Keith Instone on User Experience
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:
I will be facilitating a panel at the 67th Human Factors & Ergonomics Society annual meeting on Wednesday, in Washington, DC. The panel will be one of the featured sessions for User Experience Day, a dedicated track of programming specifically geared for UX professionals. The panel topic is “Advances in UX Research & Practice” and …
I am excited to host another “UX Game Night”: playing games that embody UX concepts while also socializing with your UX peers. I am going to bring two kinds of games: traditional games and specially-made games. Useful UX Concepts Taught by Traditional Games Specific UX Games Should be fun!
I presented Four ways to think about the “Next Frontier of UX” at the Greater Cleveland Partnership’s All in for Tech Day on October 10th. I used the 4 categories that evolved from my UX Spins roadshow to frame a discussion around emerging tech areas (with a focus on AI). UX as Impressions UX as …
September was a great month for UX across Ohio, with World Interaction Design Day events in Cincinnati and Columbus being the most prominent: Ohio was the only state in the USA with 2 events! October has a lot going on for UXers, more than changing leaves! The new Ohio UX Calendar lists the upcoming events by UX groups that …
I attended two InnovateOhio “AI Forums” the past month in order to listen to the conversations and start thinking about how UXers can foster a more humane artificial intelligence-driven economy/society in Ohio. If you are not familiar with InnovateOhio, its main goal is to build a platform that enables better interactions with state services for …
As the Ohio UX Roundtable, we want to support our community, improve our profession, and increase our impact on industry. We created a survey to help us understand more about UX professionals, educators and overall UX maturity across the state. Here are some of the survey questions for practitioners/managers: For educators, we ask about the …
Summer time means several “socials” across the state, but also starting to plan for the fall. What we already know about for the Ohio UX community in the fall: October 9-13, Cincinnati Design Week. The fall events we are planning during the monthly Zoom hangouts: