Notes from UX People Autumn 2010 talks

Last Friday (Nov 26), I got up early, took the bus into Cambridge, and hopped on a train down to London to attend the UX People one-day conference. It was well worth the effort.

It was good to see some familiar faces from the first event in March, and to see that there were lots of well-respected UX and IA people there to support the second one.

The day was split into two halves, with four talks in the morning and two hands-on workshops in the afternoon.

The talks were pretty good, two in particular, and the workshops were also very enjoyable. Of course, you end up wondering what the other workshops would have been like (you could choose 2 out of 5), but hey ho… I was happy with my lot. I had an enjoyable afternoon, doing a lot of sketching, guided by the talented Eva-Lotta Lamm, and then a really fun ideation / brainstorming session with other attendees, instigated by the people from AKQA.

UX Storytellers

Storytelling can be a really powerful way to inform user experience design. We can of course use it to involve the audience, and it can give narrative to the information we wish to communicate. Data can tell a story. The personas we sometimes use in the design process are characters in a story, and that story might describe the context in which our websites and software are used…