Hi - and sorry for being away for ages. I’ve had one of those months where everything seems to be happening at the same time, lots of client work, conferences abroad, company merger, freelance work, new baby at home, 3 birthday parties (myself, and my two daughters) and sadly a family loss.
So anyway, I’ve not long got back from the Euro IA conference held in Berlin where I was a speaker and my colleagues were presenting posters. I ran a workshop session with 200 people with a colleague of mine (Jason Mesut) and the others had posters up on:
• Agile User Experience Design - Andy Braxton, Matt Shannon
• Using Comics to describe holistic user experiences - putting the Zap & the Pow into User Experience - Stephen Barber, Jewell Niccolls
• Creating the Perfect Client - Jason Mesut, Iain Hinchliffe, Bersi Kueper
• Design Patterns in Practice - Natalaie Currant, Sarah Morris
Our workshop was called ‘Wicked Workshops’ and we did an energetic session on how best to prepare and frame a workshop session. The aim wasn’t to stand there and bestow a whole host of workshopping techniques on an audience after lunch on a Sunday (man - could there be a more difficult time to run a workshop?). No, we introduced people to the concept of EPIC-Fun.
Our view is that ALL workshops, neé, meetings should be EPIC-fun. And anyone who knows anything about any good business tools, knows that they all need an accronym (yes - in jest):
- E - Engaging
- P - Practical
- I - Inclusive
- C - Credible
- Fun - well, what do you think?
I’m not going to duplicate the content over here as we set-up a blog to discuss our framework afterwards and it is over on Blogger.
Please feel free to join in the discussion and give us your view of what constitutes a ‘Wicked Workshop’.
BTW - I hate Blogger.
..and BTW again, I’m SO not an IA! I’ll summise my thoughts on the conference on Monday.
Warren Hutchinson
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