Month: May 2017

I attended last Saturday’s #uxcampch in Zürich.

First talk was on designing screens for HbbTV. 10 Foot UI. Samuel Raymann talked about his project at SRG and designing for TV sets. I liked this project report about design challenges.

Good talk by @samraymann on HbbTv design challenges

— Panchenga (@nchenga) May 20, 2017

Next, I joined a discussion on digital education. Difficult to summarize in a couple of words. Apparently, even in 2017, there are tonnes of teachers that don’t use digital resources and apps in their teaching plans. At the same time, many students are distracted by very elaborate, leading edge, commercial apps. Educational software publishers could benefit from UX methodology and agile processes. And one attendee suggested UX designers should consider enter the teaching profession.

Then, there was a session on virtual reality. One hololens and 120 attendees. And very shaky videos as we watched people try out the headset. Conclusion: User interaction is not quite there yet. The hand gestures are quite difficult to learn, it seems.

I felt this session shows what is happening. Enthusiasts, gamers, early adopters are embracing virtual reality, augmented reality faster than ever before. While at the same time the digital divide is increasing (c.f. educational system). Many of us, normal folks, will be consumers of elaborate marketing and manipulation machines that we don’t know how to program.

One thing to note is: voice control will become more widespread.

"Where did I put that window?" #hololens #augmentedReality #uxcampch pic.twitter.com/GzLRMPB6gG

— Kristiina Juu (@kristiinajuu) May 20, 2017

In many ways the VR session reminded me of shaky holiday videos from long ago. But it’s coming into our daily lives in a big way.

I have the impression that basic interaction principles (selection and modification) are very hard to do with a hololens. #UXcampCH

— Philipp Murkowsky (@pmurkowsky) May 20, 2017

Other sessions of note:

Making privacy useable

Hey #uxcampch folks: I posted the slides of my talk about "Making privacy useable" here. https://t.co/AZN01Ni4vY

— Philipp Murkowsky (@pmurkowsky) May 20, 2017

Users don't care about metadata! Very interesting presentation about #dataprivacy @pmurkowsky @uxcampch #uxcampch pic.twitter.com/eBlOCcRPcz

— natalie kirkoroglu (@_DigitalPanda) May 20, 2017

Conversational Design

#Slides von meinem #Workshop zu #conversational_design am #uxcampch findet ihr auf #slideshare: https://t.co/tkjuTEEKMI pic.twitter.com/eY4tTcjw6F

— Martin (@mk_it_easy) May 20, 2017

On design sprints

Here are the slides of the #DesignSprint workshop at #UXcampCHhttps://t.co/iLqlFeEe0W

— Pat Mächler (@Valio_ch) May 20, 2017

Big thank you to the organizers.