Hi guys,

I was invited to be the Keynote speaker at a tech conference in Brazil! I am really excited, since this is the first time I will get to speak about UX in the homeland. The conference attendees are 99% developers. Any thoughts on interesting books, articles or topics to touch on with them?

Cheers,
Diego

In my experience, developers get user experience, but they don't know how to do user experience. Often "feature creep" comes from developers (at least in my company) which features keep getting added on and on... "what if we did...". IMO, user experience is about pulling back some of those features and requirements to make a great solid app/product without a ton of ad-ons. So they'll be very, very interested to hear what you have to say. Defining what user experience is, tips on making it better, how user experience and developers can work smoothly together, why details matter (pride in craftsmanship), fast prototyping to get the UX better, basic design/ux skills for developers... These are a few ideas on what you could talk on.

Awesome! Thank you Tim => Really appreciate the thorough and thoughtful points =>

Congrats! I couldn't think of a better person to have speak at that conference! </proud-friend>
Highlight key principles of agile development. Namely, "test early and often". A lot of devs have a hard time releasing before something is "perfect". In so doing, they miss out on gathering essential feedback from users along the way. Cite UX-aware voices like Eric Ries for support, who were pure coders before taking on any executive roles.

Thanks Josh! I am excited to be there. Good points on Lean UX stuff! Cheers!

I always show this video by Pixar and start the discussion from there to what kind of challenges UX can help solve: youtube.com

Thanks Tomer! I will take a look at the video tonigh =>
The speech is supposed to be 1 hour and a half, so a video would be very helpful =>

+ the video is hilarious! I think I might just keep this on my rotating list of favorites =>

One more hilarious video I some times use with such audiences is this: youtube.com

awesome too.... i wish most of them spoke English... my translation of the act would not be nearly as entertaining.... haha =>

One of the key considerations for UX in today's world is one-size-doesn't-fit-all. Especially with the vast proliferation of multiple screens, it is critical to think about UX for each screen based on the screen characteristics and usage patterns while making sure the experience resonates with the brand. The focus should be usability! One interesting stat re: profileration of devices - 1 Trillion devices by 2013 - 7 per person ;) blogs.barrons.com

With advent of Open APIs, it does make it easier from a design standpoint to truly focus on the ideal user experience without having to worry about the data access or backend integration.

Interesting links related to the general topic of UX -

fastcodesign.com

slate.com

thanks Kumar! One of the many challenges for both designers and developers is the screen differences and how different experiences are expected to be in each of them. Word!

Besides the screen size, devices today have more ways for the users to input data. In the past we used to have only the keyboard. Then came the mouse. Today we have touch screens everywhere.