Bridging the gaps between user experience and author experience. This is more or less the transcript of a lightning talk I gave at the Seattle Information Architecture & User Experience Meetup on September 8, 2015. What you missed was a lot of bluer language and puns dropped in at the last minute. Let me see if I can recapture the flavor of the moment.

1. BOOTLEGGING THE
BODY FIELD
or
Bridging the gaps between user experience
and author experience

2. USERS as REBELS

3. REBEL

7. DESIRE PATHS
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8. THOUGHTLESS ACTS

9. WHAT YOU
HAVE
WHAT I
NEED

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locations
meth
mobile
diploma
mba
careers
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kfc chicken bowl
wordpress templates
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12. AUTHORS as REBELS

16. Spot rebels’ desire paths

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18. DYNAMIC IMAGE
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19. MANTRAS
๏ We’re making packages, not pages.
๏ More structure = more freedom.
๏ Rebels will still break my stuff.
๏ Guidelines are living things in the system.
๏ We’re paving everyones’ desire paths.

20. BE BITCHIN’