All your UPA 2011 slides are belong to us

“I love that my work improves people’s lives on a daily basis, even in the smallest ways; by decreasing frustration and saving time. Hopefully these improvements allow them to do meaningful things in their lives and the lives of others.” - Carol Smith

Here is my almost certainly doomed attempt to gather together in one place a running linklog of the slides, resources, posters and blog posts from the speakers and attendees at the UPA 2011 conference in Atlanta as they appear on the web. If I’ve missed one, let me know in the comments or tweet me the link to @currybet.

Tuesday - Tutorials

• “Agile UX Toolkit” by Desirée Sy, Lynn Miller, John Schrag
• “MINDSTORMING: collaborating to inspire and effect social change (Preview)” by Dante Murphy

Presentations - Wednesday

• Keynote: “Designing for Social Change” by Paul Adams - resources and links in this blog post: The data behind The Real Life Social Network and some similar slides from a talk two months ago “How Your Customers' Social Circles Influence What They Buy, What They Do and Where They Go”
• “Herding Cats: User Research Techniques for Standardizing an Organic Intranet” by Sumathi Jayakumar, Tom Suther, Gianna LaPin
• “Field studies: magic versus structured analysis” by Giles Colborne
• “Testing Universal Symbols for Healthcare” by Oscar Fernández resulted in this research workbook
• “Envisioning Experience” by Maggie T. Reilly, Stephanie Sansoucie. Also a blog post about it from Stephanie.
• “The Psychology of Usability” by Susan Weinschenk

“Better Usability Through Visualization” by Chuck Konfrst, Justin Cullifer, Chris Staufer, Jason Kuykendall

Presentations - Thursday

• “(Less) Content. (More) Strategy.” by Danielle Cooley
• “Neuro Web Design: What makes them click?” by Susan Weinschenk. There is an audio slidedeck about the book of the same title on SlideShare
• “Designing with a Service Perspective: A Bronx Tale” by Laura Keller
• “Getting effective answers from research sessions” by Chris How
• “It’s in the cards. Users share their experience in ways that count.” by Carol Barnum, Laura Palmer was a cut-down version of “Users Play Cards, We Keep Score, Magic Results!”, and this Word Doc features the words used in the Microsoft Product Reaction Cards
• “How to use photographs to improve the user experience” by James Chudley
• “Into the Wild: Uncovering Holistic Mobile Insights” by Amy Buckner, Pamela Walshe featured this video: “Mobile Year in Review 2010”
• “Developers Are People, Too: Writing Specs That Work” by Josh Cothran
• “Design Principles: The Philosophy of UX” by Whitney Hess
• “Changing The Guardian through “Guerilla usability testing”” by Martin Belam - and as an essay
• “Chinese web design patterns: how and why they’re different” by Chui Chui Tan
• “Design Meets Disability” by Sharron Rush - YouTube promo video
• “How to be a Great Reviewer” by Sara Mastro

Ignite & Unconference sessions

• “Is User Experience a Cult?” by Kathi Kaiser
• “When bad UI/UX Takes Money From Customers” by Kara DeFrias
• “Eye Tracking is a Rip-Off ” by Leanna Gingras
• “12 things good UX managers say” by Christina York

Posters

• “A Bronx tale: Using design research for envisioning the urban experience” by Laura Keller
• “Space, the final frontier” - Christopher Nicholas & Kath Straub presenting ReadSmart, which reformats text into phrases to aid comprehension.

Blogposts

• “Designing for Social Change – UPA 2011 Begins” by Diego Mendes
• “UPA2011: Day 1 Review” by Diego Mendes
• “UPA2011: Day 2 Review” by Diego Mendes
• “UPA2011: Day 3 Review” by Diego Mendes
• “The need for a broader perspective in user experience design” by Karen Bachmann
• “Braindrawing: Another insight from UPA 2011” by Karen Bachmann
• “From ‘Social by design’ to ‘Social workers of technology’ - UPA 2011” by Martin Belam, Guardian Developer Blog
• “Body language, cults and choice - UPA Redux #1” by Martin Belam
• “Using measuring and using humour in UX - UPA Redux #2” by Martin Belam
• “Better contextual mobile testing, and barriers to adopting usability - UPA Redux #3” by Martin Belam
• “UPA 2011 in Atlanta” by Tom Wood, Foolproof
• “Catching up with UX friends” by Rob Gillham, Foolproof
• “Is social research part of your UX toolkit?” by Elsa Plumley, Foolproof
• “No, I did not ‘pause’ my workout!” - observations on the usability of the gym equipment in the hotel by Veronica-Meuris
• UPA Tours User Insight
• Pictures from the organised tour of CNN

Elsewhere on the web...

• UPA2011 Awards presentation
• Official YouTube channel
• Official Twitter acount
• Twitter list of conference speakers
• UPA International 2011 Conference Flickr group

And why the bad grammar in the title?

Way back in the steam-powered days of the internet, i.e. around about 2000, “All your base are belong to us” was an internet meme based on a bad translation of some text in the Japanese video game Zero Wing.

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