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 user […]

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 […]

Wondering what design can have to do with being a CEO? The Overlap is a 50 person conversation I started in 2006 with Victor Lombardi and brought to fruition with co-conspirators like Steve Portigal, Niti Bhan, and Rosa Wu. Michael Dila took on the task of continuing the conversation in 2007, and Overlap happened again […]

The Experientia crew have a nice overview of the INDEX:2007 event and publications that are tackling a variety of design and innovation topics.
Of particular interest to bplusd readers is the section on User Centred Business Models.

Last week at the lake was great, and a couple cool things happened in my absence:
» My article on using design games to help build consensus is finally up on Boxes and Arrows. The article shares and expands on ideas from my 2006 talk Game Changing: How you can transform client mindsets through play. The […]