On the topics of User Experience and Experience Design I often hold workshops at various accelerator programs,
e.g. at the Nordic Innovation House, for startups representing
a wide range of technology and healthcare companies.
The main challenge is to highlight the underlying distinction between the UI and the UX, why UX evaluation is essential and how can be done effectively,
and why Experience Design is just a bit more than the sum of its parts.
Back in my time in corporate research with Nokia, I was heading a large scale global university relation program, called SensorPlanet, on
the topic of mobile device-based sensing, data collection and sharing data for research purposes. As part of that initiative, one workshop I organized
was on the topic of how to benefit from knowledge derived from contextual and sensor sources, and how that will change our interactions
with applications, services, and devices. This was before the term Internet of Things was invented and before research on self-driving cars really took off.
The workshop, with a tongue-in-cheek, was titled Useless Interfaces.
In the past five years or so my talks focused on conversational interaction topics and UX evaluations. Here are some thoughts on
Smooth Interaction -- why less is more even for conversational interfaces?
Earlier, often gave invited talks on the topic of mobile sensing in the context of the SensorPlanet initiative.
Picture credit: Thoughts - Adrian Zumbrunnen