Design and Use: Tools and Trends

q. 1 How do our methods need to be extended or adapted to support design in the wild?

q. 2 How do we position our own practice in relation to this dynamic and changing design space?

These are two questions I posed at the end of a recent presentation I was invited to give at UTS to Masters students from the School of Design, Architecture and Building (edited slidedeck above). While the focus was an introduction to Personas and Scenarios (new to many of the students from outside the field of Interaction Design) the presentation also highlighted new trends or “strong currents” currently influencing design.

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Emerging a User Experience Strategy: Presentation Slides

The slides from @michellegilmore and my presentation at UX Australia are up on slideshare. We’ll add the audio as it becomes available. We’re hoping to take a version of this presentation to IXD10 next year (submissions are currently being reviewed) so any feedback and thoughts are more than welcome!

UX Australia was a fantastic conference, thanks again to the organisers!

Design and Use: Tools and Trends in Design – talk @UTS

I’m giving a talk tomorrow as part of the UTS Design Masters -  Future Design Strategies lecture series. While it covers course material (this time Personas and Scenarios) it’s also open to the public. Feel free to come along.

Nudies (personas freestyle)

Title: Design and Use: Tools and Trends in Design

When:  Thursday, 10th September
Time:  6pm – 7pm
Venue: DAB Building, Rm 716  (That’s on the 7th Floor)

Design and use are inherently entwined. Questions about how people will be able to use and appropriate our designs sit at the centre of a human focused design process. This lecture will introduce Personas and Scenarios, two design methods that help connect us to the context of use during the design phase, and to the people who will use, wear, or live in our designs. Such tools help us to think through and communicate about design with users, clients and team members and this lecture will show examples of Personas and Scenarios being adapted to various contexts. Design tools that support collaborative exploration and communication between stakeholders are becoming more and more important as the nature  of design changes and traditional boundaries between design and use, and designer and user shift. This lecture will also touch on some of these emerging design spaces into which our existing tools are being adapted and extended.