Presentations

The following is a selection of presentations, or articles given as presentations, that I have given over the past 7 years. Some of the ideas might be getting a bit old and may not represent what I am doing at the moment but I feel there is certainly some good introductory material there. Over the years I have tried different tools and methods for presenting and you can see that see that a bit of that here as well - some of it is a bit cumbersome - my apologies.

  • Visual Design for the Web
    This presentation is not so much about the traditional topics we think of when we talk about visual design. I spend as much time talking about strategy and information design concepts as I do colour and typography. It's a pdf file and about 850k.
  • Audio Interfaces for Online Environments
  • Digital Storytelling
    This was a very short talk given at Chiao Tung University on one of my interests - primarily I was trying to illustrate one central point of how technology has had an effect on the art of storytelling. The primary depth of this presentation was the discussion of the linked examples.
  • Mental Models for Producers
    A short talk on mental models - slide gives standard definitions and was the basis for a discussion and application of this concept in my own practice.
  • Towards Better Documentation for Information Architects (Chinese version).
    Original English language presentation is available in .pdf format
  • User Experience for Producers
    A general introduction to the concept of designing for "good experiences" given to a group of producers and project managers.
  • Information Design: An Introduction
    A shortened presentation that I gave to non-practioners on information design. I say nothing new so for the initiated there might be nothing for you. It does raise a few points that have led to some interesting discussions in the past.
  • Creating the User Experience 1, 2, 3
    Foundations, Navigation & Information Design, Information & Visual Design
    Three presentations giving a general overview of key elements of developing environments that help elicit a good experience. The work of Nathan Shederoff, James Garrett, and Edward Tufte was heavily cited. Please note that these files are Quicktime exports from Apple's keynote and are quite large in size.
  • Creativity and the Creative Process
    Two presentation slides (.pdf) that attempted to answer the question, how do you come up with good ideas?
  • Building a case for design at the beginning of the web site design process.
    A short talk about the need for creative professionals in all stages of the web site development cycle. Something that does not normally occurr in many Taiwan based projects.
  • Incorporating your users into your projects.
    A short talk I have given a couple of times to budding designers and project management types on how to start thinking about how to incorporate the end user of your system into your project.
  • IKEA's I.A
    Inspired by Katrina Hagedorn's analysis I did a short analysis of Taipei's IKEA focusing on their IA and shopping experience. This was really the beginning of a deepening interest in urban information design and using that as a metaphor for digital experiences. The link is a 6 meg .pdf containing a short analysis and pictures of the now closed Taipei store. There exists separate .html slides of the pictures themselves.
  • MRT Signage Study
  • Client Questionairre 1 and Client Questionairre 2. Please excuse the goofy personal logo.
  • Design Process for the Web
    This is a small website that I built four years ago to help explain some of the concepts involved in our process at that time. Some bad code and some ideas not part of my current thinking but still useful in some respects.
  • Form Design suggestions
    This short list of recommendations for writing forms was a result of request one afternoon for a document that could get the engineers and designers talking about form usability. It was meant as a point of departure and not a comprehensive tutorial.
  • Process/Task chart
    A simple chart used to communicate broad tasks in a project meeting. I have created a seemingly infinite number of these.
  • User Experience Workflow
    I can see problems in this document now but at that particular moment it represented our thinking (.pdf file).
  • Web site design process
    A broad outline of the process I have used over the years to build web sites. Its broad and doesn't apply to all the product you will deliver via the web but it's fairly standard and seems to work.