{"id":184630,"date":"2016-05-27T13:01:12","date_gmt":"2016-05-27T13:01:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/staging.rm.gfolkdev.net\/?p=184630"},"modified":"2022-10-11T15:02:36","modified_gmt":"2022-10-11T15:02:36","slug":"ux-in-all-the-odd-places","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rosenfeldmedia.com\/ux-in-all-the-odd-places\/","title":{"rendered":"UX in all the Odd Places"},"content":{"rendered":"

I had\u00a0a bit of a crisis last fall. My pal Andrew Mayfield<\/strong>\u00a0asked me to keynote\u00a0UX New Zealand<\/a>.\u00a0Of course I was dying to go to New Zealand. But they wanted me to give a new talk, and the very thought makes me sweat. What new things might I have to say about UX?\u00a0Do I even do UX anymore?<\/em><\/p>\n

After all, these days I spend my time putting out books and putting on conferences. Web sites and apps? Not so much. I’m not even sure I know the difference between a breakpoint and a touchpoint. So who am I to talk to UX practitioners about UX? 25+ years in the field, yet here\u00a0I was, suffering from an acute case of imposter syndrome.<\/p>\n

Many false starts, meltdowns, and 4am<\/span><\/span> Keynote sessions later, I finally had a breakthrough. It’s not that I don’t do UX anymore. It’s that\u00a0UX applies to way more than apps and web sites.\u00a0<\/em>In fact, I’ve spent the better part of the last decade doing extensive\u00a0UX work on traditional products, like books, and physical experiences, like conferences. So that’s exactly what I covered in\u00a0my UXNZ keynote<\/a>. Books and conferences are experiential, so yep: the work\u00a0still counts as UX.<\/p>\n

D’uh. I guess it’s one of those oh-so-obvious observations that aren’t so obvious when they pertain to you.<\/p>\n

But it is a liberating feeling. And it’s renewed my excitement about UX, because:where doesn’t UX apply?<\/em><\/p>\n

Conferences offer almost unlimited opportunities to UX the hell out of\u00a0stuff. With our last virtual conference\u2014Product Management + User Experience<\/a><\/em>\u2014we found that basing our program on user research was immensely valuable, helping us select both speakers and topics. And many of you agreed; there was a strong correlation between your participation in program planning and your desire to actually attend\u00a0the event.<\/p>\n

So we’re doing it again with our next virtual conference\u2014Design Research for Everyone,<\/em>\u00a0which is slated for some time this fall.\u00a0Here’s our question:\u00a0What do people who aren’t UX practitioners need to learn\u00a0about design research?<\/strong><\/p>\n

Please help us do our user research by letting us know who should speak and on which topics\u2014and sharing this with others who might be interested.<\/p>\n

What odd contexts are you<\/em> finding ripe for UX? Please comment below; I’d love to hear your stories of UX in non-traditional places.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I had\u00a0a bit of a crisis last fall. My pal Andrew Mayfield\u00a0asked me to keynote\u00a0UX New Zealand.\u00a0Of course I was dying to go to New Zealand. But they wanted me to give a new talk, and the very thought makes me sweat. What new things might I have to say about UX?\u00a0Do I even do … Continued<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_relevanssi_hide_post":"","_relevanssi_hide_content":"","_relevanssi_pin_for_all":"","_relevanssi_pin_keywords":"","_relevanssi_unpin_keywords":"","_relevanssi_related_keywords":"","_relevanssi_related_include_ids":"","_relevanssi_related_exclude_ids":"","_relevanssi_related_no_append":"","_relevanssi_related_not_related":"","_relevanssi_related_posts":"","_relevanssi_noindex_reason":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[26],"tags":[],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/rosenfeldmedia.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/184630"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/rosenfeldmedia.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/rosenfeldmedia.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rosenfeldmedia.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rosenfeldmedia.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=184630"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/rosenfeldmedia.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/184630\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":186605,"href":"https:\/\/rosenfeldmedia.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/184630\/revisions\/186605"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/rosenfeldmedia.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=184630"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rosenfeldmedia.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=184630"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rosenfeldmedia.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=184630"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}