Chicago USA 2008-09-12 Two days. 17+ presentations. One incredible experience. Cusp Conference 2008 will bring together thinkers, innovators, skeptics, believers, visionaries and explorers from the arts, sciences, technology, business, design and government. They'll share their passions and stories and help you create new ones. Speakers to date include: Chef Homaru Cantu / Moto / Cantu Designs Justine Ezarik / iJustine Douglas Gayeton / Molotov Alva and His Search for the Creator: A Second Life Odyssey Dr. Carl Hodges / The Seawater Foundation Adam Kalkin / Architecture and Hygiene Robert F Kennedy Jr / Environmental Attorney Quinn Norton / Body Hacker Paul Polak / D-Rev: Design for the Other 90% Chicago Museum of Contemporary Art Theater $1500 until July 31 $1750 August 01-September 09 Seating is limited. 453 IL Cusp Conference 2008 is about the design of everything. If you believe in the power of ideas, the value of imagination and the strength of the human spirit, this conference is for you. 2008-09-10 false http://cuspconference.com http://events.boxesandarrows.com/events/453 http://events.boxesandarrows.com/event/logo/453/cusp_ba_2.gif architecture, body hacking, cantu, climate change, design, energy, environment, film, food, gayeton, hodges, kalkin, lifecasting, music, polak, second life, social activism Chicago USA 2008-10-09 Throughout their days, people are engaging with complex information to manage their lives. And designers now realize that information isn't simply this stuff you find -- the appropriate presentation of information helps people make sense of the world around them. This conference addresses issues of design for an always-on, always-connected world. Where "cyberspace" is a meaningless term because the online and offline worlds cannot be made distinct. Where physical spaces are so complex that detailed wayfinding is necessary to navigate them. Where work processes have become so involved, and so digitized, that we need new processes to manage those processes. This conference brings together people who are addressing these challenges head on. Speakers from a variety of backgrounds will discuss designing complex information spaces in the physical and virtual worlds. Speakers include... * David Armano, VP Experience Design, Critical Mass * Chris Crawford, Author & Inventor, Storytron * Bill DeRouchey, Sr. Interaction Designer, Ziba Design * Aradhana Goel, Service Design Strategist, IDEO * Andrew Hinton, Lead Information Architect, Vanguard * Jason Kunesh, Independent Design Professional and more. Price: For IAI members, $350 until Aug. 17th, $450 between Aug. 18th - Oct. 7th For non-members, $450 until Aug. 17th, $550 between Aug. 18th - Oct. 7th There are student and group discounts. IAI membership is $40/year. Information Architect Institute (IAI) website: http://iainstitute.org/ 482 IL The IDEA Conference is a yearly conference about Information: Design, Experience and Access that is sponsored by the Information Architecture Institute. 2008-10-07 false http://ideaconference.org/2008/ http://events.boxesandarrows.com/events/482 http://events.boxesandarrows.com/event/logo/482/Yellow-Logo-2008.gif ia, idea2008, information architecture Chicago USA 2008-10-17 Does your site have a search engine? If so, you're sitting on an often under-utilized pot of gold: search query data that describes what your customers really want from your site—in their own words. Site search analytics helps you understand and benefit from that data, enabling you to better diagnose and solve a multitude of user experience problems. The result: better content, better navigation, better search, better interface design, and a better user experience. In this day-long workshop, Lou Rosenfeld—co-author of Information Architecture for the World Wide Web and the forthcoming Search Analytics for your Site: Conversations with your customers—will combine lecture, discussion, and extensive hands-on exercises to cover the basics of site search analytics. And he'll show you how spending even an hour a week analyzing your search queries can help tune and improve your site and expose new opportunities for improving your business strategy. You'll learn to: * Understand search logs and relevant analytics reports * Ask the right questions of your query data * Identify where your site's search and navigation are failing, and learn how to fix them * Tune your content to your audience's needs and plug your site's content gaps * Enhance your site's navigation through improved metadata * Design better interfaces for entering queries and for presenting search results * Improve your search engine's configuration * Reinvigorate your user experience methodology by incorporating a method that's truly quantitative, and which helps improve your qualitative methods 519 IL Polar bear book co-author Lou Rosenfeld will show you how to analyze users' search queries to tune your site's search, content, metadata, and navigation, and improve your own UCD methodology. 2008-10-16 false http://louisrosenfeld.com/ssa/ http://events.boxesandarrows.com/events/519 http://events.boxesandarrows.com/event/logo/519/lou_new.jpg analytics, information architecture, search, user experience