Me

Richard Dalton

Philadelphia
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About: Richard is a User Experience Manager at Vanguard and is active in the User Experience and Information Architecture communities. He helped organize the IA Summit in 2005, 2006 and 2007 and is the conference chair for the 2008 Summit in Miami. Richard has been in the United States with Vanguard since 1999, before that he lived in Newcastle upon Tyne in the North of England where he was a co-owner of a leading UK Web Consultancy. When he’s not working he enjoys hanging out with his wife and two young sons, reading, playing guitar and juggling.

Organization Vanguard
Your Current Industry Financial
Favorite Movie Quote It's such a fine line between stupid, and clever
Favorite Place You've Lived Newcastle upon Tyne
Favorite UX Tool or Technique affinity diagram

Discussions

discussions

Welcome to the IA Summit social networking site!

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We're hoping that this site, provided by our partners CrowdVine, helps you to connect with other like-minded attendees and friends. The Summit is a...

"Meet me" badge

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Do you want to let people know that you're attending the summit? Heres an image you can use to link to the summit site. See you in Miami!

"See me Speak" badge

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Do you want to let people know that you're speaking at the summit? Heres an image you can use to link to the summit site. See you in Miami!

Win a copy of the Tagging book

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=== posted from the IAI Members list for Jess McMullen === Institutees, I'm finishing up the copy for our 2008 UX Trading Cards for this year...

Printable Program Available

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If you have a long flight to the summit ahead of you, what better way to pass the hours by reading the program and deciding what sessions to see? T...

Blog Posts

blog posts

The Foci of User Experience

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There was another round of the “Defining the Damn Thing” (DTDT) discussion on the Information Architecture Institute list recently that...

And now for something completely different!

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Oh what a difference, what a pleasure - a company that takes customer service seriously. I broke my 3rd cellphone holster inside 3 months (the firs...

Discovering terrible customer service

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LOWERED to 23.99% !? Wow Discover - don’t do me any favours! Good job I don’t owe you anything - and with this kind of customer service...

The meaning of life

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Abby. 7lbs 9 oz. Sister to Adam & Alex. Wow.

TV 2.0 vs TIVO Deathmatch

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I like American Idol. There, i’ve said it - and I can give it up anytime I want, honest. My wife and I watch it every week but their results ...

Monty Hall does UX

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A colleague (Mike Betz, Content Manager) recently sent this email: “You’re on “Let’s Make a Deal.” The host, Monty Ha...

Lost Opportunity for Sirius and XM?

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I took my car into the shop yesterday to have some work done and they gave me a loaner for the day. I was a little upset because I have Sirius sate...

Eye-Fi: Things are starting to get crazy small!

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I received a product-pushing email from Amazon yesterday - normally I just delete them, but this time something caught my eye and I clicked. Well, ...

The Context of User Experience

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Hi. My name is Richard, and I have a problem - i’m a serial diagramist (yes, yes, I know its not a real word). I just can’t help it - I...

I should probably attend the IA Summit …

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Since I have the honor of chairing the IA Summit this year I should probably attend, right? So I thought i’d take this opportunity to put one...

I should probably attend the IA Summit …

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Since I have the honor of chairing the IA Summit this year I should probably attend, right? So I thought i’d take this opportunity to put one...

I should probably attend the IA Summit …

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Since I have the honor of chairing the IA Summit this year I should probably attend, right? So I thought i’d take this opportunity to put one...

I should probably attend the IA Summit …

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Since I have the honor of chairing the IA Summit this year I should probably attend, right? So I thought i’d take this opportunity to put one...

The CIA

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No i’m not being national security conscious all of a sudden. I’m talking about a new (better?) name for Rich Internet Applications - &...

Innovation is History

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While talking with Scott Berkun at MX East a couple of weeks ago it occured to me that what I hate most about “innovation” is that peop...

Designing for Stakeholder Sellability?

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A pattern i’ve seen in my work over the last couple of years when engaged in very early “visioning” work is that of first designi...

The Forces of User Experience

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Jesse James Garrett’s ”planes” diagram is a great tool for explaining user experiences. I have it on the wall of my cube and I us...

Cats and Boxes

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Talk about serendipity. Two days after I decide to finally start a blog PeterMe invites me to a bloggers meeting with David Weinberger to discuss h...


Network

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Comments

Richard Dalton:

The first 20 slideshare decks have been embedded into the session pages including Jared's keynote, Andrew's closing plenary, Leah's "UX team of one" and Stephen's Andersons' "Inspirations from the edge" - more as they're uploaded to slideshare (search slideshare for the iasummit08 tag).

Livia Labate:

That is genious (the have/want cards questions). Always upping the ante, eh? :)

Richard Dalton:

For those of you still trying to complete a set of trading cards, check out the two new profile questions and tag clouds "extra cards I have" and "cards I need".

Eric Reiss:

As my ASL is a little rusty, I'm concerned about the "See me speak" badges. Could we change these perhaps to read "Hear me speak"?

Richard Dalton:

Eric Reiss has written an absolutely fantastic guide to Miami to whet your appetite (quite literally) - check it out in the news section: http://www.iasummit.org/200...

lorelei brown:

The schedule tool is excellent - could you include the precon, too? Love to know who's sitting next to met all day...

Adriana Machado:

Also, it would be wonderful to have the Bios linked to the Talks as well. That would help a lot. Thanks!

Adriana Machado:

That's great! I do have a suggestion. Can have the speaker's names link to their bios?

Richard Dalton:

If you haven't noticed the "My Schedule" nav item that just appeared - check it out, we'd love feedback on it!

Richard Dalton:

Russ - its under development, as soon as its ready it'll go on the site - i'll post here when it goes live.

Russ Unger:

Would it be possible to get a PDF or otherwise printable view of the hourly schedule?

Thanks!

Russ Unger:

Awesome!

Thanks, Richard! Makes life a little easier--if not more complex first.

Decisions, decisions...

Richard Dalton:

FYI: The hourly schedule is now available on the site www.iasummit.org/2008/confe... - and we've switched the voting form so you can now vote for the single session you're upset about missing and we'll do our best to re-run the top one.

Susan L. Fensore:

Ooooooh! I just read that! Them's fightin' words!

Russ Unger:

Then, not only would I say she's going for it, she's in the lead!

Richard Dalton:

Corny Joke Competition ;-)

Russ Unger:

What's a CJC?

Crowdvine Junkie Club?

Richard Dalton:

Thanks, its fixed now.

Bart Vermeersch:

Hello Richard, there is a small link error on http://iasummit.org/2008/ex... to nForm.

Richard Dalton:

Thanks Christina - if anyone has suggestions or questions about the conference this year - please feel free to post them here!

Christina:

http://www.linkedin.com/ans...

plenty of great ideas!

Richard Dalton:

Thanks Dave! Can you share a little about how you've found CrowdVine useful?

Dave Cooksey:

Richard - The site is amazing, the program looks excellent, and CrowdVine is already shaping my Summit experience. Thanks for everything you've done!