Vote for me on the SXSW Panel Picker
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My proposal is up for voting right now on the South By Southwest Interactive Panel Picker. It’s a geek frenzy over there. Vote early and often.
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Panel Proposal:
Video Game Research: Failing Our Way to Victory
Users are weird. They tell you one thing and do another. They click everywhere and read nothing. Erica Firment, a User Experience designer for Linden Lab/Second Life, chronicles fast and effective ways to make your software suck less by spending a few hours watching users fail.
- How can video games win by watching their players fail?
- What is video game user research?
- What do you mean by “watch users fail?”
- Can’t I just send out a survey? (NO!)
- Why are 3D world interfaces hard to design?
- What are some things in Second Life that got better by watching users fail?
- How does Second Life collect information?
- Why should developers and product managers invest in user research?
- What are some easy ways for me to do user research?
- What are some cheap ways for me to do user research?
August 17th, 2009 at 10:31 pm
Totally voted! May be the closest I actually come to the glory of SXSW. Also? I broke down and did the Second Life thing. I can’t make my hair red, and I can’t make my shoes be normal. I’m afraid this is labeling me somehow.
August 17th, 2009 at 11:56 pm
Eee! Thanks for the vote Linda! I think many of the panels at SXSWi are available online.
Also, my team and I are working on a brand new version of the Second Life viewer, along with some improvements that I hope will help make it easier to get started. :)
August 21st, 2009 at 4:39 pm
Yay for easier to get started! I’m stranded on Help Island, currently. Makes me feel so much better about the first life, however. Let me know if you need a dummy to observe making mistakes – I’m the queen of the dummy mistakes!
August 20th, 2009 at 2:13 pm
“Second Life”? We had that game in library school (I opted out)…which in my opinion [library school] was my second life, as I was working full-time in my first life.
I honestly believe “Second Life” is a waste of time & energy unless you have nothing else going on in your “First (real) Life”…..I prefer real life encounters.
But hey, I’m older!
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