#TiredAllOver – The Podcast

by David Kelley on November 20, 2012

Based out of seattle a new podcast that touchs on user experience launched today titled ‘#TiredAllOver’ first episode is fairly entertaining so we will see where it goes. http://tiredallover.com/

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{interact} vnext – Helium Display – Test Episode I

October 22, 2012

in this episode I’m talking about the new Helium display from planar and my experience with it.  Its a great bit of hardware that it cool because of its composite nature and allows me to use my slate as my main machine.  {interact} vnext – on emerging technologies and digital user experience {interact} vnext – [...]

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Expected objective fulfillment

October 16, 2012

I have a fun story to tell. It was a very hot summer day and we had just pulled into the parking lot of a local store to purchase school supplies for my younger siblings. The heat was greater than usual in the area – in the high 90s, nearing 100°F. The store had recently [...]

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Seattle Interactive Conference

October 1, 2012

Seattle Interactive Conference formally announces the 2012 agenda with an all-star lineup of speakers and panelists. Check out the agenda here: http://www.seattleinteractive.com/agenda. If you still haven’t purchased your conference pass, here is a $50 off promo code that you can use. Enter promo code sic50 and purchase your pass today: http://seattleinteractive.strangertickets.com For those of you [...]

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IxDA Seattle Presents: Infection, Dissection, and Mutation: Bringing Design Thinking to Agile Development

August 6, 2012

ABSTRACT How do brands bring design thinking into the fast-paced, documentation eschewing, whipsaw world of agile? Brands must move quickly to compete with small startups. But speed and agility often feel at odds with design and true innovation. This talk outlines three approaches – infection, dissection, and mutation – that designers can use to turn [...]

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Mobile Usability Testing

July 9, 2012

Join us July 18th with Tom Pease from Analytic Design Group ( http://www.analyticdesigngroup.com/ ) with a presentation on Mobile Usability Testing. Abstract: Mobile technology is in an ever faster spinning cycle of change: they are radically changing the way we live, work and play; this change is affecting how people respond to these devices; and [...]

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IxDA Seattle Presents: The Other User Series: Project Team Rehab (Th 6/21)

June 6, 2012

At some point, all project teams will become strained from time pressures, communication failures and misaligned goals. When, why and how long it lasts depends on whether the team is aware of and actively willing to change their behavior and approach to a problem. In part 3 of The Other User series, a multi-disciplinary panel of [...]

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Creative Mornings Seattle Presents: Blaise Agüera y Arcas

May 31, 2012

Join us for Blaise Agüera y Arcas and a talk about Augmenting Reality for You, Here and Now.  Blaise Agüera y Arcas is a Distinguished Engineer at Microsoft.  He works in a variety of roles, from designer and inventor to strategist, and he has formed and led teams in social media, interaction design, prototyping, computer [...]

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Awakening User Experience Innovations Thru Data Visualization

April 24, 2012

Abstract:  With the rapid changes in how we consume and develop interactive media it is becoming critical to develop organic UX solutions that allow iteration not just during development but post launch. By looking at various examples from games to interactive media services to design paradigms such as Metro; we will examine the role data [...]

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Why Taxonomy is Important

April 16, 2012

Taxomomy is a term referring to the meaning assigned to words.  Two people can have different meanings for different words.  When designing UI it is important to be able to relate to the target demographic is a way that they understand and have a consistent understand of ideas that you introduce to your users.  Because [...]

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