BSAL #8 Strategy with Design: Using Design to Articulate and Define Strategic Direction

In our latest talk from our archives we present Luke Wroblewski. He’s a leading thinker, noted author and speaker in the field of visual design and design strategy; and a senior principal designer at Yahoo! He gave his talk “Using Design to Articulate and Define Strategic Direction” to rave reviews at our User Interface 11 Conference that we held in October of 2006.

 

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BSAL #7: UI11 Presentation: What is Rich? Why Do Rich? by David Malouf

In this presentation, David Malouf moves beyond the usual story of patterns, code, and tips and tricks, and talk more about aesthetics, experience design, brand, and total environmental context of use. He layers those elements over a discussion around trying to define “richness” in the context of general application design and then try to apply it to a continuum of various types of computer and network based solutions.

Just before my keynote at the UI11 conference, I showed Alan Becker’s animation called “Animator vs. Animation”. Many people asked me about it, so here’s the link.
Alan has a sequel, cleverly called Animator vs. Animation II.
You can see other sites I find humorous by following the Humor tag on my Delicious bookmarks.

We’ve set up a Flickr group for those attending UI11 (either in the flesh or vicariously). You can find it here:

http://www.flickr.com/groups/ui11/

There’s a saying that “Every kiss is a promise”. Every time you kiss someone, you’re setting some expectation for the future. You’re together…and you’re dating/going out/seeing each other (or whatever they’re calling it nowadays). It’s kind of like a girl wearing a boy’s varsity jacket: everyone knows that those two are an “item”, as my mother would say…

In their UI11 presentation Building and Managing a Successful User Experience Team, Sarah Bloomer and Susan Wolfe are tackling a huge challenge in web design: convincing stakeholders of the value of usability. To help do this, Sarah and Susan employ what they call a usability affinity grid…

UI11 Update: Sitting in on Gerry McGovern: Find your core set of tasks, write appropriate copy, but not overly-appropriate copy. What is overly-appropriate copy? Gerry explains…

Well, it’s that time of year again: UI11 is Here! Over the next week we’re holding our Big Event: The User Interface Conference. We’ll be blogging the event, giving periodic updates of the goings-on…Here’s a quick update on the AJAX/RIA seminar I’m attending this morning…

Netflix, the easy-to-use mail-in DVD service, is offering a 1 million dollar prize to anyone who can create a better movie recommendation system than their current one. According to the NYTimes, Netflix will offer the prize to anyone who can cull through their gigantic data set and come up with a system that improves the current version by at least 10%…

We’re a little more than two weeks away from the start of the UI11 Conference and we’re just putting the finishing touches on everything. If you’ve been hearing about the conference but can’t attend, you can do the next best thing and order a full set of conference proceedings on CD.