Martin Polley
on March 9th, 2010
This is the talk that Paul Dourish gave about location-based technologies at Stanford University as part of its HCI Seminar lecture series (October 2007).
Duration: 1 hour, 17 minutes
Martin Polley
on March 5th, 2010
Dan Hill (Arup) talks about the changes that are happening to our cities (ubicomp, urban informatics) and what it means for urban interaction design at Interaction 10 (February 2010).
Martin Polley
on March 3rd, 2010
Michal Migurski (Stamen) talks about how they do no user research for their information visualization projects.
My takeaway from this is not that user research is of no use, but that there are certain categories of products for which user research is not applicable. (I’m thinking specifically of things that encourage and are then defined by emergent and often unpredictable behavior.)
Martin Polley
on March 2nd, 2010
Magician Jamy Ian Swiss in what has been described as “required viewing for anyone in the business of creating good experiences” (Gel 2009).
Martin Polley
on February 23rd, 2010
This is the amazing talk about the future of games that Jesse Schell gave at the 2010 DICE Summit. He talks not so much about what games will be like in the future, but about how gaming will leach out into every aspect of our lives. (February 2010)
Martin Polley
on February 21st, 2010
Radio Johnny’s very own Jeff Parks, talking about the need to focus on the qualities of what make us human rather than the data that drives many of our choices.
Martin Polley
on January 31st, 2010
Adam Barker (until recently the Gmail design lead) talks about how UX design works at Google (Stanford HCI Seminar series, Winter 2007).
Martin Polley
on January 23rd, 2010
If you liked the Marc Rettig video that I posted a few days ago, you’ll love this — Marc’s talk from IxDA NYC, March 2009. (Hat tip to The UX Workshop.)
Martin Polley
on January 22nd, 2010
Jared Spool (UIE) speaking about the pros and cons of user-centered design at SXSWi, March 2009.
Johnny Holland
on January 20th, 2010
Alex Faaborg from the Mozilla Design Team talks about the Mozilla Labs Design Challenge Winter ‘09.
