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Title:

User Experience Matters: Cutting-Edge Interface Design

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Organizer:
Justin Garrity, Webtrends
Description:
There is a growing focus on user centered design and refined data visualization. More interaction and more connection is leading the path towards a 'less is more' approach, as the focus is nos on how to create a user experience that offers more by providing less. There will be a radical change in the User Experience (UX), as the trend moves towards changing the way data is visualized and consumed, resulting in a new way to derive meaning from numbers. As we are better able to collect and analyze data, our ability to make sense of and communicate it remains a pretty significant challenge.
Questions
Answered:
  1. What is interface design?
  2. How would you describe the user experience?
  3. How do you test the designs with users?
  4. How so you iterate the design based on user behavior?
  5. How can you introduce a new UX into your own workplace?
  6. What are the pitfalls and challenges during the process?
  7. How does interface design affect the order of data and visualization to help people make meaning out of numbers?
  8. What are a few real world examples and case studies that you're seeing with customers?
  9. What are a few examples that we're seeing related to interface design in the industry?
  10. What are the principals around user profiling to make your interface designs better?
Level:
Intermediate
Category:
Design Thinking, Interface Design, User Experience, User Generated Content, Visual Design
Type:
Solo
Event:
Interactive 2010
Bob Homper
on 28/8/09
Justin is an amazing presenter. I really look forward to this panel!
Kyra Reed
on 28/8/09
I'd love to see this panel. It is crucial to stay abreast of changes in this area. Its so easy for fall behind these days...a panel like this will be helpful in guiding our clients web concerns over the next year.
Matthew Orr
on 28/8/09
User Experience is becoming more and more important as the methods we use to retrieve and display our data are ever changing.
Laurie Moulton
on 28/8/09
A definite must for the event!
Justin Garrity
on 28/8/09
Since I submitted this panel abstract back in June, we have collected our own set of experiences that I would also like to share. I put up a post on the Webtrends blog that dives into the above description a bit deeper. ( http://blog.webtrends.com/2009/08/28/ux-design-for-legacy-software-a-sxsw-panel-for-the-rest-of-us/ ) From the blog post:

User experience has had its share of the spotlight at SXSW. Major leaps forward in the thinking around user cenetered design, web standards, and design methodology have launched from SXSW panels from some of the biggest names in the web design industry. Many of the previous presentations have shared one thing in common: they focus on designing from scratch. Launching brand new products or designing marketing campaign materials present UX challenges for agencies and entrepreneurs; but what about those of us that work for software companies? What UX direction do we have to follow when we inherit legacy designs with large installed user bases?

Creating a new user experience within an established software brand is not easy and not the same as starting from a blank page. It is like redesigning a train while it’s in motion. Over the course of the last year, I’ve been working as the Director of User Experience at Webtrends. Our latest releases have been met with fanfare and have attracted new users. This hasn’t been easy.

Lessons I learned:

• Learning to love a design that isn’t yours, warts and all
• Choosing what to evolve and what to leave as is
• Finding the right methodology to rally the team around
• Learning what users feel empowered by and what they are frustrated with
Prototype early and test
• Finding the essential user patterns

I think this information is invaluable for anyone that is joining an established brand or is inheriting a design from someone else.
Bill Russell
on 28/8/09
Lets do it!
Toby Mosby
on 28/8/09
This panel promises to reveal some innovative approaches to directly tackle several complex UX challenges to be encountered when bringing user interfaces into the next decade.

This sounds like it would benefit developers of any system that traditionally presents large-to-enormous datasets (itself a challenge).

Sign me up!
Jascha Kaykas-Wolff
on 28/8/09
Justin really is a great presenter. This will be a great topic.
Michele Warther
on 29/8/09
You'll find Justin to be engaging, informative and a real crowd-pleaser. This is sure to be a must attend panel not only if UX of interest to you but if you are interested in solving problems in general.
Justin Kistner
on 29/8/09
Looking forward to this presentation! I would love to hear more about the UX *re*design process. Most everything I've seen to date is focused on starting from scratch.
michael gear
on 30/8/09
Justin is $$$$$
Eric Butler
on 30/8/09
Justin delivers amazing, thoughtful and engaging presentations. This panel topic is well timed, and applicable to anyone who is interested in UX design.
Noe Garcia
on 31/8/09
justin rocks the powerpoint
Jinny Potter
on 4/9/09
I'll be there as long as it doesn't conflict with my panel. I'm curious if anyone else from WebTrends will be joining you.
Sean Browning
on 5/9/09
Justin's an innovator - driving innovation on the 'net. Why isn't the web as intuitive as it could be? Give Justin some room and stand back. Justin will take the net to the next level...get his panel out where it belongs and he'll show you some amazing stuff. It's in his DNA.
-SEAN
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on 2/11/09
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