CATALOGING THE ART AND SCIENCE OF USER EXPERIENCE DESIGN
Title: Psych 101: The Psychological Basis for UI Design Rules Context: Sometimes – just sometimes mind you – user experience can be more science than art. Synopsis: Man this is an ugly presentation, but it is even more insightful than … Continued
Title: Why Great Ideas Get Rejected Context: Having a good idea is easy. Getting people to buy into your good idea? That’s the tricky part. Synopsis: Everyone loves a creative idea right? Not so fast there da Vinci. Good ideas … Continued
Title: 5 Things Every Presenter Needs To Know About People Context: UX folks need to be able to communicate their ideas. Presenting is a part of communicating. Ergo, watch this. Synopsis: People make presenting a lot harder on themselves than … Continued
My slide deck from The Dot Conf 2012 in Dublin (http://thedotconf.wordpress.com/) on why everyone wants—but may not have the balls to achieve—a great user experience for their products. via slideshare.net
Title: Why most UX is shite Context: “Shite” means “shit” for my American readers… Synopsis: We all love the clearly delineated lists of UX best practices (and I have certainly shared in excess of my fair share of them). They … Continued
The art of the business presentation. And not the dogs playing poker kind of art either. via slideshare.net
Title: How to stand out in any niche using humor Context: Selling your ideas can be serious business. But if you want to make it more fun, bring the funny. Synopsis: This post is mostly about using humor in blogging … Continued
If you can’t sell an idea don’t be surprised when no one wants to buy it. via youtube.com
Title: Delivering the Speech of Your Life Context: Sure you could just try to imagine your audience naked. If you’re some kind of pervert. Synopsis: You need to be able to convince people that your ideas are sound and worth … Continued
Title: DICE 2010: “Design Outside the Box” Context: Facebook, reality, gaming, ubiquitous scoring systems, positive reinforcement behavior modification. It’s all in there. Synopsis: This is a longish video (:30 minutes) of a tour de force presentation that looks at how … Continued
Title: The Mother of All Demos Context: Giving a presentation that 42 years later is still considered one of the greatest demos of all time is quite a feat. He must have got all the chicks. Synopsis: The mouse, interactive … Continued