A presentation I did at SXSW Interactive 2008 on the contextual web which talks about context, UCD, UX, and more. It mostly focuses on the mobile web and iphone design but there are some other interfaces it explores.
The Life Cycle Of A Wireframe: LOL Cats StyleNick Finck
Dive deep into the process used to create wireframes, a key deliverable for user experience designers. Hear about the principles that guide this process, how to create great wireframes (all the way down to the nitty-gritty page or screen level), and how to identify and deliver solutions that meet your clients' business goals and solve their problems. Walk away with a better understanding of what delivering awesome wireframes entails - from methodology, to process, to delivery - and how to do it yourself. If you're an information architect, interaction designer, visual designer, or regular old user experience-curious creature: this one's for you.
The magic words that will make customers open up and want to talk to you! Techniques for customer development, user testing, community management, and customer support.
(Slides from 2/23 Action Class http://www.appsumo.com/action_class/?class=cindy_alvarez)
The Life Cycle Of A Wireframe: LOL Cats StyleNick Finck
Dive deep into the process used to create wireframes, a key deliverable for user experience designers. Hear about the principles that guide this process, how to create great wireframes (all the way down to the nitty-gritty page or screen level), and how to identify and deliver solutions that meet your clients' business goals and solve their problems. Walk away with a better understanding of what delivering awesome wireframes entails - from methodology, to process, to delivery - and how to do it yourself. If you're an information architect, interaction designer, visual designer, or regular old user experience-curious creature: this one's for you.
The magic words that will make customers open up and want to talk to you! Techniques for customer development, user testing, community management, and customer support.
(Slides from 2/23 Action Class http://www.appsumo.com/action_class/?class=cindy_alvarez)
UMBEL\'s first 11 semantic Web services and online demos show how a lightweight structure of 21000 subject concepts can provide context for inter-linking external data and ontologies. Additional value through the network effect of inherited relationships and properties is also gained as more structure and data is added. UMBEL is an excellent upper mapping and binding layer for integrating Linked Data and rich sources of named entities such as Wikipedia. The UMBEL subject concepts are derived from the OpenCyc version of the proven Cyc knowledge base.
This presentation was prepared by Ben Cipiti, author of The Energy Construct, and guest of the May 1, 2008 Midtown Brews conversation with Meet The Bloggers and citizens.
UMBEL\'s first 11 semantic Web services and online demos show how a lightweight structure of 21000 subject concepts can provide context for inter-linking external data and ontologies. Additional value through the network effect of inherited relationships and properties is also gained as more structure and data is added. UMBEL is an excellent upper mapping and binding layer for integrating Linked Data and rich sources of named entities such as Wikipedia. The UMBEL subject concepts are derived from the OpenCyc version of the proven Cyc knowledge base.
This presentation was prepared by Ben Cipiti, author of The Energy Construct, and guest of the May 1, 2008 Midtown Brews conversation with Meet The Bloggers and citizens.
Long-term mobile strategy for staying ahead of the curve
Mobile is quickly becoming the go-to platform, as users lean on the convenience of mobile devices before cracking open a laptop. This is causing a cataclysmic change in how we think about user behavior. Context goes hand-in-hand with creating good mobile user experiences. Gestures and more complex interactions are beginning to take shape. Cross-platform, cross-media, cross-channel are quickly becoming critical in the success or failure of products and services online.
Now's the time to ask the tough questions: What are the best techniques and methodologies for doing mobile interaction design? How does context play a role in the mobile user experience? What are the up-and-coming mobile techniques? What is your long-term mobile strategy for staying ahead of the curve?
In this presentation, we'll explore mobile interaction design (IXD) at great depth, looking at where technology and innovation are taking the mobile industry, and what milestones we'll pass along the way, and we'll walk through some example mobile projects end-to-end.
What will I get out of this session?
- Knowledge of techniques and methodologies for mobile IXD
- Knowledge of how context impacts the mobile user experience
- An understanding of how new technologies are changing mobile
- A sense of where mobile is headed
Who should attend?
- User experience professionals
- Interaction designers
- Product managers
- Marketing managers
- Others who want to learn about mobile IXD
No matter how many departments your organization has, to your customers, it's all the same business. They expect a cohesive experience across all touch-points with your company, regardless of whether it's related to advertising, customer service, social presence, or the actual product or service you provide. The satisfaction of your customers, and thereby the success of your organization, depends in no small part on your ability to create a cohesive and consistently high-quality cross-channel experience.
Some examples of disjointed cross-channel experiences are:
The customer has to inform the customer service representative of what the website says about their own return policy.
The specifications of a product online does not match the actual product a customer goes to pick up in the retail store.
The experience of the mobile application is far superior to the experience of the standard web application or software application.
The customer has to make three different phone calls to get their account changed because the information is stored in three separate business units.
Applying consideration for the cross-channel experience is much easier said than done. It requires a significant level of coordination and collaboration between the stakeholders, to understand not just how to optimize their particular part of the service, but to maintain that optimal and consistent experience throughout. For example, the customer service department can do a great job of correcting a problem after the fact, but they can add greater value to the product or service as a whole by collaborating with sales and product teams to prevent the issue from arising in the first place.
In this presentation, you will gain a better understanding of the different ways your customers might interact with your business. We will show how you can map out these touchpoints and help drive the creation of a cohesive experience across the various channels. We will show you how to navigate the political waters within your business to implement a true cross-channel design, which will build great experiences for your customers, regardless of how they are engaging with your business.
No matter how many departments your organization has, to your customers, it’s all the same business. They expect a cohesive experience across all touch-points with your company, regardless of whether it’s related to advertising, customer service, social presence, or the actual product or service you provide. The satisfaction of your customers, and thereby the success of your organization, depends in no small part on your ability to create a cohesive and consistently high-quality cross-channel experience.
In this presentation, you will gain a better understanding of the different ways your customers might interact with your business. We will show how you can map out these touchpoints and help drive the creation of a cohesive experience across the various channels. We will show you how to navigate the political waters within your business to implement a true cross-channel design, which will build great experiences for your customers, regardless of how they are engaging with your business.
User experience utopia - interact seattleNick Finck
As our industry matures, we are starting to see a cataclysmic change in how we work within each of our fields. Information architecture, interaction design, visual design, usability, accessibility, content, and marketing are colliding to form a better and more valuable user experience.
Interaction is no longer an afterthought, overshadowed by visual design. “Just getting noticed” on the web is no longer sufficient – what you produce will now be judged by the value of your information and the ease of your experience. Today, users reign supreme.
Now’s the time to ask the tough questions: Are you properly investing resources, energy, and time in your user experience? Do you really, like really, know what your users want and need? How are you planning for the future?
In this presentation, we’ll explore the seven characteristics of good user experience, where technology and innovation are taking the interactive industry, and what milestones we’ll pass along the way.
What will I get of this session?
* A sense of where user experience is headed
* Knowledge of how context impacts the user experience
* An understanding of how new technologies are changing both context and user experience
Who should attend?
* User experience professionals
* Marketing executives and managers
* Online community managers
* Web designers and web developers
* Others who want to learn about user experience design
Nick Finck (www.nickfinck.com) is a user experience professional who has dabbled in the web for over a decade. He specializes in information architecture, interaction design, usability and user research.
Nick has created web experiences for Fortune 50 and 500 companies including Adobe, Boeing, Blue Cross / Blue Shield, Cisco, CitiGroup, FDIC, Harpo, HP, IBM, Microsoft, PBS, Peet’s Coffee, University of Denver, and others.
He lives and plays in Seattle, Washington, where he’s the Principal and Director of User Experience at Blue Flavor, a web design company that focuses on creating web experiences.
How the mobile context has evolved over the years and where it is headed? In his session on “Mobile Web UX,” former WebVisions board member Nick Finck will explore the differences between the web and the mobile web, why these differences are important, what the key user experience principals are for the mobile web . . . oh yeah, and there will be plenty of examples for you to sink your teeth into.
Nick will also provide the information you’ll need to design an optimal user experience for the mobile web, and alert you to the decisions you will need to make along the way.
Principal and Director of User Experience of Blue Flavor, Nick Finck presents a session on what makes a good user experience, what is the process for creating a good user experience, and where user experience as a discipline is headed.
The commoditization and fragmentation of the ia communityNick Finck
This session will be a open format discussion among IAs.
We, as information architects, stand at the crossroads of our profession as a whole. Down one road we see the looming fate of a fragmented industry struggling to stay alive among the politics and self importance need of the very individuals who give themselves the same title. At the end of this road is the fate of a entire profession defeating itself through the lack of clarity in its own message, a lack of value in its own offering, and through simply a lack of commitment by those within. Down the other road we see a unified community we active individuals helping others and a mutual respect for their fellow practitioners. We see a clear vision, a clear goal, and true value with a solid message. What path should we choose.
User experiences are your everyday experiences--anything from operating a car, to making a pot of coffee, to ordering a pair of shoes online. User experience is the result of your interactions with a product or service, specifically how it's delivered and its related artifacts according to the design.
In this presentation Nick Finck and Raina Van Cleave will explore the ten characteristics of a great user experience. They will cover all aspects of user experience design such as user research, information architecture, information design, technical writing, interaction design, visual design, brand identity design, accessibly, usability and web analytics. Nick and Raina will also explain how following the ten commandments can boost your web sites, web app, or mobile app's ease of use, appeal, conversion rates, and more.
This is a presentation I did for Refresh Portland. It is a very high level look at the User Experience Design in the Mobile Web.
This will be a crash course in mobile user experience design, are you ready? We will look at how the mobile context has evolved over the years and where it is headed. We’ll explore the differences between the web and the mobile web, why these differences are important, what the key user experience principals are for the mobile web ...oh yeah, and there will be plenty of examples for you to sink your teeth into. I will give you the information you need to design an optimal user experience for the mobile web as well as what decisions you will need to make along the way.
This is a 15-20 minute presentation I gave at ASIS&T 2006 in Vancouver BC. The idea was to cover emergency trends related to information architecture, that is the art of expressing a model or concept of information used in activities that require explicit details of complex systems.
Eyes on the Future: Trends in Information Technology
Jeannette Kopak, Nick Finck, Sandra Hirsh, and Brian Fling
This panel session will engage industry leaders in a discussion about their views on future trends in information technology. Speakers will represent diverse sectors, specifically Internet and New Media Technology, Information Architecture, Social Media, and Mobile. Some key questions the panel will address include:
• What exciting new technologies and products are on the horizon?
• What user-oriented issues should we be aware of?
• What social and ethical concerns may impact people and companies?
• What are the growth areas for the next decade?
The session will be interactive and the audience will be encouraged to contribute their own thoughts on the future of IT and its potential impact on researchers and professionals in the field.
User Experience Utopia (Ad Club Seattle)Nick Finck
As the creative industry matures (we said industry, not creatives), interactive marketers are starting to see big time changes in how we work.
Information architecture, interaction design, visual design, usability, accessibility, content and marketing are collaborating to form a better and more valuable user experience. Looks like somebody paid attention in those team-building exercises.
Nick Finck, founder of Blue Flavor will lay down some knowledge on user experience. Nick is a UX wizard who has been making Web magic for over a decade. He specializes in information architecture, interaction design, usability and user research. Nick has created Web experiences for Fortune 50 and 500 companies including Adobe, Boeing, Blue Cross/Blue Shield, CitiGroup, FDIC, Harpo, HP, IBM…whew, hold on, just catching our breath…Microsoft, PBS, Peet's Coffee and others.
We'll explore the seven characteristics of good UX, where technology and innovation are taking the interactive industry, and what milestones we'll pass along the way.
In this presentation, Nick Finck will dive deep into the process he uses to create wireframes, a key deliverable for user experience designers. He'll talk about the principles that guide his process, how to create great wireframes (all the way down to the nitty gritty page or screen level), and how to identify and deliver solutions that meet your clients' business goals and solve their problems.
You'll walk away with a better understanding of what delivering awesome wireframes entails--from methodology, to process, to delivery--and how to do it yourself.
If you're an information architect, interaction designer, visual designer, or regular old user experience-curious creature: this one's for you.
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.
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/
GraphSummit Singapore | The Art of the Possible with Graph - Q2 2024Neo4j
Neha Bajwa, Vice President of Product Marketing, Neo4j
Join us as we explore breakthrough innovations enabled by interconnected data and AI. Discover firsthand how organizations use relationships in data to uncover contextual insights and solve our most pressing challenges – from optimizing supply chains, detecting fraud, and improving customer experiences to accelerating drug discoveries.
Generative AI Deep Dive: Advancing from Proof of Concept to ProductionAggregage
Join Maher Hanafi, VP of Engineering at Betterworks, in this new session where he'll share a practical framework to transform Gen AI prototypes into impactful products! He'll delve into the complexities of data collection and management, model selection and optimization, and ensuring security, scalability, and responsible use.
Dr. Sean Tan, Head of Data Science, Changi Airport Group
Discover how Changi Airport Group (CAG) leverages graph technologies and generative AI to revolutionize their search capabilities. This session delves into the unique search needs of CAG’s diverse passengers and customers, showcasing how graph data structures enhance the accuracy and relevance of AI-generated search results, mitigating the risk of “hallucinations” and improving the overall customer journey.
PHP Frameworks: I want to break free (IPC Berlin 2024)Ralf Eggert
In this presentation, we examine the challenges and limitations of relying too heavily on PHP frameworks in web development. We discuss the history of PHP and its frameworks to understand how this dependence has evolved. The focus will be on providing concrete tips and strategies to reduce reliance on these frameworks, based on real-world examples and practical considerations. The goal is to equip developers with the skills and knowledge to create more flexible and future-proof web applications. We'll explore the importance of maintaining autonomy in a rapidly changing tech landscape and how to make informed decisions in PHP development.
This talk is aimed at encouraging a more independent approach to using PHP frameworks, moving towards a more flexible and future-proof approach to PHP development.
Transcript: Selling digital books in 2024: Insights from industry leaders - T...BookNet Canada
The publishing industry has been selling digital audiobooks and ebooks for over a decade and has found its groove. What’s changed? What has stayed the same? Where do we go from here? Join a group of leading sales peers from across the industry for a conversation about the lessons learned since the popularization of digital books, best practices, digital book supply chain management, and more.
Link to video recording: https://bnctechforum.ca/sessions/selling-digital-books-in-2024-insights-from-industry-leaders/
Presented by BookNet Canada on May 28, 2024, with support from the Department of Canadian Heritage.
LF Energy Webinar: Electrical Grid Modelling and Simulation Through PowSyBl -...DanBrown980551
Do you want to learn how to model and simulate an electrical network from scratch in under an hour?
Then welcome to this PowSyBl workshop, hosted by Rte, the French Transmission System Operator (TSO)!
During the webinar, you will discover the PowSyBl ecosystem as well as handle and study an electrical network through an interactive Python notebook.
PowSyBl is an open source project hosted by LF Energy, which offers a comprehensive set of features for electrical grid modelling and simulation. Among other advanced features, PowSyBl provides:
- A fully editable and extendable library for grid component modelling;
- Visualization tools to display your network;
- Grid simulation tools, such as power flows, security analyses (with or without remedial actions) and sensitivity analyses;
The framework is mostly written in Java, with a Python binding so that Python developers can access PowSyBl functionalities as well.
What you will learn during the webinar:
- For beginners: discover PowSyBl's functionalities through a quick general presentation and the notebook, without needing any expert coding skills;
- For advanced developers: master the skills to efficiently apply PowSyBl functionalities to your real-world scenarios.
GraphSummit Singapore | The Future of Agility: Supercharging Digital Transfor...Neo4j
Leonard Jayamohan, Partner & Generative AI Lead, Deloitte
This keynote will reveal how Deloitte leverages Neo4j’s graph power for groundbreaking digital twin solutions, achieving a staggering 100x performance boost. Discover the essential role knowledge graphs play in successful generative AI implementations. Plus, get an exclusive look at an innovative Neo4j + Generative AI solution Deloitte is developing in-house.
Observability Concepts EVERY Developer Should Know -- DeveloperWeek Europe.pdfPaige Cruz
Monitoring and observability aren’t traditionally found in software curriculums and many of us cobble this knowledge together from whatever vendor or ecosystem we were first introduced to and whatever is a part of your current company’s observability stack.
While the dev and ops silo continues to crumble….many organizations still relegate monitoring & observability as the purview of ops, infra and SRE teams. This is a mistake - achieving a highly observable system requires collaboration up and down the stack.
I, a former op, would like to extend an invitation to all application developers to join the observability party will share these foundational concepts to build on:
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.
3. SXSW Interactive 2008
Who the hell is this guy?
• Blue Flavor
Director of User Experience, co-founder, partner
http://www.blueflavor.com
• Digital Web Magazine
Publisher and founder
http://www.digital-web.com
• User Experience Network
Seattle Local Ambassador
http://www.uxnet.org
• My Personal Site
http://www.nickfinck.com
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