Co-Create: Creating Better Together - UX AustraliaDenise Jacobs
Despite the prevalent mythology of the lone creative genius, many of the most innovative contributions spring from the creative chemistry of a group and the blending of everyone’s ideas and concepts. How can we best leverage this collective wisdom to generate creative synergy and co-create? Let’s look at the process of recognizing and removing our personal creative blocks, connecting and communicating with others, combining ideas using play, and constructing a collaborative environment to discover effective methods for tapping into a group’s creative brilliance. Through these steps, you’ll learn to capitalize on the super-linearity of creativity to embrace and leverage diversity to create better together.
If you're working on a large project with a lot of hands in the CSS pot, then your CSS may be doomed to code bloat failure. Scalable and modular CSS architectures and approaches are the new hotness and rightfully so. They provide sanity, predictably and scalability in a potentially crazy coding world. This session will give an overview of some the most popular approaches, including OOCSS, SMACSS, CSS for Grownups, and DRY CSS as well as discussing some general principles for keeping your CSS clean, optimized, and easy to maintain. Presented at FITC Amsterdam 2013
Co-Create: Creating Better Together - UX LisbonDenise Jacobs
Despite the prevalent mythology of the lone creative genius, many of the most innovative contributions spring from the creative chemistry of a group and the blending of everyone’s ideas and concepts. How can we best leverage this collective wisdom to generate creative synergy and co-create? Let’s look at the process of recognizing and removing our personal creative blocks, connecting and communicating with others, combining ideas using play, and constructing a collaborative environment to discover effective methods for tapping into a group’s creative brilliance. Through these steps, you’ll learn to capitalize on the super-linearity of creativity to embrace and leverage diversity to create better together.
Co-Create: Creating Better Together - UX AustraliaDenise Jacobs
Despite the prevalent mythology of the lone creative genius, many of the most innovative contributions spring from the creative chemistry of a group and the blending of everyone’s ideas and concepts. How can we best leverage this collective wisdom to generate creative synergy and co-create? Let’s look at the process of recognizing and removing our personal creative blocks, connecting and communicating with others, combining ideas using play, and constructing a collaborative environment to discover effective methods for tapping into a group’s creative brilliance. Through these steps, you’ll learn to capitalize on the super-linearity of creativity to embrace and leverage diversity to create better together.
If you're working on a large project with a lot of hands in the CSS pot, then your CSS may be doomed to code bloat failure. Scalable and modular CSS architectures and approaches are the new hotness and rightfully so. They provide sanity, predictably and scalability in a potentially crazy coding world. This session will give an overview of some the most popular approaches, including OOCSS, SMACSS, CSS for Grownups, and DRY CSS as well as discussing some general principles for keeping your CSS clean, optimized, and easy to maintain. Presented at FITC Amsterdam 2013
Co-Create: Creating Better Together - UX LisbonDenise Jacobs
Despite the prevalent mythology of the lone creative genius, many of the most innovative contributions spring from the creative chemistry of a group and the blending of everyone’s ideas and concepts. How can we best leverage this collective wisdom to generate creative synergy and co-create? Let’s look at the process of recognizing and removing our personal creative blocks, connecting and communicating with others, combining ideas using play, and constructing a collaborative environment to discover effective methods for tapping into a group’s creative brilliance. Through these steps, you’ll learn to capitalize on the super-linearity of creativity to embrace and leverage diversity to create better together.
Co-Create: Creating Better Together - AMA Houston Marketing Edge 2016Denise Jacobs
Despite the prevalent mythology of the lone creative genius, many of the most innovative contributions spring from the creative chemistry of a group and the blending of everyone’s ideas and concepts. How can we best leverage this collective wisdom to generate creative synergy and co-create? Let’s look at the process of recognizing and removing our personal creative blocks, connecting and communicating with others, combining ideas using play, and constructing a collaborative environment to discover effective methods for tapping into a group’s creative brilliance. Through these steps, you’ll learn to capitalize on the super-linearity of creativity to embrace and leverage diversity to create better together.
The most innovative contributions spring from the creative chemistry of a team and the blending of everyone’s ideas and concepts. Denise and Jessie will share their story of how they came to create this presentation together, leveraging their collective wisdom and creative synergy to co-create. Their process of recognizing and removing personal creative blocks, connecting and communicating, combining ideas using play, and constructing an environment that supports collaboration reveals effective methods for tapping into collective creative brilliance. You’ll learn to capitalize on the super-linearity of creativity to create better together.
When Life Gives You Silos (Devopsdays Amsterdam 2013)kevinvw
A 5-minute Ignite talk about how the Devops mindset can help to survive in organizational silo's.
Short Summary:
Often in large companies, everyone with the same profile is pushed into the same department. For example system guys, python guys and helpdesk people. Each with has different team leads and middle management... This is called “The Silo Effect”.
This idea probably sounds good on paper but in reality, it is why companies are slow and cost ineffective. For the people inside there is no way to easily bounce ideas off someone with different skills and expertise.
The problem with Silo's is that teams can get easily isolated from other teams. This results in a situation where it might become impossible to get help from other teams when problems arise and you are dependent on them. The middle managers are then often dragged into the fray and everyone starts blaming everyone.
So in order to fix this, do something technical people often forget to do: stop focusing on solving the technical dilemmas and start communicating. Ask other teams how you can improve your system and realign
it with their vision.
So my story here is really about how to build bridges between silos. As a developer or ops person, talk about different concerns and visions.Share the responsibility of shipping an application with your systems team.
It is about planting seeds that will create cooperation, respect and trust. Seeds that only grow by making compromises. It is about inspiring a change in work ethic, not forcing it.
We got there by compromise and lots of strict agreements. Given our technology, we agreed to a deployment process flow and laid down the tracks to follow that path. In our case we created a Jenkins pipeline and since we build as Debian packages, we make it easy for operators to manage.
So what do you do when you encounter silos? Don't put energy towards knocking them down. The management structure has been there for ages and will probably never change. Make it your playground, learn to navigate them and uncover shortcuts. Informally discuss with the people in other teams, at the coffee machine for example.
In the end, it is about a gradual evolution of improving communication and collaboration, not an immediate revolution. Keep in mind IT is not centered around the systems or the tech we use, it is
about the people.
Finally... Real silos are often painted in the color of the sky, to make them look transparant.
And this is exactly what we should do too with organizational silos.
So when life gives you silos, paint them.
Find Your Shameless Spark - Inspiring Women Live 2014Denise Jacobs
Being true to yourself and loving what you do is a key part of being able to promote yourself shamelessly. Learn about the mental blocks that hold you back from promoting your brilliance to the world and how to bust through them, how to respect and feed your soul, plus several highly effective tips for sharing your skills and talents. This session is a booster shot of inspiration to spark your creative thinking about your personal brand and to promote your best self for stardom.
Creating Better Together - Adobe Max 2016Denise Jacobs
Despite the prevalent mythology of the lone creative genius, many of the most innovative contributions spring from the creative chemistry of a group and the blending of everyone’s ideas and concepts. How can we best leverage this collective wisdom to generate creative synergy and co-create? Let’s look at the process of recognizing and removing our personal creative blocks, connecting and communicating with others, combining ideas using play, and constructing a collaborative environment to discover effective methods for tapping into a group’s creative brilliance. Through these steps, you’ll learn to capitalize on the super-linearity of creativity to embrace and leverage diversity to create better together.
The Creativity (R)Evolution - High Five Conference 2016Denise Jacobs
There's a movement brewing built upon leveraging the transformative power of creativity to help us work and create better so that we can produce work infused with meaning. Discover how by instilling tiny habits to cultivate your creative spark, and finally, fomenting creative collaboration based on the tenets of improv and open spaces, you can take the spark of Creativity (R)Evolution and use it as the impetus to push you, your teams, and your companies to create Betterness.
As a developer and a creative, you need ways to work better so that you can create more, but what do you do when you hit a seemingly insurmountable mental wall? You need to get unblocked: to bust through that barrier to allow creativity to flow. Beware: this presentation challenges the standard norms around concentration, focus, productivity, and may change how you work…for the better.
Living Safe on the Web: The Good, The Bad and the downright ugly!
Session 3 - all about digital citizenship and safety online.
You are welcome to browse and use the content within following a Creative Commons 3.0 License.
Throttle and Debounce Patterns in Web AppsAlmir Filho
A brief discussion on the Throttle and Debounce Patterns. Where, when and why to use them? They solve some problems that may harm the performance of an entire web app due to misuse of user events.
Co-Create: Creating Better Together - AMA Houston Marketing Edge 2016Denise Jacobs
Despite the prevalent mythology of the lone creative genius, many of the most innovative contributions spring from the creative chemistry of a group and the blending of everyone’s ideas and concepts. How can we best leverage this collective wisdom to generate creative synergy and co-create? Let’s look at the process of recognizing and removing our personal creative blocks, connecting and communicating with others, combining ideas using play, and constructing a collaborative environment to discover effective methods for tapping into a group’s creative brilliance. Through these steps, you’ll learn to capitalize on the super-linearity of creativity to embrace and leverage diversity to create better together.
The most innovative contributions spring from the creative chemistry of a team and the blending of everyone’s ideas and concepts. Denise and Jessie will share their story of how they came to create this presentation together, leveraging their collective wisdom and creative synergy to co-create. Their process of recognizing and removing personal creative blocks, connecting and communicating, combining ideas using play, and constructing an environment that supports collaboration reveals effective methods for tapping into collective creative brilliance. You’ll learn to capitalize on the super-linearity of creativity to create better together.
When Life Gives You Silos (Devopsdays Amsterdam 2013)kevinvw
A 5-minute Ignite talk about how the Devops mindset can help to survive in organizational silo's.
Short Summary:
Often in large companies, everyone with the same profile is pushed into the same department. For example system guys, python guys and helpdesk people. Each with has different team leads and middle management... This is called “The Silo Effect”.
This idea probably sounds good on paper but in reality, it is why companies are slow and cost ineffective. For the people inside there is no way to easily bounce ideas off someone with different skills and expertise.
The problem with Silo's is that teams can get easily isolated from other teams. This results in a situation where it might become impossible to get help from other teams when problems arise and you are dependent on them. The middle managers are then often dragged into the fray and everyone starts blaming everyone.
So in order to fix this, do something technical people often forget to do: stop focusing on solving the technical dilemmas and start communicating. Ask other teams how you can improve your system and realign
it with their vision.
So my story here is really about how to build bridges between silos. As a developer or ops person, talk about different concerns and visions.Share the responsibility of shipping an application with your systems team.
It is about planting seeds that will create cooperation, respect and trust. Seeds that only grow by making compromises. It is about inspiring a change in work ethic, not forcing it.
We got there by compromise and lots of strict agreements. Given our technology, we agreed to a deployment process flow and laid down the tracks to follow that path. In our case we created a Jenkins pipeline and since we build as Debian packages, we make it easy for operators to manage.
So what do you do when you encounter silos? Don't put energy towards knocking them down. The management structure has been there for ages and will probably never change. Make it your playground, learn to navigate them and uncover shortcuts. Informally discuss with the people in other teams, at the coffee machine for example.
In the end, it is about a gradual evolution of improving communication and collaboration, not an immediate revolution. Keep in mind IT is not centered around the systems or the tech we use, it is
about the people.
Finally... Real silos are often painted in the color of the sky, to make them look transparant.
And this is exactly what we should do too with organizational silos.
So when life gives you silos, paint them.
Find Your Shameless Spark - Inspiring Women Live 2014Denise Jacobs
Being true to yourself and loving what you do is a key part of being able to promote yourself shamelessly. Learn about the mental blocks that hold you back from promoting your brilliance to the world and how to bust through them, how to respect and feed your soul, plus several highly effective tips for sharing your skills and talents. This session is a booster shot of inspiration to spark your creative thinking about your personal brand and to promote your best self for stardom.
Creating Better Together - Adobe Max 2016Denise Jacobs
Despite the prevalent mythology of the lone creative genius, many of the most innovative contributions spring from the creative chemistry of a group and the blending of everyone’s ideas and concepts. How can we best leverage this collective wisdom to generate creative synergy and co-create? Let’s look at the process of recognizing and removing our personal creative blocks, connecting and communicating with others, combining ideas using play, and constructing a collaborative environment to discover effective methods for tapping into a group’s creative brilliance. Through these steps, you’ll learn to capitalize on the super-linearity of creativity to embrace and leverage diversity to create better together.
The Creativity (R)Evolution - High Five Conference 2016Denise Jacobs
There's a movement brewing built upon leveraging the transformative power of creativity to help us work and create better so that we can produce work infused with meaning. Discover how by instilling tiny habits to cultivate your creative spark, and finally, fomenting creative collaboration based on the tenets of improv and open spaces, you can take the spark of Creativity (R)Evolution and use it as the impetus to push you, your teams, and your companies to create Betterness.
As a developer and a creative, you need ways to work better so that you can create more, but what do you do when you hit a seemingly insurmountable mental wall? You need to get unblocked: to bust through that barrier to allow creativity to flow. Beware: this presentation challenges the standard norms around concentration, focus, productivity, and may change how you work…for the better.
Living Safe on the Web: The Good, The Bad and the downright ugly!
Session 3 - all about digital citizenship and safety online.
You are welcome to browse and use the content within following a Creative Commons 3.0 License.
Throttle and Debounce Patterns in Web AppsAlmir Filho
A brief discussion on the Throttle and Debounce Patterns. Where, when and why to use them? They solve some problems that may harm the performance of an entire web app due to misuse of user events.
How your office is ruining your productivity & creativity - UX for your workp...Peter Winchester
A look at how the office (specifically the open plan office) has come to impact your productivity. Starting with the history of the office and where it came from, continuing to look at who does open space well and finally how you can improve your own workspace.
Personal Study of 18 Noodle Products of 7 Companies in India.CRN
To study various noodles available in the market and to compare them on the basis of Composition, Taste, Health and Price along with the various food additives used in their preparation.
Catálogo de la marca ZesfOr de accesorios para coche y moto. Incluye sensores de aparcamiento, localizadores GPS, alfombrillas de coche y limpiaparabrisas. Más información en zesfor.com
How incubation and acceleration programmes (can) increase your chances of gro...Benno Groosman
Experiences, best practices and recommendations from an entrepreneurial perspective. Sharing my experience in 5 startup ecosystems.
By Benno Groosman MScBA, www.groosman.info at
July 3, 2015 UNconvention.eu in Brussels
How to get better answers from asking better questionsChris How
Want to become a question asking ninja? Asking questions is a vital skill for all UX researchers and digital designers to master.
Asking questions is at the heart of uncovering ideas and opportunities that can then be translated into digital products and services, software and interfaces.
Here are some practical tips to answer:
1. What makes a good question?
2. How can I get better answers from my questions?
3. How can I get better at asking questions?
The Very Heart of It. Keynote at Urban Libraries Unite (ULU) ConferencePeter Bromberg
Text and slides from keynote at Urban Librarians Unite (ULU) Conference in Brooklyn, NY, April 5, 2013. The full text of the talk is available at: https://www.slideshare.net/pbromberg/urban-libraries-unite-ulu-conference-keynote-text-version-wslides
Slides from my keynote presentation at the Plymouth Enhanced Learning Conference 2013 (#pelc13).
As it was a closing keynote, I attempted to weave topics, themes, images and other resources from the conference into my narrative.
Thanks for the invitation, Steve Wheeler!
UX in the Age of AI: Where Does Design Fit In? Fluxible 2017Carol Smith
Cognitive computing and machine learning are not new concepts, but they are new to most UX’ers. Carol Smith addresses questions about artificial intelligence (AI) such as:
- What are these terms and technologies and how do they work?
- How can we take advantage of these powerful systems to help our users?
- Should I be concerned that computers will take over the world soon? Spoiler: It is extremely unlikely.
Once this baseline understanding is established, we’ll look at examples of AI in use and discuss the relevancy of design work in the age of AI. Additionally, we’ll explore the ethical challenges inherent with the use of AI from the user’s perspective, specifically regarding trust and transparency.
This was presented at Fluxible 2017 in Kitchener-Waterloo, Ontario, Canada on 23 Sept 2017.
Sound familiar? The Rails ecosystem has grown in leaps and bounds, like the Java ecosystem did in its’ early days. So many languages, frameworks, plugins, engines, libraries and tools. So little time to deliver your new project.
It’s tempting to hire a rock star who knows absolutely everything to get your new project off the ground. You can also hire "consultants" to help fill in the holes in your team when taking your existing product to the next level. Or maybe just hire a whole bunch of people for cheap, and they’ll get the job done... But did you ever consider the untapped wealth of the team you already have?
In this session we’ll explore ways in which the average development team can explore, learn, teach, and grow, until the sum of members of the team is as great as any Consultant or Rockstar.
A lot of talk about the future of the internet sounds almost hippie-spiritual or faux-philosophical. The Internet is not the same as the world-wide-web. But the Internet-of-Things and the Semantic Web - all parts of Web 3.0, are beginning to be very important to our learning environments. Here is a summary of key features, ranging from access, creativity, and information architecture.
The Elephant and the Dassie: A Tale of Evolution and KinshipKerry-Anne Gilowey
The evolution of our work and environment has produced new relationships between disciplines, within digital teams, across organisational verticals, in our local design and tech community, and across borders. I gave this talk as the keynote presentation at the UX Craft conference in Cape Town, South Africa on 4 October 2014.
Semantics, Deep Learning, and the Transformation of BusinessSteve Omohundro
Deep learning is likely to have a big impact on business. McKinsey predicts that AI and robotics will create $50 trillion of value over the next 10 years. Over $1 billion of venture investment has gone to 250 deep learning startups over the past year. Deep learning systems have recently broken records in speech recognition, image recognition, image captioning, translation, drug discovery and other tasks. Why is this happening now and how is it likely to play out? We review the development of AI and the pendulum swings between the "neats" and the "scruffies". We describe traditional approaches to semantics through logics and grammars and the new deep learning vector semantics. We relate it to Roger Shepard's cognitive geometry and the structure of biological networks. We also describe limitations of deep learning for safety and regulation. We show how it fits into the rational agent framework and discuss what the next steps may be.
Moyer assignment 4 information literacy process models
Yippee-IA: All you need to know about Information Architecture in 5 minutes
1. Yippee-IA
All you need to know about
Information Architecture in 5 minutes
@chrishow
#uxcb14
Image credit: http://www.disambiguity.com/information-architecture-is-in-the-dna-of-design-on-evolving-not-dying/
2. A definition
INFORMATION ARCHITECTURE IS THE ART & SCIENCE OF
ORGANISING AND LABELLING WEBSITES TO SUPPORT
TASK COMPLETION AND INTUITIVE ACCESS TO CONTENT
“Good information architecture enables people to find and do what they
came for. Great information architecture takes find out of the equation: the
site behaves as the visitor expects.
Poor or missing information architecture neuters content, design, and
programming and devalues the site for its owners as well as the audience it was
created to serve.
It’s like a film with no director. The actors may be good, the sets may be lovely,
but audiences will leave soon after the opening credits.”
– Jeffrey Zeldman (Founder of A List Apart)
3. There are only 5 ways to organise things
"An information architect is the individual who
organises the patterns inherent in data,
making the complex clear.”
– Saul Wurman, Information Anxiety (1976).
Image credit: http://e.fastcompany.net/multisite_files/codesign/imagecache/1280/article_feature/Richard-Wurman.jpeg
4. There are only 5 ways to organise things
Location
Alphabet
Time
Category
Hierarchy
Random is not a way of organising things.
Image credit: http://e.fastcompany.net/multisite_files/codesign/imagecache/1280/article_feature/Richard-Wurman.jpeg
21. Mixing them up
Image credit: http://www.wpclipart.com/science/atoms_molecules/periodic_tables/periodic_table_of_elements_BW.png
22. Less intuitive ways to organise a record store
Where the record was recorded
By the singer’s family name
When the record was released
The emotions the music provokes
BPM of the fastest tune
Location
Alphabet
Time
Category
Hierarchy
Image credit: http://inthedistance.net/images/2014/02/wpid4414-Cape-Town-South-Africa-216.jpg
23. Your turn to help me
Location
Alphabet
Time
Category
Hierarchy