Signposts for the Week Ending March 22
And if you're okay with that, here are some recent mind orgasms.
Tesla is the new Apple (by UX Week 2013 keynote speaker, Steven Johnson)
How to train for a spacewalk.
Signposts for the Week Ending February 15
U.S. Health insurance companies are changing their customer experiences in preparation for 2014 and the Affordable Care Act.
You might think all the cool new tech for personal infomatics are big, but Pew says most people track their health on paper or in their head.
A nice little animation about system-centered vs. person-centered work.
Roger Martin of HBR blogs schools us on what a strategy isn't. And The Monitor Institute tells us that successful business strategy is an adaptive effort, a self-correcting series of intentional experiments, not a static plan.
What's Google's #1 asset?
Signposts for the Week Ending January 18
Om Malik reminds us why user experience is immersive and pervasive.
Why is there a Winter flu season?
Users demand less interactivity. Heh.
Good thoughts on making the transition from developer to designer from our former colleague P.J. Onori.
MX Conference: For Passionate Leaders of Experience
Managing and leading the delivery of great experiences seems like it should be so simple. Apply what you know about good user experience, mix in the basics of management, and voila!, results.
Only it's not that easy.
And if managing experience is your job — whether it be for customer experiences, user experiences, or whatever-it-be experiences — you know it's not a solved field where you can follow in the footsteps of those before you. Because no one came before you.
That's why Adaptive Path puts on the MX: Managing Experience Conference. To create a space where people forwarding the practice of experience management could get together, honestly talk about what works, and what doesn't.
(a few of the great speakers from this year's line up)
Signposts for the Week Ending January 11
The real world impact that accompanies the instrumentation of fun: How Strava is Changing the Way We Ride
Big thoughts with big implications for strategy.
'LifeEdited' apartment living means occupying a small footprint but the living is large (and smart)! “Less, but better, across your life.”
The bubbly feeling of the moment of falling in love? The Japanese have a word for that. 20 other emotions for which there are no English words.
There is No Spoon: The Construct of Channels
As products become services, and services become more thoughtfully and holistically designed, we are breaking out of our digital silos and endeavoring to support a more seamless cross-channel customer experience spanning every touchpoint between the customer and company. But what constitutes the channel in cross-channel? And what implication does this have on the customers' experience when interacting with your product or service?
My UX Week 2012 Mixtape
For almost any conference, the talks that linger most with me are those that help me see things from different perspectives, especially if they give me insight into how design challenges are solved in other fields.
Three talks bubble up to the top in this sense, and if I could make a UX Week mixtape to hand out, three talks would definitely be on it, covering toy inventing, spacesuits, and the quest for creative inspiration.
Register Now, Save Big on Adaptive Path 2013 Events
It's that time of year again… time to be cheap! We're running our annual end-of-the-year events sale and now is the time to save big on next year's conferences and events. They won't get any cheaper. You won't get a better deal than this. So take it!
The scoop: register for any of our events by December 31st, 2012 and we'll take 15% off the current early bird prices.
Signposts for the Week Ending November 30
Can good design save the economy?
Dan Saffer on the best design advice he ever got.
If there were a contest for the 'about' page this is the winner. Scroll.
Signposts for the Week Ending November 16
The Useless Web kills productivity dead.