This session was with 2 guys from Idean; Petri Heiskanen and Harri Lehmuskallio.

I think this was a fantastic session. It was great how the discussion evolved into a open dialogue between the speakers and the audience, and for me it was really great to see interaction between an artist and a user experience designer.

The biggest thing I got out of this session, was it has allowed me to change the way I think about UI design. Typically (and stereotypically in fact), a programmer tends to design a UI around functions, and sometimes you can easily see a UI that has been designed by a programmer. I’m not trying to slag of programmers, everyone is different, but generally programmers are not good at UI design.

After this session, I found myself thinking about UI design in a totally different way (i.e the user’s experience, not features or functions). “Right, I want this application, and I want it todo this!”.

It has also opened up my eyes to the importance of a user experience designer/engineer. This is something Steven has been saying for a while, and after this session, I can so clearly see the benefits of having someone purely as a user experience engineer, where as before I had trouble seeing it outside the role of an artist. The 2 things are so so different, they are not the same!

Posted: April 10th, 2008 under Conferences.
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