Pleasure and Pain

Improving the human experience one day at a time

Pleasure and Pain: photos by Whitney G. Hess

Entries Tagged as 'Speaking'

Around the World in 80 Days

March 6th, 2010 · Comments · Conferences, Travel

In thinking about my upcoming travel schedule, the classic French adventure novel Around the World in 80 Days (Le tour du monde en 80 jours) popped into my head.
Then I quickly looked at the calendar and counted the days – exactly 80 days from today.
I have a few upcoming speaking engagements, a couple weddings, [...]

[Read more →]

Tags:··

A Q&A with the Speakers of UX London

January 26th, 2010 · Comments · Articles, Conferences, User Experience

I’m psyched to be hosting a workshop at UX London titled Creating a Culture of UX. To help promote the event, the fine folks at UX Booth posed a few questions to the UX London speakers. A Q&A with the speakers from UX London was published today.
UX Booth will be updating the post as [...]

[Read more →]

Tags:···

DIY UX at An Event Apart Chicago 2009

October 20th, 2009 · Comments · Conferences, User Experience

Last Monday, October 12, 2009, I presented DIY UX: Give Your Users an Upgrade (without calling in a pro) to a sold out 500-person crowd at An Event Apart Chicago.
DIY UX: Give Your Users an Upgrade (Without Calling In a Pro)

 
I gave this talk for the first time (minus a couple test rounds) at [...]

[Read more →]

Tags:·····

See you at An Event Apart Chicago

October 10th, 2009 · Comments · Conferences, User Experience

I’m speaking at An Event Apart Chicago on October 12, 2009

On Sunday I’m off to one of my favorite cities to attend and speak at An Event Apart Chicago, being held on October 12-13. I’ll be presenting my talk titled DIY UX: Give Your Users an Upgrade (without calling in a pro), which I gave [...]

[Read more →]

Tags:··

My DIY UX talk is featured in InformationWeek

August 24th, 2009 · Comments · Articles, Events, User Experience

Many thanks go to Allen Stern of CenterNetworks for covering my DIY UX presentation in the InformationWeek blog. He was in attendance when I gave the talk to about 25 people at the NYC Customer Development Process Meetup last week.
Read his article: DIY Usability For Startups

I will be giving the presentation again at An Event [...]

[Read more →]

Tags:·····

Also on Pleasure and Pain