{"id":623,"date":"2008-01-17T16:45:21","date_gmt":"2008-01-17T14:45:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/leapfrog.nl\/blog\/archives\/2008\/01\/17\/slides-for-my-oslo-uxnet-meetup-talk\/"},"modified":"2026-09-07T12:30:28","modified_gmt":"2026-09-07T10:30:28","slug":"slides-for-my-oslo-uxnet-meetup-talk","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/leapfrog.nl\/blog\/archives\/2008\/01\/17\/slides-for-my-oslo-uxnet-meetup-talk\/","title":{"rendered":"Slides for my Oslo UXnet meetup talk"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Last night I presented at the January <a href=\"http:\/\/uxnet.org\/\">UXnet<\/a> meetup in Oslo. When <a href=\"http:\/\/www.brukaropplevingar.com\/\">Are<\/a> invited me to come over I thought I&#8217;d be talking to maybe 60 user experience people. 200 showed up&#8212;talk about kicking off the year with a bang. I think the crew at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.netliferesearch.no\/\">Netlife Research<\/a> may just have written UXnet history. I&#8217;m not sure. (Don&#8217;t believe me? Check out the <abbr title=\"R\u00e9pondez s'il-vous-pla\u00eet\">RSVP<\/abbr>s on <a href=\"http:\/\/ia.meetup.com\/7\/calendar\/6861654\/\">the event&#8217;s page at Meetup.com<\/a>)<\/p>\n<p>The talk went OK. I had 20 minutes, which is pretty short. I finished on time, but I had to leave out a lot of examples. The original talk on which this was based is a 2 hour lecture I deliver at <abbr title=\"User Experience\">UX<\/abbr> companies. (I did this last year for instance at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.inuse.se\/\">InUse<\/a>.)<\/p>\n<p>The lack of examples was the biggest point of criticism I got afterwards. I&#8217;ll try to make up for that a bit in a later post, listing some examples of web sites and apps that I would call in some way playful. Stay tuned.<\/p>\n<p>For now, here are the slides (no notes I&#8217;m afraid, so it&#8217;ll be hard to make any sense of them if you weren&#8217;t there). Thanks to Are Halland for inviting me. And greetings to all my friends in Oslo. You&#8217;ve got a beautiful <abbr title=\"User Experience\">UX<\/abbr> thing going on there.<\/p>\n<!-- embed-localizer: replaced Flash player 2026-09-07. 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