Presented at UX Ireland, November 2016.
Description from the UX Ireland site:
What if an actor could determine their own flow through a system? What if that system could dynamically create pathways to support free wandering, signposting just enough to enable discovery without direction? And what if the flow through the system was determined by the actor, but the system could create the most desired of all possible paths?
As designers, we can imagine a system where meaning can be derived by the alignment of data and context, based on the current interactions: a transient information architecture where the arrangement of things and the relationships between them is determined in the moment. A blueprint for free roaming. An intelligent guide. If this, then that.
But we only consider the experiential layer of a system that needs to understand and arrange data in response to those interactions. What we need is to architect a system that can use its knowledge of data relationships to create meaning at the point of interaction, because data only becomes information when you ask it to arrange itself.
And the way you ask it to arrange itself is by compiling a query that determines the data that is to be arranged and a context within which the arrangement makes sense. How do we architect the system so that it can determine the most likely linking of data? How do we architect the data so that the system can make sense of it?
Insight to Design: Developing the Design Brief. Workshop for UCDUK 2014Tim Caynes
This document summarizes a workshop about developing effective design briefs. It discusses what a design brief is, who writes it, who needs it, and how to structure it. The workshop involves teams immersing themselves in a client's needs, developing insights, and using the information gathered to write a design brief to guide their work. The brief should capture the creative vision, problems to address, and desired outcomes for both customers and the client.
Architecting a Sustainable Experience Design Team for Long-Term GrowthTim Caynes
From the IA Summit 2014 site:
The design team for a large experience design agency has been growing at an alarming rate over the last year and has reached a point of critical mass. The balance between utilisation, quality, and thinking time has been lost. Roles and responsibilities do not respond to the need to distribute and delegate the design work across the team. In short, the team is at breaking point and it’s starting to show. Experience designers working on long-term projects are lost to the studios in the corner. New starters aren’t getting the support they need. Seniors are being dragged across multiple projects while still being resourced on delivery. Heads of design practice are losing sight of everything. They’re even losing their sight.
This is a story about recognising the pain points in an evolving design team before they have serious impact on the team, the client relationships and the company as a whole. We will talk about the challenge faced when beginning to think about the restructuring the team to support a long-term, extensible practice, dealing with promotion, recruitment, work/life balance, and close collaboration with the rest of the agency.
It’s a success story. But with the bad bits left in.
Attendees can learn about the simple steps we went through to re-engineer our design team to focus on quality and sustainability, rather than delivery. We’ll talk about how we introduced a team hierarchy to enable cascading ownership and accountability to alleviate single points of stress. We’ll also cover specific role definitions and responsibilities and how the team integrates with the rest of the agency and the joys of resourcing and team management.
Original session page:
http://2014.iasummit.org/architecting-a-sustainable-experience-design-team-for-long-term-growth/
UEA Creative Edge Conference: Working With WordsTim Caynes
Tim Caynes is a writer who shares thoughts on writing words and content for audiences and consumers across various outlets and platforms online. He emphasizes that writing provides opportunities for visibility, differentiation, and brand definition when the content has strategy, tone, and value for intended consumers, both those you know and those you don't yet know. Writing content needs appropriate outlets and platforms to reach consumers in order to create opportunities.
How I overcame the fear of being an artist - Dare Conf 2013Tim Caynes
The document discusses overcoming the fear of being an artist. It states that art is in everything we do, and being an artist is simply knowing this to be true. It repeats that art is in all things and being an artist means acknowledging this truth.
Mobile design and the death of narrativeTim Caynes
Presentation that discusses the facilitation of the death of narrative in mobile design through the medium of made-up words, miserable predictions and cheap stabs at implementation frameworks.
Written for the nice people at UX Oxford and Software East in April 2013.
There are hundreds of extraordinarily clever transitions in the original presentation that obviously don't appear here. If you want to see those, invite me to dinner.
Cognitive Disentropy Theory - A grid for UX thinkingTim Caynes
The document discusses several theories and frameworks related to cognitive modeling and user experience design:
1. Cognitive Disentropy Theory from 1956 proposes that the human mind can determine cognitive grids using 7 "resolution messages".
2. In 2006, Jennifer McGuinn applied Cognitive Disentropy Theory to create an extensible framework for parallel user experience design.
3. Tim Caynes' 2012 UX Method Interpolation Theory suggests choosing appropriate methods flexibly based on needs rather than following a single prescribed methodology.
My Face, My Bike - Ignite London Nov 2011Tim Caynes
5 minute presentation given to those lovely people at Ignite London at 93 Feet East in November 2011. Probably meaningless without the commentary, but, hey, if you were there, thing is what you got.
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