SXSWi 2012: The Lean Startup: The Science of Entrepreneurship

Posted by sheryl in Conferences, SXSWi on March 19, 2012

Speaker: Eric Reis, Author of The Lean Startup (@ericreis)

This was a fantastic talk by the author of the best-seller “The Lean Startup” – Eric Reis. I wanted to attend this session as wanted to learn how concepts from lean startups could be applied to the UX process, as per the thoughts of Jeff Gotthelf on “Lean UX” at last year’s SXSW.

I haven’t read the book yet, and I’m sure a lot of what was mentioned at this talk is in the book. But this talk made me want to read it. My notes on the talk below – I have yet to find the slidedeck for this one, but there are similar slidedecks up on Slideshare

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SXSWi 2012: Designing for Context

Posted by sheryl in Conferences, Process, SXSWi, UX on March 19, 2012

This all-star panel formed a great start to SXSWi 2012, on the all important topic of context and why it is critical to the design process. The crew outlined 5 key themes to consider, and highlighted personal examples to showcase these themes.

Panel speakers:
Andrew Crow – VP Experience Design at GE (@AndrewCrow)
Ben Fullerton – Director of Interaction Design at Method (@benfu)
Leah Buley – Design Strategist at Intuit (@ugleah)
Nate Bolt – of Bolt Peters UX (@boltron)
Ryan Freitas – Cofounder of about.me (@ryanchris)

The hashtag: #DforC

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Book: Business Model Generation from a UX lens

Posted by sheryl in Books, Musings on February 29, 2012

Business Model Generation by Alexander Osterwalder & Yves Pigneur

Whilst not strictly a UX book, Business Model Generation came into my radar after completing a workshop at UX Australia on Turbocharging your Workshops with Andy Budd of Clearleft.

The book itself is beautiful in the way it was created: It is co-created by the 470

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Book Review: Outliers – The Story of Success

Posted by sheryl in Books on February 24, 2012

Outliers – The Story of Success by Malcolm Gladwell

This is a superbly interesting book that looks in depth into the lives of “outliers” and the circumstances that cumulatively lead up to their successes.

I initially started reading this book just for fun, as the I thought the topic was particularly interesting – but

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Video: Kinect Puppet Parade

Posted by sheryl in Trend Watching on February 13, 2012

via CoDesign:

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Video: MotionPhone iPad

Posted by sheryl in Trend Watching on February 13, 2012

via CoDesign: http://www.fastcodesign.com/1668901/after-17-years-scott-snibbe-resurrects-animated-art-project-as-ipad-app

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Grammy Awards partner with CBS for digital experience

Posted by sheryl in Blog on February 6, 2012

This will be an interesting partnership. According to the article below one of the key issues is speed to delivering broadcast content online in a reasonable amount of time. And also keen to see how the two or three screen experience plays out.

via GigaOm – Grammy Awards partner with CBS for digital experience.

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Video: A Day Made Of Glass 2

Posted by sheryl in Trend Watching on February 6, 2012

via Engagdet: http://www.engadget.com/2012/02/05/corning-looks-to-the-future-mainly-right-through-it-video/

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Video: Healthcare in the cloud – Qualcomm 2net

Posted by sheryl in Trend Watching on February 1, 2012

Healthcare in the cloud: an exclusive look at Qualcomm 2net | The Verge.

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Link: 6 Big HealthTech Ideas That Will Change Medicine In 2012

Posted by sheryl in Trend Watching on February 1, 2012

6 Big HealthTech Ideas That Will Change Medicine In 2012 | TechCrunch.

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MSN Visualizer

Posted by sheryl in Trend Watching on January 31, 2012

MSN Visualizer is the kind of piece that makes you think Microsoft are definitely changing in a good way. It’s that beautiful image inspired design of the Metro style, but this time an interesting play with Flickr and music. The best way to experience it is to just try it out for yourself. As The Verge says, it’s just “mesmerising”.

via The Verge

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Research: Half of U.S. shoppers rely on phones for in-store research

Posted by sheryl in Trend Watching on January 31, 2012

via GigaOM – Half of U.S. shoppers rely on phones for in-store research — Tech News and Analysis

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