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 […]
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.
Well, I’m back after a long road trip (my kids are recovering from DVD-overdose) and from my mid-holiday jaunt to DC to speak at UX Week. I’ll return to posting soon….
A thought that’s come up a few times lately - I believe that the opportunity for design and user experience to increase our influence is not about finding better methods for working with users, but in better methods for working with business. Not that new methods for generating insight, prototyping, and defining solutions aren’t useful. […]
Meredith Davis heads up one of the few Ph.D. programs in design in the United States. I was surprised and thrilled to read her recent AIGA interview about the state of design education, where she references my design maturity continuum to discuss the challenges and opportunities for design education today. Wow!
That’s the title for a recent News.com story. But I couldn’t find a literal answer in the article, so I decided to calculate it myself.
First, there’s the question of how much Google weighs - so I started from the cliche that a company is its people:
Number of Google Employees
7,942
Average Weight: Male
189.8lbs
Average Weight: Female
162.9lbs
Price of Gold […]
I’m travelling over the next month - if you’re in the neighborhood and want to hang out, drop me a line - bplusd AT nform DOT ca.
Provo, UT - Sept. 28-29
Philadelphia - Oct. 11
New York City - Oct. 13
San Francisco - Oct. 16-17
Seattle - Oct. 22-24
Many thanks to FastCompany’s Heath Row for pointing here to bplusd. I’m travelling, and was delighted and flattered to learn today that Heath had noticed this little corner of the web. Welcome to new visitors - I hope you enjoy the time here. Many thanks to the friends who wrote email letting me know…I’ll get […]
Some people have wondered a little about this blog, and me, the principal author. I’m the founder of nForm User Experience, a small but focused Canadian consulting company with mostly local but a few North American clients. I co-founded the Information Architecture Institute, where I currently serve on the Board of Directors. I’ve been interested […]
