{"id":418,"date":"2008-11-19T16:53:44","date_gmt":"2008-11-19T23:53:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.laurenwood.org\/anyway\/?p=418"},"modified":"2008-11-19T16:53:44","modified_gmt":"2008-11-19T23:53:44","slug":"canux-forum","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.laurenwood.org\/anyway\/2008\/11\/canux-forum\/","title":{"rendered":"CanUX Forum"},"content":{"rendered":"

I\u2019m still recov\u00ader\u00ading from three intense days at the Ban\u00adff Centre, tak\u00ading part in the CanUX For\u00adum<\/a>. The ori\u00adgin\u00adal motiv\u00ada\u00adtion was to learn more about user exper\u00adi\u00adence, usab\u00adil\u00adity, and design. I learned enough about that to fill my brain, and also learned ideas for brain\u00adstorm\u00ading, the rela\u00adtion between cre\u00adativ\u00adity and muscle memory, and how some\u00adtimes com\u00adputers get in the way more than they help when you\u2019re try\u00ading to fig\u00adure out the answers to issues.<\/p>\n

I\u2019m not going to try to recap the entire time although in future posts I\u2019ll prob\u00adably come back to spe\u00adcif\u00adic parts. Some write-ups I\u2019ve seen are from Mack Male<\/a> (who was on the same design slam team as me on the first day), and teehan+lax<\/a>. I have lots of pages of scribbled notes that may or may not make sense when I come to tran\u00adscribe them; much of the time was also spent in team work doing exer\u00adcises to really bring those points home. Now I\u2019m won\u00adder\u00ading how much inter\u00adactiv\u00adity I can put into my own talks, of course, as well as won\u00adder\u00ading how the \u201ccre\u00adat\u00adive play\u201d aspects can work in find\u00ading solu\u00adtions in more tech\u00adnic\u00adal discussions. <\/p>\n

Much to my sur\u00adprise, the room was\u00adn\u2019t full of graph\u00adic design\u00aders, or even people with tons of usab\u00adil\u00adity exper\u00adi\u00adence. There were quite a few of those of course, people who could draw and sketch, but there were also people who come at things from a more text- or code-based per\u00adspect\u00adive, like me. Com\u00ading from that per\u00adspect\u00adive, I learned, simply means you take a dif\u00adfer\u00adent path to design. You may not get to the same place as an artist\u00adic\u00adally gif\u00adted per\u00adson, but where you land is not neces\u00adsar\u00adily worse, either.<\/p>\n

And I found lots of people there shar\u00ading my con\u00adcerns, as well as my require\u00adments for solu\u00adtions that work for remote design\u00aders and developers, solu\u00adtions that bring out the cre\u00adativ\u00adity in developers and not just those who\u2019ve been to art school. Most of the ideas for cre\u00adat\u00ading viable designs involved reams of paper and sev\u00ader\u00adal hur\u00adriedly sketched solu\u00adtions that are taken as the basis for dis\u00adcus\u00adsion, with lots of iter\u00ada\u00adtion to get from those quick sketches to real\u00adist\u00adic solu\u00adtions. I was aston\u00adished to learn how long it can take to solve issues, a week on one small menu on a web page is not uncom\u00admon. Although that thought is mildly fright\u00aden\u00ading, it\u2019s also reas\u00adsur\u00ading to learn that even the experts take time to come up with good solu\u00adtions. I\u2019m inspired, as well as tired, and look\u00ading for\u00adward to put\u00adting some of these ideas into practise.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I\u2019m still recov\u00ader\u00ading from three intense days at the Ban\u00adff Centre, tak\u00ading part in the CanUX For\u00adum. The ori\u00adgin\u00adal motiv\u00ada\u00adtion was to learn more about user exper\u00adi\u00adence, usab\u00adil\u00adity, and design. I learned enough about that to fill my brain, and also learned ideas for brain\u00adstorm\u00ading, the rela\u00adtion between cre\u00adativ\u00adity and muscle memory, and how some\u00adtimes \u2026 Con\u00adtin\u00adue read\u00ading \u201cCanUX Forum\u201d<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"wp_typography_post_enhancements_disabled":false,"activitypub_content_warning":"","activitypub_content_visibility":"","activitypub_max_image_attachments":3,"activitypub_interaction_policy_quote":"","activitypub_status":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[65],"class_list":["post-418","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-conference","tag-canux08"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.laurenwood.org\/anyway\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/418","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.laurenwood.org\/anyway\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.laurenwood.org\/anyway\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.laurenwood.org\/anyway\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.laurenwood.org\/anyway\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=418"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.laurenwood.org\/anyway\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/418\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":420,"href":"https:\/\/www.laurenwood.org\/anyway\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/418\/revisions\/420"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.laurenwood.org\/anyway\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=418"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.laurenwood.org\/anyway\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=418"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.laurenwood.org\/anyway\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=418"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}