by Hugh | Aug 19, 2011 | Blog
I’m back from Agile 2011. Another week spent in one of the most beautiful parts of America, with sunny days in the 70’s—spent in windowless, air-conditioned rooms with a bunch of computer geeks. I wouldn’t have had it any other way. The Agile conference continues to...
by Larry | Jul 15, 2011 | Blog
“This is never going to work. I don’t get it. Why are we doing this?” “Don’t worry, Cody.” I’m teaching one of my 16-year-old son’s friends how to do an affinity analysis on some data he’d collected for a high school “critical thinking” project. Sometimes I’m not...
by Traci | Jun 22, 2011 | Blog
Well, first off, there is no way they can call this the “Mini Conference” anymore with 600 people in attendance this year. What fantastic numbers! Chris Hass, in his opening, even joked about a contest for new names—and I think he was only half joking. Even the new...
by Karen | May 26, 2011 | Blog
Wow, CHI 2011 was a whirlwind of classes and papers and people—and of course, great views of the mountains! But for me, the most exciting thing was to debut our new concepts articulating the factors behind people’s experience of “cool.” In a few weeks I’ll do a more...
by Derek Hoiem | May 26, 2011 | Blog
I recently returned from the CHI 2011 conference in Vancouver, where I presented a course with Karen Holtzblatt, titled Looking Below the Surface: Understanding and Analyzing Interaction Design. Let me first say, it was great to see so many of you at the course and it...
by Hugh | May 26, 2011 | Blog
CHI 2011 was the usual mix of new faces and old friends, cool new design ideas and interesting user research. Since I’m doing a lot with Agile development these days, I talked with a number of folks about how the rollout of Agile is going in the industry and the...
