Today Steve is joined by Donna Spencer to discuss the two books she is writing in 2020, and her upcoming UX Australia 2020 workshop, Facilitating Design Thinking Workshops.
Category: Design
Best of…workshop methods
(note - this is a work in progress - at the moment I'm just adding great things as I find them. At some point soon I'll be more deliberate about collecting great resources) Why workshops work Facilitating structures. Stephen Anderson Workshop warmups 50...
Collecting feedback: Facilitating design thinking workshops
I'm writing a book called Facilitating design thinking workshops (to be published by Sense and Respond Press) and it's at the point where I'd love to get feedback. It's only little - about 10,000 words, and should only take a few hours to read. I'm looking for people...
Collecting feedback: Presenting design work
I'm writing a book called Presenting Design Work (to be published by A Book Apart) and it's at the point where I'd love to get feedback. It's only little - about 10,000 words, and should only take a few hours to read. I'm looking for people to read and give feedback...
Presenting design work
How to present design work to stakeholders and get great feedback you can act on.
Communicating design
Design is becoming fairly mainstream, a part of many projects, and frequently discussed in the business press. But still many people think it is all about making an interface look better. Why is this still happening? Donna believes that there are many reasons this...
What designers do
What do designers do? This talk examines the spectrum of design skills - from tactical visual design through to strategic design. It describes what kinds of problems we can solve, what we deliver and who other than designers has these skills.
De-jargonising Design
Words are amazing things. They pack big thoughts into small spaces and let us get ideas out of our head and into someone else’s head. Jargon is an even more amazing thing; it lets us communicate complex ideas with our peers. Instead of having to say that we’ll get...
UX, UI, CX, SD, PD: Does it matter?
Designers often complain that other people don't know what they do. Let's explore why this happens through the lenses of social identity theory, category theory and linguistics to help understand why it happens and what we can do about it.
From research to design
In this full or half-day, hands-on workshop you’ll learn how to move from a pile of incredibly detailed findings from research (of all kinds – user research, content analysis, business research) to an initial design. We’ll work right through a fun and realistic design...
Old Dog? Time to Learn some New Tricks
Do you remember when there was so much to learn you didn’t think you’d ever learn it all? The feeling of trying out a technique for the first time? Or how about the first time you presented an idea and people actually agreed with...
There’s no right answer
When we are working on a hard design problem (or even on a fairly easy one), we often realise there are many ways we could go – lots of options and lots of potential solutions. It can be frustrating to figure out which is the right direction to take, the right...
Design games for information architecture
Would you like your design team to collaborate better? Are you looking to gather more valuable insights from your focus groups and interviews? Design games are a fun, technology-neutral way of gathering design insights for your projects. In this presentation, I will...
Design Games for Gathering Customer Insights
Design games are a fun, technology-neutral way of gathering design insights for your projects. In this presentation, Donna (Maurer) Spencer, an expert information architect, will show you how to take advantage of design games in many situations
Designing for people
This half-day workshop teaches a set of fundamental principles that are useful for all types of design work – information architecture, interaction design, visual design and even industrial design
Interaction Design: Principles, process and practice
This workshop provides attendees with an understanding of user-centred design and improved interaction design skills via a combination of theory and engaging activities. Real world examples and practical activities are used to reinforce theory.