Much, much, MUCH overdue is the recap of Andrew Hinton’s closing plenary titled “Linkosophy” at this year’s IA Summit.
Andrew’s talk, equal parts intellectualism and practicality, was just what our field has been hungry for. Andrew is a uniter, not a divider, and I greatly appreciated the plain, honest tone he used when he told our [...]

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Unfortunately my laptop battery died just before I went into Leah Buley’s sermon titled “How to be a UX Team of One” at the IA Summit. I call it a sermon because at the end of Leah’s talk, she had a veritable congregation of worshippers.
Since I wasn’t able to Twitter, I had to reconstruct my [...]

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[Also check out other GEL 2008 posts: Day 1; Day 2 Session 1 "Connect", Session 2 "Twist", Session 3 "Make"]
Session 4: Success
Speakers: Nayla Al-Khaja, Marissa Mayer, Garrett Oliver, Bob Mankoff, Chip Conley
Nayla Al-Khaja, producer and director

Nayla is from Dubai, the first producer and director in the United Arab Emirates
35 years ago UAE was a blank [...]

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[Also check out other GEL 2008 posts: Day 1; Day 2, Session 1 "Connect"; Day 2, Session 2 "Twist"; Day 2, Session 4 "Success"]
Session 3: Make
Speakers: Alex Lee, Terry Border, Sam Brown, Bill Gurstelle, Rhett and Link
Alex Lee, President of OXO

OXO created by a man who needed more comfortable cooking utensils for his wife who [...]

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[Also check out other GEL 2008 posts: Day 1; Day 2 Session 1 "Connect", Session 3 "Make", Session 4 "Success"]
Session 2: Twist
Speakers: Bridget Duffy, George Vaillant, Lelavision, Natasha Schüll
Twist: taking the familiar and adding something unexpected
Bridget Duffy, Chief Experience Officer of Cleveland Clinic

She’s bringing good experience into health care
Shows cartoon of a dr saying to [...]

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