I saw your presentation at Super Deluxe last night. I'd be interested in getting into your line of work. Could you tell me how I would go about it? Thanks, Paul.

Hei Paul,

My path to here is loosely economics to user interface design to usability to user experience to exploratory user research (some people would call it ethnography).

The things that stand out they are: a desire to learn more in the real world i.e. getting out of the lab/studio; an ability to communicate what is learnt; a no-bullshit approach to criticizing ones own research (knowing what it is, what it is not and being careful to frame it as otherwise); and continiously re-assessing the value for clients.

Whats your backround?

I watched your presentation on last Wednesday.
I like NOKIA, and like your photograph, too.
Do you take a photograph by yourself?

Please show me it some other time when you give presentation somewhere.

Thank you, Itsuka.

Itsuka,

All photos taken by me except slide 7 by a colleague and slide 19 by a subcontractor.

Not planning to present again for a while - got a lot of field research coming up. I do however post a lot of material on this site.

Jan

Its a long time since we spoke. But I found your site while surfing and thought I might say "hi" by forwarding this piece from my local paper
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/02/07/AR2006020702030.html?style=tgr
Hopefully the link works.

Joe