Talks by subject
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Subject To Change: Creating Grea ...
The way most organizations think and work on products and services isn't suited to the unpredictable world we live in. Instead, companies need new ways of thinking and working to adapt into innovative, agile, and commercially successful organizations who creates great products and services. Three authors of Adaptive Path's new book, Subject to Change, share a handful of breakthrough ideas for succeeding in a future that you can't predict. This talk will be taped. Speaker: Brandon Schauer is an experience design director for Adaptive Path. He speaks on, writes about, and practices design as a means to create value. He has over a decade of experience developing new user experiences on the Web, desktops, and products. His passion for finding and understanding the unmet needs of customers has led him to diverse environments, from the homes of cancer patients to tunnels beneath Walt Disney World. Brandon holds two master-level degrees from schools with the Illinois Institute of Technology, a Master of Design from the Institute of Design in Chicago and an MBA from the Stuart School of Business. Brandon also has a love of Excel that is unnatural for a designer. Speaker: David Verba is the Technology Advisor at Adaptive Path, and Chief Technical Officer of Emmett Labs. He was a core developer for CodeZoo.net, and provided essential technical leadership to Measure Map, a web service (now part of Google) that tracks blogs' traffic stats.
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SHiFT 06: The Shifting Role of D ...
A presentation by Luke Wroblewski at SHiFT - Social and Human Ideias For Technology, a conference held in Lisbon in September 2006. The Shifting Role of Design In an increasing number of companies the role of design is changing dramatically from mere styling to a core ingredient of product strategy and innovation. But what’s behind this shift? Why are designers previously tasked only with “making things pretty” begin invited to the corporate strategy table? This talk will examine the impact that recent technology and market changes have had on the role of design within modern companies. In particular: the decreasing distance between equations and solutions made possible by technologies like 3D modeling and rapid prototyping; the increasing rate of commoditization driven by shorter product lifecycles and cheaper manufacturing; the always on availability of massive data sources; and the growing ability of consumers to absorb and enjoy increasingly complex media and interface.
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Advanced Dragon-Slaying with Comet
Talk on Comet techniques at Oxford Geek Night (7, 25 June 2008). Includes a demo of a multiplayer Javascript conversion of Chaos.
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Roundtable Event: The Future of ...