Chicago IxDA Interaction14 Conference Takeaways

My Interaction14 XXXperience Brian Henkel, Manifest Digital

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Conference Takeaways

3 Personal Themes… §  Designing to Appeal to Users’ Senses §  Soft Skills & Working with Different Perspectives §  Education & Mentorship

Designing to Appeal to Users’ Senses

Food = Interaction  Presentation by Bernard Lahousse  

The Lost Art of Efficiency in Interaction Design  Presentation by Giles Colbourne  

Food = Interaction  Food is what you make of it. More than 50% of how you experience food is not in the food, but how you perceive it.  

The Lost Art of Efficiency in Design  

Small changes in efficiency affect user behavior. Time is one of the most important aspects to a user’s experience.

Soft Skills in UX

How to Sell Your Ideas to Other People  Presentation by Jeroen van Geel  

Why Executives Obsess Over Icons  Presentation by Uday Gajendar  

Selling Your Ideas  We sell all of the time. Selling an idea is just as important as coming up with the idea.  

Working with Executives  

It’s about engaging with executives in an efficient manner that’s effective and that can enable the success of the business.  

Education & Mentorship

Learn to Drive Your UX Career  A workshop by Ian Swinson & Dan Donovan  

Making More UX Designers  Presentation by Fred Beecher  

Learn to Drive Your UX Career  Figuring out your “North Star” is the first step toward achieving your goals. Most of us don’t take the time to do this.  

Making More UX Designers  

There is a gap because UX design is strategic; you don’t want just anyone giving you advice on the direction of your business.  

Thank you!

brian.henkel@manifestdigital.com

@UxPOV