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EPIC workshop on See>Sort>Sketch

Wednesday, October 22nd, 2008

I just got back from the beautiful city of Copenhagen, where my colleague Leah Buley and I presented a workshop at EPIC 2008. We worked with 25 people on the topic of See>Sort>Sketch : pen & paper techniques for getting from research to design. The EPIC conference was wonderful…many interesting people doing cool projects in ethographic research.

You can see some of my photos from the workshop on Flickr.

You can also download the presentation deck and workbook here.
I’m looking forward to seeing the EPIC community again in 2009 in Chicago. Fun!

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Fave Idea of the week : August 8th, 2008

Friday, August 8th, 2008

  

All last week, folks at Adaptive Path were prepping to speak at either Agile 2008, or UX Week 2008, or both. Leah, Dan and I all were heads-down on presentations for both.

When Leah and Dan did a brown-bag run-through of their talk, there still some holes in their slide deck that needed to be filled in. That’s pretty par for the course…it’s best to get feedback from a brown bag before you’re totally done with the whole shebang.

Then when I saw the label in the placeholder for this slide, I giggled. Who doesn’t need a Diagram of Awesomeness in their talk?

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She’s Geeky UnConference in Mt. View

Monday, October 22nd, 2007

 

She’s Geeky, Future of Technology, part iii

I’m hanging with the girl geeks at the She’s Geeky un-conference on Monday and Tuesday of this week. So far it’s been an interesting time.

Registration was smooth. The nametagclouds were a nice touch. Chiara Fox and Indi Young from the Adaptive Path crew were also there. We staked out a birds-of-a-feather lunch table for User Experience, and I had a good chat with Googler Kathy Baxter.

After lunch was the first session. I attended the Future of Technology, which was 3 talks in 1:

  • Melanie Swan, MS Futures Group, provided a whirlwind tour of the edges of technology discovery
  • Christine Peterson, Foresight Nanotech Institute, talking about Open Source Security
  • Liana Holmberg and Tess Chu, Linden Lab talking about Second Life

You can check out the visual notes that I took on Flickr.

What’s really wonderful is talking to all the smart gals attending. I had a great chat with Sally about innovation (I insisted it was a buzzword; she had some solid counterpoints, and we ended up pretty much agreeing); Dinner with Melanie Swan was awesome…we covered affinity investing for financial markets, virtual worlds and user experience methods. Heather Gold finished up the evening with some ad hoc comedy.

Looking forward to tomorrow. Up bright and early to leave at 6:15pm, pick up Chiara and be in Mt. View by 8am! Woo Hoo!

 

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