OhioX - Connecting

UX Roundtable 2023

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 …

UXPA K-12 & Ohio Tech Day

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 …

Learning Experience Design Podcast

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, …

Screen from Roundtable Kickoff webinar showing UX capabilities, Professionalization & Career Awareness

Kicking Off the UX Roundtable

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 …

Table of stuff at the Tech Summit

Ohio UX Roundtable Kickoff

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 …

Teaching UX in K-12 banner

Teaching UX topics in K-12

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 …

Common goals for UX & CM (I think)

UX for Change Managers

I am doing another talk about UX with change managers. After doing an interactive session with ACMP Ohio, I was asked to do something shorter (and better?) for ACMP Philadelphia. It just so happens to be taking place on World Usability Day, November 11th. Description: Our change management projects have always focused on people, but …

4 levels of User Insights

User Insights Maturity Model

As part of the Stratascale Horizon Report on User Observability, I tried to explain how user insights is an organizational capability that helps digital system engineers, designers, and management understand experiences that customers and employees are having. With shared understanding of system performance, users’ experiences, and business transactions, organizations can increase their digital agility, helping them survive in …

Careers in UX

Careers in UX

Today (September 24, 2021) is the first-ever Ohio Tech Day. When I heard about the plans earlier this year, I was hoping we as a community could contribute something about user experience. With the help of colleagues at IxDA Cincinnati, UXPA Cleveland, we got a session started. UX Akron and IxDA Columbus quickly jumped on …