Keith Instone

Too many things in the queue to write about, from Nexus for change two weeks ago and Internet User Experience / UXnet last week. And now heading out for the IA Summit, so there will be more things to add to the list.

So I better start addressing the backlog before I leave for Miami.

Here is one: I was very pleased to meet Zach Smith at Nexus U for many reasons. He works in Japan now but we traced back our roots - all of the way back to attending the same elementary school, just a few years apart.

As we talked about what we are doing now, we found a common topic of interest: t-shaped people. At the end of the day with Zach, I had a few minutes to compile a list of links to t-shaped-people-references-from-the-UX-community for him.

• Tom Kelley's book, Ten faces of innovation and in Japanese
• The book site - I believe the "cross pollinator" is the t-shaped role. The "Experience planner" is what many UX people could be called
• FastCompany article - page 2 is about hiring t-shaped people, for example
• Obligatory IBM reference - SSME
• In the context of services - read the discussion paper
• The blogs and other things I read that have talked about t-shaped people - so these are really about "user experience" being the broad part of the T.
  • David Armano
  • Usability news
  • Scott Weisbrod
  • Peter Morville
  • Peter Boersma
  • Putting People First: Peter Merholz interviews Don Norman
  • Richard Anderson
  • Peter Merholz

Hope you find the list of links useful.