| Signposts for the Week Ending August 15th, 2008 |
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| Written by Administrator |
| Monday, 18 August 2008 15:37 |
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Wow! What a week we’ve had! Our brains are absolutely FULL from all the amazing presentations, workshops and conversations we’ve had at UX Week.
We thought you’d like to get a glimpse into the happenings, so we’ve listed out some of the books and links the speakers recommended throughout the last 4 days.
But first, check [...]
Wow! What a week we’ve had! Our brains are absolutely FULL from all the amazing presentations, workshops and conversations we’ve had at UX Week.
We thought you’d like to get a glimpse into the happenings, so we’ve listed out some of the books and links the speakers recommended throughout the last 4 days.
But first, check out the photos from the conference.
Leah’s already posted her slides for her inspiring UX Team of One.
If you want to learn more about the story of the Ribbon (part of Microsoft’s latest Office application) check out Jensen Harris’ blog archive.
The Neo-Futurists made us laugh and cry with some inspiring performances of 30 Plays in 60 Minutes.
Rod Naber and Dan Levine of Current TV, fielded questions live via Twitter during their talk about how Current TV and Current:News create a more engaging experience.
Game Designer, Jane McGonigal inspired us all with her perspective on the future of happiness. Play in Jane’s next game this September: Superstruct. And here are links to her favorite thinkers, designers and communities for learning more about happiness hacking, alternate realities, and game design:
We’re bummed that Jury Hahn wasn’t able to make it to UX Week, but Dan Albritton stepped in and gave a great talk and demo of Megaphone.
Jake Barton of Local Projects made (some of us) cry by listening to heartwarming stories from the Story Corps. His team gained inspiration for another project from the book Guns, Germs and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies by Jared M. Diamond.
SFMOMA’s Interactive Educational Technologies team showed us a brief history of museum displays to their latest exhibition of Frida Kahlo which includes an interactive display you can also see online.
Jeffery Veen reminded us to “find the story in the data”. You can download his slides too.
Michael Migurski talked about how data visualization is often simply a slight of hand trick and shared some of the work at Stamen Design, including Swarm and Truila’s Snapshot. And if you’re interested in tiling your maps, check out Modest Maps.
We all got to play with the Microsoft Surface table during the last day of the conference! If you want to play too, find a location near you.
And just in case you haven’t seen Johnny C. Lee’s work with the Wii Remote, check out some of the amazing gestural interface demos he shared with us today.
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