[IxDA Discuss] Trying to educate my design team

[Peter Merholz]

We regularly do lunchtime brownbags at Adaptive Path, with a mix of  
internal presentations and invited speakers.

I was excited to read this:

> I am currently trying to organize some
> 'lunch and learn' sessions in an effort to educate our design team

but then disheartened to read this:
> I have several things I plan to
> cover such as web standards, table-less design and how it can  
> liberate the
> designer, using fireworks as a prototyping and comp tool rather than
> photoshop, do's and don'ts, among other things.

Lunchtime should be fun and engaging. I can't imagine discussions more  
deadening then being told about Web standards. I would encourage you  
to take this time to engage in ideas, perspectives, and methods, to  
share case studies, and to encourage conversation.

Look through slideshare for "user experience" or "interaction design"
http://www.slideshare.net/tag/userexperience?order=popularity
http://www.slideshare.net/tag/interactiondesign?order=popularity

Trawl through back issues of Boxes And Arrows (http://www.boxesandarrows.com/ 
) for stuff.

Find TED Talks on Design:
http://www.ted.com/index.php/talks/tags/id/3

Or Videos from Interaction08
http://interaction08.ixda.org/videos.php

--peter