Today was my first day back at Adaptive Path and it's good to be back. I showed up around 10:00 and Brandon was on the phone with his insurance company due to a woman abruptly opening her door and taking of his mirror on the way to work.
So Henning and I got together and talked about Adaptive Path's upcoming event, User Experience Intensive week (UXI). Part of what AP does is hosting seminars and events across the country in order to share lessons of their expansive work experience. The upcoming UXI week is a 4-day event in Chicago with a different emphasis each day.
During the last user experience seminar that AP hosted, an attempt was made to create a centralized online hub for the attendees. The idea was that people could come and collaborate on ideas, share thoughts about the event, and generally socialize. Unfortunately, the site failed to meet most, if not all, of these goals.
This time around, we are looking to create a centralized online home for UXI week and successfully meet the needs of our targeted audiences. I poked around researching a few different tools: socialtext, wordpress, etc. for the rest of the morning.
At lunch we went over to Mexico au Parc and grabbed some lunch to take back to one of the conference rooms. A few more people joined us and we began to hash out the details of what the site audiences, goals, and requirements will be. Initially we've identified the following as goals:
- Connect attendees with each other
- Enable communication between attendees and speakers
- Create a centralized, recyclable (easily adapted for future events) resource for logistical information
- Provide a reference source for attendees before, during, and after the workshops
One idea that definitely resonated was Jesse's comment that we need to be "ruthless" with scope on this project. The conference runs from April 23-26, so we are on an extremely tight schedule, giving me only 5 work days between now and launch.
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