UX Camp Edmonton

So it seems I'm a bit behind in my blogging (to put it lightly, ha).  I'm hoping to blog more frequently, however I always seem to say that and it has yet to happen, oi.

I've been organizing an event here in town called UX Camp with Jess McMullin from nForm and it's going to take place this Saturday (July 18th) starting at 9:00 at MacEwan in the Robbins Health Centre room 9-202. 

It's going to be very similar to BarCamp, only based around user experience and design.  We've structured the day around the "USE" UX cycle:

• Understand
  How to your define the problem you face? How to you generate empathy and insight? How do you use tools like observation, interviews, and field research to inform design and strategy? How do you understand the hopes, needs, dreams and desires of people? (both users, and business stakeholders). Where are there opportunities for innovation? What will create value?
• Solve
  Once you’ve defined a problem, how do you solve it? Lofi sketching & prototyping? Modeling? Flows? Wireframes? 37Signals Getting Real? Agile? Or does Agile suck? Let us know in a Solve Session.
• Evaluate
  As you come up with solutions, how do you tell if you’re on track? Design Review & Critique? Usability testing? Web Analytics? ROI? Pure gut feel & intuition? How do you know your solution works? How do you know where you need to do better? Do you have a product or design you want evaluated or reviewed? This is the place for that (and we’ve got some ideas for providing UX feedback for more than just one or two products, too).

It should be an interesting time and hopefully will start to bring together a bit of a UX community here in Edmonton and expose some more people to what user experience design is.  The event is going to have a combination of panels that we set up ahead of time and traditional open "un-conference" type sessions where attendees will be able to lead their own session.  The plan is to end the day with a design slam type session where people will be able to collaborate and use some of the ideas that they heard throughout the day.

There is a limited number of spots left If you are interested in attending you can sign up at: http://uxcamp.ca/register

Comments

[Geography Dissertation]

Blogs are so informative where we get lots of information on any topic. Nice job keep it up!!

[Callum MacKendrick]

Thanks for helping to organize this, Cam! It was fun, educational and definitely should take place again next year. How much will you charge for ensuring sunny hot weather?