Slide about quantifying desirability - Like whoa ...

His original presentation and blog article have links to the PDF, as well as a link to buying the presentation for $70 or so.  We watched the presentation at work and it’s … not great for a group audience. The slides read better than they are presented, but I can’t fault Christian for this .. just the sheer amount of good content is overwhelming.

User Experience Leader Christian Rohrer provides a framework for understanding and explaining different user research methods, delves into details on a few of the lesser-known methods, such as desirability and true intent studies, and discusses key insights to succeed in modern-day corporate environments.

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Google  Scholar, at least amongst my peer group, doesn’t need an introduction.  The quality of its results,  the listing of authors on the left hand side, and one click access to “Recent articles” makes it my default search.  But I regularly dip into Live Search, ACM Portal, and (less often) CiteSeer to get a more comprehensive list of papers.

Live Search Academic, the offering from Microsoft, has a very neat interface that allows you to quickly preview the abstracts of the papers in your result set by hovering over them with your mouse.   In addition to searching by relevance (default), number of citations, and by author, you can group by an author (very useful), journal (neat), and conference (sounds useful .. isn’t).  The hover-over BibTex citation export is very quick and simple.

ACM Portal is most useful for me on campus, as the articles are downloadable when my IP is in the range that the Library uses.  As far as finding most recent research, Portal beats both Scholar and Live, hands down.