What’s the best way to evolve design ideas quickly? Get together with other designers and brainstorm. The second best way? Adapt the methods of larger UX groups to a team of one. Learn how in this presentation, which shares lightweight techniques for quick and effective brainstorming on your own.
Slideshare presentation: http://www.slideshare.net/ugleah/ux-team-of-one-sxsw-2009-1161299 Leah Buley, Adaptive Path
Since the 60s we’ve imagined the combination of computers and our environment would create both utopias and dystopias. Since the 80’s we’ve seen academics, artists and corporate R&D labs prototype these futures from the top-down. Now, hackers are building sensors, bots and software into everything around them bottom-up, fast, cheap and out-of-control. They’re creating environments that react, adapt and respond to us - and perhaps more importantly - each other: The Demon-Haunted World. Matt’s session will be a whistlestop tour of those days of future past and pointers to some practical futures we can start building right now, together.
View it with http://www.slideshare.net/blackbeltjones/the-demonhaunted-world
Richard Dawkins urges all atheists to openly state their position — and to fight the incursion of the church into politics and science.
From: http://www.ted.com/index.php/talks/richard_dawkins_on_militant_atheism.html
"Bonk" author Mary Roach delves into obscure scientific research, some of it centuries old, to make 10 surprising claims about sexual climax, ranging from the bizarre to the hilarious. (This talk is aimed at adults. Viewer discretion advised.)
from: http://www.ted.com/index.php/talks/mary_roach_10_things_you_didn_t_know_about_orgasm.html