How to Lie with Design Research

[Allison Bloodworth]

Hi all,

Last Friday I attended "User Research Friday" (http://userresearchfriday.com/ 
) in San Francisco. There were some great speakers...Indy Young talked  
about mental models, and her talk was a really nice complement to the  
UIE seminar we recently watched her give on this topic (http://www.uie.com/events/virtual_seminars/indi_young/ 
).

But my favorite by far was the talk given by Dan Saffer, author of  
"Designing for Interaction." It a very tongue in cheek talk entitled,  
"How to Lie with Design Research." It's highly entertaining and I  
recommend checking it out when you would like to both laugh and learn  
about performing user research. :)

Video: http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-7403062554539062819 or http://www.adaptivepath.com/blog/2008/02/03/design-research-lies/
Slides: http://www.slideshare.net/dansaffer/how-to-lie-with-design-research

Cheers,
Allison

Allison Bloodworth
Senior User Interaction Designer
Educational Technology Services
University of California, Berkeley
(415) 377-8243
abloodworth at berkeley.edu