smallfire: design strategy

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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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!