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Storytelling for User Experience

Crafting Stories for Better Design

Storytelling

Events with Kevin Brooks and Whitney Quesenbery

Upcoming Appearances and Presentations

Tuesdays, 7pm - 9:30pm Kevin hosts Forever Blue, weekly storytelling gatherings in Cambridge, MA, Out of the Blue Gallery, 106 Prospect St., Cambridge, MA



  • August, 2010 UX Book Club Toronto

  • August 18, 2010 Whitney and Kevin will be at the Book Club at UsabilityNJli>
  • August 28, 2010 Whitney and Kevin will be back at UPA Boston for a Saturday workshop on crafting stories. Come with your own UX story material and spend the morning shaping it into great stories for presentations, reports and elevator talks.

  • September 14, 2010 Whitney will be the presenter at UPA NYC

  • September 16-17, 2010 Kevin is teaching a 2-day course in the Bentley College UX Certificate Program on Practical Storytelling: Crafting and Telling Stories for UX and Life in Waltham, Mass.

    Storytelling is the art of crafting and presenting life and all of its varied experiences in enjoyable, rational chunks that invite the audience to feel as much as think. As a part of user experience design, stories serve to ground the work in a real context. They are an effective way to collect, analyze and share qualitative information from user research, spark design imagination and help us create usable products. But most importantly, they help keep people at the center of the work. However a UX project is started, in the end it will be used by people. Stories connect what we know about those people (the users) to the design process, even if the users can't be part of the team. In this course, students will learn to craft and present oral stories for UX work or from material in their personal lives. They will learn the mechanics of the craft, which includes listening skills, guiding the audience, story structures, and managing the relationships between the teller, the story and the audience.
  • September 28, 2010 UX Book Club Edmonton

  • October 5-8, 2010 Kevin will be at the Game Developer Conference: "Head Games: The Power Of Traditional Storytelling In New Platforms." Austin

  • October 12-14, 2010 Whitney's going to Lisbon for Clarity 2010.

  • November 10, 2010 Whitney will join Ginny Redish and Kate Walser teaching simple usability testing web and document authors can do on their own at the Center for Plain Language, Washington DC.

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