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Possible topics

yandle — Mon, 30 Jun 2008 05:13:47 CDT

Areas and topics we might want to discuss.

Local resources

Usability labs
User testing recruitment services / options

Tools & Methodologies

Documenting AJAX interactions
New tools (both on and offline)
User-centered design
How agile fits in
How do you wireframe - or do you not bother?
Rapid prototyping
User testing methodologies
The mobile perspective
Measuring experience
Using Analytics to improve experience

ROI & Client Buy-in

- Converting non-believers/cost justifying user research

The Future

Show & Tell

Talk about projects you've done
Talk about problems you're having

Advanced Topics

Cognitive psychology
Social psychology

Product Design

Haptics
Ergonomics
Design for touch
3D prototyping

General

What is a designer? Who does what and do job titles matter?
Accessibility: guidelines and standards

Stuff we need help with

yandle — Tue, 17 Jun 2008 12:05:10 CDT

Event Planning

The best thing you can do is introduce possible speakers to Danny Hope
Add to the list of possible topics

Setting up this website

Getting everything (this wiki, the (Wordpress) blog etc.) working properly under the uxbri.org.uk domain name (with Wordpress being the backbone of the site)

Pulling-in various feeds (from twitter, Flickr etc.) onto the site.

Brighton User Experience types Home

yandle — Mon, 09 Jun 2008 06:18:47 CDT

Next Event: Practical insights in designing Out of Box Experiences

Full description and sign-up (on Upcoming).

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Original preamble...At BarcampBrighton 2, Danny Hope gave an interesting talk about the methods he uses to design sites. He also talked about his interest in open-ness and showed pics of wireframes that he keeps on Flickr. During the discussion afterwards it became obvious that there's a lot that the Brighton design community could learn from each other, in terms of what we do and the way that we do it.

There are a multitude of digital media companies in Brighton, and many different networking groups. However, there are very few opportunities to talk in detail about design - both theory and practice. Let's see how many people we can get together to form an informal group of user experience / interaction / web designers. The aim would be to meet on a semi-regular basis - maybe using the 20x20 Pecha Kucha presentation format, maybe just bringing in problems / concepts or whatever to discuss in an atmosphere of open collaboration.

If you're interested please put down your name and feel free to add / edit bits to this wiki. If there are enough people interested then we can make the effort to organise a venue and date and make it all happen.

People

You can subscribe to the UX Brighton Google Group.

Elsewhere

Talk to @uxbri on Twitter
Add to the Flickr UX Brighton group
Subscribe to the (currently empty) UX Brighton blog
Get everything via the UX Bri firehose (if you've got an feed that you ought to be aggregated into the fire-hose email danny.hope@hobointernet.com)

Also, the Brighton page at UXnet.org can show news and events, as another locale in the User Experience Network.

Objectives

Share ways of doing things
Share tips on processes
Get help / feedback / input on design problems
Learn new ways to do things
Keep up to date with best practice

Frequency

At the 1st meeting, there seemed to be a consensus that there should be planned events about once a month and ad-hoc things like crits can just sort of spring up whenever.

Possible venues

(depends on numbers / cost etc)
This stuff should probably be moved to the venues page.

Lighthouse
The Werks [+2]
Upstairs at The Eagle
The Regency Town House
Sussex and Brighton universities
Upstairs @ The Earth & Stars, or The Victory

Possible Topics

Other groups

Just been pointed at http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/uxbrighton/ - is it alive? It has 13 members and their website has2 updates for Brighton (last summer) but 'no local ambassador' for Brighton. [Update 4/10/08: Danny Hope has just been named the new local ambassador for Brighton. It seems like the previous group is not longer active. So consider this group the official UXnet group for the area. Welcome! Check out http://uxnet.org/locales/joinus for more things you can do to connect with other locations. Keith, UXnet board.
There's also the Brighton UPA group - as far as I know this has been dormant for a year or so, but I (peteG) was going to try and bring that back to life.
Then there's also these guys - use8.net

Proposed speakers

vividoc — Wed, 07 May 2008 08:59:36 CDT

Who would we like to hear from - and what about?

Gehl Architects, Urban Quality Consultants

Gehl were involved in the rebuilding of New Road in Brighton. They've helped transform a car clogged rat-run into an area used primarily by pedestrians. They've done this by removing the street furniture that is associated with cars - a kerb that defines the boundary of road and pavement, street signs, road markings etc. This changes the look of the street, to the point that drivers either don't use the street because they think they shouldn't, or else are so inhibited that they drive very slowly and cautiously. The partnership is now due to start a similar process in the Black Lion area. I'd like to hear about the process and ethos behind this approach, how it's being used elsewhere and how success is measured.

Heathrow, T5

It'd be good to hear from anyone involved in planning the launch - if they're not in hiding. I'd like to understand what went wrong in terms of a 'soft launch' strategy and QA.

Matt Jones

Launched BBC News Online, was head of experience at Nokia and launched Dopplr. Top blogger and all round good egg.

Seymour Powell

Product designers who state: 'Design is about making things better.' Love 'em!

Harry Brignull and Pete Gale (shamelessly self nominated)

Harry and Pete have volunteered to double-up and give a presentation on Out of Box Experience Design. They've both had recent experience doing OOBE UX research and consultancy in different contexts, so some interesting contrasts and similarities should emerge. Topics will include:

Who and what's involved in designing anOOBE?
Why are OOBEs normally such epic failures?
What's normally done wrong?
What's an effective design process for OOBEoptimization?

Chris Douce (also shamelessly self-nominated!)
One idea is to have a rapid overview of a whole course: Fundamentals of Interaction Design, and then to have a discussion about if these the techiques within the courseare used by members of the UxBri group and the extent to which professional practice may differ. Also it might be interesting to link the ID course to other subject areas (such as psychology and social science).

Dr Lyn Pemberton and Richard N Griffiths
Lyn coordinates the Interactive Technologies group in the Universitiy of Brighton and Richard is Course leader for the Postgraduate Programme in Interactive Technologies. They have offered to give us an overview of the MSc in Interactive Technology Design followed by a discussion on the possibility of replacing it with a MSc in User Experience Design. What course content would you expect to find in such a course? Should the course be on 'User Experience Design ' or the broader practice of 'Experiential Design'?

People

ribot — Tue, 06 May 2008 04:36:24 CDT

Feel free to add your name (and anything else you like about yourself) to this list.

You can also subscribe to the UX Brighton Google Group, this is the best way to join the converasation.

Jenni Lloyd (NixonMcInnes)
Danny Hope (Hobo Internet)
Robert Douglas (Rightmove)
Harry Brignull (Madgex)
Gavin Wye (Rail Information Online)
James Darling (Peoples Music Store)
Paul Annett (Clearleft)
Trevor May (NixonMcInnes)
Lou Ashwell (NixonMcInnes)
Rosie Sherry
Luke Hay (Wired Sussex)
Madhava (Dharmafly)
Ellen de Vries (Copywriter)
Stephanie Rieger (Yiibu)
Pete Gale (Cogapp)
Mat Walker (Cogapp)
Mark Kirby (AVERT)
Tom Hume (Future Platforms) Bryan Rieger (Future Platforms)
Valentina Cartei (Adaptive Techologies Ltd)
Andy Dennis (Designate)
Jim Callender (Callender Creates)
Jason Till, (Designate)
Ben Sauer (Redbeard)
Rob Morrissey (Designate)
Adnan Mangral (The Escape Committee)
Richard Rutter (Clearleft)
Winky Dinneen (Worth)
Aaron Withey (Worth)
Viviana Doctorovich (Greenhouse)
David Huff (Bionic Media)
cathy jones (electricelephant)
Premasagar Rose (Dharmafly)
Melanie Burke (electric putty)
Stuart Curran (Designate)
Russell Beech
Stuart Nicholls (Makemedia)
Chris Douce (Open University)
Dan Eastwell (The Thought Balloon)
Louise Hewitt (Semanitco)
Graham McAllister (University of Sussex)
Catherine Pierce (Flow Interactive)
Irene Soler (isd-sign.com)
Antony Ribot (ribot)
Jerome Ribot (ribot)

Preferred time/date

bryanrieger — Fri, 02 May 2008 08:55:30 CDT

Day of the week

Monday
Tuesday [+8]
Wednesday [+1]
Thursday [+3]
Friday

Start time

6.00pm
6.30pm
7.00pm [+7]
7.30pm [+3]
8.00pm [+2]

Tagging on other Sites

daneastwell — Wed, 23 Apr 2008 04:18:55 CDT

How can I add thoughts, photos, blog posts etc that might be of interest to the group on other social media sites?

e.g.

a good or bad website experience
a good or bad real world user experience
an example product or system we could learn from.

Step 1: tag stuff with 'uxbri' -

On flickr, tag your or any images with uxbri
On del.icio.us tag your posts with uxbri
On vimeo tag videos with uxbri
twitter, follow the hashtags bot (http://twitter.com/hashtags), add #uxbri to your tweets

Step 2: follow the posts on

http://uxbri.tumblr.com/

Venues

yandle — Tue, 22 Apr 2008 15:38:32 CDT

General

Lighthouse
The Werks. No booking required the the moment.
Upstairs at The Eagle
The Regency Town House
Brighton University

New Media Suite (Watts building, Lewes Road)

40-50 capacity room + networking area

Creativity Centre (Cockcroft building, Lewes Road)

2 × 40-50 capacity rooms (one of these rooms has configurable walls and multiple projectors – very cool)

University Of Brighton Gallery‎ (Grand Parade)

Creativity Centre
+2 other places

Sussex University?
Upstairs @ The Earth & Stars, or The Victory

Suitable for the Critique Circuit

Here's a list of the venues that we can use to hold crits. Please put as much detail as possible like who to contact to book the room or if we can just turn up.

The Werks.
The Regency Town House
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Critique Circuit

jennilloyd — Tue, 22 Apr 2008 14:52:05 CDT

I have been thinking of setting up a Brighton critique circuit for a while. It sort of fits under the umbrella of UX Brighton and Danny suggested I put something on here so here it is. I'm happy to chat about this on Tuesday if more people are interested.

I have spoken to a couple of people and think there is enough interest for one group. Hopefully there will be enough for a couple of groups.

The format I'm proposing would be something like this. Five or six people in a group('s) that meet every week or possibly every other week meet for a critique lasting two hours (twenty minutes per person) lead by one member of the group. The group leader is responsible for ensuring that the critique's stay on topic and comments are constructive and relevant. This would go on for nine sessions or so.

Ideally there will be more than one group. The group would then split up and swap half and half with another group and start the whole process again. The idea of swapping groups is that knowledge / processes people are using is shared in the group will then be dissipated throughout the UX community quickly. I'm not sure how it will work and or how feasible this is at the moment, and will require the people in the group to commit to turn up to at least the sessions for that particular round. I think the critique's should be run on the basis of Chatham rules. Thanks to Tom for inspiration here.

I still need ideas for when and where to run the crits. If anyone wants to add something feel free.

There's a good post on Scott Berkun's blog about how to run a critique that worth a look.

So if you would be interested, put you name down here for the time being.

Who's interested in taking part?

Jenni Lloyd (especially now I've read that Scott Berkun post)

Buttons

yandle — Thu, 17 Apr 2008 09:24:55 CDT

Stick a UX Brighton button on your site

It looks like this:

Here's the code:

Critters

gavinwye — Thu, 17 Apr 2008 04:23:36 CDT

Add your name to the list below if you want to be a critter.

Gavin Wye