UX Australia: Shaping the future of the BBC News for the connected home

Posted by sheryl in Conferences, Presentations, UX Australia on October 26, 2011

This is the main conference presentation I co-presented with Massive’s Creative Director, Derek Ellis. I had a lot of fun presenting this one, which, unfortunately for us was up against the amazing Jon Kolko in the other room. Oh well! We still managed to fill the room nonetheless.

Audio is not yet available, but I’ll

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UX Australia: The Upside of Stakeholder Involvement

Posted by sheryl in Conferences, Presentations, UX Australia on October 26, 2011

This is the 10 min talk I gave at UX Australia. I’m going to try and sync up the audio and slides a little later

Thanks to UX Australia for the opportunity. The page on the official site: Visit UX Australia Website

The abstract: Cognitive psychology provides insights into the minds of our end

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UX Australia: Keynote – Experience Leadership

Posted by sheryl in Conferences, UX, UX Australia on September 15, 2011

Speaker: Kim Goodwin @kimgoodwin

UX Australia page

This keynote was definitely the highlight for me at UX Australia this year. Kim is an amazing speaker – she holds your attention so well, and definitely knows how to tell a story.

This keynote was all about leadership in the UX domain, what it takes to be

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UX Australia – Workshop: Turbocharge your workshops

Posted by sheryl in Blog, Conferences, UX, UX Australia on September 13, 2011

The one workshop I attended at UX Australia this year was by Andy Budd (@andybudd) from Clearleft – and it was called “Turbo-charge your workshops”. It’s affectionately known as “the workshop on workshopping”.

This was a great mix of discussion and hands on practical facilitation. In the matter of a half a day workshop, Andy

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UX Australia: Technology as a cultural practice

Posted by sheryl in Conferences, UX, UX Australia on September 12, 2011

Speaker: Rachel Hinman @hinman

http://uxaustralia.com.au/conference-2011/technology-as-a-cultural-practice

Here’s my notes on a great talk by Rachel Hinman, in which she discussed the evolving nature of our role as people with the ability to shape culture – and that technology moving into the realm of media provides us with the platform to do so.

The slides and

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UX Australia: Children of the Revolution

Posted by sheryl in Conferences, UX, UX Australia on September 7, 2011

Speakers: Gerry Gafney @gerrygafney and James Hunter @jamesshunter

http://uxaustralia.com.au/conference-2011/children-of-the-revolution

This was probably one of my most favourite talks, mostly because I find the topic so fascinating – and Gerry and James did a great job presenting their insights into designing for children.  It’s definitely an area that shows the importance and value of user research upfront

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