We’re excited to announce our next Balanced Team conference in Chicago! The conference runs Friday evening, June 22 through Sunday afternoon, June 24 at IDEO’s offices at 626 W Jackson Blvd (thanks, IDEO!). See Lanyard.com for the conference schedule. We suggest that you book accommodations early, Chicago is full of summer conferences. The theme of [...]
Balanced Team is sponsoring an evening event March 11, 2011 in Austin TX during SxSW interactive. Please join us for spirited conversation, engaging lightning talks, tasty drinks and snacks on the roof deck and a round of fabulous door prizes. Thanks to our fantastic sponsors, Adaptive Path, UIE, {new context}, Rosenfeld Media and LUXr! To [...]
I started a roundup of blog posts created by participants in last weekend’s event. Let me know if you see more! Josh Seiden, LUXr “Balanced Team, September 2011” Shawn Crowley, Atomic Object “Balanced Team Conference 2011” Bo Campbell “Diplomacy, the greatest UX asset“
If you’re interested in following along with the event, please check out these links: We’re on the Lanyard social conference directory. We’re streaming (and archiving) video from the event at UStream. Our twitter hashcode is #balconf Update: Please see the resources page for a full list
We we asked the registered participants of the Balanced Team Conference to propose topics for the event. These are some of the proposals that attracted the most interest from the community. The list below contains a rich and interesting mix of facilitated conversations, stories, best practices and hands-on techniques from some of the leading practitioners [...]
We’re pleased to announce the first Balanced Team Conference. This event builds on our previous Agile UX retreat events, and represents the continuing growth and energy surrounding the balanced team thinking and movement, of cross-disciplinary whole-team work for healthy and successful teams. Conference Theme: Getting Practical During previous retreats, our focus has been on gaining [...]
(Reprinted from Ian’s blog at Pivotal Labs.) I believe it was in a conversation with Janice Fraser that I first started talking about DRY Documentation. It was certainly she (among others) who goaded me into actually writing this blog post. So I’m taking a moment on my WiFi-free (and generally amenity-free) United Airlines flight to SXSW [...]
In most academic programs, design, engineering and business are taught in silos, and the disciplines remain separate as students move into the world of work. Steve Blank makes a proposal for more cross-disciplinary studies and industry engagement during education and mentions Philadelphia University’s new degree program, Design, Engineering and Commerce.
I wanted to share my presentation from the deLUX event a few weeks ago in Boulder. In the time that has past since the event I’ve update the presentation the help illustrate the term spoilage. It’s a term I’m introducing, and it’s intended to be provocative. The lost opportunity from design debt is a real [...]
At the end of the December retreat in NYC, the Balanced Team group felt that it was time to reach out and share our thinking with a wider community. Last week’s Interaction 11 conference in Boulder, CO, provided an ideal opportunity to throw a party with activities and talks sprinkled on top. With help from [...]
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