IA Summit 11: Visual Language for Designers
The last summit presentation I attended that really resonated with me was Your Brain On Graphics: Research-inspired Visual Design by Connie Malamed. It instantly took me back to my Human Factors Foundations class at Bentley talking about pre-attentive processing and cognitive…
IA Summit 11: DIY Mobile Usability Testing
The last session I attended on Day 2 was a fantastic session by Belén Barros Pena and Bernard Tyers on “Do it Yourself Mobile Usability Testing“. They walked through the positives, and negatives of mobile usability testing, and then listed…
IA Summit 11: Steps to Successful E-Commerce
For my first afternoon session of the summit on Day 2 I attended the always animated Eric Reiss’s Presentation “Increase The Size Of Your Package In Just Four Weeks: Four Steps To Successful E-Commerce“. Always a fun presenter, Eric went over a lot…
IA Summit 11: We Love Change? Change is Scary!
For my second session on day 2 of the conference I attended Johanna Kollmann’s “We Love Change? Change is Scary!”. It was a great talk about the importance of communicating change in order to gain user acceptance, not just during,…
IA Summit 11: The Art of Critique
For my first session on the second day of the summit I attended a great presentation by Adam Connor, Aaron Irizarry on The Art of Critique. They had a lot of great information that is important to keep in mind, not…
IA Summit 11: The Most Valuable UX Person in the World
For the closing keynote on the first day of the summit, Jared Spool gave another one of his great keynote speeches on The Most Valuable UX Person in the World.
IA Summit 11: The Stories We Construct
For the last choice presentation of the first day of the summit I chose to attend Stephen Anderson’s The Stories We Construct. It was a really fun and interesting presentation that not only discussed stories, but the way we cognitively perceive the value…
IA Summit 11: Rethinking User Research for the Social Web
After lunch on the first day of the main conference I went to a great presentation by Dana Chisnell that challenged the status quo of user research based on the social nature of people entitled Rethinking User Research for the…
IA Summit 11: The UX of Distruption
Day 3 at the IA Summit, and the first day of the conference I decided to check out a presentation by Russ Unger and Dan Willis entitled The User Experience of Disruption. It was a whirlwind presentation that started with…
IA Summit 11: Career Workshop
During the afternoon of the second day of workshops at the IA Summit 11, I decided to stop in to check out the free workshop provided by Russ Unger and Amanda Schonfeld. It was a great workshop with tips on…