BEGIN:VCALENDAR VERSION:2.0 PRODID:-//Ensemble Independent//vPim 0.360//EN CALSCALE:Gregorian X-WR-CALNAME:Boxes and Arrows Events Calendar for California, USA BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20090205 DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20090206 SUMMARY:Managing Design Projects LOCATION:San Francisco, California, USA DESCRIPTION:Your success in business often comes down to how capable you ar e at managing new product development, running successful programs, or exec uting on projects. But this success is all too often dependent on product o r program managers learning from past experience to improve future performa nce. At Managing Design Projects, managers from creative organizations will share their knowledge and gain insights on how to best manage creative tea ms, ensuring product or project success. \n \nWho Should Attend? \nIf you a re a product manager, program manager, or project manager for creative team s, this is a prime opportunity to join peers for a day of inspiration, educ ation and networking, removed from the hustle and distraction of your work life. \n \nWhat Will Be Covered? \n8:30-9:00 AM | Registration \n \n9:00-9: 15 AM | Welcome \n \n9:15-10:15 AM | Keynote, Scott Berkun \n \n10:15-10:3 0 AM | Break \n \n10:30-11:30 AM | Design is Made of People: Designing Effe ctive Work Sessions, Julia Houck-Whitaker and Sarah Nelson \n \n11:30 AM-12 :15 PM | Tools of the Trade \n \n12:15-1:15 PM | Lunch and Giving Good Serv ice, a panel discussion on client relations \n \n1:15-2:15 PM | Conflict Re solution, Lynne Waldera \n \n3:15-3:30 PM | Break \n \n2:30-4:15 PM | Manag ing for New Methods and Technologies \n \n4:15-5:00 PM Elevating the Pract ice, Brian Cronin \n \n5:00-6:30 PM Reception END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20090301 DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20090304 SUMMARY:MX 2009: Managing Experience LOCATION:San Francisco, California, USA DESCRIPTION:In this tightening economy, it's more crucial than ever to make explicit the business value of design. Creative managers building the next generation of products and services are confronted with an increasingly de manding set of challenges. \n \nIf you are a VP, director, or manager invo lved in product strategy, product development, service design, or design ma nagement, this is a prime opportunity to join peers from around the world f or two days of inspiration, education and networking, removed from the hust le and distraction of your working life. \n \nConfirmed speakers: \n* Bruc e Tempkin - VP, Principal Analyst, Forrester Research \n \n* Dan Roam - aut hor of "The Back of the Napkin" \n \n* David Bulter - VP, Design, The Coca- Cola Company \n \n* Khoi Vinh - Design Director for NYTimes.com \n \n* Marg aret Gould Stewart - Manager, User Experience, Google \n \n* Marty Neumeir - President of Neutron \n \n* Margret Schmidt - VP, User Experience Design & Research, TiVo \n \n* Sara Beckman - Co-Director of the Management of Tec hnology Program, Haas School of Business \n \nInterContinental San Francisc o \n888 Howard Street \nSan Francisco, CA 94103 \n \nEarly Bird pricing ( until January 31st) \nPre-Conference workshop: $445 \n2-day Conference: $1, 795 \n \nRegular pricing \nPre-Conference workshop: $545 \n2-day Conference : $1,995 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20090402 DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20090404 SUMMARY:Good Design Faster: High-Value Experience Design LOCATION:San Francisco, California, USA DESCRIPTION:Good Design Faster will take you from back-of-the-napkin sketch ing to the presentation and prototyping of design concepts in two fast-pace d days. While UX Intensive focuses on deepening expertise in a specific are a, Good Design Faster deliberately spans sketching, ideation, group collabo ration, and prototyping — giving you a toolkit of light, flexible skills fo r achieving remarkable productivity in relatively short time. This workshop is highly recommended for anyone working with agile, iterative product tea ms. \n \nBased on workshops that first debuted at UX Week 2008, Good Design Faster brings together our favored techniques for rapid, flexible design a nd prototyping, and recreates the experience of two high-energy days in the Adaptive Path design studio. Good Design Faster closes with another favore d Adaptive Path tradition, an after party! \n \nWhat will be covered? \nWir eframes aren't enough to overcome new and future challenges of UX. To creat e great experiences, you need fast, agile, and compelling new tools that ge nerate new ideas and solve tough problems of interactivity, flow, and form. In this hands-on workshop you'll learn methods and build skills to: \n \n* quickly sketch and communicate a vivid user experience through storyboards \n \n* explore your ideas and build team buy-in around the best experience to design and implement \n \n* build interactive prototypes that make your ideas come alive \n \nLocation: \nDogpatch Studios \n991 Tennessee Street \nSan Francisco, CA \n \nEarly Bird pricing (until Jan 31) \n$1,095 \nReg ular pricing \n$1,395 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20090419 DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20090423 SUMMARY:UIE's Web App Summit 2009 LOCATION:Newport Beach, California, USA DESCRIPTION:At the UIE Web App Summit, held April 19-22, 2009 in Newport Be ach, CA, you'll meet the innovators and world-class designers behind today' s most successful web apps. \n \nWe've carefully crafted this four-day Summ it to include two days of intensive full-day workshops on form design, Ajax , RIAs, design deliverables, wireframes, accessibility, design patterns, an d web standards. We round out the conference with two more days of featured presentations from world-renown experts, to give you fresh perspectives an d new insights on today's web app design challenges. \n \nLast year's Summi t attendees told us they returned to their teams empowered to make an immed iate impact, all fired up and ready to go. You'll come away inspired to cre ate amazing applications that will delight your users \n \nRegister by Janu ary 7, 2009 and you'll get a free iPod nano. www.webappsummit.com END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20090615 DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20090619 SUMMARY:UX Intensive LOCATION:San Francisco, California, USA DESCRIPTION:Hotel Kabuki \n1625 Post Street \nSan Francisco, CA 94115 \n \ nEarly Bird pricing (until Jan 31) \n$1,695 four days \n$495 single day \ n \nRegular pricing \n$2,595 four days \n$795 single day \n \nDay One - D esign Strategy \nThe most stellar design will fail to succeed unless it su pports an underlying business strategy. Yet a business strategy is nothing but a plan until it connects with compelling solutions that actually appeal to the target customer. Whether you're a manager or an enterprising practi tioner, this workshop provides you with the tools you need to put your desi gns into business. And vice versa. \n \nDay Two - Design Research \nTo get through to your customers, you need to know exactly what makes them tick. And that means learning more than just the usual superficial characterizati ons. What do they want? Need? Crave? What are they really trying to do, and why? With the research frameworks and methods covered in this jam-packed w orkshop, you'll discover how to unearth deep, practical insights about the people you want to reach most. \n \nDay Three - Information Architecture \ nAll the design strategy, user research and interaction design in the world isn't going to get customers to the information they need without a sound architecture to guide them. This lesson features an array of practical tech niques to help you analyze, model and describe the content on your site. \n \nDay Four - Interaction Design \nOnce you've developed a strategy and co mpleted your research, how do you make a product or service that both engag es users and works well? It's up to you to transform the research data into an effective design, and then get that design built. In this session, you' ll not only learn how to design for better interactions, you'll also learn how to become a better interaction designer. END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20090915 DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20090919 SUMMARY:UX Week 2009 LOCATION:San Francisco, California, USA DESCRIPTION:In 2009 we look laterally at the disciplines that have influenc ed us. With a mix of inspiring talks from recognized thought leaders and ha nds-on workshops delivering takeaway skills, this event delivers for user e xperience professionals at all levels — directors, managers, and practition ers. \n \nSo far our line up includes: \n \nScott McCloud has been writing , drawing, and examining comics since 1984. He’s best known for his seminal work Understanding Comics, which has developed a cult following among UX p rofessionals and visual thinkers the world around. His most recent notable work is the comic he produced for the release of Google Chrome, a next gene ration web browser. You can visit him online at http://scottmccloud.com. \n \nErin McKean calls herself a Dictionary Evangelist. She was most recently Chief Consulting Editor, American Dictionaries for Oxford University Press , and was the editor in chief of the New Oxford American Dictionary, 2e. Sh e is the editor of VERBATIM: The Language Quarterly. and the author of Weir d and Wonderful Words, More Weird and Wonderful Words, Totally Weird and Wo nderful Words, and That’s Amore (also about words). Previously, she was the editorial manager for the Thorndike-Barnhart Dictionaries at ScottForesman , a Pearson company. \n \nGenevieve is an Intel Fellow and director of the User Experience Group within the Intel Digital Home Group. Bell joined Inte l in 1998 as a researcher in the Corporate Technology Group’s People and Pr actices Research team – Intel’s first social science oriented research team . She helped drive the company’s first non-U.S. field studies to inform bus iness group strategy and products and conducted groundbreaking work in urba n Asia in the early 2000s. \n \nLocation: \nThe Palace Hotel \n2 New Mont gomery St. \nSan Francisco, CA 94105 \n \nEarly Bird pricing \n$1,795 \nRe gular pricing \n$2,995 END:VEVENT END:VCALENDAR