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Thanks again for pointing me to Brain Traffic. I've reached out to them - hopefully we'll be able get them to help us!
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Curt Odar
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Henning Fischer
Henning, thanks again for the plug during the conference - I thought I'd post what I learned from the discussion on org design.
Part of my interest in coming to the MX conference was to learn how UX teams operate in other companies. I’m building out a UX function at my company and wanted to get after 3 key questions:
1) How is the team funded?
2) Where does it fit within the organization?
3) How do you measure the team’s success?
I spoke with folks from eBay, Phizer, Misys, Cisco, Univision, and Nokia. Not a huge sample size, but I did find some patterns emerge:
1) UX teams are funded centrally. In some cases, individual product lines will pay the central team for services. The key ingredient to start a UX team seemed to be having an Executive Sponsor and getting them passionate about it. Funding and enforcement of UX best practices then follow.
2) UX teams generally report to product lines. This may have been obvious for some, but I had questioned whether a UX function might report into a central Marketing or IT function. As I move forward with in selling this concept within my company, I’ll target General Managers – less focus on the CMO or CIO.
3) The question on measuring success brought a variety of answers, but the two common ones were Usability Metrics and Design Patterns. Usability Metrics – great quantifiable way to show improvements over existing products. Design Patterns – building out a library of reusable design (and hopefully reusable code). Other items discussed but perhaps not as quantifiable – avoiding rework, redirecting poor product concepts, or outright killing them.
Thanks again for helping to coordinate the discussion.
Tue, May 6 at 6:09AM
Kim Lenox posted
Design Method posters on Flickr
Check out the Design Method posters created during the pre-con workshop on Sunday: http://www.flickr.com/photos/maile/sets/72157604842453755/
Mon, May 5 at 9:09AM
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john hopkins posted
Videos?
I heard from a few sources that the videos from the conference will be made available. I do video, so I know it takes time to produce. I'm just wondering if there is an idea of when and how it is expected to be maid available.
Thanks!
Thu, May 1 at 11:52AM
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Erik Dodier (erik@pixelmedia.com)
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Curt Odar
Curt - Good meeting you at the show....let me know how you start working into your organization....
Thu, Apr 24 at 4:59AM
Dan Harrelson posted
Programmers are also Cooks?
Apparently Ryan isn't the only one seeing correlations between the digital world and cooking. Here's a short post comparing software developers to line cooks.
http://www.deadprogrammer.com/developer-life-... [read more]
Wed, Apr 23 at 9:44PM
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Thomas Obrey posted
I owe everyone a thank you
I'm at the airport. On my iPhone. Listening to tunes, registering in dopplr, reading my notes (14 pages) and thinking about Brandon's challenge... To do one thing, at the office, with what I've learned. One ... [read more]
Wed, Apr 23 at 1:50PM
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john hopkins posted
Thanks!
The conference was great! A lot of great minds both on stage and sitting around me. I'm looking forward to talking my employers into funding trips to more of the AP gatherings.
Tue, Apr 22 at 5:38PM
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Chuck Hermes
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The Glimmer Twins at 50 ft tall are both awesome and terrifying!
Tue, Apr 22 at 7:45AM
Chuck Hermes
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Peter Merholz
Peter,
Who is your grass skirt tailor?
Tue, Apr 22 at 7:43AM
Peter Merholz
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Angela Rutherford
Very nice meeting you last night. Small world, with Khoi at the center!
Tue, Apr 22 at 7:31AM
Peter Merholz
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Chuck Hermes
Good meeting you last night. Hope you enjoyed the movie!
Tue, Apr 22 at 7:31AM
Josh Seiden
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Cordell Ratzlaff
I really enjoyed your talk today. The notion of driving from culture is really powerful, and I like very much the thinking about how to influence culture. Thanks for sharing.
Mon, Apr 21 at 10:56PM
Steven Keith
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Does anyone have one of those USB2-to-digital camera cables I could borrow for 15 minutes? Mine walked away. Sitting toward the front. -- Steven
Mon, Apr 21 at 1:17PM
Sean Howard
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WiFi Access
Thank you SO much for posting these!
Mon, Apr 21 at 8:54AM
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Kumi Akiyoshi
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what UX ideas are Made To Stick?
One of my favorite products “Wii”.
Motion (gestural ui) stick.
I love Nintendo’s approach for focusing on the audience’s feeling rather than product features.
Will aims at play and fun.
Mon, Apr 21 at 6:50AM
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Pam Daghlian
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About those books...
Hi John,
Yours are waiting for you at the MX registration table.
Pick them up whenever you like.
Cheers,
Pam
Sun, Apr 20 at 5:21PM
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Art Swanson
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Curt Odar
Hey Curt - very similar position at my company. I'd love to chat about what we are doing and what has (or hasn't worked for you).
--Art
Sun, Apr 20 at 3:17PM
Brandon Schauer
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Lessons learned; the Fidelity of Design
Thanks for choosing this way to use your "free" time Thomas. A good gut check for us all as we think about what to make.
One of my favorite rules of thumb for deciding fidelity is, "prototype what you don't know." So often we choose to comforta...
Sun, Apr 20 at 2:22PM
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john hopkins
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Out and about today, anyone else?
The links seem to break, you'll have to copy & paste the whole link
Sun, Apr 20 at 8:10AM
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Peter Merholz
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tadich grill, SF's oldest place to eat
Tadich is among my favorite restaurants in the city. If we could make reservations there, we'd have set it up for Monday night!
Sun, Apr 20 at 7:25AM
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john hopkins
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Tony Stubblebine
Nice little system you have here Tony. I'm looking forward to meeting everyone in the coming days.
Sat, Apr 19 at 7:23PM
john hopkins posted
I'm here early, anyone want to do anything?
I'm in on Sat evening. I'm not doing the Sunday workshop... So between Sat night and Mon morning I'm going to be aimlessly wandering.
If you want to join me or give me some direction, call me 804.402.9311, or email me johnhopkins at gmail dot com
Sat, Apr 19 at 6:50PM
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Tony Stubblebine posted
Networking Tips
A great conference happens when everyone is having fantastic hallway conversations. We setup CrowdVine networks to make it easier for you to find people in the hallway. If you've never used a social network ... [read more]
Sat, Apr 19 at 8:44AM
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Brandon Schauer
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Being Creative in a Mad Mad World
Having your attention constantly usurped by fighting today's fires is a common but ugly problem that I think many UX managers have. MX speaker Stephen A...
Fri, Apr 18 at 9:33AM
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Sheila Mackenzie
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Ben Skelton
Plus my school chum Scott (works at Apple) will join us.
Wed, Apr 16 at 2:22PM
Ben Skelton
left a note for
Sheila Mackenzie
We are on for dinner - there will be Mallory and Cat from Habanero, Ryan from Intrawest, Kris from The Bock Magazine and my sister! Yay :)
Wed, Apr 16 at 2:20PM
Sheila Mackenzie
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Ben Skelton
We better book that dinner Saturday night...I'll do a little research tonight.
See ya soon.
Wed, Apr 16 at 2:18PM
Matt Anderson
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Scott Confer
You wrote:
is this Matt Anderson from STL and MMDB?
Sorry, no - I'm Matt Anderson from Capilano College in North Vancouver.
Tue, Apr 15 at 1:11PM