#uxweek

[gypsysmiles]

San Francisco after dark is wonderful #sanfrancisco #uxweek #bridge #lights #oakland #goldenstatebridge #goldenstate #tourist (at San Francisco Ferry Building)

[healthsparq]

InfoDoodles!

I had the privilege of attending speaker and author Sunni Brown's "Infodoodling" workshop (which I mistakenly referred to as "infonoodling"). The workshop was chock full of cognitive psychology (with some meditative visualization exercises), storytelling and sharing, and hands-on activities like the story maps shown here. Some of them were incredibly well-done, creative, and original.

Get her new book, "The Doodle Revolution" (sounds fun), and watch her Ted Talk here.

[voiceandgesture]

Sketching User Experience - WATCHES!

This is a good exercise for sketching and interacting with sketched watch interfaces.

[voiceandgesture]

[voiceandgesture]

The neural networks associated with processing metaphorical word meanings were investigated in normal adults using fMRI. Subjects listened to sets of three adjectives and decided whether the last two had a similar meaning. One condition required accessing the literal meaning of the middle word (e.g., hot-cold-chilly), whereas the other condition required accessing its nonliteral, or metaphorical, meaning (e.g., hot-cold-unfriendly). Direct comparison of the nonliteral vs. literal condition showed reliable activity only in left prefrontal and temporo-parietal regions. These results argue against a selective role of the right hemisphere (RH) in accessing metaphorical word meanings. In line with a growing literature, these findings suggest that prior reports of greater RH involvement for metaphorical language might reflect the increased complexity of figurative language rather than an RH specialization for understanding metaphors.

[voiceandgesture]

Conference - Oct 1-2, 2014, NYC

[laurelephant]

UX Week posted the videos from this year's conference recently. Above is the one for mine.

You should really head over to the full page of videos, though. It's great stuff, and I'm happy to have been able to participate.

[lucnobruena]

UX Week 2013 | Jason Kunesh | Rules of Thumb for Design Chicanery from Obama for America HQ