The document provides guidance on using critique as a tool for improving design work. It discusses critique as a structured conversation where a group of trusted people convene to review and provide feedback on design work with the goal of exploring, examining, and improving the design. It emphasizes that critique should be planned and facilitated to focus on design with purpose. The roles of presenter and critic are outlined, with tips for each role. Presenters are advised to clearly outline the objectives and get feedback, while critics are told to provide constructive feedback by first noting what works and then respectfully noting areas for improvement based on the design goals. The overall message is that critique, when done respectfully and constructively, can help improve collaboration and design work.
This is a summary of key take aways and Zoom background fo the GHC, Grace Hopper Celebration, talk on "An Engineer's Essential Tool is Design Thinking" by Aliza Carpio and Sonia May-Patlan
User and Information Design Considerations for Effective Semantic SearchDesign for Context
Presented by Duane Degler, Design for Context, at the NFAIS 2019 Annual Conference in Alexandria, VA, on February 14, 2019.
Semantic search seeks to enhance the meaning in content, to more closely align the searcher and the available information resources. This means there is a strong user-centered aspect needed to unlock the benefits. What scenarios, needs, experiences, and mental models do our user bring to their search task? How does that inform our modeling of the “meaning” derived from the content? How do we avoid encoding rigidity of meaning by creating learning opportunities for both the users and the underlying search index and algorithms?
As we model content, we recognize that its character, structure, and context all matter. Alongside strategies for incorporating taxonomies and indexing the content itself, we will explore how you can prepare a knowledge graph that increases the potential for aligning meaning between your content and your users.
On the user experience side, we will introduce design approaches such as supporting iteration for exploratory search, modeling a language landscape, applying user context identification, creating feedback loops based on results selection and use, and using visual signposting for lightweight semantics in the user interface.
New York Bestseller Jake Knapp’s book, Sprint, explores how companies and teams can replicate Google’s sprint process to solve a problem within five days.
So how does a design sprint actually work, and how can you use a sprint to devise effective solutions in such a short period of time?
Enhance your productivity through design sprints, you’ll learn:
- What is a Design Sprint
- Design sprint case studies and success stories
- How you can run a design sprint effectively
Participatory Design: Bringing Users Into Your ProcessDavid Sherwin
Good user research has a big impact on product quality. But Agile teams can struggle to integrate user research at the right places. In this talk by Erin Muntzert and David Sherwin, we talk about how Participatory Design can help Agile teams better understand the needs of their customers and get the right design ideas into their products. This talk has been adapted from a workshop that we have delivered at UX Week, Interaction, and UX London: http://bit.ly/pdesignux
This is a summary of key take aways and Zoom background fo the GHC, Grace Hopper Celebration, talk on "An Engineer's Essential Tool is Design Thinking" by Aliza Carpio and Sonia May-Patlan
User and Information Design Considerations for Effective Semantic SearchDesign for Context
Presented by Duane Degler, Design for Context, at the NFAIS 2019 Annual Conference in Alexandria, VA, on February 14, 2019.
Semantic search seeks to enhance the meaning in content, to more closely align the searcher and the available information resources. This means there is a strong user-centered aspect needed to unlock the benefits. What scenarios, needs, experiences, and mental models do our user bring to their search task? How does that inform our modeling of the “meaning” derived from the content? How do we avoid encoding rigidity of meaning by creating learning opportunities for both the users and the underlying search index and algorithms?
As we model content, we recognize that its character, structure, and context all matter. Alongside strategies for incorporating taxonomies and indexing the content itself, we will explore how you can prepare a knowledge graph that increases the potential for aligning meaning between your content and your users.
On the user experience side, we will introduce design approaches such as supporting iteration for exploratory search, modeling a language landscape, applying user context identification, creating feedback loops based on results selection and use, and using visual signposting for lightweight semantics in the user interface.
New York Bestseller Jake Knapp’s book, Sprint, explores how companies and teams can replicate Google’s sprint process to solve a problem within five days.
So how does a design sprint actually work, and how can you use a sprint to devise effective solutions in such a short period of time?
Enhance your productivity through design sprints, you’ll learn:
- What is a Design Sprint
- Design sprint case studies and success stories
- How you can run a design sprint effectively
Participatory Design: Bringing Users Into Your ProcessDavid Sherwin
Good user research has a big impact on product quality. But Agile teams can struggle to integrate user research at the right places. In this talk by Erin Muntzert and David Sherwin, we talk about how Participatory Design can help Agile teams better understand the needs of their customers and get the right design ideas into their products. This talk has been adapted from a workshop that we have delivered at UX Week, Interaction, and UX London: http://bit.ly/pdesignux
Project Planning: How to Achieve the ImpossibleMindGenius
Nobody launches a new project and intends for it to fail. But time and again projects do fail, for a vast range of reasons.
But there are ways of stacking the odds in your favour. Among the most important is resisting the very human urge to jump straight in. Good planning is vital for success.
Maximizing the impact of UX in an agile environment: Mixing agile and Lean UXJohn Whalen
When companies adopt an agile development environment, UX teams often feel like they just lost their seat at the table. It’s never easy to change, but by adapting your UX practices to accommodate agile, you can have the impact on design you always wanted.
Simple & Practical Project Management for Digital Marketing TeamsDigitangle
An introduction and overview of project management methodologies, and some quick tips to help manage your own time, improve communication and get things done in a digital marketing team.
Big Data in Small Graphics: Micro-Visualizations in SaaS and Enterprise Appli...Design for Context
Presented by Design for Context's Lisa Battle and Rachel Sengers at the User Experience Professionals Association (UXPA) Conference June 26, 2018, in Puerto Rico.
The power of communicating data visually can’t be overstated. We often need to convey a lot of information at a glance to help expert users make quick decisions and work efficiently. For infrequent or novice users, a visual overview of a process or concept can provide orientation and help reduce the risk of mistakes. For all users, the micro-visualization is a small but powerful way to package detailed information in an easily digestible, visual form. Individually or arranged into arrays, these compact visual elements pack a huge punch, giving your users the ability to quickly assess trends, spot outliers, and identify priorities. This presentation will explore the use of data micro-visualizations to enhance user experience and explain how to utilize pre-attentive processing and gestalt mechanisms to design more effective visualizations.
Want to unlock the full potential of your design team? Need to understand how interaction, animation, and visual elements combine to shape an experience for your users? Leveraging the prototyping process you can build a realistic version of your idea, validate your design direction, and share your vision with stakeholders.
UX Maturity: Research and Analytics to drive an impactUXDXConf
As the largest marketplace in the region, Allegro is one of Poland's most distinguishable brands. With millions of users, how did Allegro establish a strong foothold in the region against the marketplace giants?
In this session, learn how Alina and her team use data and analytics to create a UX strategy that allows their business to scale and grow in such a competitive market. She will touch on:
How a localised approach to UX has created loyal users
How to embed UX in your product development
How to take change as an opportunity for improvements for the team
Designing a new end-to-end grant experience from ground up, from outside in.
In November 2014, SG Enable started a design sprint project with Outsprint to envision a new end-to-end experience for their new grant. This project tapped on human-centered design tools and techniques to help SG Enable better understand the needs and challenges faced by grant applicants, grant makers and other partners. This report captures the findings and ideas generated from the project.
SG Enable | SG Enable is an agency dedicated to enabling persons with disabilities.
https://www.sgenable.sg/
Outsprint | The fastest way to innovate public policy & social services.
http://outsprint.io
Want to unlock the full potential of your design team? Need to understand how interaction, animation, and visual elements combine to shape an experience for your users? In this session, you will gain insight into using prototypes to scale your design process and foster a deeper understanding of your user’s needs. You’ll learn how prototypes can help you build a shared understanding of your idea, validate your design thinking, and communicate your vision to users and stakeholders alike.
This presentation was provided by Patricia Brennan of The Chan Zuckerberg Initiative, during Session Five of the NISO event "Agile Product and Project Management for Information Products and Services," held on June 11, 2020.
This project charter guide covers everything you need to know about the project charter. It is based on the free template you can download here: http://project-charter-template.casual.pm/
Braineet for Employees enables all your employees to share all their innovative ideas with every division within your company to innovate faster and at lower risk.
Project Planning: How to Achieve the ImpossibleMindGenius
Nobody launches a new project and intends for it to fail. But time and again projects do fail, for a vast range of reasons.
But there are ways of stacking the odds in your favour. Among the most important is resisting the very human urge to jump straight in. Good planning is vital for success.
Maximizing the impact of UX in an agile environment: Mixing agile and Lean UXJohn Whalen
When companies adopt an agile development environment, UX teams often feel like they just lost their seat at the table. It’s never easy to change, but by adapting your UX practices to accommodate agile, you can have the impact on design you always wanted.
Simple & Practical Project Management for Digital Marketing TeamsDigitangle
An introduction and overview of project management methodologies, and some quick tips to help manage your own time, improve communication and get things done in a digital marketing team.
Big Data in Small Graphics: Micro-Visualizations in SaaS and Enterprise Appli...Design for Context
Presented by Design for Context's Lisa Battle and Rachel Sengers at the User Experience Professionals Association (UXPA) Conference June 26, 2018, in Puerto Rico.
The power of communicating data visually can’t be overstated. We often need to convey a lot of information at a glance to help expert users make quick decisions and work efficiently. For infrequent or novice users, a visual overview of a process or concept can provide orientation and help reduce the risk of mistakes. For all users, the micro-visualization is a small but powerful way to package detailed information in an easily digestible, visual form. Individually or arranged into arrays, these compact visual elements pack a huge punch, giving your users the ability to quickly assess trends, spot outliers, and identify priorities. This presentation will explore the use of data micro-visualizations to enhance user experience and explain how to utilize pre-attentive processing and gestalt mechanisms to design more effective visualizations.
Want to unlock the full potential of your design team? Need to understand how interaction, animation, and visual elements combine to shape an experience for your users? Leveraging the prototyping process you can build a realistic version of your idea, validate your design direction, and share your vision with stakeholders.
UX Maturity: Research and Analytics to drive an impactUXDXConf
As the largest marketplace in the region, Allegro is one of Poland's most distinguishable brands. With millions of users, how did Allegro establish a strong foothold in the region against the marketplace giants?
In this session, learn how Alina and her team use data and analytics to create a UX strategy that allows their business to scale and grow in such a competitive market. She will touch on:
How a localised approach to UX has created loyal users
How to embed UX in your product development
How to take change as an opportunity for improvements for the team
Designing a new end-to-end grant experience from ground up, from outside in.
In November 2014, SG Enable started a design sprint project with Outsprint to envision a new end-to-end experience for their new grant. This project tapped on human-centered design tools and techniques to help SG Enable better understand the needs and challenges faced by grant applicants, grant makers and other partners. This report captures the findings and ideas generated from the project.
SG Enable | SG Enable is an agency dedicated to enabling persons with disabilities.
https://www.sgenable.sg/
Outsprint | The fastest way to innovate public policy & social services.
http://outsprint.io
Want to unlock the full potential of your design team? Need to understand how interaction, animation, and visual elements combine to shape an experience for your users? In this session, you will gain insight into using prototypes to scale your design process and foster a deeper understanding of your user’s needs. You’ll learn how prototypes can help you build a shared understanding of your idea, validate your design thinking, and communicate your vision to users and stakeholders alike.
This presentation was provided by Patricia Brennan of The Chan Zuckerberg Initiative, during Session Five of the NISO event "Agile Product and Project Management for Information Products and Services," held on June 11, 2020.
This project charter guide covers everything you need to know about the project charter. It is based on the free template you can download here: http://project-charter-template.casual.pm/
Braineet for Employees enables all your employees to share all their innovative ideas with every division within your company to innovate faster and at lower risk.
An Engineer’s Essential Tool in Agile: Design ThinkingSoniaMayPatlan
Many engineers are not connected to customers, resulting in solutions that lack high impact and benefit. But by combining design thinking with Agile, we create innovations that delight our customers. Find out, how a design thinking model called Design for Delight is applied within Agile frameworks to deliver thoughtful and inclusive solutions that can change the world.
How do you know you're ready for a Design Sprint?Highland
For leaders who want their teams to embrace human-centered approaches and collaborate in new ways, Sprints are a fantastic way to start.
Join Highland’s CX Practice Director David Whited and Lead Experience Designer Amrita Kulkarni as they share how Research Sprints and Design Sprints make Design Thinking—a reliable methodology to address complex, ambiguous problems—accessible in a way they have never been before. David and Amrita will introduce the purpose and philosophy of Sprints, talk through the differences between Research and Design Sprints, and what kind of issues, problems, or opportunities are the right fit for each.
We’ll be joined by Jennifer Severns, CXO, and Jennifer O’Brien, Innovation and Insights Manager, from the American Marketing Association, who will share how their organization has used Sprints to catalyze a culture of Design Thinking at the AMA. They will reflect on the realities of introducing Sprints and Design Thinking into an established organization, sharing advice for helping others think and work in new ways.
Attendees will learn:
- How are Research Sprints different from Design Sprints
- When is the right time or moment to conduct a Sprint
- What it takes for Sprints to be successful
- How to amplify Sprint outcomes for change in your organization
20 Innovation Tools that can help make innovation projects more successful and enjoyable.
We hope that this booklet can inspire you to challenge the way you innovate. Try out some of it with your teams right away, rather than wait for the perfect occasion.
http://get.unfunnel.com/lead-generation-proposal-template
This is a very “polished” new business sales template where 75% is an overview of your agile business model and 25% a teaser about the project, your approach and ballpark pricing.
Many RFPs are long-shots but if you can respond quick with a low amount of effort – it could pay off.
The goal here is to stay very high level, impress with integrity without having to do a lot of work.
» 75% overview of your agile business model
» 25% a teaser about the project / referral program, your approach and ballpark pricing
» Stay very high level, impress with integrity and avoid having to do a lot of work
http://get.unfunnel.com/lead-generation-proposal-template
Referral Program Lead Generation Proposal TemplateJoey Barker
http://get.unfunnel.com/lead-generation-proposal-template
This is a very “polished” new business sales template where 75% is an overview of your agile business model and 25% a teaser about the project, your approach and ballpark pricing.
Many RFPs are long-shots but if you can respond quick with a low amount of effort – it could pay off.
The goal here is to stay very high level, impress with integrity without having to do a lot of work.
75% overview of your agile business model
25% a teaser about the project / referral program, your approach and ballpark pricing
Stay very high level, impress with integrity and avoid having to do a lot of work
Design Studio: The User Experience Practitioner’s Secret WeaponBrilliant Experience
We all want the best , but often other priorities get in the way: “Bob from Marketing wants it to…”, “The developers don’t like that approach...”, “That feature is a ‘nice to have’”.
This slide deck will walk you through a design studio and how it can be a great tool to align product owners, developers and UX teams on an approach that balances user and business needs.
An Authority vs In Authority - Better having a sharp Business Analysis Skill than being in the role of a Business Analyst
How valuable and attractive are new skills like "Business Analysis"?
Job advertisements often ask for very special roles such as "Online Product Manager (m/f/d)" or "Business Developer (m/f/x)". The fact that these roles often have large overlaps in their skill requirements is not always clear to HR managers or interested parties. Thus, suitable employees are not found or employees are not aware of suitable vacancies. Rainer Wendt uses a business analysis skills catalogue to show how versatile these skills can be in a company and how many roles can be successfully filled with them. A rethink of skill orientation in recruiting can open up new perspectives for both recruiters and applicants.
Agile vs Waterfall: May the 4th Be With You in the Great DebateAggregage
In this discussion, PMO Joe will challenge your thinking and perhaps bring you to the conclusion that the debate doesn’t exist. He will discuss the pros and cons of each approach and examine if one is superior to the other.
The Career Pathways and Roles of In-house Designers in the Services Sector in...Erik Chua
Presented at International Association of Societies of Design Research Conference 2019 at Manchester School of Art, Manchester Metropolitan University on 04 September 2019
You'll learn:
- How to design ahead of development without chaos
- How to conduct user research within Agile
- How to deliver consistent UX on tight timelines
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Essentials of Automations: Optimizing FME Workflows with ParametersSafe Software
Are you looking to streamline your workflows and boost your projects’ efficiency? Do you find yourself searching for ways to add flexibility and control over your FME workflows? If so, you’re in the right place.
Join us for an insightful dive into the world of FME parameters, a critical element in optimizing workflow efficiency. This webinar marks the beginning of our three-part “Essentials of Automation” series. This first webinar is designed to equip you with the knowledge and skills to utilize parameters effectively: enhancing the flexibility, maintainability, and user control of your FME projects.
Here’s what you’ll gain:
- Essentials of FME Parameters: Understand the pivotal role of parameters, including Reader/Writer, Transformer, User, and FME Flow categories. Discover how they are the key to unlocking automation and optimization within your workflows.
- Practical Applications in FME Form: Delve into key user parameter types including choice, connections, and file URLs. Allow users to control how a workflow runs, making your workflows more reusable. Learn to import values and deliver the best user experience for your workflows while enhancing accuracy.
- Optimization Strategies in FME Flow: Explore the creation and strategic deployment of parameters in FME Flow, including the use of deployment and geometry parameters, to maximize workflow efficiency.
- Pro Tips for Success: Gain insights on parameterizing connections and leveraging new features like Conditional Visibility for clarity and simplicity.
We’ll wrap up with a glimpse into future webinars, followed by a Q&A session to address your specific questions surrounding this topic.
Don’t miss this opportunity to elevate your FME expertise and drive your projects to new heights of efficiency.
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/
Search and Society: Reimagining Information Access for Radical FuturesBhaskar Mitra
The field of Information retrieval (IR) is currently undergoing a transformative shift, at least partly due to the emerging applications of generative AI to information access. In this talk, we will deliberate on the sociotechnical implications of generative AI for information access. We will argue that there is both a critical necessity and an exciting opportunity for the IR community to re-center our research agendas on societal needs while dismantling the artificial separation between the work on fairness, accountability, transparency, and ethics in IR and the rest of IR research. Instead of adopting a reactionary strategy of trying to mitigate potential social harms from emerging technologies, the community should aim to proactively set the research agenda for the kinds of systems we should build inspired by diverse explicitly stated sociotechnical imaginaries. The sociotechnical imaginaries that underpin the design and development of information access technologies needs to be explicitly articulated, and we need to develop theories of change in context of these diverse perspectives. Our guiding future imaginaries must be informed by other academic fields, such as democratic theory and critical theory, and should be co-developed with social science scholars, legal scholars, civil rights and social justice activists, and artists, among others.
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/
Epistemic Interaction - tuning interfaces to provide information for AI supportAlan Dix
Paper presented at SYNERGY workshop at AVI 2024, Genoa, Italy. 3rd June 2024
https://alandix.com/academic/papers/synergy2024-epistemic/
As machine learning integrates deeper into human-computer interactions, the concept of epistemic interaction emerges, aiming to refine these interactions to enhance system adaptability. This approach encourages minor, intentional adjustments in user behaviour to enrich the data available for system learning. This paper introduces epistemic interaction within the context of human-system communication, illustrating how deliberate interaction design can improve system understanding and adaptation. Through concrete examples, we demonstrate the potential of epistemic interaction to significantly advance human-computer interaction by leveraging intuitive human communication strategies to inform system design and functionality, offering a novel pathway for enriching user-system engagements.
Kubernetes & AI - Beauty and the Beast !?! @KCD Istanbul 2024Tobias Schneck
As AI technology is pushing into IT I was wondering myself, as an “infrastructure container kubernetes guy”, how get this fancy AI technology get managed from an infrastructure operational view? Is it possible to apply our lovely cloud native principals as well? What benefit’s both technologies could bring to each other?
Let me take this questions and provide you a short journey through existing deployment models and use cases for AI software. On practical examples, we discuss what cloud/on-premise strategy we may need for applying it to our own infrastructure to get it to work from an enterprise perspective. I want to give an overview about infrastructure requirements and technologies, what could be beneficial or limiting your AI use cases in an enterprise environment. An interactive Demo will give you some insides, what approaches I got already working for real.
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.
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.
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.
"Impact of front-end architecture on development cost", Viktor TurskyiFwdays
I have heard many times that architecture is not important for the front-end. Also, many times I have seen how developers implement features on the front-end just following the standard rules for a framework and think that this is enough to successfully launch the project, and then the project fails. How to prevent this and what approach to choose? I have launched dozens of complex projects and during the talk we will analyze which approaches have worked for me and which have not.