At UX Australia 2014 I spoke about the opportunities and challenges of applying user centred design sensibilities beyond the design of just digital things. The following is an abridged version of the talk. The slides and audio are also available.
Every standard framework we adopt in our work is chosen to offer a new perspective on an old problem and, in some cases, better enable us to meet the challenges of the future. But in overcoming the blind spots of our old mental frameworks we often forget that we've introduced new ones.
Our organisations are constantly interacting with an ecosystem of people with whom we have varying degrees of relationship. Some of those people are loyal customers; others dissatisfied or disgruntled former customers. Still others have disavowed our industry entirely, seeking a 'better' solution...
The toll structure on Sydney's cross-city tunnel encourages drivers to behave in exactly the opposite way to the behaviour desired by the planning authorities.
In the second of the our business of design series we talk to Yasser Rashid, Head of User Experience and Design for TV & iPlayer, Radio & Music at the BBC.
A couple of people have posted sketchnotes they made during my UX Australia talk on Innovation. For a look at what they saw as the major points, take a look at:
It was about 12 years ago that the Web design community - in particular those people interested in aspects of Websites such as their structure (information architects), usefulness (strategists), utility (usability practitioners), and interactions (interaction designers and HCI folks) - coalesced...
Understanding
(Republished from interaction.ixda.org)