Christian Crumlish to deliver keynote address

User Experience is Everybody's Business.

JA-SIG is very pleased to announce that Christian Crumlish, Curator of the Yahoo! Design Pattern Library, will be the Tuesday keynote speaker at JA-SIG's upcoming Dallas conference, "Higher Education Open Source Communities: Working Together"', Sunday through Wednesday, 1-4 March 2009, at the Sheraton Dallas Hotel.

Abstract:

Not simply the latest euphemism for "usability" or "GUI design," user experience broadly refers to the make-or-break question of how users will experience your application. More than a matter of pixels, buttons, and flowcharts, a good user experience is built on design principles spanning the realms of architecture, data, and presentation. All of us specialize in one piece of the puzzle, but we all ought to be working toward the same goal: an experience users will enjoy and seek to repeat. In the Yahoo! design pattern library we've learned some lessons about how (and how not) to capture and promote best user experience practices for multidisciplinary teams. Can pattern collections leverage and activate the "social dimension" of our websites and open source projects? Let's find out.

BIO:

Christian Crumlish has been designing and writing about shared information spaces since 1994. He is the curator of the Yahoo! Design Pattern Library and treasurer of the Information Architecture Institute. He studied philosophy at Princeton and painting at the San Francisco School of Art. He is the author of The Power of Many: How the Living Web is Transforming Politics, Business, and Everday Life (Wiley, 2004), and coauthor of the forthcoming Designing Social Interfaces (O'Reilly Media). He lives in Oakland, California, with his wife, Briggs, and his cat, Fraidy.

Christian Crumlish's keynote address is scheduled for Tuesday, March 3, 2009, at 8:30am.