Gene Smith, my partner at nForm, has put together a fantastic program for our upcoming Web Strategy Summit. With a focus on driving business value, the Web Strategy Summit offers the kind of ideas, stories, and tools to make the most of your web investment. We’ve got amazing folks like Jeremiah Owyang (Forrester), Christina Wodtke [...]
Last year, on the last evening of the 2008 IA Summit in Miami, I invited myself onto Samantha Bailey’s 2009 committee with the stated intention of creating a Business & Strategy track for 2009. Mags Hanley popped over, nominated herself co-chair, and added management to the roster. And with that, the Business Strategy & Management [...]
I’m in the Bay Area to moderate an IxDA panel “What is the Worth of Design” on Wednesday, June 25 and also visit with some friends and colleagues in business/design/innovation. I’m excited about the panel – we’ve got some super smart panelists – Brandon Schauer, Nathan Shedroff, and Rajan Dev all have strong perspectives on [...]
I’m teaching a 1/2 day workshop Business of Experience: Hands-On Methods to Increase Your Influence at DocTrain West this Friday…if you’re in Vancouver and want to hang out, I’m around a bit Thursday evening and Friday afternoon….
Just thinking about current demands, and the halcyon days when I could take a look at the DUX 2003 conference site (where I chaired a panel session on constraints) and think that just the right thing to do was create this. Of course, a couple months later I went and started my own company, so [...]
I’ll be in Miami this week for the Information Architecture Summit. I’ll be teaching a day-long workshop on the Business of Experience: Building Buy-in So You Can Deliver Great Products and Services. During the main conference, I’m also talking about a model for designers to think about business in a more concrete, granular way to [...]
We have dates for CanUX 2008. Our annual Canadian User Experience workshop will be held November 16-18, in Banff, Alberta, Canada. Looking forward to pulling the program together, with that blend of hands-on and big picture thinking that makes it a yearly personal highlight.
At work, we run an annual user experience workshop in Banff, Alberta, Canada. This year, CanUX is November 25-27. We have some fantastic speakers – with best-selling author Lou Rosenfeld and prolific design thought leader David Armano providing our keynotes, and industry leaders like accessibility and design expert Derek Featherstone, tagging authority Gene Smith, and [...]
I’ve been invited to share some thoughts as a keynote speaker at the Italian IA Summit in Trento, Italy on November 16-17. It looks like a great lineup is coming together there…I’m excited to see what else is on tap. I’ll be speaking about the Business of Experience, sharing thoughts on business fluency and how [...]
I’m excited to be heading to Germany to share ideas about user experience, design thinking, and innovation in Stuttgart on November 9 & 10 at the German IA conference…I’ll be giving a talk, and also sharing a workshop on the Business of Experience. If you’re able to make the conference, it would be great to [...]
