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  1. UXnet Local Ambassadors: Building a Global Community One Locale at a Time

    January 9, 2006

    Over the past few decades, we have seen a steady expansion in the number of people who design or evaluate the quality of the user experience of digital products. The popularization of the personal computer in business and at home, the explosion of the Web and Internet applications, and the sudden presence of computer interfaces in everything from medical systems to voting stations to home entertainment centers has greatly accelerated the growth of the user experience (UX) movement.

    The swelling ranks among professionals, academics, and students in user experience provide the potential for a large and diverse global community. However, collaboration among these various constituencies within user experience is neither as widespread nor as easy as it should be. Professional associations, their local chapters, and ad hoc local groups have done much to bring these people together, but the specter of competition among these associations and groups threatens the emergence of a true UX community. Read More

  2. User Experience Design in Asia

    January 5, 2011

    Over the last few months, as 2010 started winding down, we had the good fortune to travel around Asia to places that included Nanjing and Guangzhou, in China; Singapore, for UX Singapore; and Taipei, Taiwan. We ran workshops, gave presentations, met with members of the local UX communities, and of course, enjoyed the good Asian food that usually gets wrapped around our travel experiences in Asia. Trips we took to New Zealand and Australia—for UX Australia, where Dan gave his presentation “The Value of Asking Why—also gave us some exposure to UX design there. Read More

  3. UX Trends

    March 7, 2011

    In between project work, travel, and presenting at conferences, one activity I have kept up diligently over the past ten years is reading. I do this both to ensure that I am as up to date as possible as a UX professional and to ensure I am passing on current knowledge to both colleagues and clients. My self-education includes reading feeds and books, listening to podcasts—from folks like UIE, Adaptive Path, Gerry Gaffney, and Radio Johnny to name a few—catching useful links from colleagues I follow on Twitter, and bookmarking key paragraphs in Delicious or Google Reader, so I can refer to them later or share them with colleagues.

    A significant benefit of this activity is that it enables me to identify UX trends and better understand where the industry is headed, how I can position myself in it, where the market in which I reside sits in terms of the global maturity of the UX marketplace, the role I want to play in it, the skills I need to improve upon, how I can better lead or direct people, and whether my current thinking is in line with or opposed to that of other UX experts. In short, it gives me a perspective I can share and fodder for discussion when I meet up with other UX professionals. Read More

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