Session type: Half Day Workshop (Morning)

No longer accepting registrations

March 5, 2023

Ever wondered how the information presented in strategic service or system-level discovery research is different than product or feature level research?

In this workshop, you'll learn about the taxonomy of a strategic discovery research report including the structure of pre-study parameters (research objectives, research topics, perceived gaps and assumptions) and post-study reporting and classification dimensions (findings vs insights, importance, confidence level, estimated resolution timeline, supportive data descriptors, etc), and how to effectively present this information to your stakeholders.

You'll also collaborate within your group to create your own groups to create your own research report skeleton, and you'll walk away with a Miro board template and Illustrator charting artifacts that will allow you to hit the ground running in your next strategic discovery research initiative.

No longer accepting registrations. We are only offering the Wednesday afternoon workshop

as of March 5, 2023

Join Dan Klyn for one or both of these half-day workshops, which are designed to equip participants with the BASIC framework for looking at the architectures of complex systems.  

Attendees will get out of the conference hotel and into the streets of downtown New Orleans in a facilitated exploration of the myriad ways that features in the built environment are configured by people to store, distribute, and reify different kinds of information.

No special knowledge or equipment is required to participate, and the walking route for each of the two half-days is exactly the same.  The pace of the walk will be very slow, and the distance we'll cover adds up to just under 1 mile. 

While covering the same ground and exploring the BASIC framework, each session will have a somewhat different focus:

• The DUCKS session (Tuesday, March 28th in the AM) is focused on an analysis of one discreet site: Charles Moore’s glorious and notorious Piazza di’ Italia.
• The DECORATED SHEDS session (Wednesday, March 29th in the PM) is focused on an analysis of Natchez Street, which connects the conference hotel to the Piazza.

Agenda

Klyn and up to 50 attendees will briefly muster in the lobby of the Intercontinental for a review of the Resources and Script for the workshop before sallying forth into the city to learn about the BASICs of seeing architecture through a close “reading” and analysis of architect Charles W. Moore’s internationally infamous Piazza Di’Italia (1976).

• Quick intro to Klyn’s BASIC Framework
• Walk to Piazza di’ Italia
• Walk back to the Intercontinental
• Debrief and Q&A

A well-designed workshop is an excellent way to get things done. And as UXers, our skills uniquely position us to help clients and teams explore options and come to consensus, both in person and online. But successful workshops don't happen by accident. And workshop design and facilitation aren't really taught in school or on the job.

Workshop 101 gives participants a flexible workshop-building framework. Participants will explore workshop activities, tools, and techniques. You'll practice leading exercises, and will leave prepared to take the next step – whether leading a working meeting or delivering a workshop at a future conference. Importantly, you'll discover that we don't need to be a certain kind of person to do it. All of us can design and facilitate effective workshops from where we stand right now. Join us to translate your design thinking skills to create collaborative sessions that are fun, effective, and get work done.

No longer accepting registrations

as of March 13, 2023

Diagrams have been helping people for thousands of years across industries, fields and cultures. It seems like diagrams are everywhere if you are paying attention. But when were we taught to diagram? And were we ever taught how to know if a diagram is any good? For too many people, the answers are never and no.

In this half-day workshop you will learn the purpose, process and craft of diagramming with a core focus on useful starting points, words of advice and level-ups for your next diagram.

Students will be asked to bring a diagram to class so fellow students can critique them. We will be using a B.I.N.G.O card based on principles from the lecture material. Bringing diagrams from your past is not required but is VERY encouraged.

Use design for good—create consentful tech for people, mitigate hate & bring ethics to the forefront. This workshop will give you the questions to ask & the tactics for creating new ways to engage with your users/customers without creating harm.