Comments on DUX: Five Lessons Learned

Dan — Fri, 26 Jan 2007 14:51:24 GMT

One reason people go back to grad school is to find mentors. A lot of them (like Sara Little Turnbull) call academia home. These are the people who have an interest in imparting knowledge and experience. The good teachers, anyway.

jess — Fri, 26 Jan 2007 14:51:24 GMT

We’re also collecting DUX writeups over at iaslash
http://www.iaslash.org/node.php?id=7379

Paula Thornton — Fri, 26 Jan 2007 14:51:24 GMT

Erin: Thanks so much for bringing Sara Little Turnbull to life for me. I immediately went out to learn as much about her as I could. She’s indeed an inspiration.

http://www.gsb.stanford.edu/news/headlines/turnbull_docto…

Lyle Kantrovich — Tue, 11 Jan 2011 03:39:52 GMT

Erin,

After reading a few articles on Tufte’s presentation advice (http://home.teleport.com/~phillip/tufte.html) and the dangers of powerpoint (http://www.boxesandarrows.com/archives/understanding_powe… I’ve tried doing more “talks” than “presentations.” My aim is to get by without slides or with a minimum number of slides. I’ve discovered a few things:

1) I know and can remember a lot more than I’ve trusted myself with in the past.

2) If you know the subject matter and can speak without slides, your message is received better, and the audience relates the content to you—you don’t look like you gave a book report, you look like a knowledgable expert.

3) Talking WITH people is much more interesting than talking TO them.

Thanks for the summary – I wanted to go to DUX, but it wasn’t in the cards this time around…2 years, huh?

David Heller — Fri, 26 Jan 2007 14:51:24 GMT

Erin, I really appreciate everything you had to say. I think you broke it down really well. I especially appreciate what you had to say about mentors. I appreciate the gender problems here very much but want to add that even men have problems finding mentors. I would love to see our community begin a real mentoring program where those who have “made it” make themselves available to those who are up and coming and who are taking a sincere interest in the theory and practice of digital experience design.

I think the only thing that was really missing for me, and I said this at the conference itself was depth. I wanted to open up these cases studies and see what was inside. When I left the Design Forum last year (lets really call that 0.9) I felt like I got the story, the process, the answer. This time around I feel like I got a broad tease. I had so many questions for the PeopleSoft and Adobe people and even more for the Ivrea and Truck folks but there was just no time.

I wonder and knowing that my presentation might not have made the cut, would less have been more?

Lou, also commented on teh “white elephant” in the room being “What is experience design?”. I actually think that it is a POMO thing, but we are experience design. I’m not so sure I need the answer anymore. What I like is that people who respond to it come and enjoy listening and engaging one another for 2+ days.

I can’t believe we said we want to wait 2 years for the next one. ;)

Ron Wild — Tue, 11 Jan 2011 03:39:52 GMT

Move beyond the bullet point!!!

(With insincere apologies to PowerPoint experts) here is the presentation I gave
http://www.1-900-870-6235.com/GreatMapDemo.htm
at a National Academy of Sciences colloquium;
http://vw.indiana.edu/sackler03/

One can speak from 2 minutes to 2 hours using an image like this projected for all to see.