IA Summit ‘08 Slidecast: “How to be a UX Team of One”
by Leah Buley
The good folks at Boxes and Arrows have made the audio available from my IA Summit presentation, How to be UX Team of One, and I’ve synced it to the slides on Slideshare. This presentation features lots of tips and tricks for anyone who works as a solo UX practitioner from time to time. It also includes some dirty secrets and ends with a Howard Dean style whoop and holler. Enjoy!
May 7th, 2008 at 4:39 pm
Leah, I listened to the podcast this morning on my way to work and now I know why people were raving during the summit. I’m sorry I missed it in person — I see now how your passion was so inspiring to folks. Good job!
May 12th, 2008 at 11:37 am
Leah-
Great presentation. After seeing it, I thought you might be interested in this.
The Creative Problem Solving Institute holds an annual retreat to teach the Osborne-Parnes Creative Problem Solving process. A great tool to have in your tool box. It focuses on expansive brainstorming and then focusing on what’s important.
Seems right inline with your process.
http://www.cpsiconference.com/
Hope it helps. ..
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May 14th, 2008 at 1:59 pm
Really great presentation – look foward to catching you here in Minneapolis for the UX Intensive.
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June 12th, 2008 at 9:12 am
Leah,
I am a UX Team of One! I just finished watching your IA Summit ‘08 Presentation. It wholly restored my faith that some people still “give a damn” out there. I’m inspired.
Thank You!
Ethan
June 30th, 2008 at 11:51 am
I was just sharing on our internal UX community how the Sketchboards (pg. 31) is a more physical form of a Design Pattern research collection I’ve been evolving. I realized that walking the collection I create might be useful to control a ‘focus’ for introducing ideas, but that it’s too linear for open discussion. So there may be need for a bit of both (the Design Pattern — wiki collections were preferred in past lives — has all sorts of artifacts from best practice research, links, and visuals).
This work is often a precursor to actual display/discussion around a breadth of possibilities, so maybe the two are mechanisms useful for two different ‘phases’ of the process.
What I’ll be looking for next is either a fan-fold ‘flannel board’ throwback, or a reusable ‘roll’ with a container (some semi-permanent structure). Send clues my way.
August 22nd, 2008 at 10:09 am
Thanks Leah, for the presentation.
I love the fact that it really provides us with real world practical examples and not just a bunch of theoretical BS.
You made it feel like being a UX team of one is actually possible and have real results.
Thanks again.
Antonio Rosado
August 22nd, 2008 at 11:07 am
Hi everyone,
Thanks for the kind and enthusiastic responses.
I’m actually really interested in learning about challenges and techniques that other teams of one are working with, so if you have personal anecdotes that you’re just burning to share, please do.
Along that line, I love Paula’s idea of a fan-fold flannel board! I’ve been thinking a lot about efficient documentation lately, and Paula kind of gets at it by observing that the sketchboards themselves reference pre-existing patterns. I’d say, if you have pre-documented patterns, the simplest thing to do might just be to print them out and stick them on the sketchboards.
But it might be cool to have some kind of big laminated posters with established patterns and you can take them with you whenever you’re doing a sketchboard review and it becomes a reference alongside the sketchboard. Or does that require too much paper and wall space? Hmm… just thinking here.
Anyway, thanks for the ideas, and keep them coming!
L
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