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FREE webinar today at 1500 GMT! – “Leveraging the UX paradigm” (limited places!)

April 1st, 2009 by 7 comments

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Book now – only 21 places left!

  • Impress your prospective clients by developing your repertoire of elitist acronyms and ISO standards
  • How to rehash Nielsen / Norman / Krugg publications from the 1990s into your very own book, and become a published author!
  • Learn about the benefits of alienating newcomers to the field by switching terminology every 5 minutes (free printable Usability/UX/IA/ID bingo table included)
  • Sneak peak of the official UPXDA roadmap of new fashionable phrases for 2010 that will win respect from your clients.
  • Add 42% more science bits to your presentations using our free Adobe Illustrator templates, including honeycomb diagrams (add your own buzzwords), graphs-that-don’t-have-numbers-on, and interaction diagrams that leave out key pieces of business logic, guaranteed to leave developers scratching their heads a few months down the line.
  • Reduce your exploratory research timelines by 33%, using our new Excel-based persona generator (randomly picks characteristics and user needs from a database of random phrases, then adds a random photo via Google image search)
  • Great tips to get your ideas heard in board meetings, e.g. by replacing the phrase "I think…" with "The users said…"
  • Apply the rainmaking scam to UX – when your first round of consultancy doesn’t have any measurable effect on their website, convince them they just need to hire you for yet more projects!
  • How to write proposals using the zero accountability methodology ®
  • Tips on how to coin your own terminology, then spend next year’s conference season doing public speaking gigs around the world!

Only 21 places left! Book now!


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7 comments so far | Leave a comment
  1. Gavin Wye

    Very funny, but also a sad reflection on parts of the industry.

  2. James Page

    Is there a follow up on how to be a guru? We don’t have any UK based guru’s and we need some.

  3. Danny Hope

    This is exactly what UX Brighton is for ;)

  4. Harry Brignull

    @James – “How to be a guru” will be the next webinar in the series…. :-)

  5. James Page

    Are you going to give this talk at UX Brighton ?

  6. Harry Brignull

    What’s funny is that a few of my colleagues at Madgex saw this post and assumed it was real! Oh deary me…

  7. James Wragg

    WHO!? name and shame Harry ;)


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