User experience is a complex subject as it crosses various digital disciplines. Here, to accompany the release of Econsultancy’s User Experience Buyer’s Guide, we’ve rooted out six thought-provoking and inspirational slideshare presentations that approach this wide subject from different perspectives.
The presentations tie in with the trends explored within the guide, such as companies continuing to invest in this particular sector (despite the recession), a focus on initiatives to improve conversion and retention, rather than acquisition, a huge shift in processes becoming more strategic and the increasing relevance of social media.
Hopefully you’ll find something of use below, but if you’re feeling that exploring this subject visually isn’t enough by itself and that you need something more text-based, you can also check out the various articles we’ve written over the past year or so.
10 Most Common Misconceptions About User Experience Design
View more presentations from Whitney Hess.Experience Design: Why Pages Are The Last Thing You Need To Worry About
View more presentations from Tim Richards. View more documents from James Breeze. View more presentations from RossC0. View more presentations from Michael Rawlins. View more presentations from Garrett Dimon.For more information about user experience and agencies offering related services, download our new User Experience Buyer’s Guide 2009.
The guide includes a valuation of the sector, a SWOT analysis and examines trends in the marketplace as well as giving guidance about how to select the most appropriate agency to suit your organisation’s objectives. The report is UK-focused but relevant globally.
Agencies profiled in the report: AbilityNet, Amberlight, Bunnyfoot, Clearleft, cxpartners, Experience Solutions, fhios, Flow Interactive, Foolproof, Foviance, Human Factors Europe, The Lighthouse Experience, Nomensa, PRWD, RedEye optimum.web, Serco Usability Services, Simple Usability, Spotless Interactive, System Concepts, The Usability Lab, UsabilityWorks, Userfocus, User Vision, we are: london, Webcredible, Web Usability Partnership (WUP)
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10:45PM on 7th July 2009
Great resource Jake - thanks for sharing.
Leah Buley's 'UX Team Of One @ IA Summit 2008' (http://www.slideshare.net/ugleah/how-to-be-a-ux-team-of-one) is a UX presentation for those smaller teams (of one) out there. I enjoy how she uses sketch/free hand to present the content... simple but powerful.
7:20AM on 8th July 2009
Good presentation list! Possibly some others that I did which may be of interest to your readers:
http://www.slideshare.net/nickf/slideshows
My faves are the 7 Commandments of UX and the UX Utopia presentations.
Cheers,
- Nick
Senior Research Analyst at Econsultancy
9:57AM on 8th July 2009
@Rob - "UX Team of One" is a great presentation: Thanks for passing it across!
@Nick - Thanks for the link, I especially like the commandments one. Wonder if it could be made up to ten, though?!
J
2:57AM on 19th July 2009
Hi Jake,
Thanks for including my preso. I wasn't sure about putting my business preso on the web, but it appears I am getting some interest and providing people with a unique perspective.
I have even embedded it on my company website now!
http://objectivedigital.com/products/user-centred-design-workshop.html
Thanks again!
@jamesbreeze on Twitter