I have to reiterate my previous statement about not having time to keep up with everything.

I signed up to Facebook the week before last, and I’m just starting to get my friends list built up. You can view pics of my trip to Utah on my Facebook page here.

I spent the past 4 days in South Jordan Utah for a Contextual Design course. The class was taught by Hugh Beyer the author of the book Contextual Design and one of the key players at InContext.

When I was first hired at Avocent I was given a copy of Contextual Design to read. I found the content to be rather dry. In case you are not familiar with Contextual Design, it’s the process of using customer centered data to drive design decisions.

The class I participated in was fairly engaging, however, I would like to think of some ways to spruce up the content for when I present it to my peers at work. I found the process to be slightly different than the Mental Models class I took in California a few weeks ago. I will probably end up adopting a hybrid of techniques. Apparently InContext suggests there to be at least 2 people to work on each project, and seeing how I am a UX Team of 1, I will have to streamline the process to make it easiest for 1 person. Of course I would include my coworkers for pieces where I need assistance.

I will be sorting through and organizing the content from what I learned on Contextual Design over the next few days, and perhaps put some highlights up on this page.