UX London Redux
On Wednesday night I met up with the great and the good of London IA for a redux version of the much lauded UX London conference that took place back in June. The event was a loose recreation of stand out seminars and conferences from the original, presented by people who had attended and watched by those who (like me) hadn’t been able to make it first time round.
Christian Petzny on Dan Saffer. When brainstorming, “Reduce the problem down to a haiku or bento poem.”
Tom Coombs on Donna Spencer and Jared Spool. Musings on optical illusions, and the importance of clarity of language in navigations.
James Box on Wireframing 2.0. Electronic wireframes - quick and easy to create, and perfect for clients and developers. Good thing tictoc already use them!
Frances and Jane from IG Index rounded off the night with a heated game of D-UX-tionary. Playing boys against girls our team scratched our barnets over terms like ‘mash up’, ‘personalisation’ and ‘open source’. The boys had to draw “radio buttons”. Clearly, the match was fixed.
Apart from this ego busting defeat it was a fantastic night. As a newbie everyone made me very welcome, so big thanks to all the organisers and speakers.
- Published: 14 August 2009
Interesting attempt at 'Open source'......
Everyone knows that conveying "radio buttons" in a sketch is just as hard as conveying "open source". I think the win for the boys was purely a result of our exquisite and inspired pencil-work.