Speaker Spotlight: Jeremy Johnson (Understanding the Mobile Design Question)
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.... Read More
Speaker Spotlight: Paul Sherman (Changing Minds and Removing Barriers)
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.... Read More
Speaker Spotlight: Kelsey Ruger (The Rebirth of Slick)
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... Read More
Speaker Spotlight: Alfonso de la Nuez (How to Conduct Global UX Benchmarking)
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... Read More
Video Update on Big Design Conference
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... Read More
Speaker Spotlight: Elizabeth Rosenzweig (Spark Your Creative Juices)
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... Read More
Big Design Supports World Usability Day
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... Read More
Book Review: Nathan Shedroff’s Design is the Problem
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... Read More
Speaker Spotlight: Aaron Hursman (Effective Dashboard Design)
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... Read More
What a Big Design Lunch Looks Like
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... Read More
A Prayer for Molly
Earlier this week, I attended the STC Summit in Dallas. I spoke in the Usability and User Experience track on the importance of sketching in... Read More
What Makes Them Click, You Can Ask Susan
I am an avid reader of design books. I have read books by Jakob Nielsen, Jared Spool, Russ Unger, Ginny Redish, Donna Spencer, Nathan Shedroff,... Read More
Got Mental Notes (You Can at #BigD10)
I know this happens all the time: You are in the middle of a super busy project and you need some inspiration or a memory... Read More
Books are Dead, Long Live Books!
You start to notice patterns when you organize a conference. For example, I have heard people tell me that books are dead, using the logic... Read More
Aquent After-Big Design Mixer (Saturday, May 29) | The Big Design Conference
On Saturday night of the Big Design Conference, we have arranged an after-conference mixer sponsored by our friends at Aquent. The location of this mixer... Read More
Mad*Pow Patio Party Details (Friday, May 28th)
On Friday night of the Big Design Conference, we have arranged a patio party sponsored by our friends at Mad*Pow (twitter: @MadPow). The location of... Read More
Panel Spotlight: Profit/Non-Profit Panel
There is a funny thing that happened on the way to the Big Design Conference…..we created a Profit/Non-Profit Panel based on some comments by Jim... Read More
Speaker Spotlight: Brandon Aaron (In Your @fontface: Making Web Typography Suck Less)
Brandon Aaron is a developer driven by creativity. Creating beautiful code that creates amazing experiences is his passion. He is a core contributor to the... Read More
Speaker Spotlight: Russ Unger (A Look Behind the Design Process)
Russ Unger is co-author of the book A Project Guide to UX Design for Peachpit Press (Voices That Matter) and is co-authoring a book on... Read More
Book Review: Donna Spencer’s Card Sorting
A few months back, I had lunch with some colleagues (adam Polansky and Stephen Thomas). We started our lunch with a brief chat about Donna... Read More