Gabby Hon
With 20+ years experience in UX, and having worked with Fortune 100 companies and top agencies, Gabby has seen things you people wouldn’t believe.
She’s chosen making enterprise software less of a nightmare as her professional focus.
In her free time, Gabby is an internet spaceship mogul, and enjoys talking to nerds about how what you learn in a game can translate to real life.
For more, keep up with Gabby at http://outsidecontextproblem.org/ or on Twitter as @gabbyhon.
Presentations
UX Camp Fall 2019
The Map Is Not the Territory: Against UX Portfolios, & for Rational Hiring
Mired in deliverable purgatory, and possessed of strategic skills that are continually undervalued, UX professionals are further humiliated by hiring requirements that include portfolios. I will explain why portfolios are entirely wrong for evaluating the worth of a UX professional, why hiring managers can’t seem to stop demanding them, and propose a path out of this quagmire.
UX Camp Fall 2018
The Map Is Not the Territory: Against UX Portfolios, & for Rational Hiring
Mired in deliverable purgatory, and possessed of strategic skills that are continually undervalued, UX professionals are further humiliated by hiring requirements that include portfolios. I will explain why portfolios are entirely wrong for evaluating the worth of a UX professional, why hiring managers can’t seem to stop demanding them, and propose a path out of this quagmire.
UX Camp 2013: Prototype Camp
Co-Designing with the Client: Using Axure to Bring Requirements to Life
Axure is a great tool to use to help move from a high-level list of requirements into functional concepting. Gabby will present an actual case study of how she used Axure to winnow down a 5-page list of requirements into a working prototype by co-designing with her client. Moving from whiteboard and pencil sketches into Axure, and refining on the go, we were able to get to a pretty decent prototype that gave visual designers the room to be creative, while adhering to the functional goals of the site.
