My User Friendly 2008 Kick-Off Presentation

Long time no post. Sorry. Been too busy obsessively following the U.S. election at www.FiveThirtyEight.com. If you’re a hardcore stats junkie, this is - or was, after Tuesday - the site for you.

Anyway, since my last post I traveled to Hong Kong and Shenzhen to take part in the User Friendly 2008 conference, put on by UPA China, a group of China-based UPA chapters.

As current UPA President I was asked to give the kick-off talk. I took the invitation as an opportunity to focus the audience on how far our discipline has come, and how far it has to go to be truly strategic in scope and reach.

You can download the presentation from this link or the one below.

User Experience: Drive Change, Become Strategic ::  Paul Sherman

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    Wow. I must say, that just reading those slides, gave me a feeling of support, understanding and wisdom. I have been very frustrated about many of the things you mention. It takes something special to relax in the typical usability-specialsit environment, because (like you say) there are so many build-in challenges. I'm not relaxed yet - you seem to be - so I have some usability-zen yet to achieve. I teach usability myself in Copenhagen and will most certainly use this wisdom to add to my "usability in the organization" talks. I'm now a newborn change agent. Hey, it feels good. Might change my business-card now. Thanks, Ole Gregersen
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    besides being disapointed not to see my own comment here, I also note that the loink to the presentation is broken, which is a shame, since its a great couple of slides.
 
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