Arusha Tanzania 2007-05-13 Flambuoyancy, flare, Glamour and Glitz of Tanzanian designer Mustafa Hassanalis collection to be Debutante in the City of Arusha, Dont miss the Sensuality and elegance of couture that defines feminity. 192 Tanzania the collection by Renowned designer Mustafa Hassanali based in Dar es Salaam to be unveiled for the first time in Arusha. 2007-05-12 false http://www.mustafahassanali.net http://events.boxesandarrows.com/events/192 http://events.boxesandarrows.com/event/logo/192/mamaafrika.jpg arusha, designer, fashion, tanzania 2007-09-28 Register using the promo code "BOXES" for only $99 (a $30 saving) at http://tinyurl.com/2ebutw Are you facing an aggressive deadline for your web site or product launch? Do you see the need for user research but lack the time to implement it? It’s hard enough creating usable designs when there is ample time and plenty of resources, but what do you do when that's just not an option for your design team? One of the most common reasons designs fail users is because the design team didn't have the time or resources to focus on user research. To help designers and usability professionals deliver usable sites and applications despite the obstacles, we turned to Larry Constantine, author of the landmark book, Software for Use, to share his proven techniques on how to conduct design and usability efforts quickly and efficiently, even when there is barely time to do anything at all. In this 90-minute seminar, Larry will share a wide range of field-proven tricks and techniques for conquering design and usability problems while in crunch mode. You will learn: + How to leverage Sample-of-One Testing to maximize the amount of valuable information you collect from just one user + How to improve your time-boxed project management techniques to conduct design activities faster and push your design team to the limits of agility and ingenuity + How to take advantage of the decision triage. Larry will show you how your success depends on your team's ability to identify your design's most important features and focus the majority of time and resources in only those areas + How to pare down your field research efforts while still learning everything you need to create a successful design + How to use tactical modeling techniques, such as simplified schematics for quickly capturing insights about users and their needs Register using the promo code "BOXES" for only $99 (a $30 saving) at http://tinyurl.com/2ebutw 306 User Interface Engineering asks Larry Constantine to share his proven techniques on how to conduct quick and efficient design and usability efforts with limited time, budget, and resources. 2007-09-27 true http://www.uie.com/events/virtual_seminars/usability_under_pressure/ http://events.boxesandarrows.com/events/306 application, applications, budget, constantine, crunch, deadline, decision, decision triage, design, designer, developer, larry, launch, limited, manager, mode, modeling, of, one, problems, product, professional, resources, sample, sampleofone, september, site, software, software for use, tactical, team, techniques, testing, time, timeboxed, triage, usability, use, web, website 2007-09-28 Register using the promo code "BOXES" for only $99 (a $30 saving) at http://tinyurl.com/2ebutw Are you facing an aggressive deadline for your web site or product launch? Do you see the need for user research but lack the time to implement it? It’s hard enough creating usable designs when there is ample time and plenty of resources, but what do you do when that's just not an option for your design team? One of the most common reasons designs fail users is because the design team didn't have the time or resources to focus on user research. To help designers and usability professionals deliver usable sites and applications despite the obstacles, we turned to Larry Constantine, author of the landmark book, Software for Use, to share his proven techniques on how to conduct design and usability efforts quickly and efficiently with little time and money. In this 90-minute seminar, Larry will share a wide range of field-proven tricks and techniques for conquering design and usability problems while in crunch mode. You will learn: + How to leverage Sample-of-One Testing to maximize the amount of valuable information you collect from just one user + How to improve your time-boxed project management techniques to conduct design activities faster and push your design team to the limits of agility and ingenuity + How to take advantage of the decision triage. Larry will show you how your success depends on your team's ability to identify your design's most important features and focus the majority of time and resources in only those areas + How to pare down your field research efforts while still learning everything you need to create a successful design + How to use tactical modeling techniques, such as simplified schematics for quickly capturing insights about users and their needs Register using the promo code "BOXES" for only $99 (a $30 saving) at http://tinyurl.com/2ebutw 307 User Interface Engineering asks Larry Constantine to share his proven techniques on how to conduct quick and efficient design and usability efforts with limited time, budget, and resources. 2007-09-27 true http://www.uie.com/events/virtual_seminars/usability_under_pressure/ http://events.boxesandarrows.com/events/307 application, applications, budget, constantine, crunch, deadline, decision, decision triage, design, designer, developer, larry, launch, limited, manager, mode, modeling, of, one, problems, product, professional, resources, sample, sampleofone, september, site, software, software for use, tactical, team, techniques, testing, time, timeboxed, triage, usability, use, web, website Boston USA 2007-11-09 Register for all 4 days by October 23rd with the promotion code BOXES to receive $30 off each day and a limited-edition UI12 iPod video http://www.uiconf.com BOXES promo code cannot be combined with any other special offer or promotional code, and is only valid for 4 day registrations. For the User Interface 12 Conference ( http://www.uiconf.com ), Jared M. Spool and his team of usability researchers have asked the most forward thinking minds in the world of usability to present on today's most pressing design topics. For 4 full days, you'll learn in-depth techniques from these top experts, and come away with the knowledge and confidence necessary to tackle your biggest design challenges. Now in its twelfth year, the UI12 Conference examines the most critical web design and usability issues facing designers, information architects, and usability professionals. Topics include: Agile Development, Task-based Information Architecture, Usability Testing, Visual Design, Building Innovative Designs, Communicating with Comics, Interaction Design, and Designing with CSS. On Monday, November 5th, you'll have the chance to attend one of four full-day seminars from Larry Constantine, Gerry McGovern, Rolf Molich, or Luke Wroblewski. On Tuesday, November 6th, you'll have the chance to attend several of the informative and entertaining 90-minute Featured Talks from each of our conference speakers, as well as the UI12 Conference Keynote presentation from Jared M. Spool. On Wednesday, November 7th, you'll have the chance to attend one of four full-day seminars from Scott Berkun, Kevin Cheng, Kim Goodwin, or Cameron Moll. We'll cap off the week on Thursday, November 8th, with our Showcase Seminar Day, where you can choose between UIE's most popular seminars. 196 MA User Interface 12 is being held November 5-8, 2007 in Cambridge, MA. We've lined up fantastic speakers giving full-day seminars and short talks on today's most pressing usability and design issues. 2007-11-05 false http://www.uiconf.com http://events.boxesandarrows.com/events/196 http://events.boxesandarrows.com/event/logo/196/ui12-badge.gif agile development, book, book seller, comics, content, content management, css, design, designer, developer, engineering, folksonomy, information architecture, innovation, interaction, interface, jared spool, management, personas, professional, seminar, social, social web design, taxonomy, testing, tutortial, ucd, uie, usability, user, ux, visual design, web application, web site, workshop 2007-11-15 Sign up today at http://tinyurl.com/yruel4 and use the promo code "BOXES" to receive $30 off. In this presentation, Jared M. Spool will walk through an easy-to-accomplish 30 day plan for developing your own persona-based scenarios. He'll tackle each of the four development stages: gathering the field research, analyzing the data, building the personas and their scenarios, and integrating the results into the development process. Gathering the Field Research: Jared will show you how to decide how many folks to visit, who they should be, and how to prepare for meeting them. He'll talk about the best ways to collect information and how to best involve other team members. Analyzing the Data: Jared will demonstrate several techniques from the analysis toolkit, including pair-wise comparisons, KJ Analyses, and weighted charts. He'll show you quick and easy methods for sorting, organizing, and identifying the trends and insights you discovered in your study. Building the Personas and Their Scenarios: Jared will show you how robust personas utilize the elements uncovered in the research and analysis, making their creation easily flow from your pen (or keyboard). Jared will walk through several effective techniques for readying your insights about your users and their needs. Integrating Personas into the Development Process: The best teams have a ready-made plan as to how they'll infuse their newly created personas and scenarios directly into the existing development process. Jared will share techniques you can use immediately to introduce the personas, walk through the scenarios, and ensure they become fixture of your development process. As with all of the UIE Virtual Seminars, you'll get a complete handout with plenty of examples and an opportunity to ask Jared those burning questions about how to do this well in your environment. Sign up today at http://tinyurl.com/yruel4 and use the promo code "BOXES" to receive $30 off. 344 Usability and design expert, Jared M. Spool will walk through an easy-to-accomplish 30 day plan for developing your own persona-based scenarios based on UIE's research for only $99 (promo inside.) 2007-11-14 true http://www.uie.com/events/virtual_seminars/building_personas/ http://events.boxesandarrows.com/events/344 design, designer, developement, engineer, engineering, expert, field research, interface, jared, kj analyses, manager, organizing, personas, project, resources, scenarios, small, sorting, spool, techniques, uie, usability, user, user interface engineering, virtual, weighted charts london United Kingdom 2009-02-04 Community is an elusive and ever changing beast. It can be used to empower amazing start ups or it can be a tool of destruction and obsession. This workshop will help you understand how to use the community as a tool and what is required to sustain a growing community. A vibrant community is a living thing that requires nurturing. By the end of this workshop, you should be able to define your community, how to encourage interaction and understand the life-cycle of a community member. If you believe that having a community is CRITICAL to the success of your enterprise, this is where you should be. Also, be forewarned: Your instructor will probably make fun of you in front of others. Be a good sport. 591 United Kingdom Ben Huh of "I Can Has Cheezburger" Just Add Community: The Practical How-To Guide to Winning Over Users one At A Time 2009-02-03 false http://carsonworkshops.com/2009/benhuh/index.html http://events.boxesandarrows.com/events/591 http://events.boxesandarrows.com/event/logo/591/logoColourGrey-small-1.jpg carsonified, designer, developer, internet, web, workshop London United Kingdom 2009-02-11 Being a great designer or developer is only half the battle. You also need to be able to promote and sell your services, unfortunately there is little advice online about how to do this effectively. The first part of this workshop will examine ways to promote your services, discuss effective approaches when responding to client briefs and improve your presentational skills for that crucial pitch. 592 United Kingdom Paul Boag of "Headscape" & "boagworld.com" How to Win Pitches, Charm Clients and Get Signoff 2009-02-10 false http://carsonworkshops.com/2009/paulboag/index.html http://events.boxesandarrows.com/events/592 http://events.boxesandarrows.com/event/logo/592/logoColourGrey-small-1.jpg carsonified, designer, developer, internet, online community, online marketing, web, workshop London United Kingdom 2009-03-10 In the first half of this special one-day workshop, we'll take a quick look at how to set up your own full-featured web development environment for free. Then we'll delve into the nuances of selectors, with an eye toward advanced CSS selectors and how they can make your CSS leaner and meaner than ever. This will be a look not only at the present state of selector support, but also its future and how you can jump right into the future today! In the second half, table layout will be the order of the day. What's that, you say? Not using tables for layout! Of course not, but instead taking table markup and laying it out in decidedly non-tabular ways. We'll go way beyond the old table-as-bar-chart trick (though we'll work with that one too) and play around with timelines, maps, and more. In the process, you'll break down some deeply ingrained habits and learn to look at your markup in a whole new way. That will provide a nice segue into the final topic of the day, HTML 5. Besides covering some of the differences between HTML 4 and HTML 5, we'll take a swing at using and styling some of the new HTML 5 elements and discuss some of the current pitfalls. 622 United Kingdom The Exciting Future of CSS and XHTML with Eric Meyer of "Complex Spiral" & "An Event Apart" 2009-03-09 false http://carsonworkshops.com/2009/ericmeyer/index.html http://events.boxesandarrows.com/events/622 http://events.boxesandarrows.com/event/logo/622/Carsonified.jpg css, designer, developer, eric meyer, html, web, workshop London United Kingdom 2009-04-28 In this workshop you will gain insight into all aspects of web UI design including: coding style, visual factors like color and weight, movement between screens, and the role of copywriting in interface design. It will also go outside of interface design to the broader development process, from feature conception to sketches to implementation. 623 United Kingdom From sketches to code - The complete guide on how designers and developers can work in harmony 2009-04-27 false http://carsonworkshops.com/2009/ryansinger/index.html http://events.boxesandarrows.com/events/623 http://events.boxesandarrows.com/event/logo/623/Carsonified.jpg designer, developer, internet, rails, web, workshop London United Kingdom 2009-06-23 Everyone knows about blogs and social networks such as Facebook and Twitter. And they've heard about someone who has used them to grow a huge customer base. Everyone wants to be hands-on, grass roots and interactive. But what does this mean? And more to the point, how do you do it? The Whuffie Factor will traverse the landscape of Web 2.0 and show you how to become a player, it is not just another workshop about online marketing. 593 United Kingdom Tara Hunt of "Citizen Agency" The Whuffie Factor: Using the Power of Social Networks to Build Your Business 2009-06-22 false http://carsonworkshops.com/2009/tarahunt/index.html http://events.boxesandarrows.com/events/593 http://events.boxesandarrows.com/event/logo/593/logoColourGrey-small-1.jpg carsonified, designer, developer, internet, online community, online marketing, web, workshop London United Kingdom 2009-09-09 Web 2.0 is focused on user participation, so how can you promote interaction on your site? As designers and product people, our focus is on developing wonderful user experiences where people can come together to participate in meaningful and useful ways. With social sites, this is doubly critical as our sites are fundamentally powered by users interacting with one another. This workshop will focus on design strategies for lowering the barriers to participation, adapting to user behavior, promoting positive behaviors, managing scale, and creating intuitive user experiences. Sign Up! 1276 United Kingdom The workshop focuses on design strategies for lowering the barriers to participation, adapting to user behavior, promoting positive behaviors, managing scale, and creating intuitive user experiences. 2009-09-08 false http://carsonworkshops.com/2009/danielburka/index.html http://events.boxesandarrows.com/events/1276 http://events.boxesandarrows.com/event/logo/1276/Carsonified.jpg designer, developer, digg, digg, web London United Kingdom 2009-11-24 Learn how craftsmanship can apply to the intangibility of web design. Dan Cederholm will guide you though a case study, pointing out the details that matter most when designing flexible, bulletproof designs. As the browser landscape changes, so too does our approach to building sites with web standards. Become a web craftsperson armed with the techniques and best practices that make all the difference. 625 United Kingdom Handcrafted Bulletproof CSS with Dan Cederholm of "Simplebits" 2009-11-23 false http://carsonworkshops.com/2009/dancederholm/index.html http://events.boxesandarrows.com/events/625 http://events.boxesandarrows.com/event/logo/625/Carsonified.jpg css, designer, developer, web