Presentations
I Love to Talk
It’s true. Presentations, guided workshops, seminars, panels—these are a few of my favorite things. All of my work is about making complex ideas and systems easier to understand… and I approach presentations the same way. If a talk isn’t practical, informative, and fun to attend, it’s really not worth going to.
If you are interested in having me present at a conference, participate on a panel, or create a fully-customized seminar or workshop for your organization, just get in touch. You can also browse presentations I’ve given in the past, below.
Testimonials
- The presentation was helpful and the presenter, Tamara, was smooth, knowledgeable, a pro, and fun!"
- Very pertinent information - useable, clear and actionable. Presented with expertise and humor and understanding of audience. Really great!"
- Fascinating, powerful, compelling concept. Tamara is an articulate, knowledgeable and interesting presenter."
Upcoming Presentations
- MIMA (Minnesota Interactive Marketing Association)
- Getting From Data to Design: Truly Practical Methods for Using Personas Everyday
- Minneapolis, MN
- Wednesday, June 18, 2008
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Previous Presentations
- Digital Now
- Bringing your Web Site to Life with Personas
- Lake Buena Vista, Florida
- Thursday, April 24, 2008
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- Nielsen/Norman Group User experience 2007
- Full Day seminars:
1. The Persona Lifecycle: Creating and Communicating User Personas
2. Getting from User Data to Design - November 4-9, 2007: Barcelona, Spain
December 2-7, 2007: Las Vegas, NV - More information
- CHI 2007 Conference
- Course: The Persona Lifecycle: What Personas Are, Why They Work, and How to Create and Use Them
- San Jose, California
- April 28 - May 3, 2007
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- MarketingProfs.com Webinars
- Personas 1: Breakthrough Customer Insight for Product, Website Design and More
- March 2007
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- MarketingProfs.com Webinar
- Personas 2: Using Mental Images of Customers for Better Product Planning, Branding and Messaging
- March 2007
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- CustomerSense 2006
- Keynote presentation for first customer experience conference in Scandanavia
- 2006
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- CHI 2006
- Panel: Putting Personas to Work
Moderated with John Pruitt - 2006
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- Personas LIVE!
- Web Interview with John Pruitt and Frank Spillers
- 2006
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- Shop.org First Look 2006
- Site Design Strategies: Quick Changes, Immediate Results
- 2006
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- Retail Management Institute, Leavey School of Business, Santa Clara University
- 2005
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- Shop.org Annual Summit 2005
- How to be an Expert Consumer of Web Site Design and Usability Services
Presentation as part of White Track Boot Camp series - 2005
- Shop.org Annual Summit 2005
- How to be an Expert Consumer of Web Site Design and Usability Services Presentation as part of White Track Boot Camp series
- 2005
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- Shop.org Best Practices in Online Merchandising Workshop 2005
- Panel Moderator: The Usability Narcissist: Your Colleagues Critique Your Site Experience (and you theirs)
Panelist: Eat, Drink and Innovate! Session - 2005
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- MIT Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory (CSAIL)
- The Persona Lifecycle: Integrating User Representations into Every Stage of Product Design
Invited Lecture as part of expert series - 2005
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- Seattle Pacific University
- Personas in Product Design and Marketing
- 2004
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- SIGCHI Puget Sound
- Integrating Usability Engineering into the Software Development Process
- 2004
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- University of Washington, Department of Technical Communication
- User-Centered Design in the Real World
- 2004
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- eTail Conference 2004
- Personas & Your Brand. (with Ken Seiff, Founder & CEO, Bluefly.com)
- 2004
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- Shop.org Member Forum 2004
- Panelist: Putting Scenario Design & Personas to Work.
- 2004
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- UPA Conference 2001/2002
- Workshop: Personas, User Archetypes, and Other User Representations in Software Design . (with John Pruitt and Holly Jamesen.)
Voted UPA 2001 best workshop - 2002
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- Microsoft Design Day 2000
- Fake People & Sticky Notes: Fostering Communication for Human-Centered Software Design
- 2000
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- University of Washington
- Survival Graphics and Introduction to Photoshop
- 1999
- STC Seminar
- Web Graphics Primer for the Artistically Challenged
- 1997
- STC Conference 1996
- The Interdisciplinary Rodeo: How to Wrangle Diverse Professionals Without Getting Gored
- 1996
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Professional Affiliations
- 2006 Shop.org Content cCmmittee
- Creative Good Customer Experience Councils, 2003-2005
- UPA 2003 Invited Speakers Co-Chair
- UPA 2002 Workshops Co-Chair
By the way…
Presentations have customers, just like products and web sites. They should be designed to satisfy customer goals. I can't stand bad or boring presentations…so I work hard to present practical, use-them-tomorrow-at-work ideas and methods. And then, I get on stage…and have fun!