Date: 20/01/2011
Time: 06:30 pm
Location: Sapient Nitro, 8 Spital Square, London, E1 6DU
Goodbye 2010. Hello 2011! With the new year upon us, the UKUPA is happy to present our first event for the new year.
Andrew Harder will be kicking off the year, with his talk ‘Critique, don’t complain’. Andrew (@thevagrant) is a design researcher for Nokia Design in London, where he’s worked on projects all the way from early pre-roadmap concepting to running group expert reviews of products in the months before they ship. At Nokia, Andrew has developed world-class capabilities in pushing UX experts past normal human limits of attention through coffee, sugar and begging, as well as leading ethnographic interviews in Japanese homes while trying to dry dog pee off his sock. Before that he’s worked for Flow Interactive with clients from HMRC to easyJet, as well as London Underground and PricewaterhouseCoopers Australia.
As HCI researchers, we are taught and encouraged to find fault with solutions in exhaustive, scientific detail. This approach is essential in our origin field of industrial human factors, but in a creative environment producing a long list of problems is rarely useful or inspiring. In this talk, Andrew addresses some of the problems he’s seen in presenting the results of UX research, and draws on the art school method of critique to illustrate some alternative ways for researchers to engage with designers to help explore what could be next. This is a repeat of the somewhat controversial talk that Andrew gave at the UX People conference last year.
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