Atlanta’s Andrew Hinton will feature at CanUX 2018

The renowned author is on deck for the ninth edition of CanUX

 W1: Understanding Context: A Radically Human-Centered Way to Design Anything
} Nov 2, 2018   9:00am / 8 Hours

Increasingly, our work is about more than just one app or website; we’re challenged with tackling whole ecologies of digital, physical, and blended interactions. Meanwhile, technology is making it harder every day to achieve coherence and clarity from touchpoint to touchpoint. It turns out, the best way to design for everything everywhere is to start with the fundamentals: how do humans really perceive and take action in their environment?

The Understanding Context workshop takes you deep into new ways of seeing the building blocks of human experience, with ideas and methods that will change the way you think about designing for humans. Spend a day going deep into making sense of making sense, by exploring and modeling the experiences around you.

On our “context walk” you will:

• Learn basic and advanced concepts about how humans interact with physical, semantic, and digital information.
• Get on your feet and explore the real world around the conference venue, gathering data for analysis.
• Collaborate in teams to analyze and model the contexts you encounter, and devise ways to make them better.
• Get new ideas about how to make things make more sense, whether you’re doing web design, service design, or interaction design.

This workshop is suitable for practitioners at any point in their careers. Just bring a desire to explore and an open mind!

 Designing a Future We Want to Live In
} Nov 3-4, 2018   Time TBA / 40 MINUTES

Just as the Internet fundamentally changed business, artificial intelligence is poised to reframe the relationships between people and organizations. As professionals who aim to drive strategy for great user experiences, we have to be thinking ahead of the curve. But just as AI is changing how business works, it also stands to transform what we mean by “user experience” in the first place.

In this presentation, we’ll explore some challenging questions and potential answers to consider as we plunge into this exciting, but transformative future.

 Speaker Bio: Andrew Hinton

Andrew Hinton is a writer, speaker, and user experience consultant who has worked for over twenty years with organizations large and small, helping them make better, happier information environments. He currently serves as Senior Digital Experience Architect at State Farm‘s UX Center of Excellence in Atlanta, GA. As a member of the leadership team for UX capabilities, he leads and mentors senior-level experience designers and architects, and in involved in the development of innovative experience architecture frameworks and strategies for the Fortune 50 company.

He is also the author of Understanding Context: Environment, Language, and Information Architecture with O’Reilly Media. Prior to State Farm, Andrew was a senior consultant at The Understanding Group (TUG). He is also a co-founder and past board member of the IA Institute, and a frequent speaker at UX conferences all over the world.

He also enjoys poaching eggs in the morning, discovering the marvels of squash growing in his back yard, and is subject to the rule of two Boston Terriers, named Sigmund and Edgar. You can find links to Andrew-related things at andrewhinton.com or you can read his blog at inkblurt.com.

For more info, you can follow Andrew on on Twitter @inkblurt

*Image credit: Andrew Hinton