Ranked #1
Presentations - It ain't all about the PowerPoint
Presentations - It ain't all about the PowerPoint
Adam Polansky shares how to shift the focus of your presentations to you, the storyteller, rather than living or dying b... Read more
30 Apr 2010
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47mins
Ranked #2
The Human Interface (or: Why Products are People, Too)
The Human Interface (or: Why Products are People, Too)
User experience designers need to stop thinking about interfaces as dumb control panels for manipulating machines and da... Read more
30 Apr 2010
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51mins
Ranked #3
Living Personas - Visually Displaying Brand Insights and Connections to Consumers
Living Personas - Visually Displaying Brand Insights and Connections to Consumers
They discuss how this technique will change your perception of personas, no matter what you think of them now, and how i... Read more
30 Apr 2010
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43mins
Ranked #4
Sorting Skittles: A User Research Game
Sorting Skittles: A User Research Game
Aaron Hursman introduces introduces a new user research technique that engages research participants. Learn how you can ... Read more
30 Apr 2010
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37mins
Ranked #5
Using Beekeeping History to Predict the Future of UX
Using Beekeeping History to Predict the Future of UX
This calls to the next generation of user researchers to apply quantitative methods to our study of user behavior on the... Read more
30 Apr 2010
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26mins
Ranked #6
Designing with Constraints
Designing with Constraints
Creating meaningful digital experiences is a complicated business. Fluctuating requirements, unexpected technical limita... Read more
26 Apr 2010
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30mins
Ranked #7
Experience strategy: Dealing with a UX mid-life crisis
Experience strategy: Dealing with a UX mid-life crisis
Sharing the Capability Strategy Template, and Experience Strategy Map, Richard Dalton and Rob Weening look at improving ... Read more
26 Apr 2010
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49mins
Ranked #8
The Future of Search and Discovery
The Future of Search and Discovery
Peter explores what's needed to practice successful search-centered information architecture, how newer means of input a... Read more
26 Apr 2010
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46mins
Ranked #9
This Is Your Brain On Design: How neuroscience can help us create better user experiences
This Is Your Brain On Design: How neuroscience can help us create better user experiences
Ever wondered why you just can't seem to get through to some people? Or how users can do such unpredictable things with ... Read more
22 Apr 2010
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53mins
Ranked #10
Why keep it to yourself? Getting everyone on the team to do usability testing
Why keep it to yourself? Getting everyone on the team to do usability testing
With a multi-disciplinary team that gathers constant input from users, better experiences can be created based on usabil... Read more
22 Apr 2010
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41mins
Ranked #11
2010 IA Summit Day One Keynote
2010 IA Summit Day One Keynote
Transcending language barriers, Dan's approach helps solve complex problems through visual thinking, and has helped reso... Read more
11 Apr 2010
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1hr 26mins
Ranked #12
Lessons from Slime Mold: How to Survive and Thrive in Ever-Changing Organizational Environments
Lessons from Slime Mold: How to Survive and Thrive in Ever-Changing Organizational Environments
Kate Rutter describes this fascinating life form holds intriguing lessons for today’s knowledge worker…from sensing and ... Read more
24 Apr 2009
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52mins
Ranked #13
Selling IA – Heuristic Evaluation for the Pitch Process
Selling IA – Heuristic Evaluation for the Pitch Process
This “guerilla-style” approach for Heuristic Evaluation will help IAs engage work partners from other disciplines within... Read more
15 Apr 2009
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28mins
Ranked #14
Portable Research: Observing Users on the Go
Portable Research: Observing Users on the Go
As technology becomes increasingly portable, mobile, and ubiquitous, new challenges to traditional ethnographic user res... Read more
8 Apr 2009
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29mins
Ranked #15
When Life Intervenes
When Life Intervenes
Samantha Bailey, the 2009 IA Summit Chair, tells Chris Baum about how she approached creating this year’s IA Summit prog... Read more
31 Mar 2009
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35mins
Ranked #16
Getting Real
Getting Real
Jason Fried is the co-founder and President of 37signals, a privately-held Chicago-based company committed to building t... Read more
15 Oct 2008
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46mins
Ranked #17
You are (Mostly) Here: Digital Space and the Context Problem
You are (Mostly) Here: Digital Space and the Context Problem
Context. It’s everywhere. No, really, you can’t move without bumping into the stuff. But it used to be that we at least ... Read more
15 Oct 2008
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40mins
Ranked #18
Unpacking Stories to Serve People Better
Unpacking Stories to Serve People Better
We discuss the elegant way in which mental models can provide a visual representation of these behaviors including the s... Read more
4 Sep 2008
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16mins
Ranked #19
How to be a User Experience Team of One
How to be a User Experience Team of One
Leah teaches techniques that any individual can use to generate and refine ideas, outlining flexible, simple activities ... Read more
7 May 2008
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33mins
Ranked #20
Content Page Design Best Practices
Content Page Design Best Practices
Luke Wroblewski discusses a set of best practices for Web content page design that focuses on appropriate presentation o... Read more
6 May 2008
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44mins