On Friday the 2nd of October, two of the USiT team (Pat and Alun) gave a presentation at the first day of Oz-IA 2009, the 4th Australian Information Architecture conference. The presentation told the story, in 25 minutes, of the research and design for the SuperRacing website. The slides are shown below.

A few months ago I was invited to present at the UPA (Usability Professionals Association) Sydney’s 2nd anniversary party alongside the excellent Cameron Adams who talked about the design of Google Wave.

Having presented a few case studies ,over the course of the year, I decided to take a different approach to this talk and explore a more blue sky topic. In this case – the progression away from the Direct Manipulation paradigm towards Indirect Manager via Intelligent User Interfaces and the Semantic Web.

I’ve only now got around to posting it here, better late than never!

I was fortunate enough, this year, to be able to present a session at UX Australia.  The aim of the talk was to describe a methodology we applied at NDM to modelling user activities, behaviours and philosophies through the use of a mental model.  This mental model (and other associated artefacts including personas, workflows etc) was generated through the use of cultural probes.  You can find out more about what we did in the presentation below.