BEGIN:VCALENDAR VERSION:2.0 PRODID:-//Ensemble Independent//vPim 0.360//EN CALSCALE:Gregorian X-WR-CALNAME:Boxes and Arrows Events Calendar for November 2008 BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20081119 DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20081121 SUMMARY: Aligning web site design with human behaviour LOCATION:Sydney, Australia DESCRIPTION:During this two-day intensive master class, Indi will give you a deep understanding of people's motivations and thought-processes, along w ith the emotional and philosophical landscape in which they are operating. You use mental models to align your design strategy with how people work. T his intensive two-day course will help product designers, web designers and business strategists develop digital, physical, and environmental interact ions that help people accomplish their goals. Specifically, you will learn how to: \n \n* Understand the user experience before making design and stra tegic decisions, \n* Provide your organization with a clear roadmap of whe re it should – and shouldn’t - invest its energies, \n* Speak to your custo mers in their language, not in the language of internal processes/structure s, \n* Be confident about your design decisions by grounding them in resea rch data, \n* Learn to decide on generative or evaluative research for the proper circumstances, and do better than surveys, \n* Stop the continual redesign process by deriving an information architecture from users' tasks, \n* Get everyone—from discordant team members to busy executives—thinking alike with respect to design and strategy, \n* Prevent disagreements about data interpretations within or across design teams. \n \nTaking place in Sydney, this course has already attracted a huge amount of interest, so we would encourage you to register for the event sooner rather than later to a void disappointment. For your copy of the course brochure please contact en quiries@keyforums.com.au or call us on +61 (02) 9436 4255. \n \n END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20081120 DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20081121 SUMMARY:Built For Conversation: IxD for Social Media LOCATION:New York, New York, USA DESCRIPTION:DATE and TIME \nThursday, November 20th \n6:30 - 7:00 networkin g and refreshments \n7:00 - 8:00 presentation \n8:00 - 8:30 Q&A and discuss ion \nImportant: Please plan to arrive no later than 6:50 p.m. to clear sec urity and be seated. \n \nLOCATION \nHUGE \n45 Main Street, 2nd floor \nBro oklyn, NY 11201 \nhttp://www.hugeinc.com \nGoogle map: http://tinyurl.com/5 rwy57 \n \nSubway directions: \nF to York Street or A/C to High Street \nht tp://hugeinc.com/contactus/contact_subway.html \n \nABOUT OUR SPEAKER \nWil l Evans is founder and Principal User Experience Architect for Semantic Fou ndry with 14 years industry experience in information architecture user exp erience design. His experience includes directing interaction design and in formation architecture for AIR Worldwide, UX architect for web 2.0 social n etworking site Gather.com, and UX architect responsible for information arc hitecture and interaction design for Kayak.com. He has worked at enterprise technology companies Lotus/IBM (where he was the senior information archit ect), and Curl, a DARPA-funded MIT project at the MIT Laboratory for Comput er Science. Most recently, Will has lead redesign projects incorporating so cial media, crowdsourcing and social networking for startups and Fortune 10 0 companies. \n \nWill holds masters degrees in business administration, hu man-computer interaction and cognitive psychology. His interests and studie s have focused on design, information architecture, human factors and infor mation visualization. He earned his undergraduate degree in mathematics and philosophy. \n \nABOUT OUR HOST \nHUGE is a leading independent interactiv e agency that specializes in building sustainable businesses online for som e of the largest and most demanding companies in the world. END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20081120 DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20081121 SUMMARY:UIE Virtual Seminar: Essentials of Visual Design LOCATION:Virtual DESCRIPTION:What questions do you have about Visual Design? You have the Vi sual Design skills to do a good job, but what tools or tricks can you add t o your toolbox? Does you team have a complete understanding that Visual de sign can dramatically improve the experience with your products, and when t hey're stuck, how do you help them? \n \nIn this entertaining 90-minute p resentation, Patrick will help you make your products easier to use by appl ying surprising, memorable design techniques. Patrick, an expert in visual instruction and wordless communication, has worked with usability professio nals like you to improve the design of digital, online, and hard copy infor mation. \n \nUse the promotion code BOXES and register with our lowest pric e of just $99! END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20081122 DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20081123 SUMMARY:BarCamp Pittsburgh LOCATION:Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, USA DESCRIPTION:BarCamp is an ad-hoc gathering born from the desire for people to share and learn in an open environment. The event features discussions, demos and interaction from participants. The schedule and agenda itself is determined by the participants during the opening session of the barcamp. \n \nSetup and registration begins at 9:30. The BarCamp will properly star t at 10:00 AM and run until 5:00 PM. END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20081125 DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20081126 SUMMARY:Web Navigation Design LOCATION:New York, New York, USA DESCRIPTION:This day-long class covers principles of web navigation and met hods of navigation design with practical examples and exercises. Participan ts should have some experience creating or maintaining websites and are loo king to deepen their design skills. This includes graphic designers, web ma sters, usability experts, and beginning to intermediate information archite cts. \n \nThe web has changed in the last decade. The notion of Web 2.0, in particular, marks a second phase of the web characterized by user-generate d content, collaboration, communities, and broader participation in general . And new technologies, such as Ajax and Flex, point to a more interactive web with highly functional applications. \n \nAmidst this change, the basic problems of creating a good web navigation system remain. In many respects , they only get even more complicated. Business objectives increasingly rel y on the assumption that people will be able to find, access, and use the i nformation and services they provide. In other words, in order for web site s to successful, people must be able to navigate effectively. A “cool” site with lots of interactivity and user participation will still be lousy if t he navigation doesn’t work. \n \nAfter this class, you will be able to: \n 1. Understand and apply basic principles of web navigation in your work \ n 2. Recognize different mechanisms and types of navigation, as well as d ifferent page types \n 3. Apply current methods of navigation design for page layout and creating a unified navigation system \n END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20081128 DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20081129 SUMMARY:Guerrilla Usability Workshop LOCATION:Brighton, United Kingdom DESCRIPTION:Usability tests are an excellent way of discovering problems wi th a product or service. Commissioning a dedicated usability lab will provi de a high degree of scientific rigour but obviously comes at significant co st. Instead of a single academic evaluation, why not bring your testing in- house and run it alongside your design and development process? Two or thre e quick-and-dirty usability tests will not only provide better results but will also allow you to iterate your product between tests, ultimately leadi ng to a more refined product. \n \nUsability testing needn’t cost the Earth . In fact, there’s no need for all that expensive equipment, a dedicated la b and or even expert evaluators. It’s entirely possible to run a test at yo ur own office, a cafe or even your test participant’s home. \n \nWho? \n \ nThis training course is taught by Clearleft’s Creative Director, Andy Budd . Andy is the creator of Silverback, the popular usability testing software for designers and developers. \n \nWhen? \nThe workshop will take place on Friday, November 28th, 2008 from 9:30am until 5:00pm. \n \nWhere? \n28 Ken sington Street is in the heart of Brighton’s trendy North Laine, within eas y walking distance from the train station. \n \nHow much? \nPlaces costs £3 45+VAT per person if booked before October 17th. After that, workshop place s will cost £395+VAT per person. \n \nPlaces are limited to keep the worksh op nice and intimate. END:VEVENT END:VCALENDAR