To say I had a blast at UX London would be a lie. Not because it wasn’t amazing, but because I didn’t actually attend any of it outside of my own workshop. Some may have thought I was out and about exploring London instead of attending other speakers’ sessions. Quite false. Where I really was: [...]
Entries Tagged as 'Conferences'
My Creating a Culture of UX workshop at UX London
May 28th, 2010 · 2 Comments · Conferences, User Experience
Tags:Conferences·Pain·Pleasure·Props·Speaking·User Experience
Reaching outside the UX tribe at STC’s Technical Communication Summit
May 10th, 2010 · 3 Comments · Career, Community, Conferences, Pleasure
In Transcending Our Tribe, my closing plenary at this year’s Information Architecture Summit, I asserted that in order for the field of user experience to survive, we need to stop spending so much time looking inwards, and start reaching out to the larger business and technical communities. Because I’m a big fan of practicing what [...]
Tags:Career·Community·Conferences·History·Organizations·Pleasure·Speaking·User Experience
Holy crap…I gave the closing plenary at IA Summit 2010
May 10th, 2010 · 1 Comment · Career, Conferences, Pleasure
Thirty days later and it has still barely sunken in that I gave the closing plenary at IA Summit 2010 in Phoenix, AZ, titled Transcending Our Tribe. Being bestowed with this tremendous honor was a shock in and of itself, but having actually survived the months of preparation, the intense trepidation, and the profound duration [...]
SXSW Interactive: Never As Good As the First Time
March 26th, 2010 · 11 Comments · Conferences, Pain
I’m behind on summing up my thoughts on this year’s SXSW Interactive. A lot of people have panned the conference, saying “SXSW sucks,” “SXSW is dead,” and more constructively, “the conference isn’t that good.” Fast Company called the keynote with Twitter co-founder and CEO Evan Williams, “the most horrifically devastating keynote presentation in SXSW history,” [...]
Around the World in 80 Days
March 6th, 2010 · 2 Comments · Conferences, Travel
In thinking about my upcoming travel schedule, the classic French adventure novel Around the World in 80 Days (Le tour du monde en 80 jours) popped into my head. Then I quickly looked at the calendar and counted the days – exactly 80 days from today. I have a few upcoming speaking engagements, a couple [...]
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