what do you do?
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How does a User Experience Consultant answer this question? Do people know what user experience is? Am I an engineer? Maybe I'm a designer? A brief talk for the UK UPA Pecha Kucha event in July 2010.TRANSCRIPT
What do you do?July 2010
John Waterworth User Experience Consultant
“And what do you do?”
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Hi! I'm John.
I'm a designer.
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DesignNot design
Information
User experience
Human factors
Usability
User interface
Human computer interaction
Specialist
Practitioner
Analyst
Consultant
Professional
Strategist
Architect
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Context of use
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Beautiful things
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Materials and making
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Prototype and refine
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Research the user context
Design beautiful things
Make practical things
Test prototypes with users
Hi! I'm John.
And I am a designer.