UPA 2009 Presentation Trailers:
Interview Series with Robert Skrobe
Interview with: Dan Szuc - Length: 15:22
Make Yourself Heard! Selling User Experience in Your Organization
Tuesday, June 09, 2009
When it comes to "selling" user experience (UX) processes, methods and techniques in our organizations, even experienced practitioners often don’t always know how to sell effectively...
Interview with: Amy Cueva - Length: 10:00
Next Generation Interaction Paradigms: Useful or Novelty?
Wednesday, June 10, 2009
Next generation interaction paradigms will be introduced. The creative process will be explored. Three demos of next generation interaction paradigms will be presented. Then the audience will participate in a discussion about whether new approaches present more problems than they solve or are entirely worth the learning curve they introduce.
Interview with: Kuldeep Kelkar - Length: 15:44
My company is sold on usability - now what?
Wednesday, June 10, 2009
We often talk about selling usability, but what happens once your company buys into the idea? In this talk we reflect on our experiences in a rapidly growing user research department...
Interview with: Bill Albert - Length: 8:45
Unmoderated usability testing: experiences from the field
Thursday, June 11, 2009
Unmoderated usability testing is a rapidly emerging research method to better understand the entire web experience. This panel will review how unmoderated testing works, when to use (and not use) this method...
Interview with: Susan Weinschenk - Length: 10:56
Persuasive Presentations: How to Craft and Deliver Compelling Usability Presentations Thursday, June 11, 2009
Whether you are presenting to Executive Management or the programmers on the project, you want your usability presentations to be attention getting, compelling and persuasive. This session will show you (by example) how to create powerful and compelling presentations.
Interview with: Richard Briggs - Length: 9:46
Lessons Learned from the World of Game Design
Thursday, June 11, 2009
In his role as Producer, Rich is responsible for the execution and quality of scripted events for the Dead Space franchise. He also manages and reports findings from all internal and external focus groups, which are used to evaluate the overall ...
Interview with: Wendy Castleman - Length: 10:51
How you present findings can affect your credibility and influence
Thursday, June 11, 2009
Presenting findings is one of the only opportunities we have to communicate with others inside and outside our companies. Researchers are great at planning, conducting and analyzing usability research. We aren’t necessarily great at presenting ...
Interview with: Nathan Shedroff - Length: 9:18
World Usability Day: Designing for a Sustainable World
Friday, June 12, 2009
Designing for a Sustainable World shows how usability can apply to all of what we do and build. We look at all products and services - buildings, roads, or consumer products; business services or healthcare systems - throughout their life cycle...
Interview with: Silvia Zimmermann - Length: 10:05
UPA President, Institut für Software-Ergonomie und Usability
Friday, June 12, 2009
Silvia Zimmermann, who was a founder of UPA Switzerland, is in charge of the Swiss Institute for Software Ergonomy and Usability in Zurich. She was also a co-organiser of the December 2008 European UPA conference on usability and design.
