Reviews: Conference Reviews

An IA Summit 2006 Workshop: Presented by Kevin Cheng and Jane Jao

I have a confession to make. I almost didn’t sign up for the Creating Conceptual Comics workshop. When I saw it listed in the IA Summit program, several questions came to mind.

• First, how could anyone fill a whole day with a topic like this?
• Second, with all the “serious” stuff in the same time slot, shouldn’t I do one of those workshops instead?
• And third, I don’t really know how to draw all that well; so what could I do with comics anyway?

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The inaugural UX STRAT conference began on September 9, 2013, with a full day of pre-conference workshops. Four leading thinkers in UX strategy presented half-day workshops—which at $350 for two half-day workshops were very reasonably priced in comparison to similar workshops at other conferences. Each attendee who signed up for the day of workshops had two choices for the morning and two for the afternoon. The workshops included the following:

• Morning Workshops
  • “Beyond Business Basics,” by Nathan Shedroff, Chair, MBA in Design Strategy, at California College of the Arts
  • “Customer Journey Mapping: Illustrating the Big Picture,” by Megan Grocki, Experience Strategy Director, and Jonathan Podolsky, Senior Strategist, both at Mad*Pow
• Afternoon Workshops
  • “Redesigning Business Culture and Thinking Around the Customer,” by Tim Loo, Strategy Director at Foolproof
  • “Lean UX + UX Strat,” by Josh Seiden, Managing Director at Neo

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Future London Academy’s UX and Digital Design Week 2017 took place August 14–18, in London. Throughout the week, we visited a variety of design studios and product companies and learned a lot about the way they work, including their projects, products, processes, management, culture, and all the things that shape them. The lineup for the program was great as always, featuring Moving Brands, Microsoft Lift, Territory, Deliveroo, Moo, Made by Many, NomNom, Monese, Analog Folk, Firedrop, and Andrea Picchi.

In this review, I’ll provide an overview of the conference, describing its

• organization
• venue
• hospitality
• content
• presenters
• proceedings
• community Read More