After an eight-month hiatus due to a lack of decent live broadcast platforms, Whit Hour is BACK and now hosted by Justin.tv. Whit Hour is my weekly video-based “office hour” in which I answer any and all questions about user experience, consulting, and whatever else you wanna throw at me. Tune in every Monday night [...]
Entries Tagged as 'Conferences'
Whit Hour is back! Week 9
June 29th, 2010 · 1 Comment · Whit Hour
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The Honor and Burden of Chairing a Conference
June 16th, 2010 · 4 Comments · Community, Conferences
I attend a lot of conferences. Okay, more than a lot — an ungodly amount. Just check the Conferences tag on this blog. Attending them is a ball, inspirational but tiring. Speaking at them is a privilege, stressful but rewarding. Organizing them…now that isn’t something I’d wish on my worst enemy. Why? Because it’s a [...]
My Creating a Culture of UX workshop at UX London
May 28th, 2010 · 2 Comments · Conferences, User Experience
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: [...]
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 [...]
