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June 26: An Evening with Colleen Jones
June 13, 2013 By Brian Keith Sullivan Leave a Comment
Dallas Content Strategy is proud to have Colleen Jones back this month on Wednesday June 26th, 2012 at Improving Enterprises! Hat tip to Dallas UX for partnering up once again with us to provide a high quality venue, free pizza and drinks for our … Continue reading →

October 17: The Workshop Workshop by Russ Unger and Brad Nunnally
June 6, 2013 By Brian Keith Sullivan Leave a Comment
We are pleased to announce our second workshop at Big Design Conference 2013 on October 17th. It is by two industry leaders, who facilitate workshops all the time. This workshop will sell out. It has limited seating. Register today! META … Continue reading →
More Featured Stories

Anyone Can Design with Markers, Paper, and Whiteboards
May 2, 2013 By Ben Judy
I built my first web site just for fun in 1996. I’ve been designing user interfaces and exploring user experience design professionally, full-time since 2005. Along the way, like a good digital designer, I’ve learned to use all kinds of … Continue reading →

October 17th: Usable Usability Workshop by Eric Reiss
April 10, 2013 By Brian Keith Sullivan
If people cannot use something you make, you have a serious problem. Usability is the science of ensuring that sites and apps do what they are supposed to do. Usable Usability ensures your cuatomers can succeed with whatever tasks you … Continue reading →

Submit Your Talk for Big Design 2013
March 27, 2013 By Brian Keith Sullivan
Speaker submissions are now open for Big Design 2013. Check out the form design by Keith Anderson, who took a ‘film noir” approach to our speaker submission form. We look forward to seeing your talks. Speaker submissions end on May … Continue reading →

Comparing User Task Flows with the CUTA Method
September 6, 2012 By Brian Keith Sullivan
Your customers will use your site or app in different ways than you might expect. As the following picture illustrates, we have two customers that solve their problems in different ways. The first customer goes directly to your site, … Continue reading →
Videos

[Video] What the Heck is UX Design?
What the heck is UX Design? The folks at UX Mastery created this interesting video that illustrates the UX Design process. It has some great captions and pictures to make it easy to follow. You will love their anecdotes and … Continue reading →

[Video] When Your New UX Job Goes Bad
When you start a new UX job, your hopes run high. You want to improve sales, understand customers, solve problems, and do your best work. In this short video, it is a new Designer’s first day at the company. The … Continue reading →

[Video] The iPad Mini is an iPhone
I am Brian Sullivan. And, I support this video spoof. You will get a great laugh at this video by the funny folks at Livid Lobster, where they have some fun about the marketing of new technology by Apple. The … Continue reading →

[Video] Best SEO Practices for HTML 5 by Hassan Bawab
Hassan Bawab talked at the Big Design Conference 2012. His company, Magic Logix, focuses on SEO and social marketing in Dallas. Magic Logix created this video of his talk. HTML5 is the latest language for website and database creation. Many … Continue reading →
Reviews

Interview with Frances Cole Jones (Author of How to Wow)
Frances Cole Jones is founder of Cole Media Management and author of How to Wow: Proven Strategies for Selling Your (Brilliant) Self in any Situation. Her company’s focus is to cultivate clients’ inherent strengths to develop more powerful communication skills. … Continue reading →

Todd Zaki Warfel Closes Day 1 of Big Design 2013
Your closing keynote speaker for Day 1 of Big Design is Todd Zaki Warfel. You are going to love Todd! He is an author, designer, foodie, researcher, UX nerd, sketcher, prototyper, and more. Todd plays a mean game of Texas … Continue reading →

Design Like Da Vinci: Sketching Lessons from Leonardo [Slides and Audio]
Leonardo Da Vinci is the archetype of a Rennaisance man–artist, mathematician, sculptor, scientist, writer, and more. As an artist, Leonardo produced a very small sample of great work that included the Mona Lisa and the Last Supper. Leonardo was a … Continue reading →


