Mind-mapped notes from Bill Buxton’s talk at UX London 2012: On Long Noses, Sampling, Synthesis, and Innovation

So, I just realised I hadn’t posted my notes from Bill Buxton’s excellent talk ‘On Long Noses, Sampling, Synthesis, and Innovation’ at UX London…

View the notes in PDF format or as an OPML file.

By the way, this mind map is a lot nicer to use with an iPad or multi-touch trackpad.

Mind-mapped notes from Jon Kolko’s talk at UX London 2012: The Next Step For Design: Social Entrepreneurship

Given the calibre of talks at UX London it feels a little unfair to highlight any one speaker, but Jon Kolko’s talk on Social Entrepreneurship was enthralling, inspiring and definitely a highlight of the conference.

View the notes in PDF format or as an OPML file.

By the way, this mind map is a lot nicer to use with an iPad or multi-touch trackpad.

Mind-mapped notes from Anders Ramsay’s talk at UX London 2012: Learning to Play UX Rugby

These are my notes from Anders Ramsay’s talk outlining the challenges (and solutions) for UX in an agile development workflow. There’s lots of practical advice that applies to agile and non-agile workflows alike and kudos to Anders for stepping in at the last minute after Janice Fraser’s flight was delayed.

View the notes in PDF format or as an OPML file.

By the way, this mind map is a lot nicer to use with an iPad or multi-touch trackpad.

Mind-mapped notes from Luke Wroblewski’s talk at UX London 2012: Organising Mobile Web Experiences

Great talk from Luke Wroblewski on mobile usage behaviours and layout techniques for putting content first, navigation second.

View the notes in PDF format or as an OPML file.

This mind map is pretty big and a lot easier to use on an iPad or a computer with a multi-touch trackpad.

Mind-mapped notes from Jared Spool’s talk at UX London 2012: Mobile & UX: Inside the Eye of the Perfect Storm

Jared’s talk outlined the forces affecting mobile products, touching off how experience, user delight, market maturity cycles and Sturgeon’s Law are creating a perfect storm.

View the notes in PDF format or as an OPML file.

This mind map is pretty big and a lot easier to use on an iPad or a computer with a multi-touch trackpad.

Mind-mapped notes from Kristina Halvorson’s talk at UX London 2012: A Content Strategy Roadmap

I’m a big fan of Kristina’s book on content strategy and her talk didn’t disappoint. By the way, I’ve cheated a little by incorporating some details from her Friday workshop into these notes.

View the notes in PDF format or as an OPML file.

This mind map is pretty big and a lot easier to use on an iPad or a computer with a multi-touch trackpad.

Mind-mapped notes from Dan Rubin’s workshop at UX London 2012: Designing for User Experience

Dan Rubin’s workshop covered a lot of ground on the how we should be approaching our virtual products (like physical product designers, paying close attention to the fit and finish) and how we should be working (collaboratively… “everyone on the team is a good problem solver, not just the people doing design or UX”). 

View the notes in PDF format or as an OPML file.

By the way, this mind map is pretty big and a lot easier to use on an iPad or a computer with a multi-touch trackpad.

Mind-mapped notes from Leah Buley’s workshop at UX London 2012: UX Team of One Bootcamp

Despite being the last workshop on the last day, and taking place just after lunch, Leah Buley’s UX Team of One Bootcamp was so engaging and so well-structured that I don’t think anyone in the room could have fallen victim to the post-lunch slump. Later this year, Rosenfeld Media will be publishing Leah’s book, UX Team of One. If it’s half as good as the workshop it’ll be a must-buy for lone UX practitioners and small UX teams.

My notes

As with any talk or workshop, notes can only capture so much but I’ve included all of my notes as a mind map below. If Leah puts her presentation online I’ll update this post with a link.

View the notes in PDF format or as an OPML file.

Other notes

The PDF linked above covers the (consistently great) content of the workshop, but I think the structure Leah devised was key to its success:

• Leah asked us to line up according to our UX experience and then reassigned seating with an even mix of new / somewhat experienced / highly experienced people at each table.
• After walking through some lightweight UX techniques, we were divided into teams of three and challenged to devise a 2-week project plan to address a set brief. Along with the brief, each team was given a stack of cards with overviews of around 20 lightweight UX techniques that could be used as inspiration.
• On the topic of addressing tough questions from stakeholders, we were paired up and given sets of question cards. Each person would alternate role-playing as the client and put a tough question to their partner (eg. “My engineers have done some designs Photoshop, would you mind looking over them?”, “I spent a lot of money on an IA consultant last year, is it worth the cost?”). The ‘client’ fed back on each answer with thoughts on what was good, what could have been better and something to try. Irrespective of experience level, this was an eye-opening opportunity to learn and practice.
• There were plenty of collaborative discussions, including sharing project plan approaches and answers to client questions; the workshop was as much about learning from eachother as learning from Leah.

Other people’s notes…

• Michelle Ide-Smith’s sketchnotes.

UX London

Now that I’m settled back in Ireland, I’ll be posting my notes from UX London talks and workshop over the next few days. If you’re looking for any older posts, I’m afraid there aren’t any. I’ve been sitting on this blog for about a year with an assortment of article fragments I’ve never done anything with, but once I have these notes all online I’ll move on to other interesting things.