Anyone should be able to present on anything of which they’ve got a basic grasp.
That’s the theory.
A group of us at work meet together every so often to improve our skills in a certain area. On Monday it’s presentations. My first thought was to present using a single image related to a random Wikipedia article. However, this is what came up:
Hence my tweet asking for a random subject and method of presentation for an upcoming (informal) peer review session at work:
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I hadn’t come across Juxio before, so have decided to use that. As for the subject, I really like Lou McGill‘s suggestion of dandelions as it had a connection to work (I collaborated with Lou on the OER infoKit for which we used a dandelion motif).
**Update***
Here’s my presentation as I delivered it. You may need to turn the sound up as the Flip camera was quite a distance away from me!
[youtube http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4j84T3y2GnA&w=640&h=505]
1. Read things I save for later using Instapaper.
2. Sync highlights and comments to Evernote.
3. Search for a quotation or section in a book.
4. Look up a word in the built-in dictionary or a concept at Wikipedia.
5. Use the built-in 3G to navigate Google Maps via the browser.
I realised recently that the middle of my Venn diagram is ‘user experience’ (broadly considered) user outcomes. This incorporates what’s known as UX:
User eXperience (UX) is about how a person feels about using a system. User experience highlights the experiential, affective, meaningful and valuable aspects of human-computer interaction (HCI) and product ownership, but it also covers a person’s perceptions of the practical aspects such as utility, ease of use and efficiency of the system. User experience is subjective in nature, because it is about an individual’s performance, feelings and thoughts about the system. User experience is dynamic, because it changes over time as the circumstances change. (Wikipedia)
Since then, I’ve been looking for resources that will help me sharpen my thinking around UX. Here’s five that I’ve come across:
- UX booth – a blog ‘by and for the User Experience community’.
- Chris Messina’s Design Patterns – a collection on Flickr of ‘interesting interfaces and design flows from around the web’. Definitely worth checking out!
- UX Myths – a collection of user experience misconceptions, with explanations of why they aren’t true.
- Smashing Magazine: 25 User Experience videos that are worth your time – the title says it all!
- UX Magazine – a really nicely laid-out site (as you’d hope!) settting out ‘to explore, promote & discuss the multiple facets of user experience one article at a time.’
Have you come across UX resources that would help? 😀
