Designing and delivering your own workshop can be daunting. The mixture of design questions (like What is being taught? How can people learn? How do we share?) and facilitation questions (like How do we invite and welcome people? How do we create trust and safety?) can be a complicated mess. This post is about a […]
Posts with the UX tag
Design is invisible
“Good design is invisible” is a fairly smug cliché among designers. Affordance It is based on the idea of Affordance. The idea that some design can be so intuitive, so obvious that people just use the product or service. They do not notice it as they benefit from it. However, there is a flip side […]
Help me think?
In 2018 I was doing work on Forgetting in design. This was mostly due to a mix of work in Dementia and human centered design concerns about the demand for Memorability made by some products and services. I’ve come back to this diagram due to work updating the SensoryUX workshop I have been running since […]
Alignment: linking movement and thought
Alignment has been coming up in a lot of my reading over the last year. In books on Wayfinding, Time Perception, Dissent, Kindness and Leadership it’s the anchor of alignment that comes thru as a common theme. The need to be aligned at the start of a project or journey but also the need to […]
TIME: planning workshop activities
This post is about Time and Activities in workshops. How to think critically of time allocated to the different elements of activities that workshop participants find value in. Pre-Activity Instructions Question: how long does it take to explain the workshop activity? Explaining what an activity is, what its outputs are to be and how it […]
Designing Hybrid Workshops in 3 Parts
I hope to run a free 2 hour workshop by Zoom on ideas around designing hybrid workshops at the end of September (probably Friday 24th). I’ll update information as it becomes clearer. This post is to describe the purpose and structure of the workshop. Sharing Wonder The opening of the workshop is not part of […]
3 ways of thinking about accessibility
3 concepts There are multiple ways of thinking about designing for accessibility from a person-centred perspective. This post is about 3 of them. There is this slidedeck on Dropbox for a workshop to discuss them. All the images in this post are from it. I’ll use examples from a workshop this week about communication impairments. […]
Human-centered prototyping starts with respect for human capacities
When working on accessible design projects, people often centre their discussions on defining impairments and how to use technologies and services to bridge the gap between such impaired capacities and “normal” capacities. This is a deficit model of design. Design fixing human failings. What this model fails to notice is that the gap is not […]
Making tools useless
I’ve made a Perceivoscope. It’s a tool for understanding how information needs to be perceivable, intelligible and actionable by a user for the experience to be meaningful. I’ve also made a Autonoetiscope. It’s seeing how anticipation and imagination frame and predict the experiences that people choose and have. UX (User Experience) obsesses about tools. I […]
Workshop On A Card
I am offering 5 new skills workshops using a new hybrid “Workshop On A Card” format. Each workshop has the same structure: A greetings card with some new ideas and space for notes A 20 – 30 minute podcast with more detail on those ideas A 60 minute Zoom encounter to explore ideas and actions […]