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In this episode Dan Willis talks about what we believe.

This episode was produced by Olga Howard and a team of students from the Center for Digital Imaging Arts at Georgetown.

Producer: Tysheka Pierson
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In this episode Joe Sokhol talks about design inspiration.

This episode was produced by Olga Howard and a team of students from the Center for Digital Imaging Arts at Georgetown.

Producer: Tysheka Pierson
Camera: Holden Boyles

In this episode the group discusses accessibility issues and solutions.

This episode was produced by Olga Howard and a team of students from the Center for Digital Imaging Arts at Georgetown.

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In this episode Jared Spool leads a group discussion on how Web apps affect the bottom line.

This episode was produced by Olga Howard and a team of students from the Center for Digital Imaging Arts at Georgetown.

Camera: Sean Greenwood
Camera: Drew Loughlin

In this episode Jared Spool and Livia Labate lead a discussion on key performance indicators (KPIs).

This episode was produced by Olga Howard and a team of students from the Center for Digital Imaging Arts at Georgetown.

Camera: Sean Greenwood
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There has been increasing interest in our professional community around the research that informs our designs. Traditional user research may shed light on superficial complaints or wish-list items, but we want to talk more about how we can uncover opportunities for ground-breaking experiences. We will be having a round table discussion and hope that you will bring your distinct perspective and experiences on how research inspires design.

Joining us this morning will be Steve Baty, Daniel Szuc, Indi Young, Eric Reiss, and Chris Avore.

We look forward to sharing ideas from the topic of design research and sharing some of the experiences from the third annual Interaction Design conference in Savannah Georgia.

User Experience Matters

As our industry matures, we are starting to see a cataclysmic change in how we work within each of our fields. Information architecture, interaction design, visual design, usability, accessibility, content, and marketing are colliding to form a better and more valuable user experience.

Interaction is no longer an afterthought, overshadowed by visual design. “Just getting noticed” on the web is no longer sufficient – what you produce will now be judged by the value of your information and the ease of your experience. Today, users reign supreme.

Now’s the time to ask the tough questions: Are you properly investing resources, energy, and time in your user experience? Do you really, like really, know what your users want and need? How are you planning for the future?

In this presentation, we’ll explore the seven characteristics of good user experience, where technology and innovation are taking the interactive industry, and what milestones we’ll pass along the way.

What will I get of this session?
* A sense of where user experience is headed
* Knowledge of how context impacts the user experience
* An understanding of how new technologies are changing both context and user experience

Who should attend?
* User experience professionals
* Marketing executives and managers
* Online community managers
* Web designers and web developers
* Others who want to learn about user experience design

In this episode Rob Fay discusses methods and methodologies in measuring desirability.

This episode was produced by Olga Howard and a team of students from the Center for Digital Imaging Arts at Georgetown.

Producer: Tysheka Pierson
Camera: Holden Boyles

SenseMaker Dialogs speaker series focuses on exploring the rapidly changing hybrid activity of SenseMaking in the 21st century.

No longer just focused on data and information visualization, the boundaries of what sensemaking is and what sensemakers do in the context of organizations and society is in a state of rapid transformation like never before.

Leading sensemakers today have become integral to many forms of changemaking occurring in organizations and in societies around the world.

In SenseMaker Dialogs, speakers from diverse backgrounds will explore these shifts.

Richard Saul Wurman

SenseMaking pioneer, author of 80+ books, Chairman of the Entertainment Gathering, and TEDMED, Richard Saul Wurman is a force of nature. For those who might not know, it was 1976, when Richard coined the term Information Architect to describe professional sensemakers involved in what he referred to as the understanding business. Never resting on his laurels Wurman keeps creating amazing new projects year after year, including his most recent: Understanding Change & the Change in Understanding and Super Cities 19.20.21. The mission of the multi-year, multi media 19.20.21 initiative is to collect, organize and better understand population’s effect regarding urban and business planning and its impact on consumers around the world. An inspiration to many and always unpredictable Richard will likely be talking about his life long love of understanding.

Garry K. VanPatter

GK VanPatter is CoFounder of Humantific a SenseMaking-based Transformation Consultancy in New York. Humantific helps organizational leaders navigate complexity, drive change and build sustainable cross-disciplinary innovation capabilities. Working in the trenches of practice for 20+ years VanPatter was an early advocate of applying design thinking to the realms of cross-disciplinary strategy co-creation and organizational transformation. Today Humantific advocates recognition that many challenges facing organizations, societies and ultimately planet earth cannot be solved by creating more products and services. VanPatter also co-founded NextDesign Leadership Institute with Elizabeth Pastor in 2002. NextD creates lenses to understand design in the 21st century. Pointing to recent Social SenseMaking projects like Measure of America, VanPatter believes that SenseMaking and ChangeMaking have become equally important partners in the quest to create a more human-centered world.