VIDEO Big (D)esign 2014 Keynote: A Letter to a Junior Designer

I did something different for my presentation at BigD this year.  Rather than rant about a hot topic, I told a personal story about my first design job and my first mentor in the industry, a guy named Max Wallace who hired me to learn.  Everything was done by hand; paste-up, cold type, film development, and line drawings. I talked about the lessons I learned from a remarkable man and how they still influence the way I work today.

With his permission, I opened with Cennydd Bowles' Letter to a Junior Designer which you can find here.

VIDEO D/FW Mobile.Net Dev & UX: The Magic Happens Here

I was asked to speak to the monthly Dallas/Fort Worth Mobile.net meet-up. This was the first time I ever spoke to a group of developers.  I mentioned this to the Lead developer on my team and he said "What do you mean? You talk to developers all the time."  

WEBCAST Kent State UXD: Relearning UX - Going Mobile From the Web

I'm an adjunct Professor at Kent State where I teach on-line courses in UX Design.  in 2013 The school sponsored a series with multiple UX topics.  I kicked-off the series with a talk about the adjustments I was making in my new job designing native mobile apps after  15 years designing for the web.

You can see the webcast here.

INTERVIEW UX Radio: Creating Impact Without Permission

At the 2013 Information Architecture Summit, UX Radio was collecting what would be the first set of interviews they would publish.  I was lucky enough to be among them.

Abstract:  Those bastards! Why can’t they see that a great user experience IS good business? How frustrating is it to be able to see project and product quality sidelined because you can’t translate the value into an algorithm that can predict success in decimal points?

What if I told you those bastards aren’t working against you? They’re simply working for something else. There are reasons for that; not good reasons but if you understand them, you have an advantage. What if I told you there are ways to create impact that you can put into play without asking anyone?

We’ll talk a little about why your enemy isn’t your enemy. We’ll also talk about specific things you can do to position yourself

Listen to it here.

INTERVIEW: Techwhirl Magazine - Information Architecture Goals, Empathy & Brown Dirt

In January 2012 I was asked to Keynote the Lavacon Conference in Austin,  While I Was there I gave an interview to Techwhirl Magazine about a variety of topics. The Slides from my presentation are here.  

You can find the article here.

PODCAST IA Summit 2011: Ideas & Innovation - Simple Premise, Small Starts

This is my presentation from the 2012 IA Summit in Denver.  I explore the concept of innovation from a down-to-earth perspective describing it in the simplest terms and stripping away the language used today that turns a neutral concept into an overblown and mis-used activity.  The Slides are here.

You can hear the podcast here.

INTERVIEW D/FW UX

This is an Interview I gave with Ben Judy to help kick-off his local podcast DFW UX.

ARTICLE IA & RIAs: You Know More Than You Think You Do

I gave this presentation on a couple of occasions.  You can see the slides here.

In 2007 Rich Internet Apps were a way of achieving more fluid designs and transitions in Web Apps before the advent of HTML 5.  This presentation discussed my experiences working on an RIA and comparing the differences between that and developing what were then traditional Web apps.  Afterward, I was asked to write the story out in a narrative form for the Journal of The American Society of Information Science & Technology.  Read Article.

ARTICLE Faceted Feature Analysis: How To Use Bias To Get Unbiased Scope

I gave this presentation at the 2009 IA Summit based on this article.  The slides are here

Abstract:  Adam Polansky tells us about how Faceted Feature Analysis takes the subjective needs of stakeholders and blends them with objective constraints in a way that ensures all points of view are fairly considered.  Read Article.