2010 May — Big Design Events

Speaker Spotlight: Jeremy Johnson (Understanding the Mobile Design Question)

May 22, 2010 By Brian Keith Sullivan Leave a Comment

Jeremy Johnson is the User Experience Manager for Sabre. Jeremy loves all things visual—indie films, mobile applications, and web interactions. Jeremy just sees things differently. Jeremy is a “Designer’s Designer” with a rich knowledge of interaction design, user experience, information architecture, and anything else loosely related to those topics. He is, of course, an avid photographer, gamer, and Lego fanatic. Session Talk: Understanding the Mobile Design Question Over the past four years the mobile experience has been flipped on its head. What was once a confusing mess of devices and systems, has quickly become – well… slightly less confusing. With [...]

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Speaker Spotlight: Paul Sherman (Changing Minds and Removing Barriers)

May 22, 2010 By Brian Keith Sullivan Leave a Comment

Paul Sherman is founder and principal consultant at ShermanUX. He has worked in the field of usability and user-centered design for the past 12 years. He was most recently Senior Director of User-Centered Design at Sage Software in Atlanta, Georgia, where he led efforts to redesign the UI and improve the overall customer experience of the Peachtree Accounting desktop application and ePeachtree web-based app. While at Sage he also designed and implemented a customer-centric contextual innovation program that sought to identify new product and service opportunities by observing small businesses “in the wild”. He also led efforts to modernize and [...]

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Speaker Spotlight: Kelsey Ruger (The Rebirth of Slick)

May 22, 2010 By Brian Keith Sullivan Leave a Comment

Kelsey Ruger is an accomplished executive with solid experience in web engineering, user experience design, information architecture and web marketing. He has been building web and interactive solutions for more than a decade and has lent his expertise to high profile Internet projects at Prodigy, SBC (now AT&T) and a number of successful start-ups. Kelsey’s consulting, design and web roots provide him with a unique perspective that helps him bridge the gaps between strategy, creativity and execution, ultimately resulting in useful digital solutions for his clients and their customers. Kelsey is currently the Vice President of Operations for Houston based [...]

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Speaker Spotlight: Alfonso de la Nuez (How to Conduct Global UX Benchmarking)

May 20, 2010 By Brian Keith Sullivan Leave a Comment

Alfonso de la Nuez is co-founder at UserZoom, the leading online (or remote) user experience research software company. He has 14-years experience in the field of Digital Marketing, Web Design and User Experience, having worked for companies such as Dell Computers, Icon Medialab (now LBi) and Proxicom. He also co-founded Xperience Consulting, one of Europe’s most experienced usability consultancies. He teaches usability and web design courses at various universities and academic institutions, and is a frequent speaker at conferences. When he’s not working he enjoys playing basketball. Back in his younger days (when he was in way better shape) he [...]

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Video Update on Big Design Conference

May 17, 2010 By Brian Keith Sullivan Leave a Comment

Here is a quick video update to get you geared up for the Big Design Conference 2010. We have loads of surprises in store for you!

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Speaker Spotlight: Elizabeth Rosenzweig (Spark Your Creative Juices)

May 14, 2010 By Brian Keith Sullivan Leave a Comment

Elizabeth Rosenzweig is is Founder and Director of World Usability Day, which she started on 2004 after her term as President of Usability Professionals Association was completed. World Usability Day has grown to include 44 countries with over 180 events. Elizabeth frequently publishes in industry journals, has written chapters in 3 published books and presents lectures at conferences around the world. Elizabeth has worked as a consultant and employee in several major corporations for 25 years. Her experience includes design and development, ranging from website and, applications, to hardware products and technology development. Elizabeth has completed projects for many major [...]

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Big Design Supports World Usability Day

May 11, 2010 By Brian Keith Sullivan Leave a Comment

Big Design Conference is supporting World Usability Day 2010. Mark your calendars for 11 November 2010 for this year’s World Usability Day, where user experience professionals gather in different locations to learn, share, and grow. The theme for this year is: Communication. World Usability Day 2010 will serve as an impetus to creating greater awareness for designs, products, and services that improve and facilitate communication around the world. If you consider how the consumer market has seen very robust sales of smart phones, the fast adoption of social networks, or the robust design of the iPad, you just know this [...]

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Book Review: Nathan Shedroff’s Design is the Problem

May 10, 2010 By Brian Keith Sullivan Leave a Comment

Last year, the theme for World Usability Day was sustainable design. I had the pleasure of being the co-chair with Nathan Shedroff. As we started our duties, Lou Rosenfeld sent me Nathan’s book to read, Design is the Problem: The Future of Design Must Be Sustainable. Nathan’s book is flat out awesome. It sets out to define the landscape of sustainability–reduce, reuse, recycle, and restore. The sustainability landscape is a tricky one. You can be more sustainable in one area (ex: reduce) and less sustainable in another area (ex: recycle). While I will not giveaway too much, the example of [...]

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Speaker Spotlight: Aaron Hursman (Effective Dashboard Design)

May 10, 2010 By Brian Keith Sullivan Leave a Comment

Aaron Hursman is a passionate user-advocate that is lucky enough to do what he loves for a living. As the lead User Experience Architect for Slalom Consulting in Dallas, he applies user-centered design principles and techniques for his clients to various enterprise solutions like Microsoft SharePoint, ASP.NET, and dashboard and business intelligence applications. Aaron has 12 years of consulting experience, has a background in web development and enterprise applications, and enjoys participating in the social web. Aaron holds a bachelor’s degree in business administration and management information systems from the University of Texas at Austin. He may be contacted at [...]

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What a Big Design Lunch Looks Like

May 10, 2010 By Brian Keith Sullivan Leave a Comment

Like last year, we are catering in some great box lunches from some local eateries that the Dallas natives love. The box lunches will be placed on several different tables throughout the trade show. There should not be any long lines. During lunch, you have several options: This Lunch Option Means This Ask the Experts Ask Chris Bernard and Chris Koenig any question about Microsoft, their latest projects, and more Creative Suite 5 Demo Learn about what’s new in CS 5 in the Forum from Adobe expert Lynn Grillo, starting at 12:15 PM Cartoon Carnival Watch animated shorts from the [...]

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