Last Friday, I had the pleasure of attending the Design of Understanding conference. Organised by Max Gadney and held at St Bride, it was as interesting and diverse as the previous year’s conference, which made a nice change from the usual UX conference scene. 

My favourite speakers were Luis Rey’s talk on illustrating dinosaurs and his work with paleontologists to accurately represent them, Gill Ereaut’s look at how a company uses language in order to reflect back their silent assumptions and Lee Coventry’s take on how stock photography companies like Getty expand their collection and work with companies like Flickr to do so. 

Sketchnotes for Timo Arnall and Alan Patrick

Sketchnotes for Luis Rey, Gill Ereaut and James Bridle

Sketchnotes for James Bridle (cont.), Lee Coventry and Tom Armitage

Sketchnote for John Walters, Alice Taylor and Dan Hill

Thanks to my lovely employers — RMA Consulting — for giving me the day off and paying for my ticket. As always, views expressed on this blog are my own. 

Here are the sketchnotes that I did over the second and third day workshops at UX London 2011, held at the Cumberland Hotel… I decided to head home at a reasonable time tonight in order to get these uploaded. I would have loved to stay and chat with lots of lovely UX people but I was conferenced out.

Russ Unger - Guerrilla Research Methods

Joshua Porter - A/B Testing for UX Designers

Kate Rutter - Design Patterns for Fantabulous Collaborations

Sunni Brown - The Art of Graphic Facilitation

Thanks to Clearleft for organising the conference, all the speakers and of course my employers - RMA Consulting - who paid for me to attend the conference. We’re also hiring so if you are interested, please get in touch!

Here are the sketchnotes that I did today at UX London 2011, at the Cumberland Hotel… Apologies if you’ve seen them on Twitter, Flickr or elsewhere! 

Alan Cooper - It’s All Us.

Louis Rosenfeld - The Redesign Must Die

Kim Goodwin - Making Personas Work Without Breaking the Bank

Oliver King - Difference between User Experience and Service Design

Kate Rutter - Strategy Patois, Language and Tools to Connect Design and Business Language

Robert Fabricant - Behaviour Chain

Matt Jones - The Lifecycle of Software Objects

Phew, it was a busy day of sketch-noting and absorbing the talks plus I got to see some old friends and meet some new faces too. Another early start tomorrow, so I’m off to bed to get some shut eye!