Category Archives: design

In the aftermath of SketchCamp

1 Jun 2011 – 10:15

Last weekend, I helped to organize and host the first annual SketchCamp. SketchCamp was a one-day event for interaction design and user experience (UX) professionals; we ran it like a BarCamp with a focus on UX sketching. It was a total success! Since then, several people have reached out to get more info on SketchCamp [...]

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Overlap 2011 – sneak peak

7 Mar 2011 – 9:24

This weekend Krista and I scoped out the venue for the Overlap conference that we’re planning for June 2011. It’s a lot of work to plan and prepare everything, but the people in the Overlap community, alone, make the undertaking worth it! Plus, we got pretty jazzed when we saw the venue for the first [...]

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#1UP: Games for Change

4 Mar 2011 – 10:17

It’s exciting that South by Southwest is just around the corner! When I submitted my panel proposal back in, what, June? July?…I had an inkling that games would be an interesting topic, and I was particularly interested in social change. Hence a panel proposal which is now called: 1UP! Games for Change. (hashtag will be [...]

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Using design for social good

28 Jan 2011 – 10:43

I’m in Chicago this weekend to participate in a pretty cool design event: it’s called UX for Good (hashtag: #uxxu) The premise behind it is that we (designers) can apply our skills to actual, real-world social problems like unemployment, urban violence, public education, community mental health, and cross-cultural understanding. User experience and visual designers are [...]

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Bodystorming privacy at OverlapSF

6 Apr 2010 – 19:42

We had a great bodystorming session at Hot Studio last night. Dennis Schleicher Skyped in for the whole thing from Chicago and led the introduction and warm-up exercises! Our topic dealt with privacy issues in 2019 when we may, theoretically, have some device hanging behind our ears — or someplace discrete — that reads our [...]

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