Session Title
UX Show and Tell
Presenter
Chris Avore, Erova Studios LLC
Session Type: Activity
Even the most involved practitioners of the UX community have few places to turn when they want face to face, trusted feedback on their various deliverables.
Because while we may attend national conferences, workshops, Refresh meetings and participate in book clubs and casual happy hours, there’s little opportunity to regularly share our work with a receptive helpful audience.
UX Show and Tell is a casual workshop that’s all about the work. Show shortcuts. Ask what to annotate in a wireframe. Draft scenarios and user stories, and identify one from the other. Share portfolios. Get feedback from practitioners instead of stakeholders.
Since many of those attending IX10 are experienced UX designers, the workshop will not only provide time to share real work amongst colleagues from across the globe, but will also emphasize how to host similar Show and Tell events back home long after the conference. Learn what’s worked well and what hasn’t when providing the opportunity to share work.
Participants should bring at least one document they’re comfortable sharing, regardless of whether that document was ever a final deliverable or not. We’re interested in sharing processes that lead to design decisions, not necessarily a finished product you’ve provided to your clients or your boss.
Biography
Chris Avore is an interaction designer in the Washington DC area, specializing in usable interface design and information architecture.
After years of working independently, he grew tired of asking his bulldog for persona advice and began pestering other user experience designers for feedback, and thus UX Show and Tell was, well, you get the idea.
3 Comments
Ah, Chris has captured the trees for the forest!. What a great, simple, relevant idea for a conference, so often overlooked or forgotten. Kudos Chris.
Thanks, Andrew. Hopefully others share our opinions and the Activity makes it through.
I think a lot of people could stand to benefit by leaving the conference with spot-on, relevant insight into their work. I know I’d love the opportunity to have my own work checked out by the likes of those who will be attending IxD10.
Brilliant! I can’t believe this session wouldn’t be incredibly popular with attendees, especially those who don’t work in big urban centers with an active design community.