What should I talk about? (Puget Sound SIG-CHI)
I’m speaking this month at the Puget Sound SIG-CHI meeting (1/26, 6:30pm, location TBD) , a cool group of designers, researchers and UX-minded folks.
Since it’d be daft to pick a topic without some form of user-research, I’m asking you, here and now, what you’d most like to have me talk about. Here are some suggestions:
- The top 10 mistakes UX people make
- Why designers fail
- How to be persuasive
- What I wish I’d learned in college (about UX)
- Why the world is hard to use (and always will be)
- What I learned designing WordPress.com
If anything in the list resonates, leave a comment. Or offer a suggestion please. Thanks.
I’d still vote for negotiations w/freelance & consulting clients… but, another topic of interest to me at the moment is responsive web design a la http://mediaqueri.es – currently working on a WordPress site using a responsive theme and it’s rad.
My vote: Why the world is hard to use (and always will be).
Consistency over time. Practical solutions that trump a change in management, change in the latest/improved tool/language that I must add to my resume, bad judgment, insufficient budget, not enough time, etc.? Not a miracle, but practical solutions that can be implemented.
Top 10 mistakes UX peeps make!
All of the above sound great. If the talk is filmed, please post it online :)
Of the list you give, I would choose one of these:
The top 10 mistakes UX people make
Why designers fail
What I learned designing WordPress.com
And if at all possible, please do post the video!
What it actually means to be Product Manager. (hint–it’s much harder than most everyone seems to think)
I vote for either “Why the world is hard to use (and always will be)” or “The top 10 mistakes UX people make.”
I’d love to hear you talk about how UX can promote/assist behavior change. There must be some great stories out there from the professional-development, personal-growth, and self-help worlds about good UX helping to instill new habits, etc. For example, has Mint actually helped people change their financial behavior, and if so how did UX help?
“How to be persuasive” as a general topic-focusing on what UX practitioners need to do mainly to gently (and stealthily) hand-hold management and have them understand the importance of User Experience and make it an integral part of their business process, not a “make it pretty” add-on.
Ideas for:
•using presentation materials, slides
•prototyping-when to show,how high fidelity?
•video from usability studies
•formulating a presentation plan and “selling” your ideas
•speaking “truth to power”-consultant/employee?
•speaking with conviction and passion
•understanding internal “politics”
•not alienating stakeholders
•understanding constraints
•knowing what can be done with resources available
•working with developers-making them your allies
•phased approaches incorporating UX findings/changes
The top 10 mistakes UX people make
My vote is for the top 10 mistakes UX people make.
Top 10 or how to be persuasive.
My vote: The top 10 mistakes UX people make
“How to be persuasive (effective)” as elaborated by Mark H earlier.
My vote: Why designers fail
The top 10 mistakes UX people make
OR
What I wish I’d learned in college (about UX)
OR
Why the world is hard to use (and always will be)
OR
What I learned designing WordPress.com
OR
elements from all of the above
I vote for what you learned designing WordPress.com. Interested in the people side of things (persuasion, negotiation, sorting through lots of ideas from lots of cooks in the kitchen, etc).
Really looking forward to your talk. My vote goes to “Why the world is hard to use and why it always will be.” Aren’t we as UX professionals making some things easier and better?
Either ‘The top 10 mistakes UX people make’ or ‘Why the world is hard to use (and always will be)’ sound good. Thanks!
My Vote: “What I wish I’d learned in college (about UX)”
What should we do to enable more designers to create businesses with meaningful social impact? That is one of the questions we’re asking ourselves at TheDesignerFund.com and it would be great to get your perspective on this. Cheers, Michal
The top 10 mistakes UX people make
Why designers fail
What I wish I’d learned in college (about UX)
Any of the above!
I’d be most interested in:
The top 10 mistakes UX people make
How to be persuasive
What I learned designing WordPress.com