Usability and User Experience Resources
Idea Market Afterthoughts

Imagine a market for ideas. You wander around the different stands, each with someone leading a discussion around a chosen topic. Two flipcharts stand waiting to capture the ideas of people who drop by, browsing through the market.

Idea Markets were created by Ulf Andersson as a format in which attendees could easily find the people they were most interested in talking with about the topics they were most interested in discussing. They are a temporary community in which people from different backgrounds not only learn from the experience of others but also generate new ideas.

Idea Market 2005

• Changing Perspective: How Technical Communicators Can Be Valued as a Core Competency, Not a Commodity - Karen Bachmann
• Is something lost in translation, and if so, what can technical communicators do about that? - Valerie Rushanan
• Telling (Selling) the User Story: Analyzing Qualitative Data to Construct a Vivid Narrative about the User Experience that is Believable and Engaging to Developers - Judy Ramey
• Legal Issues of Import to Technical Communication Professionals - Christopher Juillet
• Working on project teams: Getting others to appreciate your (our) skills - Ginny Redish
• How Do You Determine Your Rate? - Dana Chisnell
  

Idea Market 2004

• Where does usability fit in the development life cycle?
  Karen Bachmann
• How many users does it take for a (web) usability test?
  Carol Barnum
• What are the roles on a usability / user-centered design team?
  Whitney Quesenbery
• Expanding roles -- how can technical communicators become usability specialists?
  Janice (Ginny) Redish
• How can we ensure rigor in participant recruiting, and why is it important?
  Deborah Hinderer Sova
• Where is the crossover between usability and accessibility?
  Fabien Vais, with Gloria Reece