Thank you so much to the ~22 people who showed up for the twenty-second week of Whit Hour — my weekly one-hour video chat to answer any and all of your questions about user experience, consulting, and whatever else you throw at me.
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Whit Hour – Week 22
December 20, 2010, from 10:00-11:00pm ET
This Week’s Beer
Sober!
Questions Asked and (Hopefully) Answered
- I’m a self-taught web designer. I’ve taken a particular interest in UX design. Suggestions on becoming a serious, full-time UX Specialist?
- Describe your most challenging situation as a UX professional?
- Have you ever approached a company that you felt needed your help when they didn’t know it or ask for UX help?
- Have you considered starting a mentoring workshop yourself?
- Why doesn’t An Event Apart ever have conferences in nyc?
- As an independent designer how do you measure your own success and professional growth?
- Any specific part of the world or city that seems more mature in their practice UX design?
- How do you identify and improve on your weaknesses w/ regard to design
- Regarding the 2011 plans, are you still toying with the idea of summer in Pittsburgh?
- I’m starting a blog on Design for Startups — What topic do you think will interest freelance desigers and CEOs alike?
- What are your thoughts on giving developers control over user experience rather than having dedicated product managers, or someone looking after UX specifically?
- Are you going to be able to see the lunar eclipse tonight?
- Are there any training resources or tools I you’d recommend for developers to help improve their UX design abilities? You mentioned your DIY UX talk?
Full Text Chat
Welcome to the ‘whithour’ room.
deconspray: Question: I’m a self-taught web designer. I’ve taken a particular interest in UX design. Suggestions on becoming a serious, full-time UX Specialist?
deconspray: Describe your most challenging situation as a UX professional?
Lesharque: test
ericnowina: This was deconspray’s question: deconspray: Question: I’m a self-taught web designer. I’ve taken a particular interest in UX design. Suggestions on becoming a serious, full-time UX Specialist?
ericnowina: aaaaand: deconspray: Describe your most challenging situation as a UX professional?
lwcavallucci: Have you ever approached a company that you felt needed your help when they didn’t know it or ask for UX help?
gotham: have you considered starting a mentoring workshop yourself?
whitneyhess mod: http://iainstitute.org/en/members/mentoring/welcome_to_iai_mentoring.php
gotham: why doesn’t event apart ever have conferences in nyc?
Lesharque: As an independent designer how do you measure your own success and professional growth?
lwcavallucci: Thanks Whitney. You’ve probably saved me a lot of energy.
Lesharque: Yike, my sounds is out –
germanmartinez: Hi Whitney!
Lesharque: any clue and where the volumn control is here
ericnowina: Any specific part of the world or city that seems more mature in their practice UX design?
gotham: so those of us who live in nyc are just out of luck? :( This & the big web show are the only outlets I have to learn about web world.
candi5by5: hey gotham. What in particular are you trying to learn about the web?
Lesharque: with regard to the UI discipline how do you identify and improve on your weaknesses w/o regard to design
dafark8: regarding the 2011 plans, are you still toying with the idea of summer in pgh?
whitneyhess mod: [email protected]
candi5by5: gotham if you didn’t want to go to an event in person, you could also try online conferences from environments for humans and carsonified
Lesharque: CORRECTION: as designers we all have strengths and weaknessess – how do you identify and improve on your weaknesses
Braden K: I’m starting a blog on Design for Startups — What topic do you think will interest freelance desigers and CEOs alike?
Braden K: The book is “Now, discover your strengths”
whitneyhess mod: http://www.amazon.com/Discover-Your-Strengths-Marcus-Buckingham/dp/0743201140
Braden K: (A great read if you’re doing any feedback for clients, peers, managers, etc)
ericnowina: Life coaches are really helpful in identifying and focusing on the strengths you’re talking about.
scottglew: Hey Whitney – first time here! Q: What are your thoughts on giving developers control over user experience rather than having dedicated product managers, or someone looking after UX specifically?
Lesharque: Much obliged
scottglew: I’m guessing if you hire the right kind of developers this could work, but what is your experience with developer-designed UX generally?
Lesharque: re: book. Good to know, Braden/Whitney
fredericguarino: hi from Montreal !
dafark8: awesome. now we just should aim for a massive UX meetup at carnival too!
Braden K: Great answer. Thanks Whit!
scottglew: yeah – great answer thanks!
dafark8: 14*17th
dafark8: its the 14th to the 17th this year
dafark8: buggy: http://cmubuggy.org/forum/v/2000s/Fringe+D+beats+SigNu+A+on+hill+1+2001.jpg.html
candi5by5: did you ever find a place to watch glee season 1? :)
astra: Are you going to be able to see the lunar eclipse tonight?
fredericguarino: as a tv producer i concur that stealing is bad
fredericguarino: give Hulu Plus a try !
fredericguarino: NOOOOOOO
lwcavallucci: Glee is my guilty pleasure.
Ian: tv producers are the best stealers in the business
candi5by5: I’ll post pics if i wake up in time.
lwcavallucci: Find a group to go to Central Park to watch it.
scottglew: Just a follow on to my previous question, are there any training resources or tools I you’d recommend for developers to help improve their UX design abilities? You mentioned your DIY UX talk?
fredericguarino: i won’t tell…
whitneyhess mod: https://whitneyhess.com/blog/2009/06/30/so-you-wanna-be-a-user-experience-designer-step-1-resources/
gotham: candi5by5- thanks for the info above.
scottglew: cool thanks!
ericnowina: Thanks for the hour!
gotham: thanks whitney
lwcavallucci: Have fun Whit. Thanks :)
lwcavallucci: Feel better!
candi5by5: gotham, no problem. if you need more info, you can always tweet me: candiRSX.
Ian: thank you, #uxmistress
germanmartinez: bye Whit
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Monday, December 27, 10-11pm Eastern Time at http://www.livestream.com/whithour, and bring your questions!
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Are you still running Whit Hour? I wasn’t sure if you’ve gotten a bit too busy for that but if it’s still running, was thinking of recommending it to people who ask about getting into the UX field. :)