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More videos please
I'd love to see more videos of the sessions. The slides are OK but not as useful without the narration. Yes, I was there, but I would like to view some of the presentations again, they were so great! It seemed like everything was being videotap...
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iPhone GUI PSD file
If anyone needs a psd of the iPhone GUI, there's a nice one at http://www.teehanlax.com/blog/?p=447
It also works fine in Fireworks.
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Ty Hatch's Sketchnotes
Uploaded my sketchnotes to Flickr last night. Enjoy! http://tinyurl.com/55eru5
Thanks Adaptive Path for a great week!
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Gaming in the Real World
Along the lines of Jane's awesome keynote and how we should all be Ambassadors of Happiness -- in fact... quoting her! -- an article from Wired on how Weightwatchers is an RPG:
http://www.wired.com/gaming/virtualworlds/commentary/games/2008/08/...
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Looking for UX Designers - all levels
Hi all - I'm a recruiter specializing in UX and attended the conference last week. I was impressed by many of the speakers and learned a lot! My client is a privately held startup that has created the Sonos Digital Music System, the first and only...
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Take our survey and win a trip to next year's UX Week ( maybe)
Hi everyone,
Look for an email from me with our survey link. The email came through with no subject line (oops!).
Not fond of surveys? Need a little incentive? Complete our survey by Friday, August 22nd, end of business, and you'll be elig...
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Consolidate the Conference Slides
I have a novel idea. Can we have a single location to go and grab the slide decks from ALL of the UX Week presentations? Adding comments to this post would be one way to do it. I'm sure the folks at Adaptive Path could come up with a much bette...
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UX Week Sketchnotes from T.Scott Stromberg
So I finally got my sketchnotes from UX Week 2008 up on Flickr...enjoy.
http://tinyurl.com/6ltbvk
UX Week was a blast. Now all I have to do is evangelize everything I heard. See you in the blogosphere.
T.Scott
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first and last
wow. i thought i was going to use this site a lot more. :( i was always too tired after each VERY full day of learning to post anything! oh well.
i am now going to try to find everyone i met, and say hello. i hope i remember everyone; i did no...
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Quick Sketching for Interaction Design
This was a blast. Thanks for getting me back into drawing. The people were great, the drawings were classic, and Mark taught the hell out of this workshop.
A truly great experience!
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Check out the Bad Usability Calendar 2008
It's a calendar specifically designed to be unuseful. Free downloads in 13 different languages and formats.
Check out http://www.badusability.com
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Veen's powerpoint
Anyone got the URL of Jeffrey Veen's powerpoint written down? The one I wrote down doesn't work...
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Favorite reads from 2 Dans
Dan Lockton's "Architectures of Control"
Dan Willis' "UX Crank"
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twitter moderated panel @ sxsw
enough people mentioned that they enjoyed the twitter interaction during our presentation that I wanted to harness that support for a backchannel moderated panel at SXSW!
http://panelpicker.sxsw.com/ideas/view/1332
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Clear Capital invitation tonight
In case you missed it in your registration packet, Clear Capital is hosting a special event here at the Palace Hotel after the UX Week Cartoon Art Museum reception.
Here are the deets:
Clear Capital requests your presence for spirits, appetiz...
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Friday is prize day at UX Week
We'll be giving away some stuff. Cool stuff.
--Pam
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The Future of Design in Asia
I was wondering if anybody here is from Asia or has worked in Asia? I am interested in learning about your perspective in the evolving role of user experience in the different regions of Asia. I know that countries like Japan and Korea are paying ...
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Anyone using iRise for prototyping?
I'd love to connect with anyone who is using iRise within their organization to prototype. Or, if you have evaluated the tool and decided otherwise, I'd love to hear what you are using instead.
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Microsoft's "zooming" technology
Someone (I've forgotten which conversation now, sorry) mentioned a Microsoft "zooming technology" yesterday. This video from TED may be what you were referring to - worth watching, quite a tour de force (though the technology runs on Windows only)...
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Site referenced in "A User’s Guide to Managing Experience Teams”
I left my notes at the workshop and can't recall the url referenced in the Managing UX Teams session. Something like www.manageuxteams.com ...
Can someone provide the link?
Much appreciated.
~Jay
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Being a UX Team of One! Slides!
A few folks have asked where to find the slides from yesterday's presentation on Being a UX Team of One. (Apologies to those of you in the back of the room for the small font.)
Here ya go:
http://www.slideshare.net/ugleah
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Joe Kissel on IM for introverts
Found this post from TidBits earlier this year where Joe Kissel has some great insight on introversion versus extroversion.
The takeaway for me (an introvert in Joe's sense of the word) has been this: if we take a more conservative 10% figure f...
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We want your feedback
Hi everyone,
You will have the opportunity to give feedback in a formal way after UX Week. But if you have some burning thing you want us to know while you're here, shoot me an email, pam@adaptivepath.com.
I may not be able to reply this w...
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Wellington (NZ) - San Fran (US) UX Exchange Scheme
We're in the early stages of setting up a work-experience exchange scheme for intermediate/senior UX people.
If you run a UX company or team in the SF area and want to talk it over please track down myself (Zef Fugaz) or Lulu Pachuau at UX Week...
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Intranet video sharing for products teams?
Hi - I'm working on building an in-house video sharing solution to make design/user research clips easily available to Engs, PMs, marketing. Would love to hear from anyone who's used out-of-box apps or built one themselves about requirements, best...
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UX in Agile environment
Anyone interested in talking about this topic, the ins and outs of how to do adequate research, usability testing, etc. in the fast-paced, iterative environment of Agile/Scrum?
How about at dinner tonight?
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"What! No English Beat buttons..."
Well I do have a collection of English Beat chatchkee but I didn't bring it...I do however have a bag of 404UXD.com buttons (when we moved into our new studio they gave us room 404 so after laughing a lot we decided to brand ourselves 404UXD). If ...
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Tuesday's Dine Around Options
San Francisco is a great food town and we want you to get the most out of your evenings during UX Week.
That's what the Dine Arounds are for.
We have made reservations at restaurants for you within walking distance or a short cab ride from...
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Win a copy of Expression Studio 2
Hi all,
Please fill out the Microsoft UX survey – the first 300 to complete the survey will receive a free copy of Expression Studio 2. Please allow 4-8 weeks for delivery.
The link to survey is:
https://www.surveymonkey.com/s.aspx?sm=kjB...
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TCHO chocolates
I wonder if I can order chocolates for delivery to the Palace Hotel since TCHO doesn't deliver to Canada.
Will they be at the conference to hand out samples since they're sponsors? Crossing my fingers...
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Helpful info...
The Palace hotel (the UXWeek venue) sent along some helpful information as pictured above.
I'm not busting their chops here - this is a great idea, and I wish more of my hotels would think this way. There's just a little problem...
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Who's focused on UX inside the enterprise?
Interested in chatting with anyone working on improving UX in medium-to-large enterprises.
We're quite huge, and we've probably bought at least one version of every product out there. They don't work together, and folks putting the systems up t...
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UX International: Practicing Abroad on Tuesday, August 12
Join us for an informal lunchtime discussion on about doing user experience work abroad or for international clients. We're hoping to get a good mix of people who live and work abroad as well as a few Americans who have practiced outside the count...
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So hard to choose
The hallmark of well-selected workshop topics: it is hard to choose. Should I lean toward expanding my own skills in presentation, ideation, leadership? Should I focus on shoring up deficiencies in my local team, the design center, the firm as a w...
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Can't wait for next week!
This will be my first time in San Francisco. I am really looking forward to it. I've been to UX Week in DC, and I am excited to learn from and interact with other UX professionals.
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Government and Social Media
There seems to be plenty of examples of social media being embraced by private industry, but less so for public organizations. Candidates for running for office now have often include social networking tools in their campaigns, but there doesn’t ...
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Questions?
If you have any questions about the workshop picker works or what's going to happen when we officially launch the social networking piece, ask them here.
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