Date: January 8, 2014 Speaker: Julie Yamamoto, CMD Agency To kick off this year’s series on storytelling, we’ll try on a few constructs for size. In this discussion, we will review a variety of ways to structure narratives, from the common to the complex, paired with...
Persona Stories: Weaving Together Qualitative and Quantitative for a Richer Picture Date: February 5, 2014 Speaker: Whitney Quesenbery, WQusability.com Stories have power to add empathy and connection to our work. They can help us learn about people, culture, and...
Show, Don’t Tell: Storytelling Experience Design in Modern Comics Date: March 5, 2014 Speaker: Mike Lonergan, Intel Comics are a collaborative storytelling effort—many talented individuals contribute to the success or failure of each comic book, much as a good design...
Ducks, Dolls & Robots: A Genealogy of Socio-Technical Anxieties Date: April 2, 2014 Speaker: Dr. Genevieve Bell, Intel The introductions of new technologies are rarely seamless and silent affairs. There are the inevitable boosters and utopian dreamers who will...
Speaking the Language of Meta-Principles: Consistency, Hierarchy, and Personality Date: May 7, 2014 Speaker: Deborah Levinson, Nimble Partners When designing or redesigning an application, Nimble Partners focuses on three core principles: consistency, hierarchy, and...
Epic FAIL: Takeaways from the War Stories Project Date: June 4, 2014 Speaker: Steve Portigal, Portigal Consulting After nearly two years in gathering War Stories about the unusual, comic, tragic and otherwise astonishing things that happen in fieldwork, Portigal...