[IxDA Discuss] User Experience Strategy

[Jacob Burghardt]

Thank you for this exciting thread Peter.

My area of research and design focus is in applications for complex
knowledge work, and over the last year, all of my consulting projects have
been UX strategy and futures engagements.  I find this work highly rewarding
and my clients have found it to be a "missing link" between their business
strategies and technology planning.

I look forward to contributing to this conversation with my forthcoming book
"Working through the Screen: 100 Ideas for Envisioning Powerful, Engaging,
and Productive User Experiences for Knowledge Work" (which I am currently
illustrating and will post online later this year).  The front matter of
this work presents a critique of some current practices for developing
interactive applications, arguing for approaches that emphasize strategic
exploration of user experience options.

Anyone that is interested in reviewing the draft text can send me email at
jburghardt at flashbulbinteraction.com

Jake Burghardt
Seattle, WA


-----Original Message-----
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[mailto:discuss-bounces at lists.interactiondesigners.com] On Behalf Of Peter
Morville
Sent: Thursday, July 26, 2007 8:36 AM
To: 'IxDA Discuss'
Subject: Re: [IxDA Discuss] User Experience Strategy

Okay, I think we're agreed that we need and value both form AND function,
and that ideally they reinforce one another, but what about my question
about the relationship between user experience, design, innovation, and
futures techniques?

I remember seeing an interesting talk by Nathan Shedroff and Davis Masten
called Postcards from the Future
(http://www.postcardsfromthefuture.org/index.html) at an Experience Design
Summit many years ago.

And, the work at Ivrea on Creating Imaginable Futures
(http://tinyurl.com/2jgkfz) is a nice example of using design strategy as a
foresight tool.

Are folks doing anything along these lines today? Thanks!


Peter Morville
President, Semantic Studios
http://semanticstudios.com/
http://findability.org/

 

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