Presentation Slides & Handouts
Usage to User Interface
Collaboratively Designing and Testing User Interface From User Stories, User Scenarios, or Use Cases
This 3-4 hour tutorial describes a practical approach to translating the goals users would like to achieve and the tasks they wish to accomplish into user interface designs that effectively support those goals and tasks.
More details, supporting papers, and prototyping widgets…
Successful Incremental Releases
This 3-4 hour tutorial describes a a modeling approach to identifying holistic releases that will benefit users and earn value for business stakeholders. Also discussed are strategies for scaling features appropriately to allow both appropriate release estimation, and on-time delivery of the best possible product
User Experience Distilled
My take on Garrett's popular Elements of User Experience model coupled with tactical advice for: creating models to better understand your users, improving your software's usability, and improving your applications' visual design.
Collaborative Cardplay
Much of the work I do leverages collaborative modeling. Collaborative CardPlay is a fast paced 90 minute workshop where you and 50 of your closest friends will get the opportunity to engage in simple card modeling. In the process you’ll learn essential card modeling skills, learn about various types of models, and how and where to leverage collaborative modeling.
Personas, Profiles, Actors, & Roles: Modeling users to target successful product design
This 3 hour tutorial simplifies and demystifies commonly used user models such as personas, user profiles, user roles, and actors. You’ll learn how to simply construct each and leverage them to improve your software.
Personas, Profiles, Actors, and Roles (ppt)
User Centered Agile Software Development
This full day tutorial seeks to explain Agile Development's incremental release and iterative development strategy from the perspective of a user centered design practitioner. Practical advice is given on making Agile development more user-centric.
