Brian Sullivan

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Brian Sullivan is a community organizer, speaker, and usability engineer from Dallas, Texas. He offers usability and design advice to help product teams improve the customer experience and usability of their designs. Brian spends an inordinate amount of time organizing events, including monthly DFW-UPA meetings, quarterly workshops, and the annual Big Design Conference. He has worked with AT&T, Burger King, American Airlines, SkyChefs, United Airlines, and Carter Blood Center. At home, Brian takes orders from his wife (Susan), their son (Sean), and the cat that owns them all (Junior).

Sessions

Designing for Awareness in Attention Economy

Level: 100
Track: None
Time: 10:30 AM - 11:45 AM
Day: 2
Room: DevExpress

Do you feel like you are being pulled in 10 different directions? You need check-in to Gowalla or Four Square, check your emails, check your voice mail, update you Facebook status, take a picture, post the picture to Flickr, tweet about the picture, and more. Does your online life affect your real one? You are not alone!

Today’s uber-connected online environment creates an Attention Economy (where everything competes for your attention), so designers and developers need to design for awareness. in this talk, Brian Sullivan will explain the various facets of attention, then he will provide strategies on how you can design for awareness in the Attention Economy.