UXDesignCast

Joining Karel on this episode are Val Fox (Director, Innovative Technology Solutions, Ryerson University), Keith Instone (Information Architecture Lead, IBM CIO’s Office, IBM.com), Eliane Tozman (User Interface Designer, IBM Media Design Studio), and our newest member of the panel Jay Trimble (Group Lead for the User Centered Technology Group, NASA Ames Research Center).  The panel discusses the Palm Pre and Palm’s new WebOS, an update on the Usability Professionals Association (UPA) including an innovative perspective on design called Evil by Design, a summary of the trend toward what has recently called the real-time web including design features of Google Wave and recent experiences regarding Twitter. The interesting website of the month that was discussed is spezify.com and the community news concerned the IxDA organization. The Mozilla Labs design challenge together with IxDA was also discussed.

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Joining Karel on this episode are Julie Santilli (IBM Visual Design Community and Tools Lead ), David Schwartz (IBM UI Architecture, Patterns, & Assets Lead), and Bob Jones (IBM User Experience Community & Tools Strategy Lead). The episode provides advice on designing dynamic forms, on constructing effective surveys, and discusses design quotes and recommended reading that provide design insight, advice, and inspiration.

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Panelists joining Karel on this episode are Val Fox (Director, Innovative Technology Solutions, Ryerson University), Keith Instone (Information Architecture Lead, IBM CIO’s Office, IBM.com), and Eliane Tozman (User Interface Designer, IBM Media Design Studio). The panel discusses the Sixth Sense research project, the future of internet search, data-driven design, and what’s messing up our UIs.

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Karel’s guests for this project design review of IBM Lotus iNotes ultra-light for the iPhone are Margo Ezekiel (User Experience Professional), Carrie Tracy (Senior Visual Designer), and Michelle Cooper (Usability Specialist).

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Joining Karel on this episode are Julie Santilli (IBM Visual Design Community and Tools Lead ), David Schwartz (IBM UI Architecture, Patterns, & Assets Lead), and Bob Jones (IBM User Experience Community & Tools Strategy Lead). The group discusses trends in visual and interaction design and in user research and user feedback.

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Find out about the incredible visual and interaction design, user experience research and evaluation, and development team collaboration that went into the Agile design and development of IBM Rational Asset Manager.  Joining Karel for this episode are Heather Frantz (User Experience Practitioner), Janet Mockler (Visual Designer), and Michael Stokes (User Experience and Design Manager and Practitioner).

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Panelists joining Karel on this episode are Eliane Tozman (User Interface Designer, IBM Media Design Studio) and Keith Instone (Information Architecture Lead, User Experience Design, ibm.com). The panel discusses Karel’s blog post designing for the cloud, the IBM Blue Spruce project, the 10 harsh truths about corporate websites, the intelligent software assistant, and Microsoft’s glimpse of the future.

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What to know how IBM Lotus Notes is designed and what user interface features are in the latest release? Joining Karel for this episode are Mary Beth Raven (Lead User Experience Designer for Lotus Notes) and John Lance (Product Designer for Lotus Notes Calendar and Scheduling). The episode starts off by providing an overview of IBM Lotus Notes and its history.  The various methods that are used to get customer input and feedback are described next. The central role of persona play is discussed as well as the influence they have on design.  Mary Beth and John discuss the challenges of designing a product that has a current user base of 140 million and the methods they use to ensure that new designs will satisfy users.  They also outline the major new user interface features available in the latest release and describe the various ways users can find out more about and get involved with the Lotus Notes design.

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This is the second of our tutorial sessions.  Karel is joined by David Schwartz and Bob Jones of his team at IBM to discuss the various ways user experience design can be optimized within an Agile development approach.  Specific recommendations of best practices are provided based on the experiences of practitioners at IBM and elsewhere.

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Panelists joining Karel on this episode are Val Fox (Director, Innovation Technology Solutions, Ryerson University), Keith Instone (Information Architecture Lead, User Experience Design, IBM.com), and Eliane Tozman (User Interface Designer, IBM Media Design Studio).  The panel discusses the how design is becoming a product differentiator in particular markets, the success of Facebook despite design challenges, the increasing importance of design, what user experience design is, and misconceptions about user experience design.

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