Keith Instone on User Experience
I am excited to be back on the SIGCHI Executive Committee along with several other new people to the team. Time to give back to the HCI discipline, connect it with UX professionals in industry, and help the next generation. See April 18: New to the SIGCHI EC by Neha Kumar (Medium) for details. My …
What’s coming up for UX practitioners and professionals in Ohio, April 2023 edition. Our next meeting of the OhioX UX Roundtable is on Friday the 14th at noon. NEW are Eventbrite events for our 2nd-Friday-monthly-hangouts that you can RSVP for to get reminders of the ones you can make while not getting pestered by me …
I am doing a new presentation of very old stuff for the UX@UM conference on Saturday, April 1. My talk’s title is “History of Connecting UX Academia and Industry“. I have called this “User Experience Research-Practice Interaction” (UXRPI) and “Industry-Academic Collaboration in UX” in the past. UX@UM is a conference at the University of Michigan, …
We officially kicked-off the OhioX User Experience Roundtable in August. We have a group of UX practitioners hanging out each month and working in teams to advance the profession and serve OhioX. As an OhioX Roundtable, we are “pros connecting with pros”: where UX professionals convene across the state. More than that, we want to …
Today (September 30, 2022) was the second annual Ohio Tech Day, a day of events inspiring the next generation of Ohio’s technology and innovation leaders (that is, K-12 students). As the UX Roundtable, we produced a video about UX Careers that debuted today on OhioTechDay TV. By coincidence, today I was also part of a …
I was recently on the Learning Experience Design: In the Trenches podcast with Michael Vanderpool and Eric Ward to talk about User Experience. I used my 4 aspects of UX that evolved from my UX Spins presentations to guide the discussion. Impressions people form as they interact with technology Activities you can do to define, …
On August 12th, we kicked off the OhioX User Experience Roundtable. (See my category of posts about OhioX for background.) Watch the recording of the webinar. (Edited to 40 minutes.) Fill out the feedback and volunteer form. Tell us what you thought and how you want to be involved. What happened at the kickoff We …
A few years in the making, we are kicking off the OhioX User Experience Roundtable on August 12 at noon (on Zoom). Join us to help make Ohio a humane tech hub. It started in 2019, when I learned about the plans for OhioX, a new organization representing and connecting those committed to growing Ohio’s …
I participated in the OhioX product roundtable about user experience this afternoon (January 20, 2022). Watch a video recording of the session. We talked about User Experience (UX) in the context of product management at 3 levels: Team: the process, deliverables, and activities people do to define, design, and deliver great experiences for users. Organization: …
I got to be a part of another session about UX in K-12 tonight. First time was with UX colleagues in Ohio for Ohio Tech Day. This time it was with colleagues in New Jersey, with the UXPA NJ chapter: Computer Science Education Week Event: Teaching UX Topics in Grades K-12, December 8, 2021 After …