Agile UX: It’s only natural (10 minute talk)
What do natural selection, fibonacci, agile development and parenting have in common? This talk will explore the reasons why agile is the way to go, naturally.
May 22, 2012•9 min
UX Australia Podcast: All presentations from 2009-2014
Presentations from all UX Australia conferences, 2009-2014.
Episodes
Agile culture artifacts
Through the lens of product reagileux-2012leases for JIRA 4.2 and FishEye 3.5, this presentation will walk through social & cultural difficulties involved with inserting UX practices into a classic developer-driven agile culture, and the tools we used to overcome them.
May 22, 2012•40 min
Designing UX with the principals of permaculture (10 minute talk)
The UX industry has settled into maturity, with definite methodologies, and approaches. In no way attempting to create another one, this talk looks at the permaculture principals of community, fairness and sustainability and how they can neatly fit into a balanced design ethos. This talk will reference content from http://permacultureprinciples.com.
May 22, 2012•9 min
Overcome resistance and do the work
This presentation will describe strategies and techniques to overcome design resistance and get work done. These include knowing when to stop designing, how to pair with developers, annotating cards, using a UI bootstrap and pattern companion, and the importance of a trusting culture.
Mar 15, 2012•46 min
Finding time for the creative exploration process within Agile software delivery
In this presentation, Ben will share some Lean UX methods and approaches to get out of the deliverable business and to start becoming an integrated part of Agile software delivery teams - to collaboratively develop great experiences in short time frames.
Mar 05, 2012•39 min
Personality, discursion and disruption
The discipline of design is reaching a point of clarity. This is a point in time where our value is no longer questioned and we begin to share a common understanding of our role, responsibility, methods and processes. This point of clarity is one of maturity, and with this maturity comes the opportunity to tackle more complicated, nuanced, and intellectual disciplinary challenges. I view this as a chance to move beyond both normal practices of usability and the constant drive towards innovation,...
Nov 27, 2011•38 min
Agile, design thinking and you…
Agile is changing the way we create software. Design, and Design Thinking, is becoming pivotal to business success. The UX game is changing, and you need to step up! This talk will challenge your thinking about your approach to design, and introduce you to new methods for increasing your influence in software and business strategy projects.
Nov 27, 2011•41 min
Children of the revolution
Sometimes it seems that kids today are born with an innate understanding of technologies their parents had to learn. In this presentation, James & Gerry will describe how school children in NSW interact with computers and the Internet. Based primarily on interviews and observational sessions with approximately 100 children in primary and high schools, they will tell a story (that may be surprising to many) of traps and pitfalls and poor design that makes mastery an unnecessarily difficult challe...
Nov 27, 2011•45 min
Observations on the experience of observing user experience presentations to experienced user experience professionals (10-minute talk)
In a weird, navel-gazy kindof way – and totally leaving aside what a talk is actually about – it's been really interesting watching people present at UX Australia conferences to date. So here's a look at how they've been doing that.
Nov 27, 2011•9 min
Shaping the future of BBC News for the connected home
Connected and Smart TVs herald a resurgence of the big screen as the heart of entertainment and information services in the connected home. But what's the role of the big screen within a multi-platform service? We share insight gained partnering with the BBC to design a new experience of news.
Nov 27, 2011•39 min
"Switching on my ears" a case study: Designing a hand held device for bionic implant recipients
While designing a simpler hand-held device for controlling a recipient's bionic hearing, the presenters navigated many design challenges. Working with industrial designers, firmware designers and electrical engineers, they learned as much about designing compact devices as they did about innovation in large organisations. Hear about the ethnographic research approach. See actual concept sketches and wireframes. Learn how we did it.
Nov 27, 2011•48 min
Participate the unknown journey – where running workshops means being a participant as well (10-minute talk)
Albert Einstein said 'We can't solve problems by using the same kind of thinking we used when we created them.' So where does the new thinking come from? I'll share a very strange experience whereby I gave away the tools, became a participant and let everyone be the facilitator.
Nov 21, 2011•12 min
The good kind of wrong: how solid research destroys your foolish assumptions (10-minute talk)
Often the most obvious assumptions about users turn out to be wrong. This talk uses a case-study to consider how a brief but comprehensive research phase helped challenge obvious-seeming business – and designer – assumptions about the needs of students.
Nov 21, 2011•10 min
Tackling the tacky issues: The Bluetac gun (10-minute talk)
Design teams use 3 things all the time bluetac, postits and sharpies. We're forever segmenting bluetac into the right sizes and sticking it onto paper. This should be easier, sexier, smarter and way cooler. Wait! a solution is at hand – follow the production journey of the world's first Bluetac Gun.
Nov 21, 2011•9 min
How will we know if we've succeeded? (10-minute talk)
There's more to measuring success than analytics. There. I said it. How can we define success in a way that doesn't restrict design? I'll share some observations on challenges, pitfalls and success, using examples of measuring experience design at Vodafone.
Nov 21, 2011•12 min
We've never had it so good (10-minute talk)
It's 1989. There's no internet. No mobile phones. You want to book a flight. How do you do it? By looking at 'how things used to be' we'll explore the impact the digital & technological worlds have had on how people interact with, and what they expect from, service providers.
Nov 21, 2011•10 min
Delivering on the UX promise (10-minute talk)
Life happens offline but increasingly our interactions take place online. By looking at Ocado, the world's largest online grocery retailer, we can examine how this service-driven model ties together what happens on the touch-screen to what takes place on the warehouse floor in order to deliver one seamless experience.
Nov 21, 2011•11 min
8 mistakes in web personalisation (10-minute-talk)
Your sister has had another baby. Nice. Now you've got a dilemma. If you go to your favourite ecommerce website and buy her that little set of onesies, you'll never hear the end of it. Because every time you come back to the site, you'll be besieged by bodysuits, blankets and tiny, reversible hoodies.
Nov 21, 2011•10 min
Is that sense-able?
Now your apps can see, hear and feel! Digital sensors are flooding through our daily life and this is one of the key challenges UX practitioners face over the next 2-5 years. Rob will explore how you can use these new streams of sensor data to create dynamic new experiences.
Oct 30, 2011•47 min
Designing the Skycouch: How Air New Zealand moved from selling seats to selling experiences
In 2006 Air New Zealand set out to redesign the long-haul flying experience. In 20010, they unveiled the Skycouch, the world's first lie-flat economy-class bed. This story is one of world-class innovation, inventive design research and old fashioned hard work.
Oct 30, 2011•44 min
Understanding how people experience service: A design research case study about airport security
In this talk, I'll be describing some of our recent research on Passenger Experience in airports. I'll show some of the ways we make sense of the complexity of service, from how we investigate it, to how we describe and model it.
Oct 30, 2011•49 min
Multi-device, multi-role, multi-what? Defining experiences just got a lot more complex
Designing experiences for web for the desktop environment is something many of us have been doing for a while. Toss in mobile, sprinkle that with some social integration, a native app or two and things suddenly start getting a bit more interesting. How do you approach this always moving target of multi-device, multi-context & often multi-role?
Oct 30, 2011•46 min
Designing cross-channel experiences
The future of design is everywhere the customer touches our product or service – digital or physical. User experience practitioners must move beyond the screen to designing a holistic customer experience that is seamless across channels and devices. In this session, Samantha will provide specific recommendations for designing successful cross-channel experiences.
Oct 24, 2011•45 min
Multi-channel experience frameworks: Challenges designing for 1ft, 2ft and 10ft experiences
Increasingly, designing effective mobile interactions requires companies to think about how they can create connected, contextual, and conversational services in a consistent yet device appropriate manner. Here we present our recent work and lessons learnt developing a strategic design framework to span 1ft, 2ft and 10ft contexts.
Oct 24, 2011•46 min
Weaving digital information into physical space: New frontiers for prototyping experiences
The talk discusses challenges for designing the user experience of applications beyond the desktop or mobile screen. It draws on research projects from this realm and a case study, where we designed a public display showing the household's energy usage, for which we introduced chalkboards as a new prototyping technique.
Oct 24, 2011•44 min
A market of the senses: Digital devices in physical spaces
What is the future of shopping? Will consumers research, browse and purchase as they go about their daily routines? Just as we have seen GPS allow us to navigate in real time, smartphones are allowing consumers to gather information and make purchasing decisions with the same ease. But how well do these devices and virtual experiences work with our current retail landscape and how can digital user experiences begin to influence these environments? Based on research done with consumer using smart...
Oct 24, 2011•44 min
How not to test
Usability testing is our training ground. It's where we hone our skills - through bitter experience. Speaking of bitter experience, Matt and Shane have a presentation again this year. To help you avoid the same mistakes yourself, we'll attempt to make every possible testing mistake in a live usability test.
Oct 20, 2011•38 min
Managing change as a designed user experience
How to overcome badly managed change? How about treating the entire change process as a designed user experience? This case study with a difference will illustrate design principles applied to creating a positive user experience in the introduction of new ways of managing business information.
Oct 20, 2011•45 min
Eating our 2 and 5: Designing to change food behaviours using mobile devices
Using the FlavourCrusader mobile application prototype as a case study, this presentation considers: how social technologies can assist in achieving sustained changes in people's food habits; design approaches for sustained behaviour change; and rapid testing and research techniques in a group testing environment.
Oct 20, 2011•38 min
Gamification sucks: Lessons from the field
Learn why gamification usually sucks and how you can really put the heart and soul of game design into designing experiences. Use game mechanics to make your products more engaging, but don't go too far
Sep 25, 2011•37 min