My Experience at Interactions13

So far the design highlight of 2013 was traveling to Toronto for Interaction13, the international interaction design conference.  I was particularly looking forward to this event because I attended last year’s conference and the experience solidified my desire to...
Doing UX in an Agile World

Doing UX in an Agile World

I just hosted my first webinar, talking about the relationship between Agile development and UX. It was a good talk, but to someone used to live audiences the experience of speaking out into the great ether is slightly unnerving. I made like an old-time radio...

Cisco

Challenge When Cisco sought to update their contact center agent desktop application, they knew that it would be a challenge to differentiate their offering from competitive offerings. Contact centers represent a mature market with tight linkages between technology,...

Analog Devices

Challenge Analog knew that their web site was key to the “design-in” process where design engineers select the parts to use in a new design. Analog wanted to redesign the site to ensure that it supported their customers’ decision-making process. How...

InContext at 20

20 years is a long time in the world of technology. When Karen started her initial work in Human-Computer Interaction, the interaction we were talking about was English-language command lines for the EVE editor at Digital Equipment Corporation. Most software at the...

Adopting Agile: Successful UX in an Agile World

Tuesday November 27th, 2012 from 12:00 PM to 1:30 PM (ET) Cost: $49.00     This webinar is based on our experience working with Agile and UX teams across the industry. As Agile methods become part of the landscape in many companies, UX groups have faced the...

Reflections on our Modern Interaction Design Webinar

I had a lot of fun presenting our webinar last week on Understanding Modern Interaction Design. We had great attendance and collected some really good feedback afterwards. Thanks to everyone who attended! I think it’s an important topic in design, so it was...

The Post-Apple World

Unless you’ve been living under a rock the last few weeks, you’ve already heard about the verdict in the technology Trial of the Century, pitting Apple against Samsung in a battle over who violated whose intellectual property. The blogosphere is abuzz with what...

Agile Moves On

Once again, the main Agile conference was an extravaganza of serious ideas, fun interactions, and maybe also the occasional party. The conference this year was in Dallas, at 100 degrees and humid, but that didn’t matter because the hotel had enclosed and air...