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Brainstorming Techniques:
Topics to Cover 2009

1. Prototyping techniques
   - Tools to use
   - Good and bad
   - CSS usage
2. Usability testing advances
   - What's working
   - Number of users
   - Low-fi testing
3. Working with development teams
4. Working with UIs of COTS applications
5. Testing mobile applications
6. Non-traditional testing techniques
7. Usability chat room
8. Regional usability seminars
9. Review of best principles for web site design
10. Designing complex software
11. Brainstorming
12. Breaking into management
13. Convincing senior management
14. Setting up a UPA session
15. How do you know if you're "experienced"?
16. How to deal with misconceptions of your role
17. Definitions of different roles
18. Multi-user usability testing
19. Remote usability testing
20. Ideas for adding UX to an organization
21. Brainstorming idea sessions
22. New technologies
23. Usability and portals
24. Usability test designing
25. Cognitive interviewing
26. Surveys
27. Quantitative
28. Rapid techniques
29. Inquiry
30. Book reviews
31. More posters
32. Tips for conducting focus groups
33. Cognitive psychology and its impact on design
34. How to stop satisficing (as a design team)
35. Rapid prototyping
36. Hiring/firing in a consulting business
37. Business development
38. Pricing services
39. Training opportunities
40. What's available for 'newbies'?
41. How can you find other usability professionals near you
42. Address differences between corporate and educational organizations
43. Usability and SOA
44. Usability testing and validation within Agile
45. Remote usability testing
46. Voice application usability (IVR)
47. Selling usability to management
48. How to evaluate eye-tracking data
49. Kansei and Usability
50. Mobile phones
51. Marketing UI
52. Marketing and usability - where they blend together
53. How to 'break into" the field
54. Build rapport with engineers
55. Design approaches
56. Cross-channel approaches
57. Selling to management
58. Training new staff
59. Visualization
60. E-commerce
61. Software Development
62. Augmented Cognition
63. Management
64. Idea generation
65. Public relations
66. Eye-tracking
67. Contextual inquiry
68. Future of usability
69. Usability testing with children
70. How to design for seniors
71. Cross-cultural differences in UX practice
72. Focus groups for innovation: when and why?
73. More/other sensory UI topics
74. More design topics
75. Persuasive design
76. CMS design/ implementation
77. Form design
78. Error-reporting
79. Community strategy
80. Folksonomy
81. User-generated content
82. GOMS model for practitioners
83. I/O psychology and usability strategy
84. Bringing fun and creativity into usability
85. New techniques that usability professionals have tried and how that worked out
86. More on fitting usability into Agile process
87. Scott Berkon > to be here
88. Skills for novice
89. Best practices for xyz
90. Design patterns for application design
91. Visualization
92. New ways to communicate
93. Evaluation of prototyping tolls
94. Career advice- different stages
95. Generational design
96. Visual design basics for non-designers
97. More brainstorming (experimentally)
98. Generational diversity
99. Selling your UX group to development
100. Interaction UX into an Agile development environment
101. Scaled usability solutions
102. How to get your developer to listen
103. Ways to change attitudes in a siloed environment
104. Cheap and dirty usability
105. Step through card-sorting
106. Usefulness of personas
107. Facilitator-led usability sessions: effect on results
108. Usefulness of taxonomies vs. social tagging
109. Longitudinal research
110. How to run an affinity diagramming session
111. How to code qualitative data - the whole process, select code s/w used etc.
112. History of usability
113. How to create/ write good usability reports
114. Systematic way of X rating the severity of usability issues
115. Convert user research into design
116. People management
117. New techniques
118. Web 2.0/ standard designs
119. Accessibility
120. Things for UX training
121. Mapping charts
122. Facial analysis
123. Eye-tracking
124. Voting
125. Retired audiences
126. Degree programs
127. University tracks
128. Managing clients and managing consultants
129. Self-service case studies
130. Emotion in design
131. Building UX teams
132. Usability mentoring
133. Ethnography
134. Retail store usability testing
135. Cross-channel user experience
136. Games you can play to warm up a design session
137. How to get the right questions from customers
138. More intro sessions like this one
139. Pandas
140. Professional development for recent graduates
141. Teamwork with the human factors and ergonomics society to celebrate our fields!
142. Polymorphic design
143. Designing for expert users' efficiency
144. Adaptive interfaces
145. Usability of security systems (login and authentication)
146. Personas
147. Analysis of problems
148. Design
149. Brainstorming ideas
150. Fidelity of prototypes
151. Good design practices
152. Usability mistakes
153. Usability for non-profits
154. Organization websites
155. Usability vs. design - not separate
156. Technical writer vs. designer -different skill sets
157. Brainstorming
158. Workflow modeling
159. Spaghetti
160. Contextual inquiry methods
161. Cognitive psychology principles
162. Design ethnography practices
163. Hula hooping
164. Driving race cars
165. gile
166. Usability testing tools
167. New innovations in usability
168. Integrating user research
169. Personas
170. Agile process
171. RIA
172. Rapid prototyping
173. Rapid user research
174. UI development
175. Pattern library
176. Paper prototyping
177. Personas
178. Faceted searches
179. UX project management
180. Remote usability testing
181. More vendors with SWAG (stuff we all get)
182. Analytics on card-sorting
183. Mobility
184. Multichannel
185. Usability studies outside the lab
186. E-commerce trends
187. E-commerce designs
188. Mobile equipment i.e.: GPS, phones, etc.
189. Usability seem as more than just web design
190. Mental models
191. Web standards
192. Eye-tracking
193. Guerilla user testing
194. Rapid prototyping
195. Color and perception
196. Phenomenology
197. Ethics
198. Empowerment
199. Accessibility
200. Plain talk
201. Getting testing buy in
202. So you're new to the field, here's what you need to know.
203. Testing accessibility
204. Sketching designs
205. Being more effective/commanding respect from developers
206. Web 2.0 standards. Are there any forming?
207. UX experiences in software design
208. What not to do
209. Real user data feedback
210. Authors discussions (Buxton)
211. Site specific reviews w/UX feedback
212. Graphic design integration
213. Agile + usability
214. Overall development process w/ usability woven in and roles defined
215. SEO and usability
216. Dealing with small budgets
217. Organizing sites tried and true methods based on research
218. Culture and personality considerations
219. All about purpose and function
220. Gaming in government sites
221. Customization vs. standardization
222. Prototyping
223. Institutionalizing usability
224. Talking to management about usability
225. Emerging technologies
226. Solutions to common problems that has come across
227. How do I get project teams to bring in UX people early on?
228. Best way to be effective when you're the ONLY UX person?
229. All day eye-tracking workshop
230. Analysis tools for eye-tracking
231. More insights for beginners
232. A topic on survey construction
233. Best interview techniques
234. Scenario creation - best ways
235. How does academic research best work w/ industry?
236. How can industry do better quality research?
237. How can multiple UX people best store Research results
238. How to conduct an orchestra
239. Skipping
240. Incremental design
241. Building UX in the government
242. Keep UX in the institution
243. New card-sorting techniques
244. New mobile phone apps
245. How UI jobs designs have evolved over the past 20 years
246. Research on children's use of tech ages 5-15
247. Should designers test? Should testers design?
248. Difference between personal and stereotype
249. How to teach people that think they know the user
250. Environmentalism
251. Globalization
252. Feeding poor
253. Developing the world
254. Complaints from public
255. Better dogs
256. Better people
257. Speaking
258. Participating design
259. Conducting focus groups
260. How to make good presentation and effective selling of usability
261. Provide a space to upload new versions of slides
262. Remote attended facilitating
263. Recruiting participants
264. Difference between exploratory and benchmark testing
265. Battling scope creep
266. Another session like Ryck Borst session on ideas on design sketching
267. How 'amateurs' can improve their skills at the conference
268. A specific track for 'things you should know"
269. Apple/ Mac related/focused UI/usability samples
270. Prototyping tips and tricks
271. Choosing the best prototyping tool
272. Tips and tricks for usability testing
273. Dealing w/ unmotivated users
274. Gathering user profile data - best practices
275. Usability in a strict Agile environment
276. How to structure UX team
277. More about marketing a UX team
278. If usability did the design why did it not pass a test?
279. Managing teammates
280. Best practices for presenting results
281. Cup holders on chairs and document pockets
282. Usability issues in alt energy and sustainable systems
283. Evolution of the field
284. Mobile challenges
285. Transitioning into the field
286. What do you do after graduation
287. Hardware interface design
288. Desktop software trends
289. Testing for non traditional products
290. Practicum workshops
291. Emotional design
292. Persuasive design
293. Design templates
294. Communication design and innovative documentation
295. Typography
296. Color and perception
297. Ajax interfaces
298. Cross- cultural iconography interpretation
299. Mobile interfaces
300. Managing huge amounts of info as a usability professional
301. Quick prototyping
302. Analyzing usability results
303. Government project case studies
304. Personas
305. Managing us professionals
306. AXURA tutorial
307. Brainstorming workshop
308. Wireframing workshop
309. Web 2.0 design
310. Getting buy-in from developers and designers
311. Prioritization of UC technique
312. Cognitive aspects
313. Emotional/ Affective
314. Form design
315. Ethnographic research
316. Flash animation accessibility
317. New usability methods
318. Usability and the Agile process
319. Dealing with customer FUDS
320. Cultural design
321. Hardware design
322. Localization
323. Hand gesture interface design
324. Wearable computing usability
325. Augmented reality realism?
326. Disabled sensory needs/replacement of senses
327. Panel: Design for younger users and older users in same product
328. Remote moderated field studies
329. Injecting user research into agile programming
330. Ergonomics
331. Combining marketing: UX
332. More visual design topics
333. Team building in our field
334. Architecture
335. Group design
336. Customizing
     
337. Design techniques
338. IA
339. Library
340. Music connection
341. Sketching
342. Testing remotely
343. Analyzing U tests
344. Agile usability
345. Graphic design tools
346. Visual design principles
347. Consulting tips
348. How to promote your services
349. Interaction design
350. Careers in usability
351. How I got into usability (panel)
352. Current trends in: different verticals; corporate, consulting
353. Globalization
354. Flash animation accessibility
355. Travel
356. Design
357. Accessibility
358. Ethnography
359. Video clips
360. Communications techniques
361. User personas
362. Recruiting techniques
363. Formative studies
364. Persuasion, emotion and trust
365. How to build transactional websites using emotion
366. Mobile device studies
367. More on interactive research
368. Usability test - reporting
369. Usability requirements
370. ISO standards for the above
371. A session to get our feedback
372. Persona design
373. Japanese i.2y
374. Mobile application
375. Facebook design
376. Robot human interaction
377. Design of future products
378. Chicken human interaction
379. Evaluating live interfaces
380. Dual usability participant studies
381. Designing for RIAs
382. What is a BA in your organization?
383. Do WFs come before use cases?
384. When the user is wrong then what?
385. Working at a big company vs. small company
386. Women in usability
387. Men and usability
388. Search engines on enterprise sites
389. Cell phone usability
390. Measuring ROI, formulas, what data to capture
391. Tech vs. usability concerns, how to bridge the gap
392. Usability testing techniques
393. New techniques
394. Working techniques
395. How to perform evaluations
396. How to best present usability review results
397. More 'how to's"
398. Focus groups
     - How to conduct
     - Types
     - When to use each type
399. Usability for web 2.0 user gen content
400. Iconography
401. Software reviews for applications that card sort, give presentations, etc.
402. ROI
403. UX team development
404. Making UX more scientific
405. Working with other team members
406. Career progression sessions
407. Diversifying skills on a UX practitioner
408. A moose once bit my sister
409. Usability problems that come from the database and how to fix that
410. Strategies and techniques for documenting specifications with wireframes (requirements and traceability)
411. Designing for corporate clients
412. How to convince management low-fidelity has value
413. Techniques for divergent thinking in a collapsed time frame
414. UPA for Dummies
415. Card-Sorting: What is it?
416. Wireframes - introduction to
417. Integrating UCD and the Agile method
418. Facilitation techniques
419. Managing politics
420. Scoping projects
421. Writing a good RFP
422. Ensuring design success (what conditions should be in place)
423. How to organize UX team
424. How to share UX way of thinking in the company
425. How to make innovations
426. So you're all experts: How were devaluing the currency of our profession
427. How to get past the boss and get your ideas implemented.
428. Different think aloud protocols
429. Ubiquitous computing
430. Beyond card-sorting
431. Long tail analysis
432. Designing website interface
433. Advanced use of personas
434. Increasing impact at your company
435. Working with developers- best practices
436. Career advancement
437. Consumer electronics testing techniques
438. Ethnography techniques
439. Incorporating multi-media into usable apps
440. Applications for Mac specific to usability
441. Simulation of a user lab onsite
442. Product usability testing
443. Use cases
444. BA work and UX work
445. Agile and usability
446. Navigation designs for enterprise app designs
447. Enterprise app consistency
448. Getting first job in UX
449. Breaking into the field
450. Non-software UX/ID
451. Links between UE/ID
452. History of usability
453. Task analysis
454. Designing information products
455. Cognitive walk-throughs
456. Mobile design
457. Social website design
458. Design of buildings- signage best practices
459. Persona development
460. How many personas per project
 

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