Jim Kalbach is a Principal UX Designer with Citrix Online and an active speaker, writer, and instructor on business design, user experience, and information architecture. He has helped starting local UX groups as well as organize conferences in Germany and Europe. Jim is the author of the book Designing Web Navigation an O’Reilly Publication. I found Jim through his contribution to the book UX Storytellers and in preparation for the interview I read his blogs at experiencinginformation.com and got lost in the multiple layers of information I found.
An excerpt from the podcast:
Jim: The hierarchical command and control type of leadership isn’t working anymore. So what do we do? Jazz improvisation can provide a metaphor for us. Jeff Gothelf, who wrote the Lean UX book is close to me here in New Jersey where I am, and he and I are going to be giving a talk where we’re actually going to play on stage – Jeff plays keyboards. We’re actually going to play with a little jazz group that we put together. We’re going to play some music and then talk about exactly what I just mentioned. That is what are the dynamics of a jazz group and how can we use that as a larger metaphor for teams to work together better. That’s at the RE:DESIGN Conference on April 28 and 29 in Brooklyn. If you search for just redesign on Google, you don’t find it but if you search in RE:DESIGN in Brooklyn, you might find that conference on Google. We’re going to be speaking on Tuesday, April 29.
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