Category Archives: Speaking Summaries

Kicker Studio marked our 3rd Anniversary on August 8, 2011. To celebrate, we hosted the Second Annual Device Design Day at the San Francisco Art Institute, Jody’s alma matter. It was a great success thanks to inspiring speakers and involved attendees. Couldn’t make it? Don’t worry, we’ve posted videos of the talks for you to [...]

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Kicker Studio marked our 3rd Anniversary on August 8, 2011. To celebrate, we hosted the Second Annual Device Design Day at the San Francisco Art Institute, Jody’s alma matter. It was a great success thanks to inspiring speakers and involved attendees. In order to continue the conversation about people, devices, design, and the future, we’ve [...]

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Many of the projects we do at Kicker involve new technologies, so I thought I’d put some thoughts down about how to do that and how to think about those kinds of projects.

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I was on a panel at the Human Factors and Ergonomics Society 2010 meeting entitled Blasphemy or Pragmatics? When NOT to Follow User-Centered Design Techniques. I took the position that UCD is one of five approaches that designers can use to design products. Here are my slides.

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I gave a presentation at Adaptive Path’s 2010 MX Conference, which was kind of a mini-sequel to my How to Lie with Design Research talk I gave a few years ago.

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After giving this talk over a dozen times over the last two years, I’ve decided to retire Tap is the New Click. Here are the slides.

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A talk Dan gave at UX London 2009.

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Here’s a video of a talk Dan gave at Interaction09 in February 2009 in Vancouver. It’s mostly for interaction designers, but there’s some good quotes in here for these tough times, too.

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I love our office. Huge windows, great light, interesting people, and the periodic blast of traffic down Bryant. It’s a great place to work. But it’s always fun to shake up the routine. Two very different workshops last week did just that.

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Robin Chase, founder of Zipcar, spoke last night at one of the David H. Liu Lectures put on by Stanford’s Product Design Program. Here’s a few things I took away from it.

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