BEGIN:VCALENDAR VERSION:2.0 PRODID:-//Ensemble Independent//vPim 0.360//EN CALSCALE:Gregorian X-WR-CALNAME:Boxes and Arrows Events Calendar for January 2009 BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20090109 DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20090110 SUMMARY:Business Card Exchange - LOCATION:Queens, New York, USA DESCRIPTION:01/08/2009 \n5:30 pm - 7:30 pm \n \n \nOn Thursday January 8, 2009 There Will be a Business Card Exchange At Queensborough Community Col lege Nursing Department to debut their impressive Virtual Hospital. \n \nFe aturing the Medical/Health Industries More Details Follow \n \nParking on t he Premises. \n \n$20 Members ($25 At The Door) $30 Non Members ($35 At The Door) \n \nIf you would like Display Table at The Business Card Exchange \ n \nTable Members $100 \n \nTable Non- members $150 \n \nYou must register by January 7, 2009 After that you will be consider a Walk In You will have to pay more at the door. \n \nTo register call 718-898-8500x24 or web www.q ueenschamber.org (click on Calendar) \n \nFor Non-Members You Must register on the Web with a credit card www.queenschamber.org \n \n END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20090114 DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20090115 SUMMARY:Mobile User Experience LOCATION:Virtual DESCRIPTION:10am PST \n$129 \n \nThis 75-minute seminar will give insight i nto how user experience professionals can engage with the exciting and rapi dly evolving mobile landscape. \n \nUntil recently, the mobile internet was a crippled user experience due to product, interface and technical constra ints. Recent innovations, such as iPhone, the Google Phone, and the BlackBe rry Storm, are causing an inflection point for the mobile internet, enablin g new and exciting opportunities for mobile user experience. The opportunit y for user experience professionals to deliver on the promise of the mobile internet is ours for the taking. But how do folks who are well versed in c reating PC-based internet experiences begin to engage with mobile? \n \nThi s seminar is designed to help web design professionals answer that question as well as: \n \n* Provide insight into emergent internet trends that poin t to the growing importance of mobile in the evolution of the web. \n \n*Id entify the portable user experience and web skills you've already got that make you especially well suited for creating great mobile internet experien ces. \n \n*Identify key similarities and differences in designing for PC/mo bile internet experiences. \n \n*Provide frameworks and design principles f or creating compelling mobile internet experiences. \n \n*Inspire you to ho p on the mobile internet wave. \n \nDesigning for mobile is more than just making things fit a smaller screen. You have to take into account context, people's relationship to their objects, physicality, and a whole host of ot her factors. Rachel will help you engage with this increasingly important s pace. \n \nWhat will you learn? \n*Understand how trends in the Web are pri sming through other channels. \n \n*Learn research techniques, design exerc ises and prototyping methods that will allow you to begin designing and dev eloping mobile internet experiences with confidence. \n \n*Inspire new poss ibilities for taking your products and services forward in 2009. END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20090115 DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20090116 SUMMARY:UIE Virtual Seminar - Road to Informed Decisions LOCATION:Virtual DESCRIPTION:Every design consists of thousands of decisions. Smart, well-in formed decisions lead to a great design, while poor, uninformed decisions r esult in something users despise. Making the right decisions is critical to the design's success. \n \nSolid user research methods, such as usability testing and field studies, help us learn about our users and their needs. H owever, collecting the data is just the first step. To succeed, we must ass emble the seemingly random stuff we learned into a coherent and confident s et of recommendations for the team to act on -- often with a tight schedule and a limited budget. \n \nIn this presentation, Jared M. Spool will share state-of-the-art techniques to get from observation data to informed decis ions. He'll show you the best practices for teams to organize chaotic data, develop consensus, bring objectivity out of subjective observations, and p roduce clear design recommendations. You'll learn how to maximize your rese arch investment with a concrete set of analysis techniques. \n \nRegister w ith the promotion code BOXES for our lowest rate of just $99! END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20090120 DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20090123 SUMMARY:Information Online 09 LOCATION:Sydney, Australia DESCRIPTION:Do you want your ALIA Information Online 09 brochure right now? \n \nDownload Information Online 09 e-brochure now at www.information-onli ne.com.au \n \nWhat, no hard copy? Being a little "greener" has also al lowed us to put more into the conference. \n \n \nAnd are you eligible for the Registration Grant to attend ALIA Information Online 2009? Applicati ons must be received by 17 October 2008. \nhttp://www.information-online.co m.au/sb_clients/iog/bin/iog_home.cfm?vm_key=C06BAC2A-BFB6-F62F-14ED9130013E 7A30 \n \n \n \nOnline Bytes: Need to know what the sessions are about? G et some of the key session information at a glance. \n END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20090127 DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20090128 SUMMARY:Using DiSC for Better User Design LOCATION:Westbrook, Maine, USA DESCRIPTION:6:00 p.m. at the TechMaine Technology Center, 506 Main Street, Westbrook, Maine. \n \nEver since Hippocrates (circa 400 bc), we've know th at there are four temperament styles. In the centuries, after Hippocrates, his theories have been further developed, with one element staying constant : most researchers agreed that there were four main personality/temperament /behavioral styles. The DISC Behavioral System was originally developed by William Moulton Marston in the 1920's , and published his findings in his b ook The Emotions of Normal People, in 1928. In the next decades, several re searchers and companies have built on Marston's findings, till 1970 when Jo hn Geier and Dorothy Downey created the DISC Personal Profile System. The DISC Personal Profile System - like most other personality theories - also identified 4 styles: Dominance, Influence, Steadiness, Conscientiousness. \ n \nDiSC can be an important tool for designers as they seek to understand their users and design to their needs. The relative Dominance, Influence, S teadiness, or Conscientiousness in a population can be a guide to making de sign decisions. This talk will take a look at how designers and usability professionals can apply this in their every day work. \n \nA presentation o f the TechMaine Usability/User Experience User Group, sponsored by Idexx. N o charge, open to the public. Please register to attend at www.techmaine.co m END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20090127 DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20090129 SUMMARY:Web Usability training LOCATION:London, United Kingdom DESCRIPTION:For web designers who want hands-on experience with usability t ools and techniques, "Web Usability" is a 2-day seminar that shows delegate s how to boost sales and conversion rates, increase usage and improve custo mer satisfaction. Unlike shorter introductory courses, this in-depth worksh op covers the entire design and development lifecycle. \n \nWHO IS THE COUR SE FOR? \n \nThis course is for you if you are actively involved in the des ign of a web site and you want to make sure that users can find and use con tent quickly and easily. The course will be valuable for business analysts who want quick and effective tools to communicate web user requirements and for designers who want to learn methods for evaluating their site structur e and web page designs. Marketing managers will benefit by learning about t he business and brand benefits of a usability focus. Delegates do not need a background in usability to benefit from this course. \n \nWHAT YOU'LL LEA RN \n \n-Describe a user centred design framework that supports end-to-end usability involvement in web projects \n-Use personas to share information about customers and their tasks in an engaging and usable way \n-Develop ch eap, throwaway prototypes to get quick and frequent feedback from your user s \n-Specify usability metrics to make sure your web site is neither under- nor over-engineered \n-Apply discount usability techniques, such as Nielse n's heuristic evaluation \n-Learn about different methods for usability tes ting web sites and when to apply them \n-Network with other professionals c arrying out usability activities in different companies END:VEVENT END:VCALENDAR