about social interfaces, and playing with the augmented reality t-shirt, designed by Miss Failwhale herself, Yiying Lu and made technically possible by my mates at MOB. The whole week is set to be amazing, as it’s the inaugural Australian Web Week! After arriving in Australia two weeks too late to attend last year’s Web Directions, it feels like it’s about time I got to attend!
Last but certainly not least is Edge of the Web, out in Perth November 6th & 7th. I”m honoured to say I’ll be flying over to the left coast to talk about the train wrecks and best practices of online shop design, and attend the award ceremony for the Australian Web Awards, which I helped judge. Gary Barber was nice (or crazy) enough to let me ramble on about job titles to avoid, photography for failed painters and our the reality of augmented reality in a recent interview, which you can read here.