Archive for the 'Events' Category

Web Strategy Summit May 4-5 in Calgary

Friday, March 13th, 2009

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 [...]

Business Strategy & Management Track at IA Summit

Tuesday, February 3rd, 2009

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 [...]

Panel “What is the Worth of Design”

Tuesday, June 24th, 2008

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 [...]

Heading to Vancouver tomorrow

Wednesday, May 7th, 2008

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….

Boy, I used to have more spare time

Thursday, April 17th, 2008

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 [...]

Heading to Miami

Tuesday, April 8th, 2008

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 [...]

Dates for CanUX 2008

Sunday, March 30th, 2008

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.

CanUX 2007 – the Canadian User Experience Workshop

Tuesday, September 25th, 2007

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 [...]

Keynote at Italian IA Summit

Thursday, September 20th, 2007

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 [...]

Speaking in Germany in November

Monday, September 17th, 2007

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 [...]