Presented at the 4th Italian IA Summit, the IA Konferenz in Cologne, Germany 2010 and the Cape Twon and Johannesburg SA UX Forum meet-ups in 2010. This presentation will unpack the benefits, and provide a possible approach, to the formation of an institutional discipline from casual practice for user experience design. Practice-Led Research (PLR) will be positioned as an effective agent in the transformation of the seemingly inherent and natural acts found in casual practice into the formal arrangement of accepted truths and regulated practices of the discipline. The aim is to introduce practitioners to the concepts so as to begin establishing discussion and awareness
The future of UX design support tools - talk Paris March 2024
The door, the wind, the bird and the valise
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Editor's Notes
Mature discipline have these elements functioning together in collaboration
Mature discipline have these elements functioning together in collaboration
A practitioner can function outside of and without discipline
We are practice-led; functioning in the absence of discipline
This was the conference where web 2.0 (flickr and YouTube) showed how engineers were devising way more innovative IA paradigms than IA’s themselves. The IA community’s panic over this kind of resulted in the formation of the IXDA and quite severe splintering of the community.
Four years later, the same discussion persists
We’ve been surviving of the inheritance of fields that make user experience design multi-disciplinary
More formal examples of institutionalization are starting to emerge, such as the Information Architecture Institute and the Interaction Design Association. Published thought leaders exist but many do not self-identify as user experience designers (for example, David Weinberger).Specialist publishers like O’Reilly and Rosenfeld Media are printing for practitioners but these are not ‘academic’ or scientific publications. Perhaps the most significant development of late has been the creation of the peer-reviewed Journal of Information Architecture.
Magritte was interested in exploring what representation means in fine art. The back drop to this was a period where artists, designers and philosophers were acknowledging the things in the world could have multiple means. A horse for one person could be a door for another.
The application of the Golden Ratio spans ancient times, Islamic, Buddhist and Western traditions. Is is observable in Gothic, Renaissance, Baroque, Neoclassical and Romantic periods through to Impressionism, Cubism, Surrealism, De Stijl, Modern and Post Modern movements. It is even found in contemporary music.
The application of the Golden Ratio spans ancient times, Islamic, Buddhist and Western traditions. Is is observable in Gothic, Renaissance, Baroque, Neoclassical and Romantic periods through to Impressionism, Cubism, Surrealism, De Stijl, Modern and Post Modern movements. It is even found in contemporary music.
The application of the Golden Ratio spans ancient times, Islamic, Buddhist and Western traditions. It is observable in Gothic, Renaissance, Baroque, Neoclassical and Romantic periods through to Impressionism, Cubism, Surrealism, De Stijl, Modern and Post Modern movements. It is even found in contemporary music.
The application of the Golden Ratio spans ancient times, Islamic, Buddhist and Western traditions. Is is observable in Gothic, Renaissance, Baroque, Neoclassical and Romantic periods through to Impressionism, Cubism, Surrealism, De Stijl, Modern and Post Modern movements. It is even found in contemporary music.
The application of the Golden Ratio spans ancient times, Islamic, Buddhist and Western traditions. Is is observable in Gothic, Renaissance, Baroque, Neoclassical and Romantic periods through to Impressionism, Cubism, Surrealism, De Stijl, Modern and Post Modern movements. It is even found in contemporary music.
The boundaries of our research tend to exist in the ‘brief’, the framed design problem. This framing is exactly what is required by the designer to create effective, meaningful and appropriate, outcomes-based solutions.
e.g. SBSA multi-channel enterprise wide UX design framework
Companies or individuals will have well established design methods and processes that they follow. In some cases these companies and people will experiment with method and process. More often than not, when there are time, resource and budgetary constraints, methods and processes will be amended or written uniquely for the needs of a project. The extent to which our methods and process are documented, validated and shared tends not go further than project plans (project budgets and other management tools).
PLR requires dissemination of research findings. In addition to academic texts as output of the research process there are other accepted forms: exhibitions, books, teaching modules, presentations…Often the research artefact is a part of the art work or design project (planned from the start).
Dissemination of findings and outcomes is controversial 1) both because there have been numerous calls from within the UX community for opinion leaders and community leaders to validate their opinions in reference to their own work and 2) because of the inherent intellectual property and confidentiality issues that we find in commercial projects.