9 February 2004
howdy pilgram….that looks like a mighty fine design you’ve got there….
Posted by Mick (SplaTT) Stanic under: Etech .
Just finished up the “UI for Alien Cowboys” session at etech which was run by Matt Jones who used to work at BBCi on iCan and is now over at Nokia doing concept development.
The session wsa primarily on User Centered Design and its always interesting to see how other organistions/people go through the initial stages of concept development and the user lead design process. The session was interesting because it was partly hands-on….breaking down into groups of two and stepping through the actual process (all be it a quick, shortened down version), and involved the use of….wait for it….paper. A few people walked out at that point as if they were completely against having to do any work..or were just waiting for moses to hand down the 10 commandments….a good user design process needs to not only be explained but actually experienced.
All in all, it was a pretty good session, but these things tend to all flow from the same point….a little bit of light humour involving Jakob Nielsen, lots of little bits of paper being written on and then organised into interaction flow…its comes down to if you’ve seen process…you’ve seen them all..
With my current obsession with all things IDEO, you can see how they take this standard idea and really flesh it out, though it does help that they obviously have a larger budget and an amazing group of talented people to throw at the projects that they work on.
It was a good session and Matt pulled it of well, keeping peoples attention focussed and in the end, everyone who stuck around was really taking it all seriously…
Photos on the moblog
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