STC 2010 Day Three Super Summary

Twitter Stream for STC Summit

The third day of the STC Summit proved to be all about the sessions. As a result, the #stc10 tweet stream improved in overall positivity. There were so many accolades for great presentations. Don Moyer ( @foglifter ) attracted high praise.

I don't think speaker evaluation forms are obsolete. However, there is real value in relevant tweets from any given session. While still picking on Don, I searched Twitter for relevant tweets; there were 21 tweets about his session. Within those, only nine where from different people. 100% of those were positive tweets. I hope STC pays close attention to the STC tweet stream. I believe analysis of the tweets will compliment the evaluations forms.

Brian Sullivan ( @brianksullivan) wrote up a quick review of his session with Scott Butler (@OvoStudios ):

Scott Butler has over 19 years experience as a Usability Engineer. Scott's talk about how to conduct usability evaluations was primarily a course aimed for beginners. Yet, there were alot of nuggets for experienced usability people.

Scott walked a room full of 50 people at the STC Summit through a very good overview of the step-by-step process to conduct a Usability Evaluation. Peppered within his presentation were stories from Scott's own experiences (pitfalls, tips, tricks). Scott explained about the importance of being relevant, quick, and iterative. From his experience, there can be a desire to be thorough and complete, which does not get more heavily a part of the process. in fact, the thoroughness of some of the "big thinking reports" gets usability analysts excluded from the process.

Lunch!!!!!!!

Had an awesome lunch with these people:

Lunch at the Angry Dog

After Party

I couldn't go to the after party. This is completely unacceptable and I will take action against myself. I have written a formal complaint and submitted it. I've yet to get a response from myself. Hopefully this post will make me respond.

I did receive lots of blank stares about last night. I was told: "We all agreed there were no stories! who told you I was trashed?" I was also told: "It was better than the tweetup." Finally I was told: "Uhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh."

If anyone has any of the reported karaoke video, please send me a link or I'll happily upload the video for you with full credit (unless you want to remain anonymous).

I'm in so much trouble for not taking me to that after party.