Adapting ourselves to adaptive content - Karen McGrane of Bond Art + Science at MODEV UX

MoDevUX brought together together leading mobile developers, UX/UI designers, architects and managers to break the mold on user experience and design. The conference was held in Washington DC in April 2011. Attendees discovered the latest in mobile UX/design methods and meet likeminded people at the edge of the mobile frontier.

For years, we've been telling designers: the web is not print. You can't have pixel-perfect layouts. You can't determine how your site will look in every browser, on every platform, on every device. We taught designers to cede control, think in systems, embrace web standards. So why are we still letting content authors plan for where their content will "live" on a web page? Why do we give in when they demand a WYSIWYG text editor that works "just like Microsoft Word"? Worst of all, why do we waste time and money creating and recreating content instead of planning for content reuse? What worked for the desktop web simply won't work for mobile. As our design and development processes evolve, our content workflow has to keep up. Karen will talk about how we have to adapt to creating more flexible content.

Karen McGrane (Managing Partner at Bond Art + Science)

If the internet is more awesome than it was in 1995, Karen would like to claim a very tiny piece of the credit. For more than 15 years Karen has helped create more usable digital products through the power of user experience design and content strategy. Today, as Managing Partner at Bond Art + Science, she develops web strategies and interaction designs for publishers, financial services firms, and healthcare companies.

Prior to starting Bond, Karen built the user-centered design practice at Razorfish in her role as VP and National Lead for User Experience. Karen is also on the faculty of the MFA in Interaction Design program at SVA in New York, where she teaches Design Management, which aims to teach students how to run successful projects, teams, and businesses.

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[Mike Donahue]

There she goes putting the horse back in front of the cart. The basic idea reminds of the Bauhaus ideal – function before form. Sign me up for some of that thinking. Better yet sign up the people that don't yet get it.