Two New Podcasts
posted at 12:18 AM on September 11, 2007
We’ve added two more audio files from UX Week sessions to the iTunes feed and this blog.
- Capturing the Whole User Experience with Indi Young
- Sketching in Code: Using Prototypes to Visualize Interactions with David Verba
Slidecast Available
posted at 9:36 AM on September 7, 2007
Bill DeRouchey one-up’d us and combined his slides with the podcast of his session. Check out the slidecast of his UX Week session “Learning Interaction Design From Everyday Objects“.
Session Audio
posted at 11:37 PM on September 5, 2007
We are almost finished encoding the audio track for each of this year’s sessions. You can download and listen to these in a few different ways. First you can go to a session and find a link in the sidebar to an MP3 file. Second, you can copy and paste the podcast feed into your favorite RSS reader. Third, you can subscribe using iTunes.
The following sessions have audio available:
- Visual Vocabulary for Rich Internet Applications with Anthony Colfelt, myFamily.com
- Going Mobile: How to Choose Target Platforms and Devices? with Barbara Ballard, Little Springs Design
- Mobile Usability Testing with Barbara Ballard, Little Springs Design
- Communicating Ideas Throughout an Organization with Andrew Crow, Adaptive Path
- Learning Interaction Design From Everyday Objects with Bill DeRouchey, Ziba
- UX Design as Communities of Practice with Andrew Hinton, Vanguard
Keep checking back to this site and/or refresh the podcast feed as the rest will be going up over the next 2 weeks.
Attendee List
posted at 4:28 PM on September 5, 2007
A few people have asked for a list of speaker and attendee names. Here’s a PDF containing everyone’s name, company, city and state. Should you want your name removed for any reason, just send us an email.
Attendee List 44kb PDF
The UX Week Playlist
posted at 3:35 PM on August 27, 2007
Many of the attendees at UX Week asked about the music that was played in the mornings and between the sessions. It was really just a compilation of songs that we all liked. There was little thought put into it other than they all seemed to fit the tone and vibe we wanted in the conference. We agonized over the main “theme” song, but the rest was all submitted by staff members at AP. So, by popular demand, here is a list of songs you heard. There are some tracks missing as I didn’t have titles for the songs, but this will give you a taste of what we listen to daily.
There is also an iMix on iTunes. But the list is incomplete as it’s only the songs that Apple has available for purchase.
Theme: Let Forever Be by The Chemical Brothers
Amazon (Diplo Mix) by M.I.A.
Another Wasted Night by Bishop Allen
Around the World by Daft Punk
Autostrada by Nil Dymont
Baptized In Dirty Water by Chris Thomas King
Battle Without Honor Or Humanity by Tomoyasu Hotei
Because We Can by Moulin Rouge
The Bends by Radiohead
Better Get Hit In Yo’ Soul by Charles Mingus
Beware of the Boys by Panjabi MC
Black Tambourine by Beck
Blue Bird by The Rosebuds
Body Movin’ by The Beastie Boys
Booker T. & The MG’s - Green Onions by Various Artists
Citron Presse by Lemon
Cold Cold Heart by Steve Nick
Crash by The Primitives
Crosseyed And Painless by Talking Heads
Cruel Summer by Bangles
Cut Chemist Suite by Ozomatli
Dance On Vaseline by Thievery Corporation
Dancing Queen by Abba
Days Go By by Dirty Vegas
Devil Town (Daniel Johnston cover) by Bright Eyes
Dry The Rain by The Beta Band
Earth Punk Rockers by Buffalo Daughter
El Cargo by Amon Tobin
Flowers by Cibo Matto
French Connection by Simon Stinger
Galvanize by The Chemical Brothers
The Geeks Get the Girls by American Hi-Fi
Gigantic by Pixies
Girls & Boys by Blur
Gritty Shaker by Ocean’s Eleven
Guajia (I love U 2 Much) by Yerba Buena
The Hand Of Contraband by “Up, Bustle & Out”
Hey Pretty by POE
Honky Tonk Women by Rolling Stones
Hovercraft by Space Mtn
How Many Times by Zack Hexum
I Am a Man of Constant Sorrow by Soggy Bottom Boys
I Left My Heart In San Francis by Tony Bennet
Just Like Heaven by The Cure
Killermachine by Annalie & The Anomaly Project
The Laws Have Changed by New Pornographers
Let Forever Be by The Chemical Brothers
Little Fluffy Clouds by The Orb
Love On Haight Street by BT
Mexican Moon by Concrete Blonde
Mike Mills by AIR
More Shine by Si*Se
Mr Roboto by Styx
Never Coming Home (Gonna Live My Live Remix) by Sting
On The Painted Desert by Boom Boom Satellites
Paranoid Android by Brad Mehldau
Pavement Cracks (Gabriel & Dresden Mixshow Edit) by Annie Lennox
Pictures Of Matchstick Men by Camper Van Beethoven
Red Alert by Basement Jaxx
Rehab by Amy Winehouse
Ricky’s Theme by The Beastie Boys
Sabrosa by The Beastie Boys
The Shining by Badly Drawn Boy
Sirènes de la Fête by Brazilian Girls
Slow (Chemical Brothers Mix) by Kylie Minogue
Smart Patrol/Mr. DNA by DEVO
So What by Monty Alexander
Stars by Swoiza & Mirle
Stolen Car by Beth Orton
Sugar In Your Tea by 4 To The Bar
Super Bad by James Brown
Surfboard by Esquivel
Tank by Cowboy Bebop
The Third Man Theme by Anton Karas
True Grit by The Crystal Method
Walking With a Ghost by Tegan and Sara
What’s the Difference by Deadjazz
Why Don’t You Do It Right by Connie Evington
“Wild, Sweet And Cool” by The Crystal Method
You Could Make a Killing by Aimee Mann
Jan Chipchase’s Slides Posted
posted at 3:42 PM on August 24, 2007
In correction to the previous message, Jan’s slides about research at Nokia have been approved for the public and are now posted on this blog. You can download the slides and find links to further notes and research here.
All Slides are Available
posted at 7:41 PM on August 22, 2007
We have now posted all of the slides made available for the public. You can find these by clicking through to an individual session and finding a link in the sidebar.
The following presenters have asked that their slides not be posted:
- Deborah Adler
Jan Chipchase- Jared Spool
- Kathleen Hoski
- Rachel Hinman
More Slides posted
posted at 4:42 PM on August 16, 2007
This morning’s interaction design presentations now have slides posted. We are getting requests for additional slides and are doing our best to post as quickly as possible. Please check back over the next week as they continue to trickle in.
- New Sources of Inspiration for Interaction Design with Dan Saffer
- Learning Interaction Design From Everyday Objects with Bill DeRouchey
Meetup Dinner Tonight
posted at 4:39 PM on August 16, 2007
Tonight at the Capital City Brewing Company there is an after party planned, hosted by the Washington DC IxDA chapter. Meet at the restaurant at 6:00.
New Documents Added
posted at 5:13 PM on August 15, 2007
We wanted to let you know that some more slides and additional documentation from sessions have been added to this site. Also, please continue to comment on sessions and rate those that you’ve attended. UX Week speakers and Adaptive Path practitioners are reading your comments and will reply on this site.
- Visual Vocabulary for RIA’s - Handout
- Sketching in Code - Slides
- Making Research Effective - Slides
Check in for Museum Tours
posted at 9:55 AM on August 15, 2007
Tomorrow’s tours of the Spy Museum and the Building Museum are full. If you are signed up, please drop by the registration desk to pick up some information about your tour. If you can no longer attend your selected tour, please go to the registration desk and let us know so that your spot can be opened up for someone else.
Microsoft Research Session
posted at 6:49 PM on August 14, 2007
Drop by the Atrium tomorrow morning at 8:00 to hear a presentation by a Microsoft researcher about “Surface“. Grab breakfast in the usual place and bring it back upstairs.
Charmr: A Design Concept for Diabetes Management Devices
posted at 3:22 PM on August 14, 2007
Adaptive Path is very proud to introduce the results of our recent R&D project. UX Week is the perfect event for us to announce Charmr to the world.
As experience design consultants, we love having the opportunity to tackle lots of different kinds of problems. But we don’t always get to try out all the problems that interest us the most — after all, we can only solve those problems somebody has seen fit to devote some money to solving, and then shown the good judgment to hire us to take them on. So we decided to go hunting for problems nobody’s asked us to solve yet.
Some Reminders and More Slides
posted at 8:55 PM on August 13, 2007
Today was a great kick-off to UX Week. We’re really looking forward to sharing more ideas with you over the rest of the week.
Here’s a few small reminders:
- If you haven’t already, please sign up for tonight’s dinner outing at the registration desk.
- Please visit Microsoft in the Silverlight lounge to register for your free copy of Visio and Expressions
- Rate and comment on the sessions that you attended on this site… we love seeing the feedback!
- Keep uploading those Flickr photos!
Also, some more slides have been uploaded to this site:
- Parallels in Cooking and Design with Ryan Freitas
- Communicating Ideas Throughout an Organization with Andrew Crow
Slides are Going up
posted at 11:07 AM on August 13, 2007
You can find slides for some of this morning’s sessions. Please check back regularly as more will be available soon.
- Stone Soup: Stories and Storytelling for Collaboration with Kevin Brooks, Motorola Labs
- UX Design as Communities of Practice with Andrew Hinton, Vanguard
- Collaborating with Customers with Jeff Herman and Ann Bishop, eBay
Evening Events Announced
posted at 11:58 AM on August 8, 2007
Monday, August 13th 6:15PM-8:00PM
Center Café in Union Station
This two-story café in located in the center of the historic Union Station. The atmosphere is filled with excitement and grandeur that typifies Union Station.
This is the perfect opportunity to not only see a Washington landmark, but a great chance to share a drink and some thoughts with your colleagues. Join us for cocktails and snacks.
Wednesday Aug 15 6:00pm - 8:00pm
Billy Goat Tavern & Grill 500 New Jersey Ave, NW
Ever hear of the “Curse of the Billy Goat”, also known as the Cubs Curse? Do you recall the Saturday Night Live sketch in which a short order cook (John Belushi) would yell at customers “Cheezborger! Cheezborger! No fries, cheeps! No Pepsi, Coke!”?
All of the above have one thing in common: the world famous Billy Goat Tavern.
Although this isn’t the original Billy Goat Tavern it promises to be as amusing and Fletch the manager promises to do his best Beloshi imitation. Join your friends and colleagues for an evening of cheezborgers, cheeps and Coke (and beer!)
Birds of a Feather Sessions Announced
posted at 3:29 PM on July 26, 2007
Birds of a Feather sessions will be held during lunch on Monday. The topics at the tables will be along the lines of the following, but may change depending on what you all want to discuss:
- Usability Test Methods
- Documentation Tools
- IA Tools
- Research Tools
- Interaction Design Tools
- Using Personas
- Remote Collaboration
- Rich Internet Applications
- Mobile and Devices
- Freelancers and Contractors
- Research Methods
- iPhone
- Government
- Not Profit
- Higher Education
- Localization/Globalization
- Participatory Design
- Governance
- Multichannel
- Managing UX
- Agile Methodology and UX
- Social Media
- Usability
- Design Process
- Design Strategy
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Tuesday's Keynote
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Wednesday's Keynote
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Research at NokiaWednesday, August 15
9:15-10:15 am
Thursday's Keynote
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New Sources of Inspiration for Interaction DesignThursday, August 16
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