Category: Research

Cumulus Milan 2015 was awesome. Our paper presentation of the Firma Model went down well (we thought) and we got some great feedback. But better still was the conference which contained great content, great people and was held in different locations around the city allowing you to really get a feel for Milan. It was a particular highlight to be at the famous Politecnico di Milano.

One other highlight was the meeting of folks from around the world who are part of the DESIS Network.

Our paper will be published in the conference proceedings which I’ll link to when published.

Below: Terence at the Politecnico di Milano

Our survey of the UX landscape in South Africa will be closing soon. We’re really excited to start analysing the data and produce our report and paper. The aim of the survey is to determine the current landscape and level of maturity of the field of User Experience (UX) in South Africa and is the combined effort of myself, Terence Fenn and Dr. Marco Pretorius.

My visual essay ‘The Design behind the design behind the design‘ has been translated into Japanese by Soyeon Lee. She is, quite simply, super-fantastic-amazing-brilliant!

Terence Fenn and I will be presenting our Firma Model paper at Cumulus in Milan between the 3rd and 5th of June. I’ll post here when the proceedings are published.

http://cumulusmilan2015.org/

Terence and I presented this paper at DDR 2013 in Ghana and I presented it again more recently at World Usability Day, Bristol. You can read the full paper in the conference proceedings.

The two papers Terence Fenn and I submitted for GIDEC 2013 in Botswana have been accepted! Unfortunately I wont be able to attend as I’ll be conducting a workshop on cross-channel UX at EuroIA in Edinburgh with Andrea Resmini… So good luck to Terence for the presentations.

The papers for GIDEC are titled:  “Preparing undergraduate design students for complexity: a case study of the Johannesburg Art Gallery project” and “Applying User Journey Design to resolve complex design problems”

Hopefully Terence will see you there…

Our presentation from the workshop can be found on slideshare. It’s a short ignite-style thing and thus quick and easy to digest.

It was actually an amazing exercise to reduce a 25 page paper into a 5 minute presentation with only 20 slides. As soon as the paper is published I’ll post a link from here.

It really was the most brilliant day. Well done to all.

The next Design Development Research conference will be held in Kumasi (north of Accra) in Ghana on the 18th of July.

The abstract submitted by Terence and myself has been accepted so we’re pretty excited. I’ve never actually been so far north in Africa…

We presented our paper “The Information Architecture of Transdisciplinary Design Practice: Rethinking Nathan Shedroff‟s Continuum of Understanding” last year at DDR 2012 in Cape Town so it’s great to be continuing the conversation.