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It’s a Great Time To Be A UX Designer – Algonquin HCD Program 2020 Keynote
Source My friend, Sage, and I were invited to give a keynote address at Algonquin College’s Human-Centred Design post-grad certificate program for graduation yesterday. We were asked to speak about the importance of the UX community and any other topics…
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UX Theatre: The Poster
In January 2018, I wrote a Twitter thread about how some user experience projects tend to pay lip service to user-centered design rather than being actual user-centered design. I used the term “UX Theatre” to describe the phenomenon. Based on the…
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UX Theatre talk pitch
An overview of my talk on UX Theatre, which can be delivered as a full talk or a poster presentation. UX Theatre is a term I coined to describe those projects that pay lip service to user-centered design. In my…
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The Unstuck Meeting: A safe failure space
GIF of a teammate turning the water bottle of another teammate so they can drink out of the right endvia GIPHY I tweeted about my team’s Unstuck Meetings earlier this year: On my team, we have “unstuck” meetings. When anyone…
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CLUE Symposium: 2018 Canadian State of UX Report
A detailed presentation of the findings from the CanUX 2018 State of UX Report, focusing on 4 areas: demographics, maturity, tools and salaries. This presentation was delivered to Carleton University Collaborative Learning of Usability Experiences (CLUE) Symposium, in May 2019.…
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Design Twitter, Negativity, and Hurting the Cause
If you want to have fun, just log on to Twitter and ask, “Ok, what are we fighting over today, Design Twitter?” It could be anything from whether designers need to learn to code, to whether UX/UI is a single…
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CanUX 2018: State of UX Report
A detailed presentation of the findings from the CanUX 2018 State of UX Report, focusing on 4 areas: demographics, maturity, tools and salaries. Read the full report. Related talks: CLUE Symposium: 2018 Canadian State of UX Report (May 2019)
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Designing the team experience: Building culture through onboarding (Slides)
Below are the key points and a link to the presentation slides for my presentation on team culture, Designing the team experience: Building culture through onboarding. Title slide from presentation. Click to view slides My presentation is a case study…
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UX Theatre: Are You Just Acting Like You’re Doing User-Centered Design?
Back in January 2018, I wrote a Twitter thread about projects that pay lip service to user-centered design (UCD) and what we can do about it as designers. Here’s an expanded write-up of the topic, for those of you who…
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Fostering Team Culture Through Better Onboarding: Lessons From My Failed Projects
I’ve been lucky to work on dozens of projects throughout my career and there is one thing I’ve learned which has affected every single one of those projects: In most cases, not enough attention is paid to onboarding team members.…
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