This week we continue to swim through an ocean of data from two concurrent projects.

• Tamara and Julie are still poring over transcripts from New York and LA. We are looking forward to hosting our clients for another co-analysis session this week..
• We are making sense of the transcripts and spreadsheets of data from our second project. Next up- outlining the key findings and drafting the presentation!
• Steve is down in Austin for SXSW Interactive and a little vacation time. We look forward to getting the rundown when he returns.
• What we’re consuming: Global Home, dim sum, homemade fortune cookies

This week is all about data, and making sense of it

• We’re poring over transcripts from New York and LA. We’ve killed a lot of trees with our printouts; everyone is heads down reading through interviews and making notes. Our clients are coming over for a no-doubt lively session of storytelling, analysis, debate, sticky-note madness, and pattern matching.
• We’ve put a stake in the ground over last week’s multi-method mayhem; sharing a topline summary with those clients (now safely back at home overseas) and staging the next round of transcripts and analysis.
• I’m off to Austin later this week for SXSW Interactive and then hanging around for some vacation time at the film festival, with some live music, tacos, and BBQ thrown in for good measure.
• What we’re consuming: Laser Quest, The Ice Cream Bar.
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This is an intense, single-focus week for us

• We are hosting a dozen or so clients from overseas. They’ve shipped over their working (we hope) science-fiction-like prototype which we’ll be showing to a huge number of people, using a method (for the first time) called Central Location Testing (aka CLT). Over a few days, we’ll also be visiting some of those same people in their homes to talk further about how this product might be used. Probably our most intensive data-gathering three days ever.
• What we’re consuming: Lucky Peach issue 3, MacGyver, Gary Shteyngart.

What we’re up to this week…

• Fresh from fieldwork in NYC, Tamara and Julie are in the throes of uploading data, preparing a top line report, and reviewing transcripts.
• Be afraid. Be very afraid. Steve and Tamara are up to their necks in foam core, X-Acto knives and glue guns preparing mock-ups that we can take into consumers’ homes next week.
• Steve will be giving a remote lecture on synthesizing user research to the Dundee Masters of Design Ethnography folks.
• Field trip! We’ve been invited to meet the folks at Stimulant and check out their amazing interaction design, “beyond the computer.”
• We’ll be helping our friends at Bolt|Peters celebrate their 10th birthday.
• What we’re consuming: Trigger, David Sanborn

Here’s the latest around here!

• Start spreading the news! Julie and Tamara are taking to the skies once again, this time to New York. Having finished one round of research and done just a bit of sensemaking, this second round, again with our client in the field, should be nothing short of fascinating.
• We’ve got a multi-method study coming up in a few weeks, with a client coming from Asia with their one-off super-secret prototype, and sessions with users in their homes and in a facility. This week Steve nails down the details of what we’ll be asking them.
• Proposals for workshops and speaking gigs! Proposals for training! Proposals for consulting! Lots of exciting possibilities in the offing.
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It’s a crazy busy week for us, focusing on just a couple of big things

• Julie and Tamara are in LA with our client team for the rest of the week, interviewing consumers and professionals (we can’t say what type of professionals they are but from what we’ve learned about them in setting up the interviews, they are highly accomplished) – no doubt all the interviews will be utterly fascinating
• Steve is in Dublin, co-leading a two-day masterclass for the IxDA Student Design Challenge – we’ve got a really great agenda for the class with some special guests – and some really wonderful prizes (thank you generous sponsors!)

People often ask us “Just what the heck are you people up to these days?” (Sometimes they just say “Wassup?” but we just figure they are stuck in another decade). We’ve been enjoying posts like the Weekending updates from our new friend Julian Bleecker and we’ve always wanted people to know that real people work here (not just ridiculously brilliant innovator-bots) so while this might be a bit of a departure for All This Chittah Chattah, let us welcome you to the first in what we intend to be a regular series of updates about what’s going on with our team!

• We tore into the New Year with an off-site planning meeting to talk about where we want to head with our little team over this next year. While a change in venue meant we didn’t get to sample American Grilled Cheese Kitchen, we did enjoy a little Freedom From Choice cocktail to unwind from an intense day of future-envisioning
• We’re kicking off a new project with a very tech-forward organization. We’ve been working this team in a training capacity to help them transform their marketing practice into a more user-centered approach, but now they’ve asked us to work with them to bring their professional and consumer customers more deeply into their culture
• Two of the projects we wrapped up at the end of December come back to life briefly as we meet with more stakeholders to share results and discuss the business implications
• We’ll be joining our office-mates at Bayley.Co for a Welcome Back soiree at Pacifica’s newly-reopened Moonraker

Good times!