The importance of a great user experience has never been as important as it is today. Users expect to be able to just pick up the newest gadget or piece of software and be able to figure it out with ease. The role of user experience professional is dead. Everyone from the marketing team to the intern-developer must be a user experience professional to make a successful product.
It has been said that it takes 10 years to create successful software, does our current understanding of user experience fit within this model? How does the user experience actually get defined and who has the power to change it? How can the user experience get shaped in a more iterative and evolutionary way?
Through the lens of releasing a social software application and moving from consultant to product owner, this talk explores current user experience methodologies as well as lessons learned through web application release and management.
4. 30 Best Careers of 2009 (USNews.com):
Usability Experience Specialist
http://www.usnews.com/articles/business/best-careers/2008/12/11/the-report-card.html
5. “ This profession has a hard time agreeing on a name for itself.
It's called, for example, user experience specialist, interface
designer, information architect, usability practitioner, user-
centered design specialist, and usability manager. Whatever
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you call them, their job is to help ensure that products,
especially technical ones, are easy and pleasurable to use.
20. What I wanted from my screenshots:
✔ Quickly take and share
✔ Community to share with and learn from
✔ Follow friends who take good screenshots
✔ Easily look up screenshots for inspiration
59. “ Systems thinking is a framework that is based on
the belief that the component parts of a system
can best be understood in the context of
relationships with each other and with other
systems, rather than in isolation.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Systems_thinking
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