Keith Instone on User Experience
I am excited to have Jon Yablonski visit my CS 3240 class on April 14th. His Laws of UX book is a great way to learn principles of visual design, user-centered design, and user experience. I am also excited that he will be visiting GDSN 3055 (User Experience/User Interface Design) classes offered in the Graphic …
It is Spring Break at BGSU, about halfway through the semester. I have “customized” the Usability Engineering class a bit, re-arranging the textbook topics, going deeper in a few areas, and adding a few tidbits from my industry experience. Order of Topics I front-loaded chapters that help with the project, where the students are going …
Ohio Magazine wrote an article about BGSU’s Life Design program, which caused me to put the CS usability engineering course in context (on LinkedIn, repeated here). The “Life Design” commitment was one reason I agreed to teach the decades-old “Usability Engineering” computer science class at BGSU this semester. I am actively working with people at …
The first piece of my “speakerware” that I am using for CS3240 is my 4 ways to think about UX, based on eating/cooking/food industry examples. A simplification of my “figure it out by presenting” UX Spins sessions. I have been using this set of slides with students for a while , at “career path” conferences …
Time to teach a User Experience-related class at Bowling Green State University again. I have taught a class, as an adjunct, about every 10 years: in 2006 & 2016, it was the graduate class in Human Issues in Computing. This time it is the undergraduate Usability Engineering course, CS3240. (A “legacy” title, but the core …
I’ll be at Columbus AI Week next week (September 17-19). On Day 2 (Wednesday), I am moderating a panel on AI for Customer Experience. We will be framing the discussion around 3 categories of AI system use cases: On Day 3 (Thursday), I will be doing an updated version of my breakout session/interactive discussion on …
In my continuing journey across the state to listen to what leaders are saying about AI and Ohio’s opportunities (economic, workforce, educational, social, and more), I spent Tuesday, June 11th at Cincy AI Week. Day 1 was themed Responsible AI, so I wanted to see first-hand what human-centered discussions were happening in Cincinnati, after seeing …
I am excited to add a presentation about user experience to the emerging resurgence of the Toledo region tech ecosystem. On Wednesday, April 10, I will be presenting “The Next Frontiers in User Experience” at this month’s Toledo Web Professionals / Google Developer Group Toledo meetup. Information technology is increasingly changing how we work, live, …
I am part of a team organizing the Activate Innovate conference, in Toledo, on June 13th, to (hopefully) kick-start the next era of innovation-based economic development in the region. For me, this is iteration 4 or 5, depending on how you count, of being involved in the IT / tech / startup ecosystem in the …
Adam Deardurff and I were guests on The Team W’s Human Tech podcast on March 27, 2024. Some of the things we talked about: