getting started in the user experience field (ux australia conference)

Getting started in the user experience field

Caronne Carruthers-Taylor

UX

What!? What do you do?

How humans interact with computers ...their overall experience taking into account the social, cultural & physical environment.

User Experience design

Educate yourselfLearn & actively participate!

o Publicationso Blogso Bookso Local communitieso Organisationso Mailing listso Webinarso Workshops or courseso Conferences

(Whitney Hess)

“I been looking at your poster in the hallway for weeks. I’m interested in what you guys do. It’s amazing! I work in IT Security down the corridor ...”

http://www.datphan.com/headshot_4_crop_large.jpg

The UPA poster ...User-Centred Design process, with suggested activities for each phase

http://www.upassoc.org/upa_publications/ux_poster.html

Organisations

o Usability Professionals Association (UPA), www.upassoc.org o UX Network, http://uxnet.orgo Canberra IA Community, www.iacanberra.org o UX Bookclub, www.uxbookclub.org o Web Standards Group (WSG), http://webstandardsgroup.org/ o Computer Human Interaction Special Interest Group (CHISIG),

www.chisig.org o Australian Web Industry Association (AWIA)

http://www.webindustry.asn.au/ o And more ...

Educationo Human-Computer Interaction (HCI) & cognitive psychologyo Specialise in information architecture, usability engineering,

interaction design, user-centred design, visual design, content strategy & copywriting, web analysis, user research, online marketing, or web strategy

o For example:o UTS Digital Information & Interaction Design,

www.handbook.uts.edu.au/subjects/95566.htmlo UNSW HCI, www.cse.unsw.edu.au/~cs9511

eternity is the amount of timeit takes to know everything

Zen Comics II, Ioanna Salajan

Skills & abilitieso Human psychology & research methodso Basics of graphic designo Interest in technologyo Interpersonal skillso Verbal & visual communication skillso Negotiation & facilitationo Creativity & visiono Enthusiasm!

References & credits

o Starting a Career in User Experience Design, Nick Finck http://www.nickfinck.com/blog/entry/starting_a_career_in_user_experience_design

o So you wanna be a user experience designer — Step 1: Resources, Whitney Hesshttp://whitneyhess.com/blog/2009/06/30/so-you-wanna-be-a-user-experience-designer-step-1-resources/

o Nine Essential Characteristics of Good UX Designers, Fred Beecherhttp://userexperience.evantageconsulting.com/2009/07/characteristics-good-ux-designers

/ o Top Twitter feeds for UX Designers, @dpan

http://www.openthewindow.net/?p=506

o Articles, feeds and links, Steve Baty http://www.meld.com.au/blog

Last but not least ...PA S S I ON

Thank you

Caronne Carruthers-Taylor

User Experience aficionado, Interaction designer, Usability specialist

Twitter: @caronnewww.linkedin.com/in/caronne