Iain Barker's presentation from UX Australia 2009

1. pragmatism or idealism:
a user experience conundrum
Iain Barker

2. Iain Barker | UX Australia 2009

3. No, no, no!!! I won’t let it
happen. It can’t work that way!
We must launch. We will launch.
Ha ha ha ha!!!
Iain Barker | UX Australia 2009

4. Iain Barker | UX Australia 2009

5. Iain Barker | UX Australia 2009

6. Iteration 94
Iteration 95
Iteration 96
Iteration 97
Iteration 98
Yippee!! Lets go again Not again!
Iain Barker | UX Australia 2009

7. Is good ever good enough?
Iain Barker | UX Australia 2009

8. “idealism is what
precedes experience;
cynicism is
what follows”
David T. Wolf
Iain Barker | UX Australia 2009

9. “idealism increases in direct
proportion to one’s distance
from the problem”
John Galsworthy
Iain Barker | UX Australia 2009

10. “idealism is fine, but as it
approaches reality the cost
becomes prohibitive”
William F. Buckley
Iain Barker | UX Australia 2009

11. Design is compromise
“making the right trade off between
the ‘right’ interface for the designer, and
the ‘possible in my lifetime’ reality
confronting the engineer”
Iain Barker | UX Australia 2009

12. benchmarks
user experience strategy
user research
Iain Barker | UX Australia 2009

13. Sometimes good has to be good enough!
When you are standing in the gutter, aiming for the
stars might be too far to go in one step.
I’d rather get to the pavement as quickly as possible
rather than spend all that time building a space ship
standing in rubbish.
Iain Barker | UX Australia 2009

14. Iain Barker | Freelance user experience consultant
iain.barker@gmail.com
http://simplerisbetter.wordpress.com