Finding the There There: theory and praxis of location-aware systems designThomas Wendt
I first gave this talk at the Pitney Bowes Innovation Day 2013. The goals for the presentation were to 1) use theories of context and embodied interaction to examine the ways our conceptions of space and place have evolved, 2) illustrate new complexities of location-aware mobile design, and 3) suggest some new theoretical frameworks for thinking about designing location-aware systems.
This presentation is a condensed version of a paper by the same name. It argues that design, despite its best efforts, tends to position itself as a rationalist practice, which leads to unsustainable design methods, reductionism in design theory, and a lack of sufficient self-care.
Design Studio for Context-Aware ProductsThomas Wendt
These slides are from a workshop I organized for the LeanUX NYC conference. The goal was to position context by going back to its origins so participants can design solutions with context in mind.
Architectural Critique of Connected UtopiasThomas Wendt
Presentation given at EuroIA 2016 offering a critical perspective on the concept of "connectedness" in the Internet of Things. It argues that "connection" is a thinly veiled label for neoliberal acceptance of corporate control, and all of our experimentation with solving inconsequential problems with IoT solutions is fundamentally unsustainable.
The Perfect Recruiting and Sales Invitemykemetzger
The invite process proven to generate leads and close high ticket sales. Used exclusively with The Black Box Business Model.
Learn more at www.MykeMetzger.com
Finding the There There: theory and praxis of location-aware systems designThomas Wendt
I first gave this talk at the Pitney Bowes Innovation Day 2013. The goals for the presentation were to 1) use theories of context and embodied interaction to examine the ways our conceptions of space and place have evolved, 2) illustrate new complexities of location-aware mobile design, and 3) suggest some new theoretical frameworks for thinking about designing location-aware systems.
This presentation is a condensed version of a paper by the same name. It argues that design, despite its best efforts, tends to position itself as a rationalist practice, which leads to unsustainable design methods, reductionism in design theory, and a lack of sufficient self-care.
Design Studio for Context-Aware ProductsThomas Wendt
These slides are from a workshop I organized for the LeanUX NYC conference. The goal was to position context by going back to its origins so participants can design solutions with context in mind.
Architectural Critique of Connected UtopiasThomas Wendt
Presentation given at EuroIA 2016 offering a critical perspective on the concept of "connectedness" in the Internet of Things. It argues that "connection" is a thinly veiled label for neoliberal acceptance of corporate control, and all of our experimentation with solving inconsequential problems with IoT solutions is fundamentally unsustainable.
The Perfect Recruiting and Sales Invitemykemetzger
The invite process proven to generate leads and close high ticket sales. Used exclusively with The Black Box Business Model.
Learn more at www.MykeMetzger.com
Information Cartilage: Context, Intelligent Systems, and IA Thomas Wendt
This presentation introduces a phenomenological understanding of how information organization evolved from modernism to postmodernism to...whatever era we're in now. It is based on a paper published in the Journal of Information Architecture and first presented at the Information Architecture Summit 2014.
This talk focused on some key assumptions experience designers tend to make about the world, as informed by phenomenology. It was inspired by research completed for my book, Design for Dasein.
Design for Dasein: Understanding the Design of ExperiencesThomas Wendt
This talk explores the connections between design and phenomenological philosophy. It is based on my book by the same title.
Book site: designfordasein.com
Amazon: bit.ly/dsn4dsn
Book description from Amazon:
This book draws from philosophy, psychology, object studies, and design theory to articulate the intersection of design thinking and human experience.
When designers talk about related fields, they often mention anthropology, cognitive science, psychology, information science, etc., but philosophy is usually left out. Why? Why don’t we talk about philosophy as a contributor to the understanding of design, especially when phenomenology, the philosophical study of human experience, has contributed so much to our understanding of the interrelation between humans and technology?
Design for Dasein attempts to apply phenomenological thinking to design in order to further inform what designers (especially what we might call "experience designers") do in their day to day work. Many activities designers perform every day can be traced back to insights from phenomenology. Activities like user testing, prototyping, sketching, interaction models, personas, interviewing, ethnography, participatory design, and processes like design thinking and lean UX all have phenomenological roots. The book will highlight these connections and explore how they contribute to designing better experiences, providing the reader with new ways of thinking about his or her work, and new strategies for designing systems for both present and future scenarios.
Held at UX Camp Europe 2022
A talk on how UX designers can avoid intense swings between hubris / overconfidence and frustration / imposter syndrome. My claim: Both are caused by a number of popular self-deceptions of our discipline. Understanding them can help reduce your emotional amplitudes to a healthy level.
This presentation was used to kick-start the participants with how to use social bookmarking. It highlights information about what social bookmarking is, why we should start with social bookmarking, and which cases are out there
This talk was about semantics and the discussions that happen between humans and computers, and computers and computers. As we try to fully understand knowledge systems and information stacks, designers can really design to users needs by utilizing some of these technologies. "All web designers code" is a bit harsh but all designers DO need to at least understand code and why semantic decisions are made. Every role on a product development team has their own level of semantic language and when we all try to at least understand that language, we can get out of the silo and try to work together.
Nous sommes un réseau de Geeks, de Nerds, de Techies free lance exerçant en communauté (Remote/Nomade). Composé de designers, de codeurs, de cm et de blogueurs, nous sommes des créateurs de liens entre les marques et leurs publics cibles à travers des expériences digitales.
Basés en Afrique, présents en Europe, en passant par les Etats-Unis, le canada, le Mexique, l'Australie, et le japon, nous tissons le web selon une vision radicalement fun et collaborative.
Kickstart Your Product with a Design Sprint by thestartupfactory.techProduct School
In a fluid and fast-paced world of Product, Product Management and building Product Roadmaps, even the most skilled of teams can struggle with a specific proposition, have misaligned priorities or simply get stuck from time to time. That's where the Design Sprint comes in – a process born at Google Ventures. This presentation unravels how a Design Sprint can get you and your team back on track in just 5 days. Not only that, but get a sneak peek into Design Sprint 2.0: now 20% faster than the original!
Stress-free Website Redesign for Search and Social - MozinarYo! Yo! SEO
Dana Lookadoo's Mozinar covers 5 Steps to Dot Calm that walk you through a process for little loss in rankings and traffic from a site redesign or migration. Highlights include:
* What to expect with a site redesign
* Goal setting & data collection
* Auditing the current site
* Personas & surveying your audience
* Keyword strategy, IA, content & design
* SEO-friendly CMS & WordPress plugins
* QA, testing & launch “gotchas”
* Looking good in social
* BONUS: Free Excel worksheets!
So get ready for 138 slides of redesign goodness!
Michael Parler (Vice President) and Jim Powell (Director of Technology) share experiences and insights from Purple, Rock, Scissors (PRPL), a fast-moving digital creative agency located in Orlando Florida.
Learn about the DNA behind the scenes at PRPL, how it recruits digital talent, and how they tackle projects with a goal-driven approach.
Michael & Jim will share insights on the agency’s trajectory, its growing pains, customer stories, and their own thoughts on the latest trends in digital marketing and product innovation.
Presentation given to American Advertising Federation (AAF) Tallahassee.
Information Cartilage: Context, Intelligent Systems, and IA Thomas Wendt
This presentation introduces a phenomenological understanding of how information organization evolved from modernism to postmodernism to...whatever era we're in now. It is based on a paper published in the Journal of Information Architecture and first presented at the Information Architecture Summit 2014.
This talk focused on some key assumptions experience designers tend to make about the world, as informed by phenomenology. It was inspired by research completed for my book, Design for Dasein.
Design for Dasein: Understanding the Design of ExperiencesThomas Wendt
This talk explores the connections between design and phenomenological philosophy. It is based on my book by the same title.
Book site: designfordasein.com
Amazon: bit.ly/dsn4dsn
Book description from Amazon:
This book draws from philosophy, psychology, object studies, and design theory to articulate the intersection of design thinking and human experience.
When designers talk about related fields, they often mention anthropology, cognitive science, psychology, information science, etc., but philosophy is usually left out. Why? Why don’t we talk about philosophy as a contributor to the understanding of design, especially when phenomenology, the philosophical study of human experience, has contributed so much to our understanding of the interrelation between humans and technology?
Design for Dasein attempts to apply phenomenological thinking to design in order to further inform what designers (especially what we might call "experience designers") do in their day to day work. Many activities designers perform every day can be traced back to insights from phenomenology. Activities like user testing, prototyping, sketching, interaction models, personas, interviewing, ethnography, participatory design, and processes like design thinking and lean UX all have phenomenological roots. The book will highlight these connections and explore how they contribute to designing better experiences, providing the reader with new ways of thinking about his or her work, and new strategies for designing systems for both present and future scenarios.
Held at UX Camp Europe 2022
A talk on how UX designers can avoid intense swings between hubris / overconfidence and frustration / imposter syndrome. My claim: Both are caused by a number of popular self-deceptions of our discipline. Understanding them can help reduce your emotional amplitudes to a healthy level.
This presentation was used to kick-start the participants with how to use social bookmarking. It highlights information about what social bookmarking is, why we should start with social bookmarking, and which cases are out there
This talk was about semantics and the discussions that happen between humans and computers, and computers and computers. As we try to fully understand knowledge systems and information stacks, designers can really design to users needs by utilizing some of these technologies. "All web designers code" is a bit harsh but all designers DO need to at least understand code and why semantic decisions are made. Every role on a product development team has their own level of semantic language and when we all try to at least understand that language, we can get out of the silo and try to work together.
Nous sommes un réseau de Geeks, de Nerds, de Techies free lance exerçant en communauté (Remote/Nomade). Composé de designers, de codeurs, de cm et de blogueurs, nous sommes des créateurs de liens entre les marques et leurs publics cibles à travers des expériences digitales.
Basés en Afrique, présents en Europe, en passant par les Etats-Unis, le canada, le Mexique, l'Australie, et le japon, nous tissons le web selon une vision radicalement fun et collaborative.
Kickstart Your Product with a Design Sprint by thestartupfactory.techProduct School
In a fluid and fast-paced world of Product, Product Management and building Product Roadmaps, even the most skilled of teams can struggle with a specific proposition, have misaligned priorities or simply get stuck from time to time. That's where the Design Sprint comes in – a process born at Google Ventures. This presentation unravels how a Design Sprint can get you and your team back on track in just 5 days. Not only that, but get a sneak peek into Design Sprint 2.0: now 20% faster than the original!
Stress-free Website Redesign for Search and Social - MozinarYo! Yo! SEO
Dana Lookadoo's Mozinar covers 5 Steps to Dot Calm that walk you through a process for little loss in rankings and traffic from a site redesign or migration. Highlights include:
* What to expect with a site redesign
* Goal setting & data collection
* Auditing the current site
* Personas & surveying your audience
* Keyword strategy, IA, content & design
* SEO-friendly CMS & WordPress plugins
* QA, testing & launch “gotchas”
* Looking good in social
* BONUS: Free Excel worksheets!
So get ready for 138 slides of redesign goodness!
Michael Parler (Vice President) and Jim Powell (Director of Technology) share experiences and insights from Purple, Rock, Scissors (PRPL), a fast-moving digital creative agency located in Orlando Florida.
Learn about the DNA behind the scenes at PRPL, how it recruits digital talent, and how they tackle projects with a goal-driven approach.
Michael & Jim will share insights on the agency’s trajectory, its growing pains, customer stories, and their own thoughts on the latest trends in digital marketing and product innovation.
Presentation given to American Advertising Federation (AAF) Tallahassee.
UX@AddThis
At AddThis we design products that are used on over 15 million websites, loaded over 1.1 trillion times annually and reaching 1.9 billion people monthly in 70 languages all over the world. As a small company, we’ve had to get creative to scale product design that evolves quickly with customer needs and a rapidly changing technology landscape.
In this session you’ll learn how we’ve taken ideas from agile development, lean UX methodologies, and organizational design strategies to come up with our own flavor of rapid design and product development.
In this talk Jim will touch on team structure, project process, designing for scale, putting data to work, iterating on process design, and tools, tips and tricks for making things work smoothly.
About Jim
Jim is Vice President of User Experience at AddThis. He founded NoVA UX in 2012 to provide learning and networking opportunities for UX students and professionals in the Northern Virginia/DC metro area.
Encryption in Microsoft 365 - ExpertsLive Netherlands 2024Albert Hoitingh
In this session I delve into the encryption technology used in Microsoft 365 and Microsoft Purview. Including the concepts of Customer Key and Double Key Encryption.
Elevating Tactical DDD Patterns Through Object CalisthenicsDorra BARTAGUIZ
After immersing yourself in the blue book and its red counterpart, attending DDD-focused conferences, and applying tactical patterns, you're left with a crucial question: How do I ensure my design is effective? Tactical patterns within Domain-Driven Design (DDD) serve as guiding principles for creating clear and manageable domain models. However, achieving success with these patterns requires additional guidance. Interestingly, we've observed that a set of constraints initially designed for training purposes remarkably aligns with effective pattern implementation, offering a more ‘mechanical’ approach. Let's explore together how Object Calisthenics can elevate the design of your tactical DDD patterns, offering concrete help for those venturing into DDD for the first time!
GraphRAG is All You need? LLM & Knowledge GraphGuy Korland
Guy Korland, CEO and Co-founder of FalkorDB, will review two articles on the integration of language models with knowledge graphs.
1. Unifying Large Language Models and Knowledge Graphs: A Roadmap.
https://arxiv.org/abs/2306.08302
2. Microsoft Research's GraphRAG paper and a review paper on various uses of knowledge graphs:
https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/research/blog/graphrag-unlocking-llm-discovery-on-narrative-private-data/
JMeter webinar - integration with InfluxDB and GrafanaRTTS
Watch this recorded webinar about real-time monitoring of application performance. See how to integrate Apache JMeter, the open-source leader in performance testing, with InfluxDB, the open-source time-series database, and Grafana, the open-source analytics and visualization application.
In this webinar, we will review the benefits of leveraging InfluxDB and Grafana when executing load tests and demonstrate how these tools are used to visualize performance metrics.
Length: 30 minutes
Session Overview
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During this webinar, we will cover the following topics while demonstrating the integrations of JMeter, InfluxDB and Grafana:
- What out-of-the-box solutions are available for real-time monitoring JMeter tests?
- What are the benefits of integrating InfluxDB and Grafana into the load testing stack?
- Which features are provided by Grafana?
- Demonstration of InfluxDB and Grafana using a practice web application
To view the webinar recording, go to:
https://www.rttsweb.com/jmeter-integration-webinar
State of ICS and IoT Cyber Threat Landscape Report 2024 previewPrayukth K V
The IoT and OT threat landscape report has been prepared by the Threat Research Team at Sectrio using data from Sectrio, cyber threat intelligence farming facilities spread across over 85 cities around the world. In addition, Sectrio also runs AI-based advanced threat and payload engagement facilities that serve as sinks to attract and engage sophisticated threat actors, and newer malware including new variants and latent threats that are at an earlier stage of development.
The latest edition of the OT/ICS and IoT security Threat Landscape Report 2024 also covers:
State of global ICS asset and network exposure
Sectoral targets and attacks as well as the cost of ransom
Global APT activity, AI usage, actor and tactic profiles, and implications
Rise in volumes of AI-powered cyberattacks
Major cyber events in 2024
Malware and malicious payload trends
Cyberattack types and targets
Vulnerability exploit attempts on CVEs
Attacks on counties – USA
Expansion of bot farms – how, where, and why
In-depth analysis of the cyber threat landscape across North America, South America, Europe, APAC, and the Middle East
Why are attacks on smart factories rising?
Cyber risk predictions
Axis of attacks – Europe
Systemic attacks in the Middle East
Download the full report from here:
https://sectrio.com/resources/ot-threat-landscape-reports/sectrio-releases-ot-ics-and-iot-security-threat-landscape-report-2024/
The Art of the Pitch: WordPress Relationships and SalesLaura Byrne
Clients don’t know what they don’t know. What web solutions are right for them? How does WordPress come into the picture? How do you make sure you understand scope and timeline? What do you do if sometime changes?
All these questions and more will be explored as we talk about matching clients’ needs with what your agency offers without pulling teeth or pulling your hair out. Practical tips, and strategies for successful relationship building that leads to closing the deal.
Software Delivery At the Speed of AI: Inflectra Invests In AI-Powered QualityInflectra
In this insightful webinar, Inflectra explores how artificial intelligence (AI) is transforming software development and testing. Discover how AI-powered tools are revolutionizing every stage of the software development lifecycle (SDLC), from design and prototyping to testing, deployment, and monitoring.
Learn about:
• The Future of Testing: How AI is shifting testing towards verification, analysis, and higher-level skills, while reducing repetitive tasks.
• Test Automation: How AI-powered test case generation, optimization, and self-healing tests are making testing more efficient and effective.
• Visual Testing: Explore the emerging capabilities of AI in visual testing and how it's set to revolutionize UI verification.
• Inflectra's AI Solutions: See demonstrations of Inflectra's cutting-edge AI tools like the ChatGPT plugin and Azure Open AI platform, designed to streamline your testing process.
Whether you're a developer, tester, or QA professional, this webinar will give you valuable insights into how AI is shaping the future of software delivery.
Builder.ai Founder Sachin Dev Duggal's Strategic Approach to Create an Innova...Ramesh Iyer
In today's fast-changing business world, Companies that adapt and embrace new ideas often need help to keep up with the competition. However, fostering a culture of innovation takes much work. It takes vision, leadership and willingness to take risks in the right proportion. Sachin Dev Duggal, co-founder of Builder.ai, has perfected the art of this balance, creating a company culture where creativity and growth are nurtured at each stage.
Neuro-symbolic is not enough, we need neuro-*semantic*Frank van Harmelen
Neuro-symbolic (NeSy) AI is on the rise. However, simply machine learning on just any symbolic structure is not sufficient to really harvest the gains of NeSy. These will only be gained when the symbolic structures have an actual semantics. I give an operational definition of semantics as “predictable inference”.
All of this illustrated with link prediction over knowledge graphs, but the argument is general.
GDG Cloud Southlake #33: Boule & Rebala: Effective AppSec in SDLC using Deplo...James Anderson
Effective Application Security in Software Delivery lifecycle using Deployment Firewall and DBOM
The modern software delivery process (or the CI/CD process) includes many tools, distributed teams, open-source code, and cloud platforms. Constant focus on speed to release software to market, along with the traditional slow and manual security checks has caused gaps in continuous security as an important piece in the software supply chain. Today organizations feel more susceptible to external and internal cyber threats due to the vast attack surface in their applications supply chain and the lack of end-to-end governance and risk management.
The software team must secure its software delivery process to avoid vulnerability and security breaches. This needs to be achieved with existing tool chains and without extensive rework of the delivery processes. This talk will present strategies and techniques for providing visibility into the true risk of the existing vulnerabilities, preventing the introduction of security issues in the software, resolving vulnerabilities in production environments quickly, and capturing the deployment bill of materials (DBOM).
Speakers:
Bob Boule
Robert Boule is a technology enthusiast with PASSION for technology and making things work along with a knack for helping others understand how things work. He comes with around 20 years of solution engineering experience in application security, software continuous delivery, and SaaS platforms. He is known for his dynamic presentations in CI/CD and application security integrated in software delivery lifecycle.
Gopinath Rebala
Gopinath Rebala is the CTO of OpsMx, where he has overall responsibility for the machine learning and data processing architectures for Secure Software Delivery. Gopi also has a strong connection with our customers, leading design and architecture for strategic implementations. Gopi is a frequent speaker and well-known leader in continuous delivery and integrating security into software delivery.
Dev Dives: Train smarter, not harder – active learning and UiPath LLMs for do...UiPathCommunity
💥 Speed, accuracy, and scaling – discover the superpowers of GenAI in action with UiPath Document Understanding and Communications Mining™:
See how to accelerate model training and optimize model performance with active learning
Learn about the latest enhancements to out-of-the-box document processing – with little to no training required
Get an exclusive demo of the new family of UiPath LLMs – GenAI models specialized for processing different types of documents and messages
This is a hands-on session specifically designed for automation developers and AI enthusiasts seeking to enhance their knowledge in leveraging the latest intelligent document processing capabilities offered by UiPath.
Speakers:
👨🏫 Andras Palfi, Senior Product Manager, UiPath
👩🏫 Lenka Dulovicova, Product Program Manager, UiPath
Dev Dives: Train smarter, not harder – active learning and UiPath LLMs for do...
A Lean-ish Approach to Innovation
1. A Lean-ish Approach
to Innovation
Adopting Lean Thinking for a Corporate Setting
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3. Lean UX is not all that different from
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6. “Labs” are ideal settings. Real
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11. Rethink the UX process.
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12. The truth is (not) out there.
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13. There are MANY truths.
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14. Lean thinking is actually about thinking.
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15. Sketching is simply thinking on paper.
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16. Everything is a secret.
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