Washington USA 2006-08-17 If you find yourself in the Washington, DC area Wednesday evening, August 15, I want to invite you to an informal cocktail hour. A bunch of us will be gathering just to talk about usability, information architecture,interaction design, user experience, and whatever else is on our minds. I'd love to see you there! Where: Heritage India 1337 Connecticut Ave., NW, Washington, DC 20009 http://tinyurl.com/pk8jr When: 6:00 pm - 7:00 pm No RSVP necessary -- We'll see you there. --Jared Spool 24 DC I want to invite you to an informal cocktail hour. A bunch of us will be gathering just to talk about usability, information architecture,interaction design, and user experience 2006-08-16 false http://events.boxesandarrows.com/events/24 ia, ia, ixd, ixd, usability, usability, user experience, user experience Washington USA 2006-08-17 If you find yourself in the Washington, DC area Wednesday evening, August 15, I want to invite you to an informal cocktail hour. A bunch of us will be gathering just to talk about usability, information architecture,interaction design, user experience, and whatever else is on our minds. I'd love to see you there! Where: Heritage India 1337 Connecticut Ave., NW, Washington, DC 20009 http://tinyurl.com/pk8jr When: 6:00 pm - 7:00 pm No RSVP necessary -- We'll see you there. --Jared Spool 24 DC I want to invite you to an informal cocktail hour. A bunch of us will be gathering just to talk about usability, information architecture,interaction design, and user experience 2006-08-16 false http://events.boxesandarrows.com/events/24 ia, ia, ixd, ixd, usability, usability, user experience, user experience Chicago USA 2006-09-15 Benefits This advanced information architecture seminar combines lecture, demonstration and exercises, discussion, and handouts to address a topic that bewilders every large organization: designing unified information architectures for large enterprises. You'll learn to: * Develop main pages and other upper-level "portal" components that convey a single cohesive organization, not a collection of warring business units. * Use metadata and contextual navigation to help users move from one content-rich page to another, regardless of which business unit manages that content. * Design search interfaces for improved access to content stored in organizational "silos". * Better implement an enterprise-wide information architecture through appropriate research and design methods and improved governance. Seminar Schedule and Outline Registration and continental breakfast begin at 8am. The seminar starts at 9am and finishes at 5pm, followed by an extremely happy hour. During the day, we'll cover these topics: * Overview of enterprise information architecture (EIA) * EIA from the top-down: taxonomies, guides, and other techniques for unifying departmental content * EIA from the bottom-up: content models and metadata to enable contextual navigation from page to page * EIA and search: indexing cross-departmental content, presenting results consistently * EIA and the organization: models for rolling out an enterprise information architecture, staffing it, and paying for and managing it in a distributed corporate environment What's Included * Handouts including presentation slides and references to related readings, software products, and other useful resources. * A variety of opportunities to network with attendees, including a post-seminar happy hour with Lou Rosenfeld, Steve Krug, and other members of the local information architecture and usability communities. In these new fields, knowing your peers is invaluable. 29 IL This day-long seminar with Lou Rosenfeld (co-author of the "polar bear" book) will help you convert a disjointed collection of content silos into a unified, user-centered web site or intranet. 2006-09-14 false http://louisrosenfeld.com/eia/ http://events.boxesandarrows.com/events/29 enterprise information architecture, ia, information architecture, information management, km, knowledge management, louis rosenfeld, polar bear Banff Canada 2006-09-17 Canux is the annual Canadian User Experience workshop. Canux is a non-profit grassroots event that brings world-class instructors together with practitioners for hands-on learning. It’s a small gathering, limited to 75 participants, with a focus on practical skills for user experience professionals - designers, information architects, interaction designers, front-end architects, usabilitistas, and anyone else who’s passionate about making things work well for people. 33 Canada Canux, the Canadian User Experience workshop, is a grassroots event that brings world-class instructors together with UX practitioners for hands-on learning. 2006-09-14 false http://www.canux2006.com/ http://events.boxesandarrows.com/events/33 design, ia, information architecture, user experience, ux, workshop Washington USA 2006-09-29 Benefits This advanced information architecture seminar combines lecture, demonstration and exercises, discussion, and handouts to address a topic that bewilders every large organization: designing unified information architectures for large enterprises. You'll learn to: * Develop main pages and other upper-level "portal" components that convey a single cohesive organization, not a collection of warring business units. * Use metadata and contextual navigation to help users move from one content-rich page to another, regardless of which business unit manages that content. * Design search interfaces for improved access to content stored in organizational "silos". * Better implement an enterprise-wide information architecture through appropriate research and design methods and improved governance. Seminar Schedule and Outline Registration and continental breakfast begin at 8am. The seminar starts at 9am and finishes at 5pm, followed by an extremely happy hour. During the day, we'll cover these topics: * Overview of enterprise information architecture (EIA) * EIA from the top-down: taxonomies, guides, and other techniques for unifying departmental content * EIA from the bottom-up: content models and metadata to enable contextual navigation from page to page * EIA and search: indexing cross-departmental content, presenting results consistently * EIA and the organization: models for rolling out an enterprise information architecture, staffing it, and paying for and managing it in a distributed corporate environment What's Included * Handouts including presentation slides and references to related readings, software products, and other useful resources. * A variety of opportunities to network with attendees, including a post-seminar happy hour with Lou Rosenfeld, Steve Krug, and other members of the local information architecture and usability communities. In these new fields, knowing your peers is invaluable. 30 DC This day-long seminar with Lou Rosenfeld (co-author of the "polar bear" book) will help you convert a disjointed collection of content silos into a unified, user-centered web site or intranet. 2006-09-28 false http://louisrosenfeld.com/eia/ http://events.boxesandarrows.com/events/30 enterprise information architecture, ia, information architecture, information management, km, knowledge management, louis rosenfeld, polar bear Berlin Germany 2006-10-02 The 2006 Euro IA Summit theme is ’Building Our Practice’ After the success of last year’s Euro IA Summit, it was obvious we had to organise another one this year. This year we want to look at what it takes to be an IA in Europe. What are the things that we have in common? What are the specifc issues we have to deal with in our country or our business? How can we extend and build the practice of IA in Europe? *Why do we need a European Summit?* For starters, if you live over here, it’s a lot easier to get to Berlin than the U.S. or Canada. Second, when we deal with multi-language applications, we really mean it - there are over 20 national languages within the EU alone. Third, we are doing amazing things with alternative interfaces - phones and pocket computers, for example. Most important of all, we are European, not North American - and we see the world a little differently. 12 Germany Continue to build the practice of information architecture in Europe -- come together and discuss! We welcome euro IAs and other people involved in structuring information for electronic media. 2006-09-30 false http://www.euroia.org/ http://events.boxesandarrows.com/events/12 ia, information architecture, ixd Cambridge USA 2006-10-13 Use BOXES promotion code and receive $50 off each day or $250 off a four-day registration. Keynotes by Jared Spool and Barry Schwartz Ground-breaking Full-Day Seminars: Creating Persuasion Architecture Online Bryan and Jeffrey Eisenberg, Future Now Develop a strategy for persuading your users to take action. You'll learn how to map your user goals with your site's business goals. - o - o - How to Design a Task-Based Information Architecture Gerry McGovern Get a solid grounding in information architecture that will enable you to create designs that help users find what they want. - o - o - Building and Managing a Successful User Experience Team Sarah Bloomer and Susan Wolfe Learn proven processes for creating a successful usability team, including how the best teams work together and report success. - o - o - Rich Internet Applications and AJAX David (Heller) Malouf & Bill Scott, Yahoo! Learn to create your own Rich Internet Application solution using powerful technologies, such as AJAX or Flash. - o - o - Making Meaning: Creating an Engaging User Experience Nathan Shedroff Learn the most effective processes for establishing a deep and meaningful connection with your users. - o - o - Site Seeing: Communicating Successfully with Visual Design Luke Wroblewski, Yahoo! Get practical insights and strategies for boosting your site's visual appeal and delighting your users. - o - o - Bringing User-Centered Design Practices into Agile Development Projects Jeff Patton, ThoughtWorks Utilize Agile Development processes to speed development, improve quality, reduce feature creep, and encourage team collaboration. - o - o - Advanced Methods for Usability Testing Rolf Molich Uncover the best practices for usability testing with rare insights pulled from research on more than a dozen usability teams. - o - o - Full-day seminars by Jared Spool, Christine Perfetti, and Josh Porter 22 MA Our eleventh annual conference is being held October 9-12, 2006 in Cambridge, MA. We've lined up fantastic speakers giving full-day seminars on today's critically important design topics. 2006-10-09 false http://www.uiconf.com http://events.boxesandarrows.com/events/22 http://events.boxesandarrows.com/event/logo/22/UI11-badge.jpg agile developement, ajax, barry schwartz, bill scott, discount, gerry mcgovern, ia, information architecture, jared spool, luke wroblewski, managing teams, nathan shedroff, persuasion architecture, rias, teams, usability testing, user experience, visual design Oslo Norway 2006-10-16 Themes * Interactive arts * Product and industrial design * Games * E-commerce * E-health * Human-computer Interaction * Mobile Computing * Intranets * Location-based services * New media * Rich and virtual environments * Value sensitive design and ethics * Virtual and augmented reality 13 Norway Idec3 will bring together artists, designers, researchers and organisations that focus on providing accessible, usable and engaging products and services. 2006-10-15 false http://nordichi.net.dynamicweb.dk/Default.aspx?ID=37 http://events.boxesandarrows.com/events/13 design, ia, ixd, user experience Philadelphia USA 2006-10-18 When: Refreshments & Networking: 6-6:30pm Presentation: 6:30pm – 8ish Where: UPenn Campus - exact room TBD Summary: Come and get a behind the scenes look into the actual process used to solve design problems behind the creation of... ~QVC Active - Mike Madaio, Chief Internet Architect, QVC.com The first US real-time two-way interactive TV shopping service. Viewers use their remote control to make purchases in a real-time environment, just as the product is being showcased on TV. ~Russound UNO-TSV Smart Color Touchscreen - Kyle Pero, Founding Principal, Usable Interface A touchscreen device that controls a multiroom entertainment system, lighting and climate control. Users can easily decide what music they’d like to play and what mood they want to set in different rooms in their home. ~In-Stadium seat-based ECommerce Platform - Bill Bulman, Partner, MessageFirst A kiosk-based Rich Internet Application that allows sports fans to purchase concessions and merchandise from their seats. Fans feel closer to their team, while the team learns important consumer data from their fans. Each of these products are very different, but some of the same user-centered design methods were used in their creation (i.e. contextual inquiries, paper prototyping, user testing, etc). Attendees will learn which methods were used, as well as, why and how they were implemented. Research findings, insights, and lessons learned will all be shared. ---------------------------- About PHICHI: PHICHI is the Philadelphia region's chapter of the Association of Computing Machinery's Special Interest Group on Computer-Human Interaction (ACM SIGCHI - http://sigchi.org/). Would you like to be notified of all upcoming PHICHI events? Please join our yahoo group: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/phillychi/join PHICHI meetings are ALWAYS open to anyone who is interested in attending. Membership to the ACM is NOT required. Hope to see you all there! 80 PA Get a behind the scenes look into the actual process used to solve design problems behind the creation of three very different offline products. 2006-10-17 false http://events.boxesandarrows.com/events/80 http://events.boxesandarrows.com/event/logo/80/logo.jpg case study, chi, contextual inquiry, ia, paper prototyping, product design, user testing, ux Seattle USA 2006-10-20 Benefits This advanced information architecture seminar combines lecture, demonstration and exercises, discussion, and handouts to address a topic that bewilders every large organization: designing unified information architectures for large enterprises. You'll learn to: * Develop main pages and other upper-level "portal" components that convey a single cohesive organization, not a collection of warring business units. * Use metadata and contextual navigation to help users move from one content-rich page to another, regardless of which business unit manages that content. * Design search interfaces for improved access to content stored in organizational "silos". * Better implement an enterprise-wide information architecture through appropriate research and design methods and improved governance. Seminar Schedule and Outline Registration and continental breakfast begin at 8am. The seminar starts at 9am and finishes at 5pm, followed by an extremely happy hour. During the day, we'll cover these topics: * Overview of enterprise information architecture (EIA) * EIA from the top-down: taxonomies, guides, and other techniques for unifying departmental content * EIA from the bottom-up: content models and metadata to enable contextual navigation from page to page * EIA and search: indexing cross-departmental content, presenting results consistently * EIA and the organization: models for rolling out an enterprise information architecture, staffing it, and paying for and managing it in a distributed corporate environment What's Included * Handouts including presentation slides and references to related readings, software products, and other useful resources. * A variety of opportunities to network with attendees, including a post-seminar happy hour with Lou Rosenfeld, Steve Krug, and other members of the local information architecture and usability communities. In these new fields, knowing your peers is invaluable. 21 WA This day-long seminar with Lou Rosenfeld (co-author of the "polar bear" book) will help you convert a disjointed collection of content silos into a unified, user-centered web site or intranet. 2006-10-19 false http://louisrosenfeld.com/eia/ http://events.boxesandarrows.com/events/21 http://events.boxesandarrows.com/event/logo/21/lou.jpg enterprise information architecture, ia, information architecture, information management, km, knowledge management, louis rosenfeld, polar bear Seattle USA 2006-10-25 Design problems are increasingly becoming information problems. 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. program. Keynote: Bruce Sterling 7 WA A conference on designing complex information spaces of all kinds. 2006-10-23 false http://www.ideaconference.org/ http://events.boxesandarrows.com/events/7 http://events.boxesandarrows.com/event/logo/7/idea-2006.jpg design, ia, information architecture, ixd, user experience Philadelphia USA 2006-11-03 What: Joint PHICHI and AIGA November Meeting: the Visual vs. the Usable - A Panel Discussion PhiCHI (The Philadelphia Region's Chapter of the ACM SIGCHI) and AIGA Philadelphia (American Institute of Graphic Arts) will be holding their next joint meeting; a round table discussion with audience participation and panelists from user experience and design team members from Electronic Ink, Inc. and The Vanguard Group, Inc.. The panelists will discuss questions that were previously submitted from the AIGA and PHICHI members (For example, how do you feel when you are handed a wireframe to design/how do you feel when your wireframe is not adhered to?). We will endeavor to address as many questions as time permits at the event. Remember, we envision The Visible vs. the Usable to be a series of events. The discussion will continue. When: Thursday, November 2nd Refreshments & Networking: 6-6:30pm – Food and beverages will be provided. Panel Discussion: 6:30pm – 8ish Where: Heilmeier Hall University of Pennsylvania The Towne Building 220 S. 33rd Street Philadelphia, PA 19104 Campus Map: http://www.facilities.upenn.edu/mapsBldgs/view_map.php3?id=158 Buliding Info: http://www.facilities.upenn.edu/mapsBldgs/view_map.php3?id=343 Parking Map: http://www.facilities.upenn.edu/mapsBldgs/view_map.php3?id=419 Sponsor: This event could not have been possible without the support of our proud sponsor, Electronic Ink (www.electronicink.com)! -------------------------- Would you like to be notified of all upcoming PHICHI events? Please join our yahoo group: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/phillychi/join PHICHI meetings are ALWAYS open to anyone who is interested in attending. Membership to the ACM is NOT required. 102 PA PhiCHI and AIGA Philadelphia will be holding their next joint meeting; a round table discussion with audience participation and panelists from team members of Electronic Ink and The Vanguard Group. 2006-11-02 false http://events.boxesandarrows.com/events/102 http://events.boxesandarrows.com/event/logo/102/logo.jpg aiga, design, ia, information architecture, phichi, usability, user experience, ux Santiago Chile 2006-11-15 Universidad de Chile's CWR will host one of the most amazing IA-UX events to date: including experts from the traditional English-speaking IA circles, plus the leaders of the Spanish speaking IA communities in Spain and Latin America. The presentations will be focused on making the case for IA, we need to open the eyes of the Latin American market on how IA can be the tool to help them find their lost customers. - Registrations not yet open, cost will be low - Our speaker list includes: * Peter Morville (USA) * Peter Merholz (USA) * Gene Smith (Canada) * Peter Van Dijck (Belgium) * Jorge Arango (Panama) * Jesse James Garrett (USA) * Rebecca Blood (USA) * Nacho Puell (Spain) * Javier Cañada (Spain) * Diego Lafuente (Spain) * Juan Carlos Camus (Chile) * Jorge Barahona (Chile) Our event is organized around four sequential tracks: * Banking * Commerce * Government * Blogs 20 Chile Seventh Society and ITs Encounter - In search for the lost customer. 2006-11-13 false http://www.cwr.cl/events/summit2006/ http://events.boxesandarrows.com/events/20 http://events.boxesandarrows.com/event/logo/20/cwr-72nucleus.jpg blogs, chile, experience design, ia, information architecture, santiago, summit, user experience London United Kingdom 2006-12-01 Meet at 6.30, at the usual Three Kings in Clerkenwell. We may be upstairs, depending where there's room. http://www.beerintheevening.com/pubs/s/17/1792/Three_Kings/Clerkenwell We'll have a sign, but newbies are welcome to drop me a line off-list beforehand to arrange to meet up. (david dot carruthers @ twentysixlondon.com) Primarily for those who were there to chat about the conference and give a summary to those that couldn't go. Also a chance to air any other IA related thoughts that have been bouncing round your head. (eg, crossover between IA & Planning, london-ia 'bookclub') And to generally say hello. 138 United Kingdom (very) post Euro IA get-together. To chat about the conference, and give a heads up to those who weren't there. Plus any other IA related thoughts... 2006-11-30 false http://events.boxesandarrows.com/events/138 ia, information architecture, london Philadelphia USA 2006-12-16 This will be a great opportunity to combine celebrating the holiday season while getting to know your fellow PhillyCHI members better. We also hope you'll take this opportunity to become better acquainted with the new officers and volunteers for ’07! When: Friday, December, 15th 6:30 – 9:30 PM Where: Noche - www.noche215.com 1901 Chestnut Street Philadelphia, PA 19103 (conveniently located within 4 blocks of Suburban Station) Parking options: http://tinyurl.com/y9twna RSVP: Not required, but appreciated. Please send RSVPs to phillychi@gmail.com **Try to arrive on time to take advantage of our one hour open bar.** ~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Sponsors: This event would not be possible without the support of our proud sponsors, GSI Commerce and Usable Interface... GSI Commerce (http://www.gsicommerce.com) is a leading provider of outsourced e-commerce solutions for over 50 partners in the United States. GSI's integrated e-commerce platform offers services in three areas: technology, logistics and customer care, and marketing services. GSI is headquartered in King of Prussia with two fulfillment centers in Kentucky, and customer care centers in Florida and Wisconsin, and a presence in the international market as well with GSI Commerce Europe, Inc. Usable Interface (http://www.usableinterface.com) is an independent consulting company specializing in product usability and user interface design. Usable Interface provides consulting services in the areas of: user research, usability testing, interaction design, and information architecture. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Hope to see you all there! 144 PA Join us in celebrating the holidays! We have a terrific night planned with lots of good food, drinks and surprises! 2006-12-15 false http://events.boxesandarrows.com/events/144 design, happy hour, holiday, ia, information architecture, internet, pa, pennsylvania, phi chi, philadelphia, phillychi, social, usability, web Canberra Australia 2007-01-10 The next Canberra IA Cocktail Hour is on Tuesday 09 January 2007. We've moved it to the second Tuesday, as a lot of people are unavailable on Tuesday 02 January. January's meeting will be show and tell - bring the one book that has had the most influence on you as an IA and speak on it for a minute or two. We follow a meet'n'greet/presentation/chat format, with the emphasis on information exchange at practitioner level. This is a great opportunity to talk with other IAs in Canberra, have a few drinks, and chat about work. Time: 17:00-18:30 Day/Date: Tuesday 09 January 2007 Venue: SMS Management & Technology Ground Floor, 8 Brindabella Circuit CANBERRA AIRPORT ACT Please RSVP by COB Friday 05 January 2007 for catering purposes. Parking: please keep in mind that Brindabella Park has different parking arrangements than those found in many parts of Canberra - there is free parking for the first hour adjacent to the entrance of 8 Brindabella Circuit. After that you have to move your car or pay for parking (and this applies past the end of the meeting). PS: there is a contact list for the Canberra IA Cocktail Hours: you can join via http://au.groups.yahoo.com/group/canberra_ia_community Best regards, Andrew Boyd 149 Australia Next Canberra IA Cocktail Hour is on 09 January 2007 - show and tell your favourite IA book! 2007-01-09 false http://au.groups.yahoo.com/group/canberra_ia_community http://events.boxesandarrows.com/events/149 canberra, cocktail hour, community, ia Philadelphia USA 2007-01-26 Location: Levine 307, UPenn Campus 3301 Walnut, Philadelphia PA DIRECTIONS: Here is a map of the building: http://www.facilities.upenn.edu/mapsBldgs/view_map.php3?id=407 Sign up now! If you would like to participate, please RSVP now to phillychi@gmail.com. Why now? We may need to cap attendance. What's a "design slam"? During the meeting, participants will be teamed and introduced to a full-fledged hypothetical project, including appropriate client-side deliverables. They'll then have an opportunity to interview key players on the client's team. The session will conclude with proposal presentations from each of the groups to the "clients" and the assembled audience. Then the "clients" team will choose a winner. Members of the winning team will receive a plethora of praise from your peers and an award. What's in it for me? This is a chance for interested IAs, designers, usability practitioners, developers and marketing professionals to get their hands dirty working side by side with colleagues as they tackle tough business problems in a fun and sometimes crazy environment. Knowledge transfer, technique sharing, and a social atmosphere makes this session stand out from the garden-variety "lecture-and-Powerpoint" presentation. Those that want to participate need to be at the meeting by 6:15pm at the latest. The client team will be introducing the design challenge promptly at 6:25. If you do not want to participate due to not being able to get to the meeting on-time or a severe case of social phobia, fear not! We would like to have an audience during this session to play the role of users, and help choose the winning team. This idea is shamelessly stolen (with permission) from the IA Summit's IA Slam. For more information about the IA Slam, visit http://www.e-reiss.com/Seminars.aspx. 156 PA Join in the Philadelphia region's first annual Design Slam. Contestants will participate in a fast-paced race to create the best design solution to a real-world problem. Awards given to the victors! 2007-01-25 false http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/phillychi/ http://events.boxesandarrows.com/events/156 chi, delaware, design, design competition, design slam, ia, information architecture, new jersey, nj, philadelphia, philly, phillychi Vancouver Canada 2007-02-11 Put together by designers and developers, for designers and developers, Web Directions North is brought to you by Dave Shea, Derek Featherstone, Maxine Sherrin and John Allsopp. Over two days and nights, Web Directions North is packed tight with sessions by renowned, inspiring, entertaining speakers and experts, parties, and more. Come along and hear Kelly Goto, Andy Clarke, Adrian Holovaty, Douglas Bowman, Dan Cederholm, Joe Clark, Molly Holzschlag, Derek Featherstone, Veerle Pieters, Jeremy Keith and many other present and future web luminaries, covering Ajax and Javascript, CSS, Microformats, mashups, standards based web design and development, accessibility, web app development, XHTML and HTML and more. Beginning with an optional day of workshops from some of the web’s best educators, and rounded off with two optional days of skiing and boarding at Whistler, Web Directions North is 2007’s web design and development event not to be missed. Register until December 31 for just $CDN895 (about USD$770), and includes two tight-packed, fully catered days of renowned speakers, an offical reception and closing night party. Workshops are just $CDN395 (~USD$340) for a full, fully catered day with world experts Andy Clarke and Aaron Gustafson, Derek Featherstone, or Kelly Goto. For conference attendees and their family, each day at Whistler is just $CDN120 (~USD$100, including transfers too and from Whistler and Vancouver, and lift tickets) 150 Canada Be part of what promises to be one of 2007’s best web designer and developer events. A two day conference with an optional day of workshops, and two optional days at Whistler, is not to be missed. 2007-02-06 false http://north.webdirections.org http://events.boxesandarrows.com/events/150 http://events.boxesandarrows.com/event/logo/150/logo.png accessibility, ajax, apis, css, design, development, google, html, ia, mashups, microformats, mobile, ux, web20, webapps, webstandards, workflow, yahoo King of Prussia USA 2007-02-22 Time: 6 - 8 pm Location: GSI Commerce, Inc., 935 First Avenue, King of Prussia, PA RSVP: Please let us know if you are coming at phillyCHI@gmail.com Interest in content user-assigned tags is one of the big new stories on the Web. But content tagging is not a new story. What's new about Web 2.0 is that end users are doing the tagging instead of librarians, and the results are being shown almost instantly on websites like flickr, del.icio.us, Wikipedia, and Technorati.Librarians have long contended that end users cannot usefully tag content because they are not trained in how to do indexing. More correctly, end users cannot tag content the way librarians tag content. But this begs the question about what kind of tagging is useful. Joseph will discuss the usefulness to be found in tagging as it relates to librarians and usability professionals, the Semantic Web, and document and content management practices. Joseph Busch is the Founder and a Principal of Taxonomy Strategies. Joseph is an authority in the field of information science, a past President of the American Society for Information Science and Technology, and an appointee to the Board of Directors of the Dublin Core Metadata Initiative. He is a frequent speaker on metadata, taxonomy, indexing, classification research, information retrieval, and content management. Read more about Joseph at Taxonomy Strategies. 166 PA phillyCHI welcomes Joseph A. Busch of Taxonomy Strategies LLC as he speaks on the importance of tagging to librarians, usability practitioners and content management professionals. 2007-02-21 false http://phillychi.acm.org http://events.boxesandarrows.com/events/166 chi, delaware, design, folksonomy, ia, indexing, information architecture, joseph busch, librarians, new jersey, nj, philadelphia, philly, phillychi, semantic web, tagging, taxonomy, taxonomy strategies, web 20 Philadelphia USA 2007-03-30 Knowing Smirks & Grins of Delight Date: March 29, 2007 Time: 6 - 8 pm Location: MBC - 229 South 18th Street, Rittenhouse Square, Philadelphia Map: http://mbcnet.com/directions.html RSVP: phillychi@gmail.com PhillyCHI is pleased to have Kip Voytek from R/GA discussing how interaction design must reach beyond usability and the satisfaction of user needs in order to truly help clients achieve their goals. By examining interactive product examples, he will demonstrate how interactive experience is being infused with emotion, creating connections between users and the products they are using. In today’s market, the successful completion of user tasks and usability are table stakes—the competitive advantage lies in being able to make experiences enjoyable, fun, delightful. Kip Voytek is Senior Vice President of Interaction Design at R/GA, the lead digital partner for Fortune 500 companies and world-class brands such as Avaya, Lowe's, Purina, Subaru, Target and Verizon. Over his career, he has won dozens of awards from some of the most prestigious competitions, including the One Show Interactive and Cyberlions. Voytek began his career as a game designer and writer at Engineering Animation, Inc. (EAI) and Byron Preiss Multimedia. Learn more about R/GA at http://rga.com. About Medical Broadcasting Company (MBC): We are the healthcare demand experts. We are experts in using the Internet to connect our clients' knowledge, advice, and experience to people's problems, conditions, and questions. We help our clients help doctors, patients, and all the people who care for them have better-informed conversations that lead to better treatments and better results. Because of our expertise and our clients' success, we are the interactive agency of record for many of the world's leading pharmaceutical, bioscience, and medical device companies. MBC is an agency of the Digitas family, a member of the Paris-based Publicis Groupe S.A. For more information please visit www.mbcnet.com. 188 PA Kip Voytek of R/GA will present 'Knowing Smirks & Grins of Delight' - a presentation discussing how interaction design must create an emotional connection with users in order to meet clients' needs. 2007-03-29 false http://phillychi.acm.org http://events.boxesandarrows.com/events/188 delaware, design, emotional design, ia, information architecture, interaction design, kip voytek, new jersey, nj, philadelphia, philly, phillychi, rga, usability, user needs Bethesda USA 2007-04-22 The User Experience Network (UXnet.org), DC-IA, and UPA-DC will facilitate a panel discussion and workshop to help better define the language used by IAs in résumés and clarify to employers what that language means. This event is co-sponsored by UPA-DC-Metro, DC-IA, IxDA and UX Net BRING YOUR RÉSUMÉS FOR ONE-ON-ONE FEEDBACK FROM PANELISTS AND EVENT VOLUNTEERS. REFRESHMENTS WILL BE AVAILABLE A $5 DOLLAR DONATION WILL BE APPRECIATED TO PAY FOR THE SPACE AND REFRESHMENTS The User Experience Network (UXnet.org), DC-IA, and UPA-DC will facilitate a panel discussion and workshop to help better define the language used by IAs in résumés and clarify to employers what that language means. Event Location: Bethesda-Chevy Chase Regional Services Center 4805 Edgemoor Lane, Bethesda, MD 20814 Date & Time - April 21, 2007 10 a.m. to 12 p.m. - Registration is recommended (http://www.upa-dc-metro.org/registration/event/eventreg1.php) SEE YOU THERE! About UXnet UXnet exists to make connections among people, resources, and organizations involved in User Experience (UX) anywhere in the world. Currently, UXnet is focused on two initiatives: - Providing an international network of Local Ambassadors - with 100 current participants on six continents and in 26 countries to provide user experience knowledge and leadership on a local level - Facilitating productive collaboration between non-profit industry organizations involved in user experience, to the benefit of the organizations, their members and the industry at-large For more information on UXnet or if you'd like to get involved, please visit www.uxnet.org. 204 MD Information Architecture (IA), Interaction Design, Business Design, and other UX-related disciplines have been coming closer to each other and blurring the lines between disciplines. 2007-04-21 false http://www.upa-dc-metro.org/events/2007/4-21-07.htm http://events.boxesandarrows.com/events/204 dcia, ia, upadc, uxnet Portland USA 2007-05-11 Benefits This advanced information architecture seminar combines lecture, demonstration and exercises, discussion, and handouts to address a topic that bewilders every large organization: designing unified information architectures for large enterprises. You'll learn to: * Develop main pages and other upper-level "portal" components that convey a single cohesive organization, not a collection of warring business units. * Use metadata and contextual navigation to help users move from one content-rich page to another, regardless of which business unit manages that content. * Design search interfaces for improved access to content stored in organizational "silos". * Better implement an enterprise-wide information architecture through appropriate research and design methods and improved governance. Seminar Schedule and Outline Registration and continental breakfast begin at 8am. The seminar starts at 9am and finishes at 5pm, followed by an extremely happy hour. During the day, we'll cover these topics: * Overview of enterprise information architecture (EIA) * EIA from the top-down: taxonomies, guides, and other techniques for unifying departmental content * Enterprise information architecture (EIA) from the bottom-up: content models and metadata to enable contextual navigation from page to page * EIA and search: indexing cross-departmental content, presenting results consistently * EIA and the organization: models for rolling out an enterprise information architecture, staffing it, and paying for and managing it in a distributed corporate environment What's Included * Handouts including over 260 presentation slides and references to related readings, software products, and other useful resources. * A variety of opportunities to network with attendees, including a post-seminar happy hour with Lou Rosenfeld, Steve Krug, and other members of the local information architecture and usability communities. In these new fields, knowing your peers is invaluable. 168 OR This day-long seminar with Lou Rosenfeld (co-author of the "polar bear" book) will help you convert a disjointed collection of content silos into a unified, user-centered web site or intranet. 2007-05-10 false http://louisrosenfeld.com/eia/ http://events.boxesandarrows.com/events/168 http://events.boxesandarrows.com/event/logo/168/lou.jpg content management, enterprise information architecture, ia, information architecture, information management, km, knowledge management, louis rosenfeld, polar bear Sunnyvale USA 2007-05-20 IA Summit speakers who are local to the San Francisco Bay Area will give their presentations. Here is the program for the event: 2:00 pm—Kevin Cheng and Tom Wailes, “Finding Innovation in the 500 Pound Gorilla” 2:45 pm—Sarah Rice, “Case Study: How Cognitive Framing Analysis Impacts Organizational Strategy” 3:30 pm—Rashmi Sinha, Closing Plenary: “Fast, Cheap, and Somewhat in Control: 10 Lessons from the Design of SlideShare” 4:15 pm—Tea Break—Yahoo! is generously providing food and beverages. 5:00 pm—Marisa Gallagher and Garrick Schmidt, “Intelligent Inter(RE)action: An Argument for a Data-Driven Approach to UI Design” 5:45 pm—Lucas Pettinati, “Peer (Or Team) Design Reviews: How to Give ‘Em and Take ‘Em” 6:30 pm—Break 6:45 pm—Christian Crumlish, “Mobile Information Architecture: Designing Experiences for the Mobile Web” 7:30-8:15 pm—Luke Wroblewski, “Best Practices for Form Design” ::: To learn more about the individual presentations, go to the IA Summit 2007 Web site: http://www.iasummit.org/2007/conferenceProgram.htm The IA Summit Redux will take place at this location: Yahoo! Sunnyvale Campus Building C, Classroom 5 701 First Avenue Sunnyvale, CA 94089 Directions: From San Jose: * Take U.S. 101 northbound. * Exit at Mathilda Avenue. * Turn right onto North Mathilda Avenue. * Turn left onto First Avenue, opposite Bordeaux Drive, the street on the right. * Take the first right into the Yahoo! parking lot. From San Francisco: * Take U.S. 101 southbound. * Take the Alviso/Milpitas exit to CA 237 eastbound. * Immediately after the merge onto 237, take the Mathilda Avenue exit. * Turn left onto North Mathilda Avenue. * Turn left onto First Avenue, opposite Bordeaux Drive, the street on the right. * Take the first right into the Yahoo! parking lot. IxDA, BayCHI, and BayDUX are presenting this event. 221 CA If you missed the Information Architecture (IA) Summit this year or just didn't get to all of the sessions you wanted to attend, please join us for an IA Summit Redux. 2007-05-19 false http://www.baychi.org/calendar/20070519/ http://events.boxesandarrows.com/events/221 ia, ixd Atlanta USA 2007-06-01 Benefits This advanced information architecture seminar combines lecture, demonstration and exercises, discussion, and handouts to address a topic that bewilders every large organization: designing unified information architectures for large enterprises. You'll learn to: * Develop main pages and other upper-level "portal" components that convey a single cohesive organization, not a collection of warring business units. * Use metadata and contextual navigation to help users move from one content-rich page to another, regardless of which business unit manages that content. * Design search interfaces for improved access to content stored in organizational "silos". * Better implement an enterprise-wide information architecture through appropriate research and design methods and improved governance. Seminar Schedule and Outline Registration and continental breakfast begin at 8am. The seminar starts at 9am and finishes at 5pm, followed by an extremely happy hour. During the day, we'll cover these topics: * Overview of enterprise information architecture (EIA) * EIA from the top-down: taxonomies, guides, and other techniques for unifying departmental content * Enterprise information architecture (EIA) from the bottom-up: content models and metadata to enable contextual navigation from page to page * EIA and search: indexing cross-departmental content, presenting results consistently * EIA and the organization: models for rolling out an enterprise information architecture, staffing it, and paying for and managing it in a distributed corporate environment What's Included * Handouts including over 260 presentation slides and references to related readings, software products, and other useful resources. * A variety of opportunities to network with attendees, including a post-seminar happy hour with Lou Rosenfeld, Steve Krug, and other members of the local information architecture and usability communities. In these new fields, knowing your peers is invaluable. 169 GA This day-long seminar with Lou Rosenfeld (co-author of the "polar bear" book) will help you convert a disjointed collection of content silos into a unified, user-centered web site or intranet. 2007-05-31 false http://louisrosenfeld.com/eia/ http://events.boxesandarrows.com/events/169 http://events.boxesandarrows.com/event/logo/169/lou.jpg content management, enterprise information architecture, ia, information architecture, information management, km, knowledge management, louis rosenfeld, polar bear Portsmouth USA 2007-06-20 Come out and join other UX professionals in the Seacoast NH, Southern NH, and Southern ME regions for drinks and networking! This will be an excellent opportunity to meet fellow usability professionals, information architects, interaction designers, and other professionals that fall under the User Experience umbrella to share experiences and learn about job openings in the area. This is the first of many networking events we expect to have in this area. Our goal is to foster the growth of the local UX community and, if there is enough interest, to eventually start a new UPA chapter. Please pass this announcement on to anyone you think will be interested. When: Tuesday, June 19th 6:30 PM – 8:30 PM Where: Portsmouth, NH (venue TBD) RSVP: You must RSVP to attend, as we need a head count for the venue. Send RSVPs to Kyle Pero, kylepero@usableinterface.com. You will receive an email confirmation once your name has been added to the list of attendees. + + + Stay informed about NH UX meetings and events by joining the NH-UX Yahoo group at: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/nh-ux/ + + + Hope to see you there! 226 NH Come out and join other UX professionals in the Seacoast NH, Southern NH, and Southern ME regions for drinks and networking! 2007-06-19 false http://groups.yahoo.com/group/nh-ux/ http://events.boxesandarrows.com/events/226 ia, information architecture, interaction design, ixd, new hampshire, nh, usability, user experience, ux Philadelphia USA 2007-06-29 “Maximum Value Design: Strategies for Creating a Larger Impact on the Business” Time: 6 - 8 pm * Meet & greet from 6 - 6:30 pm * Location: Berger Auditorium, Skirkanich Hall, University of Pennsylvania 210 South 33rd Street, Philadelphia, PA 19104 Map: http://www.facilities.upenn.edu/mapsBldgs/view_map.php3?id=140 RSVP: phillyCHI@gmail.com - Please RSVP by Wednesday, June 27, 2007 About the Presentation: The world over, designers are busy with day-to-day projects and business as usual that they can’t find time to work on bigger issues, the mythical strategic design. Fortunately, strategic design isn’t a type of work: it’s a way you work. We can adjust our tools and techniques to become more relevant and offer more value to our organizations. By changing how we approach specific tasks, we can transform lessons from small projects into frameworks that guide entire systems. This presentation will discuss six experiences, collected from experience collected at global IT companies, universities, political campaigns, interactive agencies, and financial institutions that shows how common design deliverables can be used to influence – and change – the broader organization. Though the examples and strategies are useful for practitioners of any skill level in any discipline, newer and intermediate information architects, interaction designers, and user experience designers will learn the most. Those interested in design strategy, information architecture, or user experience management will find the presentation especially useful. About the Presenter: Austin Govella works as a Senior Information Architect with Comcast Interactive Media. In his off-time, Austin works as a development editor for Boxes and Arrows (http://www.boxesandarrows.com), the web’s premier user experience and design publication. He writes about IA, design, and business on his blog, Thinking and Making (http://thinkingandmaking.com). 262 PA Please join us this month as Austin Govella presents six strategies for providing maximum value design for your organization, business, and clients. 2007-06-28 false http://phillychi.acm.org http://events.boxesandarrows.com/events/262 http://events.boxesandarrows.com/event/logo/262/phillyCHI-logo.gif austin govella, business, delaware, design, ia, new jersey, nj, philadelphia, philly, phillychi Portmsouth USA 2007-07-20 Where: AK's Bar & Bistro (2nd floor) 111 State Street Portsmouth, NH 03801 Street Map: http://tinyurl.com/2edxky Parking Map: http://tinyurl.com/ytsuz8 (street parking is also available) Topic: What Would It Mean to Become a UPA Chapter? As we explore the possibility of becoming a chapter, we thought it would be interesting to hear from someone who’s been an integral part of the most successful UPA chapter in the world, Boston UPA … Chauncey Wilson, a founding member and past president of Boston UPA, will be joining us at this meeting. He’ll be giving a half hour talk on his experience with Boston UPA, and answering your questions. Afterwards, we invite everyone to take part in an informal group discussion on the future of NH UX. About Chauncey Wilson: Chauncey Wilson has spent 20 years as an engineering psychologist, user interface designer, usability engineer, and product development manager. His academic background includes a physics degree and graduate training in social psychology, human factors engineering, and statistics. His consulting clients have included Microsoft, FEDEX, Lotus, Reuters, and 3COM. He is past president of the Northern New England chapter of the Society for Technical Communication (STC) and the STC Usability SIG, and member of the Usability Professionals' Association, the Human Factors and Ergonomics Society, and the ACM SIGCHI. He co-wrote The Usability Engineering Framework for Product Design and Evaluation in the handbook of HCI and has presented on the psychology of victimization, research ethics, cyberlaw, usability methods, web design, and documentation usability. RSVP: You must RSVP to attend. Send RSVPs to Kyle Pero, kylepero@usableinterface.com. You will receive an email confirmation once your name has been added to the list of attendees. + + + Stay informed about NH UX meetings and events by joining the NH-UX Yahoo group at: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/nh-ux/ + + + Hope to see you there! 267 NH What Would It Mean to Become a UPA Chapter? Chauncey Wilson, who’s been an integral part of the most successful UPA chapter in the world, Boston UPA, will be presenting. 2007-07-19 false http://groups.yahoo.com/group/nh-ux/ http://events.boxesandarrows.com/events/267 ia, information architecture, interaction design, ixd, upa, usability, user experience, ux Auckland New Zealand 2007-07-26 This full day workshop will provide you with a thorough overview and understanding of information architecture theory & practice. It will cover a wide range of information architecture issues, including an understanding of how it fits into a project, fundamental skills & knowledge required for information architecture work and current information architecture issues. It will be theoretical and practical and allow you to immediately apply ideas to your projects. This workshop will cover: - What information architecture is and how it relates to other user experience disciplines - Core IA techniques - analysing content, conducting user research, card sorting and more - Core IA theories - classification, categorisation, metadata & labelling - IA structures - hierarchies, database and other structures - Designing navigation & page layouts - Putting it together in an IA project The workshop will be at the level of an ‘advanced intro’, covering the basics and also allowing exploration of key challenges and issues. The format will be a combination of short lectures, group discussion and hands-on activities. Resources will also be provided for further personal exploration. 253 New Zealand This workshop provides a full day of IA theory & practice. It teaches fundamental IA concepts and practical skills immediately useful for your next project. 2007-07-25 false http://optimalusability.com/services.training.donnamaurer.php http://events.boxesandarrows.com/events/253 ia, information architecture, intranet, website Auckland New Zealand 2007-07-26 This full day workshop will provide you with a thorough overview and understanding of information architecture theory & practice. It will cover a wide range of information architecture issues, including an understanding of how it fits into a project, fundamental skills & knowledge required for information architecture work and current information architecture issues. It will be theoretical and practical and allow you to immediately apply ideas to your projects. This workshop will cover: - What information architecture is and how it relates to other user experience disciplines - Core IA techniques - analysing content, conducting user research, card sorting and more - Core IA theories - classification, categorisation, metadata & labelling - IA structures - hierarchies, database and other structures - Designing navigation & page layouts - Putting it together in an IA project The workshop will be at the level of an ‘advanced intro’, covering the basics and also allowing exploration of key challenges and issues. The format will be a combination of short lectures, group discussion and hands-on activities. Resources will also be provided for further personal exploration. 254 New Zealand This workshop provides a full day of IA theory & practice. It teaches fundamental IA concepts and practical skills immediately useful for your next project. 2007-07-25 false http://optimalusability.com/services.training.donnamaurer.php http://events.boxesandarrows.com/events/254 ia, information architecture, intranet, website San Francisco USA 2007-08-23 Venue: Cooper 100 First Street, 26th Floor San Francisco, California 94105 6:00 – Social Hour 7:00 – Presentation FREE IxDA San Francisco arrives with its first public talk in the city. For the first event in our design tools series we present Kevin Cheng from Yahoo! Brickhouse and OK/Cancel (ok-cancel.com). Often, wireframes, requirements, personas and other documents have yielded unsatisfactory results – that is, when they are read at all. At Yahoo!, Kevin Cheng has been experimenting with using comics as a technique for communicating the core concepts behind a design’s intended user experience. In this presentation, Kevin will share how this technique has worked well to get teams informed and on the same page, without fixating on interface details too early in the project. He’ll demonstrate an in-depth walkthrough of his process and the advantages he’s found using comics over other methods. Best of all, you won’t even need to take an art class to use this methodology. -- Presented by Interaction Design Association and Cooper. IxDA has other great events in the works, but we’re always on the lookout for great speakers with great presentations. If you’re interested in speaking at a future event or have an idea for a future presentation, please get in touch! 292 CA Kevin Cheng discusses using comics as a technique for communicating the core concepts behind a design’s intended user experience. Presented by Interaction Design Association and Cooper. FREE. 2007-08-22 false http://ixda.org http://events.boxesandarrows.com/events/292 http://events.boxesandarrows.com/event/logo/292/logo.jpg communication, design, ia, informationarchitecture, interaction, interactiondesign Philadelphia USA 2007-08-24 Time: 6:00 pm - 8:30 pm * Meet & greet from 6:00 pm - 6:30 pm * Location: Berger Auditorium, Skirkanich Hall, University of Pennsylvania 210 South 33rd Street, Philadelphia, PA 19104 Map: http://www.facilities.upenn.edu/mapsBldgs/view_map.php3?id=140 RSVP (not necessary, but nice): phillychi@gmail.com Most folks know that taxonomy has something to do with organizing things. Fewer folks know, however, that taxonomy is the practice of classification, which originally began as a science devoted to the classification of living organisms. And that over time, taxonomy has become known as the classification of just about anything and everything. Even fewer get down into the weeds and do the work that goes beyond simple classification that makes today’s information systems work: meta data, facets, controlled vocabulary, thesauri, synonym maps, ontologies, tagging… What’s troubling about this divide between those that know about taxonomy and those that don’t is the very importance of taxonomy. For lots of designers & developers, the applications, websites, and interactive products they spend their waking hours creating could not function without well-structured, carefully crafted information structures. This month’s PhillyCHI meeting will explore in practical and tangible terms the specific ways taxonomy is important to the work we do. We will discuss the design, implementation, and governance of taxonomies by examining four real-world case studies: * a user-centric catalog for a large e-commerce site and its impact on the user experience * a content-heavy non-profit information site * a system processing data through controlled vocabularies and thesauri * a consumer-driven search engine Plenty of time will be reserved at the end of the meeting for discussion, so bring your tough questions! Panel Participants Dave Cooksey, GSI Commerce, Inc Emily Culbertson, Robert Wood Johnson Foundation John Ferrara, Vanguard Julia Remick, Yellow Book USA 293 PA For this month’s PhillyCHI meeting, we’ve assembled a panel to discuss a foundational topic: taxonomy. 2007-08-23 false http://phillychi.acm.org http://events.boxesandarrows.com/events/293 http://events.boxesandarrows.com/event/logo/293/phillyCHI-logo.gif chi, delaware, design, ia, information architecture, new jersey, nj, philadelphia, philly, phillychi, taxonomy Brighton United Kingdom 2007-09-08 d.Construct is an affordable, one-day conference aimed at those building the generation of web-based applications. Previous years have seen speakers from organizations including Amazon, Google and the BBC discuss the challenges and opportunities created by the web. This year will see 600 web professionals gather in Brighton on September 7th to discuss the topic of “user experience design”. Leading speakers from companies including Yahoo! and Adaptive Path will share their expert knowledge on how to create the best online experiences possible. 211 United Kingdom Yes folks, dConstruct is back for a third year. This time it's going to be bigger and better than ever. The theme is "Designing the User Experience", so you know it's gonna be good. 2007-09-07 false http://2007.dconstruct.org/ http://events.boxesandarrows.com/events/211 http://events.boxesandarrows.com/event/logo/211/logo.gif brighton, england, ia, information architecture, user centerd design, user experience, ux Chicago USA 2007-09-22 Benefits This advanced information architecture seminar combines lecture, demonstration and exercises, discussion, and handouts to address a topic that bewilders every large organization: designing unified information architectures for large enterprises. You'll learn to: * Develop main pages and other upper-level "portal" components that convey a single cohesive organization, not a collection of warring business units. * Use metadata and contextual navigation to help users move from one content-rich page to another, regardless of which business unit manages that content. * Design search interfaces for improved access to content stored in organizational "silos". * Better implement an enterprise-wide information architecture through appropriate research and design methods and improved governance. Seminar Schedule and Outline Registration and continental breakfast begin at 8am. The seminar starts at 9am and finishes at 5pm, followed by an extremely happy hour. During the day, we'll cover these topics: * Overview of enterprise information architecture (EIA) * EIA from the top-down: taxonomies, guides, and other techniques for unifying departmental content * EIA from the bottom-up: content models and metadata to enable contextual navigation from page to page * EIA and search: indexing cross-departmental content, presenting results consistently * EIA and the organization: models for rolling out an enterprise information architecture, staffing it, and paying for and managing it in a distributed corporate environment What's Included * Handouts including presentation slides and references to related readings, software products, and other useful resources. * A variety of opportunities to network with attendees, including a post-seminar happy hour with Lou Rosenfeld, Steve Krug, and other members of the local information architecture and usability communities. In these new fields, knowing your peers is invaluable. 259 IL This day-long seminar with Lou Rosenfeld (co-author of the "polar bear" book) will help you convert a disjointed collection of content silos into a unified, user-centered web site or intranet. 2007-09-21 false http://louisrosenfeld.com/eia/ http://events.boxesandarrows.com/events/259 http://events.boxesandarrows.com/event/logo/259/x.gif enterprise information architecture, governance, ia, information architecture, information management, km, knowledge management, louis rosenfeld, polar bear Barcelona Spain 2007-09-23 EuroIA invites your participation to this premier European event on Information Architecture. This year we will explore the theme of “Translating Information Architecture”, whether between languages, within our profession, to our clients, transforming ideas into practical solutions, or reaching out to other electronic and physical spaces. One of the highlights of this year's Summit will be the opening keynote given by Ricardo Baeza-Yates, Director of Yahoo! Research Labs in Barcelona, Spain and Santiago, Chile. Other high profile speakers include Morten Norby Larsen, Director of User Experience at Joost, the world's first broadcast quality Internet television service; Peter Van Dijck, author of Information Architecture for Designers; and Olly Wright, Experience Director at Media Catalyst presenting a panel on professional ethics and ethics of user experience. The two-day conference will feature over 20 sessions given by an exciting line-up of speakers from around the world, including presentations, case studies, panels, posters covering topics such as: • How to localize an Information Architecture • Playful Information Architecture • Navigating the Long Tail: Adapting IA to Niche Markets • Persuadability in eCommerce • Processes and Patterns: Best Practice on Steroids! • From Physical to Digital Environments: Seven Laws of Findability • Navigating through the Tag Cloud: Information Architecture Strategies to support People with Disabilities • Mobile Map of Medicine • Transforming Semantic web ideas to Information Architecture 274 Spain Join us in Barcelona, Spain, for two incredible days of presentations, panels, and networking with information architects from across Europe and around the world. 2007-09-21 false http://www.euroia.org http://events.boxesandarrows.com/events/274 ia, information architecture New York USA 2007-10-06 255 NY Information: Design, Experience, Access. A conference on designing complex information spaces of all kinds. 2007-10-04 false http://www.ideaconference.org/ http://events.boxesandarrows.com/events/255 experience design, ia, information architecture New York USA 2007-10-17 As we venture beyond Web 2.0 and the undisciplined, unbalanced quest for sexy Ajaxian interaction at the expense of usability, findability, and accessibility, how do we reconcile the timeless principles of design and organization with new transmedia models of interaction, co-creation, tagging, and user participation? In this advanced seminar, Peter Morville draws upon stories, examples, case studies, and discussions to explore the future present of information architecture and user experience. Topics include: * Integrating product development, information architecture, and interaction design to create good experiences and sustainable value (real Web 2.0 case studies that take the discussion beyond de.licio.us and Flickr platitudes). * Designing next-generation enterprise search systems that combine best practices in taxonomies and tagging with search analytics, guided navigation, thesauri, clustering algorithms, and rich result interfaces. * Evaluating the multi-channel challenges and real-world opportunities presented by ambient findability and the emerging Internet of objects. About Peter Morville Peter Morville is widely recognized as a founding father of information architecture. He co-authored (with Louis Rosenfeld) the best-selling book, Information Architecture for the World Wide Web, and has consulted with such organizations as Harvard, IBM, the International Monetary Fund, Microsoft, the National Cancer Institute, and Yahoo!. Peter is president of Semantic Studios, co-founder and past president of the Information Architecture Institute, and a faculty member at the University of Michigan. His work has been featured in many publications including Business Week, The Economist, Fortune, The Washington Post, and The Wall Street Journal. Peter's latest book, Ambient Findability, was published in 2005. He blogs at findability.org. 301 NY As we venture beyond Web 2.0, how do we reconcile the timeless principles of design and organization with new models of interaction? Come explore this question in a seminar with Peter Morville. 2007-10-16 false http://smartexperience.org/classes/ia-30/ http://events.boxesandarrows.com/events/301 http://events.boxesandarrows.com/event/logo/301/smartexperience.gif class, findability, ia, morville, new york, ny, nyc, seminar, web 20, workshop Seattle USA 2007-10-26 Benefits This advanced information architecture seminar combines lecture, demonstration and exercises, discussion, and handouts to address a topic that bewilders every large organization: designing unified information architectures for large enterprises. You'll learn to: * Develop main pages and other upper-level "portal" components that convey a single cohesive organization, not a collection of warring business units. * Use metadata and contextual navigation to help users move from one content-rich page to another, regardless of which business unit manages that content. * Design search interfaces for improved access to content stored in organizational "silos". * Better implement an enterprise-wide information architecture through appropriate research and design methods and improved governance. Seminar Schedule and Outline Registration and continental breakfast begin at 8am. The seminar starts at 9am and finishes at 5pm, followed by an extremely happy hour. During the day, we'll cover these topics: * Overview of enterprise information architecture (EIA) * EIA from the top-down: taxonomies, guides, and other techniques for unifying departmental content * EIA from the bottom-up: content models and metadata to enable contextual navigation from page to page * EIA and search: indexing cross-departmental content, presenting results consistently * EIA and the organization: models for rolling out an enterprise information architecture, staffing it, and paying for and managing it in a distributed corporate environment What's Included * Handouts including presentation slides and references to related readings, software products, and other useful resources. * A variety of opportunities to network with attendees, including a post-seminar happy hour with Lou Rosenfeld, Steve Krug, and other members of the local information architecture and usability communities. In these new fields, knowing your peers is invaluable. 260 WA This day-long seminar with Lou Rosenfeld (co-author of the "polar bear" book) will help you convert a disjointed collection of content silos into a unified, user-centered web site or intranet. 2007-10-25 false http://louisrosenfeld.com/eia/ http://events.boxesandarrows.com/events/260 http://events.boxesandarrows.com/event/logo/260/x.gif enterprise information architecture, governance, ia, information architecture, information management, km, knowledge management, louis rosenfeld, polar bear Washington DC USA 2007-11-16 Benefits This advanced information architecture seminar combines lecture, demonstration and exercises, discussion, and handouts to address a topic that bewilders every large organization: designing unified information architectures for large enterprises. You'll learn to: * Develop main pages and other upper-level "portal" components that convey a single cohesive organization, not a collection of warring business units. * Use metadata and contextual navigation to help users move from one content-rich page to another, regardless of which business unit manages that content. * Design search interfaces for improved access to content stored in organizational "silos". * Better implement an enterprise-wide information architecture through appropriate research and design methods and improved governance. Seminar Schedule and Outline Registration and continental breakfast begin at 8am. The seminar starts at 9am and finishes at 5pm, followed by an extremely happy hour. During the day, we'll cover these topics: * Overview of enterprise information architecture (EIA) * EIA from the top-down: taxonomies, guides, and other techniques for unifying departmental content * EIA from the bottom-up: content models and metadata to enable contextual navigation from page to page * EIA and search: indexing cross-departmental content, presenting results consistently * EIA and the organization: models for rolling out an enterprise information architecture, staffing it, and paying for and managing it in a distributed corporate environment What's Included * Handouts including presentation slides and references to related readings, software products, and other useful resources. * A variety of opportunities to network with attendees, including a post-seminar happy hour with Lou Rosenfeld, Steve Krug, and other members of the local information architecture and usability communities. In these new fields, knowing your peers is invaluable. 261 DC This day-long seminar with Lou Rosenfeld (co-author of the "polar bear" book) will help you convert a disjointed collection of content silos into a unified, user-centered web site or intranet. 2007-11-15 false http://louisrosenfeld.com/eia/ http://events.boxesandarrows.com/events/261 http://events.boxesandarrows.com/event/logo/261/x.gif enterprise information architecture, governance, ia, information architecture, information management, km, knowledge management, louis rosenfeld, polar bear Banff Canada 2007-11-28 Speakers include: * Lou Rosenfeld, founding figure in modern information architecture, author of the best selling Information Architecture for the World Wide Web, and publisher at Rosenfeld Media. * Derek Featherstone, leading authority on accessibility and its implications for user experience. * Gene Smith, author of the definitive book on tagging, coming early 2008 from New Riders, and principal at nForm User Experience. * The Banff Leadership Arts Ensemble, world-renowned facilitators who work to help executives develop leadership capacity through the combination of the arts, creativity, and leadership principles. * Kes and Sue Sampanthar, founders of Metamemes, producer of generative thinking tools and experts in moving beyond brainstorming for innovation. * Jess McMullin, business and design evangelist, advocate for increasing practitioners’ influence in the organizations they serve, CanUX program chair and nForm User Experience founder. * Brad Nemer, Product Portfolio Manager for Motorola’s Asian 3G business, and pioneer in combining business and design thinking. Earlybird All-Inclusive registration, with hotel, meals, and conference fee is only $699+tax for single accommodation, $599+tax for double accommodation. Early registration deadline is September 21st. 308 Canada Get hands-on with industry leaders in breath-taking Banff, Alberta, Canada. Topics range across innovation methods, strategic value of UX, accessible user experience, and the next frontiers in tagging 2007-11-25 false http://www.canux2007.com http://events.boxesandarrows.com/events/308 http://events.boxesandarrows.com/event/logo/308/ba_canux_logo.png business design, design, ia, information architecture, innovation, tagging Ottawa, Ontario Canada 2007-11-30 If you are involved in managing, developing, or writing for websites, you won't want to miss this opportunity to spend two engaging and educational days with one of the world's leading experts on web content and usability. Gerry McGovern, is making a rare visit to Ottawa this fall to give a Masterclass on creating customer-centric websites. Organizations whose websites focus on the customer and on task completion, rather than on themselves, are the ones getting the most from their Web content, whether it’s selling products or delivering services. This two-day Masterclass will provide you with the knowledge and tools needed to create quality “killer Web content” and the arguments to support an approach that puts the customer at the very centre of your Web strategy. You should attend this workshop if you are: - Writing, editing or publishing Web content - Managing Web projects - Promoting websites - Concerned about Web usability The Masterclass is being hosted by Neo Insight Inc., in collaboration with the Ottawa Centre for Research and Innovation (OCRI) and Canada Business, Industry Canada. Don't let others miss out on this opportunity. Please forward this announcement to friends and colleagues (distribution lists too) who have a stake in good Web design. We have several people who have attended previous Gerry McGovern workshops and were so impressed that they have registered again for this Masterclass. Come join us! 339 Canada Two day Masterclass to provide you with the knowledge and tools needed to create quality "killer Web content" and arguments to support this approach. 2007-11-28 false http://www.neoinsight.com/workshops/mcgovern-overview.html http://events.boxesandarrows.com/events/339 http://events.boxesandarrows.com/event/logo/339/gerryclasssmall.jpg carewords, customercentric, gerry mcgovern, ia, information architecture, killer web content, taskonomy, taxonomy, usability, user experience, web design Portsmouth USA 2007-12-06 When: Wednesday, December 5th 6:00 PM – 8ish Where: AK's Bar & Bistro (2nd floor) 111 State Street Portsmouth, NH 03801 Street Map: http://tinyurl.com/2edxky Parking Map: http://tinyurl.com/ytsuz8 (street parking is also available) Poster Session/Holiday Social: This isn’t a typical conference poster session. You don’t need to get elaborate; just have fun and get creative! Bring your poster on an 11x17 piece of paper and we will mount it for display. You can print a screen shot of something you worked on, perhaps a before-and-after. Or you can draw up an idea or a unique process that you use in your work. Again, we are not looking for elaborate polished posters, just something simple to demonstrate an idea. All posters will be on display throughout the night while everyone has the opportunity to meet and network with other local UX professionals. If interested, each poster author will be given the floor for a couple of minutes to explain their poster. If you prefer not to participate by bringing a poster, you’re definitely welcome to participate as an audience member and participate in the socializing and networking. This will be an intimate gathering that offers everybody the chance to present fresh and creative work, ideas or concepts in an informal and fun setting. We invite everyone to come out and share your expertise and get inspired by your colleagues. Everyone who attends will gain entry into a raffle for a door prize that you won’t want to miss! People who bring posters will be given three raffle tickets, so be sure to bring a poster to have triple the chance of winning. Note: This is the NH UX version of Pecha Kucha, originally created by Klein Dytham Architecture in Tokyo. Learn more about Pecha Kucha. RSVP: You must RSVP to attend, as we need a head count for the venue. Send RSVPs to newhampshire.ux@gmail.com. You will receive an email confirmation once your name has been added to the list of attendees. 357 NH Got a design problem to solve? Working on something interesting? Using a new tool/method you want to share? Need to vent about your biggest problem? Here's a chance for you to share YOUR big ideas! 2007-12-05 false http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/nh-ux/ http://events.boxesandarrows.com/events/357 ia, information architecture, networking, poster, social, usability, user experience, ux Durham USA 2008-01-25 For our first official UPA chapter meeting we will kick off the New Year with special guest Jared Spool, an internationally renowned authority on usability, to discuss what makes a design seem intuitive. When: Thursday, January 24th Refreshments & Networking: 6-7:00 PM – Food & beverages will be provided. Meeting: 7:00 PM – 8ish Where: University of New Hampshire (UNH) Kingsbury Hall, Room N101 33 College Road Durham, NH Campus Map: http://www.unh.edu/map/UNHCampusMapcrop.pdf Directions: http://www.unh.edu/transportation/visitor/directions.htm Parking Directions: Park in Lot B Topic: What Makes a Design Seem Intuitive? Everyone wants an "intuitive" interface: the users, the designers, and the content publishers. But building them is hard. User Interface Engineering's recent research has given insight into why it's hard and how to get past major obstacles. To build an "intuitive" interface, a designer has to do two things: (1) Take complete advantage of what the user already knows, so what they see is completely familiar to them and (2) make the act of learning anything new completely imperceptible to the user. It turns out, if the interface requires the user to realize they are learning something, the "intuitive" label disappears instantly. In this talk, Jared will show: + How users need both tool knowledge and domain knowledge to complete their tasks + How simple problems with designs can cause big problems for users + What successful teams are doing to create experiences that delight Jared will show examples from Microsoft Word, MSN, Google Talk, Flickr, Avis, and many more. RSVP: Seats are limited. You must RSVP to attend, so don’t delay in reserving your spot! Send RSVPs to info@nhupa.org. You will receive an email confirmation once your name has been added to the list of attendees. NH UPA meetings are open to anyone who is interested in attending. Membership to the UPA is NOT required. Parking Map: http://unh.edu/transportation/visitor/map.pdf 376 NH For our 1st official UPA chapter meeting we will kick off the New Year w/ special guest Jared Spool, an internationally renowned authority on usability, to discuss what makes a design seem intuitive. 2008-01-24 false http://groups.yahoo.com/group/nh-upa/ http://events.boxesandarrows.com/events/376 http://events.boxesandarrows.com/event/logo/376/upa_logo_-_yahoo.jpg design, ia, information architecture, nh, nh upa, upa, usability, user experience, ux Portsmouth USA 2008-02-20 The February 19th NH UPA meeting will be a highly engaging and informative night with 4 different 10-minute talks by 4 different speakers. The "10-minute talk" format is popular because of the pace of the meeting and the variety of topics discussed related to usability and user experience design. Topics: Cognitive Biases and the Fundamental Attribution Error in User- Centered Design by Chauncey Wilson, Autodesk Words Set the Stage: Modeling Good Behavior for User-generated Content by Margot Bloomstein, PixelMEDIA Pros and Cons of Presenting Multiple Options of a Design to the Project Team by Shannon McHarg, H&R Block Remote Usability Testing: Best Practices and Lessons Learned by Rebecca Richkus, Autodesk Where: PixelMEDIA 222 International Drive Suite 175 Portsmouth, NH 03801 Time: 6:00-7:00 PM - Networking (refreshments provided by PixelMEDIA) 7:00-8:00 PM - 10-Minute Talks About 10-Minute Talks: Presenter talks are strictly limited to 10 minutes and 6 slides max. Following each presenter, there will be 5 minutes for Q&A. This makes preparation and presentation easy and keeps things moving for the audience. For usability and user experience practitioners, you will find plenty of tips and tricks you can use in your job. For those who are new to usability, the variety of topics will give you a good idea of what the profession is all about. RSVP or questions: info@nhupa.org 413 NH This meeting will be a highly engaging and informative night with 4 different 10-minute talks by 4 different speakers. 2008-02-19 false http://www.nhupa.org http://events.boxesandarrows.com/events/413 http://events.boxesandarrows.com/event/logo/413/upa_logo_-_yahoo.jpg content, design, hci, ia, remote usability testing, upa, usability, usability testing Miami USA 2008-04-15 The IA Summit is the premier gathering place for those interested in information architecture. The 2007 Summit attracted over 570 attendees with varying degrees of IA experience and from many related fields. Attendees of the summit are passionate about information architecture and user experience and many are actively involved in the community and the summit itself – over 230 of the attendees provided feedback about the event with 93% indicating that they would attend the summit again and 95% indicating they would recommend the summit to a colleague. The 2008 theme of “Experiencing Information” shifts the focus back to users. A user experience exists only to allow people to “do things” (in the broadest sense ... buying books, sharing photos with friends, looking something up on wikipedia, etc). What dimensions of information do users typically experience while “doing things”, and how can we design information environments that best support these users and activities? Such dimensions might include: - Information quantity and the experience of choice (e.g. Barry Schwartz – The Paradox of Choice); - The timing of information encounters and information use (e.g. Jared Spool – “seducible moments”); - The subconscious consumption of information (e.g. BJ Fogg – Persuasive Technology); - Rapid or intuitive processing of information (e.g. Malcolm Gladwell – Blink); - The social and participatory aspects of information and information communities (e.g. David Weinberger’s work); - The wide range of information media: the Web, virtual worlds, ubiquitous computing, mobile technology, physical spaces (e.g. Joshua Prince-Ramus’ and Michael Bierut’s work) 309 FL The IA Summit is the premier gathering place for those interested in information architecture. Its a great opportunity to discuss IA and UX issues with a group of really smart people! 2008-04-10 false http://www.iasummit.org http://events.boxesandarrows.com/events/309 ia, information architecture, summit, user experience, ux Ottawa Canada 2008-05-07 If you are involved in managing, developing, or writing for websites, you won't want to miss this opportunity to spend two engaging and educational days with one of the world's leading experts on web content and usability. Gerry McGovern, is making a repeat visit to Ottawa, after his sold-out presentation last November, to give an encore Masterclass on creating customer-centric websites. Organizations whose websites focus on the customer and on task completion, rather than on themselves, are the ones getting the most from their Web content, whether it's selling products or delivering services. This two-day Masterclass will provide you with the knowledge and tools needed to create quality "killer Web content" and the arguments to support an approach that puts the customer at the very centre of your Web strategy. You should attend this workshop if you are: - Writing, editing or publishing Web content - Managing Web projects - Promoting websites - Concerned about Web usability The Masterclass is being hosted by Neo Insight Inc., in collaboration with the Ottawa Centre for Research and Innovation (OCRI). Don't let others miss out on this opportunity. Please forward this announcement to friends and colleagues (distribution lists too) who have a stake in good Web design. We have several people who have attended previous Gerry McGovern workshops and were so impressed that they have registered again for this Masterclass. Come join us! 436 Canada Managing, developing, or writing for websites? You won't want to miss this opportunity to spend two engaging and educational days with one of the world's leading experts on web content and usability. 2008-05-05 false http://www.neoinsight.com/workshops/mcgovern-overview.html http://events.boxesandarrows.com/events/436 http://events.boxesandarrows.com/event/logo/436/Gerry_McGovern_Masterclass_small.bmp carewords, customercentric, gerry mcgovern, ia, information architecture, killer web content, taskonomy, taxonomy, usability, user experience, web design Ottawa Canada 2008-05-08 This Executive session is for senior managers and executives who have to translate strategic plans and visions into coordinated actions by other people. It is for those of you who want to: - Take your vision and manage your website to realize your strategic objectives - Make decisions based on data rather than opinion - Establish a clear return on investment - Maintain a clear focus to get maximum impact from limited resources - Develop actionable metrics for effectively managing the web channel The key challenge you face today with your website is not about technology or content. It’s about service. How do you let your customers (citizens, consumers and businesses) more quickly and more easily serve themselves? Because on the Web it’s all about self-service. The Web is about the shift in power from the organization to the customer. Simply put, the Web empowers customers and citizens more than it empowers organizations. The most successful websites are built around the needs of its users, rather than the demands of organizations and managers. In the long-term, being customer-centric is not a like-to-do, it is a must-do. Gerry McGovern is world-renowned speaker and expert on Web content and usability. He communicates the essential strategies that every manager needs to know, in an engaging and humorous way that makes his message unforgettable. Do not miss this one-off opportunity 437 Canada This half-day session is for senior managers and executives. It focuses on quickly getting quantifiable results from a Customer Carewords approach to managing your website. Learn to manage tasks. 2008-05-07 false http://www.neoinsight.com/workshops/exec-overview.html http://events.boxesandarrows.com/events/437 http://events.boxesandarrows.com/event/logo/437/Gerry_McGovern_Masterclass_small.bmp carewords, customercentric, gerry mcgovern, ia, information architecture, killer web content, taskonomy, taxonomy, usability, user experience, web design Sydney Australia 2008-08-09 Information architecture (IA) involves structuring, organising, navigating, labelling and indexing information on intranets and websites to assist organisations in achieving their information needs. It is used to decide how a site should be structured, what kind of content it should host, and how to accommodate its future growth. IA is the foundation of good website or intranet design as it ensures the site will meet business and user needs and defines the backbone of an information system. However, many organisation’s websites and intranets were established several years ago, and may have been designed in an ad-hoc way, since grown very large and difficult to manage, and no longer accurately reflect the organisation’s current goals, priorities, purpose, or functions. As a result, organisations are finding that IA issues aren’t only important in design, but also when revamping, redesigning and upgrading their information systems, and are looking to IA to help them to locate the information they need, make better choices and complete information tasks more rapidly and accurately. This two-day interactive workshop will provide a thorough overview and understanding about how to effectively use information architecture to make your intranet or website as effective as possible. It will cover a wide range of information architecture issues such as the following: - What information architecture is and how it can facilitate user experience - Analysing and sorting content - Carrying out user research: surveys, focus groups and card sorting - Classifying, sorting and labelling within your information system - Using wireframes and site maps: the ‘bread and butter’ tools of IA - Navigating, indexing and designing page layouts - Involving users via research, design games, prototypes and testing - Effectively carrying out your IA project: tips, tools, techniques and processes 474 Australia This 2 day masterclass provides a thorough understanding of IA principles and practices; and a wide variety of methods to collaborate with users - via research, design games and testing. 2008-08-07 false http://www.arkgroupaustralia.com.au/events-c046IAandCollaborativeDesign.htm http://events.boxesandarrows.com/events/474 collaborative design, design games, ia, information architecture, usability, user experience 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 Lisbon Portugal 2008-11-07 Interface stands on the shoulders of infrastructure. User experience relies on the foundation systems of information architecture. And, the biggest problem on today’s web sites and intranets is findability. In this presentation, Peter Morville draws upon examples from e-commerce, education, and government to illustrate best practices and fundamental concepts of user-centered design. He explores the complex relationships between strategy and structure, showing how user research should guide decisions about technology and features. And, he highlights key challenges and opportunities in interaction design, information architecture, and search. This fast-paced overview is suitable for executives, entrepreneurs, developers, and designers of web sites, software products, and interactive services. 547 Portugal A free public talk plus full-day workshops on UX, IA, and Search by Peter Morville. 2008-11-03 false http://www.fullsix.pt/uxweek/default.htm http://events.boxesandarrows.com/events/547 ia, ixd, ux Banff Canada 2008-11-18 CanUX is the annual Canadian User Experience workshop. We bring world-class instructors together with practitioners for hands-on learning. It's a small gathering, limited to 70 participants, with a focus on practical skills for user experience professionals—web designers, software developers, information architects, interaction designers, interface designers, communications, and anyone else who's passionate about making things work well for people. CanUX 2008 presenters include: * Dave Gray (XPLANE) * Brandon Schauer (Adaptive Path) * Luke Wroblewski (Yahoo!) * Lisa Anderson and Dennis Wixon (Microsoft Surface) * Yvonne Shek (nForm) Conference rates include two nights accommodation, meals, and your conference fees. CanUX is held at the world-renowned Banff Centre, a campus-like environment in the heart of the Canadian Rockies. Banff is a 1.5 hour drive from Calgary, Alberta. 537 Canada CanUX is the annual Canadian User Experience Workshop hosted in Banff, Alberta. CanUX mixes breathtaking scenery, leading experts in design and UX and a retreat-like atmosphere. 2008-11-16 false http://canux.nform.ca http://events.boxesandarrows.com/events/537 http://events.boxesandarrows.com/event/logo/537/canux_logo.png canada, canux, design, ia, information architecture, user experience Denver USA 2009-02-06 Web Directions is one of the world's leading conferences for web professionals, bringing together the leading experts from around the nation and around the world to educate, entertain and inspire our attendees. Prices start at just $195 for workshops and $795 for the conference. But for Boxes and Arrows readers, we have a special offer of just $745 before December 6th. Just sign up using the code WDN09BA. Web Directions focusses on the professional development of web designers and developers, interaction designers, user experience professionals and other practitioners in the web arena, whether they work as a contractor, in a design agency, in small or large businesses, in government, education or the not-for-profit sector. Web Directions covers established and emerging fields such as: Web design & development Mobile design & development Accessibility AJAX techniques User Experience RIA development Web Application security User Testing Speakers include Derek Featherstone Nate Koechly Dan Cederholm Juliette Melton Brian Fling Nicole Sullivan-Haas Ben Galbraith Jina Bolton Elliot Jay Stocks Dave Shea and many more. 579 CO Web Directions North, one of the world’s leading conference for web professionals, returns for 2009 - this year in Denver, Colorado, February 2—7 2009-02-04 false http://north.webdirections.org http://events.boxesandarrows.com/events/579 http://events.boxesandarrows.com/event/logo/579/wdn-logo.gif ajax, css, html, ia, mobile, semantics, ux Wellington New Zealand 2009-02-21 Webstock is New Zealand's web conference, held in mid-February in Wellington. Speakers for Webstock 09 include Bruce Sterling, Ze Frank, Jane McGonigal, Annalee Newitz, Derek Powazek and Heather Champ. Webstock has established a reputation as one of the leading conferences in the world of its type for the web industry. 534 New Zealand 5 full-on days. 8 hands-on workshops. 23 kickarse speakers. 26 must see presentations. Truckloads of design, development, user experience, web standards, content, community, innovation and inspiration 2009-02-16 false http://webstock.org.nz http://events.boxesandarrows.com/events/534 http://events.boxesandarrows.com/event/logo/534/webstock-logo.jpg css, design, html, ia, informationarchitecture, user experience, web standards, webstock Memphis USA 2009-03-20 Our pre-conference 1/2 day and full-day sessions are seminars and hands-on workshops led by experts in the field. Each seminar has limited seating and a cost independent from the conference registration fee. 643 TN Pre-conference sessions are scheduled for March 18 & 19 to enhance your experience of the IA Summit that occurs from March 20-22. 2009-03-18 false http://iasummit.org/2009/program/pre-con/ http://events.boxesandarrows.com/events/643 http://events.boxesandarrows.com/event/logo/643/Picture_2.png ia, ias09, ias2009 Memphis USA 2009-03-23 IA Summit 2009: Expanding Our Horizons This year we’ll be celebrating where we’ve been and where we’re going as our field continues to mature. In this spirit, we’ve added a new event: Consortium. Consortia will give us the opportunity to nurture the evolution and growth of our field by exploring new aspects of information architecture or closely related disciplines. We’re thrilled to have Michael Wesch and Jesse James Garrett as our keynote speakers this year. Event costs range from $335-$725. Discounts for early registration and membership and Student/Unemployed are available. 642 TN The Summit is the premier gathering place for information architects and other user experience professionals. Pre-conference sessions are scheduled for March 18 & 19 to enhance your experience. 2009-03-20 false http://iasummit.org/2009/ http://events.boxesandarrows.com/events/642 http://events.boxesandarrows.com/event/logo/642/Picture_2.png ia, ias09, ias2009 Sydney Australia 2009-03-28 By attending the event, you will hear how to: * Unify content with taxonomies and metadata * Migrate and manage content across multiple sites * Design content templates & website style designs * Conduct user research to improve IA * Make site administration & publishing easy but effective * See LIVE IA & search demonstrations * Benefit from lessons learnt and pitfalls to watch out for Places are limited to ensure a high level of interaction, so register your place today! For a copy of the full course brochure, email Louise Badcock at louise.badcock@keyforums.com.au or call us on +61 2 9436 4255 or visit www.keyforums.com.au. 645 Australia This one day intensive course will give you an exclusive and in-depth knowledge of the search and IA strategies of the NSW Department of Primary Industries and Griffith University. 2009-03-27 false http://www.keyforums.com.au http://events.boxesandarrows.com/events/645 content, decentralised intranets, enterprise architect, ia, information architecture, intranet, metadata, search, tagging, taxonomies, usability, website Pittsburgh USA 2009-04-05 Pittsburgh Web Design Day is a one-day, local web design conference to highlight local talent as well as those with strong ties to Pittsburgh who have gone on to be leaders in our industry. Speakers include: Geoff Barnes, Elliance Information Architecture as Storytelling Christopher Cashdollar, Creative Director, Happy Cog Creative Springboard: What Web Design Can Learn from Magazine Design Val Head, New Perspective "Getting Past the Blame Game" - Designer-Client Relations Whitney Hess, User Experience Consultant Misconceptions in User Experience Jason Robb, My Happy Planet "What the Wireframe?" - A Pragmatic Approach to Wireframes Josh Sager, joshsagermedia.com The Story of a Web Project Samantha Warren, Viget Labs Typography is the Foundation of Good Web Design 669 PA A one-day low-cost conference for web professionals in Western Pennsylvania. No high priced registration fees, no expensive travel, just a full day of learning from Pittsburgh web gurus ...and lunch! 2009-04-04 false http://www.webdesignday.com/ http://events.boxesandarrows.com/events/669 http://events.boxesandarrows.com/event/logo/669/pwwd.gif css, html, ia, web conference, web design, web development, xhtml Ottawa Canada 2009-05-26 We are pleased to announce a series of presentations of an updated version of the Masterclass that sold out the last two times in Ottawa. We want to ensure everyone has the opportunity to experience Gerry's powerful, captivating, humorous and insightful session. This Masterclass will give you the techniques and arguments to prove that a self-service, top tasks, customer-centric approach will maximize value for your organization, whether you are involved with a government, university, commercial website, or intranet. In Gerry's Masterclass, you will learn: -How to identify the top tasks of your customers. -How to measure the performance of these top tasks -How to create killer web content based on a unique approach developed over five years of research and testing. -The three golden rules of ranking high in search engines. "Gerry has a gift for making the complex simple, the basics fresh, and the important compellingly so. This he accomplished with irrefutable logic, a dollop of wit, and a double serving of passion. The man knows his stuff -- and will make a believer out of you." David Shaw, Asia-Pacific Brand & Communications Manager, HP Services, Hewlett-Packard Company Hosted by Neo Insight Inc. in collaboration with (OCRI) Ottawa Centre for Research and Innovation Don't let others miss out on this opportunity. Please forward this announcement to friends and colleagues (distribution lists too) who have a stake in good Web design. We have several people who have attended previous Gerry McGovern workshops and were so impressed that they have registered again for this Masterclass. Come join us! Seating is limited so reserve your place early! 679 Canada 2009 Masterclass series presented by Gerry McGovern, World-renowned Web content and usability expert 2009-05-25 false http://www.neoinsight.com/workshops/mcgovern-register.html http://events.boxesandarrows.com/events/679 http://events.boxesandarrows.com/event/logo/679/Gerry_McGovern_Masterclass_small-1.bmp carewords, customercentric, gerry mcgovern, ia, information architecture, killer web content, taskonomy, taxonomy, usability, user experience, web design Toronto Canada 2009-05-27 We are pleased to announce a series of presentations of an updated version of the Masterclass that sold out the last two times in Ottawa. We want to ensure everyone has the opportunity to experience Gerry's powerful, captivating, humorous and insightful session. This Masterclass will give you the techniques and arguments to prove that a self-service, top tasks, customer-centric approach will maximize value for your organization, whether you are involved with a government, university, commercial website, or intranet. In Gerry's Masterclass, you will learn: -How to identify the top tasks of your customers. -How to measure the performance of these top tasks -How to create killer web content based on a unique approach developed over five years of research and testing. -The three golden rules of ranking high in search engines. "Gerry has a gift for making the complex simple, the basics fresh, and the important compellingly so. This he accomplished with irrefutable logic, a dollop of wit, and a double serving of passion. The man knows his stuff -- and will make a believer out of you." David Shaw, Asia-Pacific Brand & Communications Manager, HP Services, Hewlett-Packard Company Hosted by Neo Insight Inc. in collaboration with (OCRI) Ottawa Centre for Research and Innovation Don't let others miss out on this opportunity. Please forward this announcement to friends and colleagues (distribution lists too) who have a stake in good Web design. We have several people who have attended previous Gerry McGovern workshops and were so impressed that they have registered again for this Masterclass. Come join us! Seating is limited so reserve your place early! 680 Canada 2009 Masterclass series presented by Gerry McGovern, World-renowned Web content and usability expert 2009-05-26 false http://www.neoinsight.com/workshops/mcgovern-register.html http://events.boxesandarrows.com/events/680 http://events.boxesandarrows.com/event/logo/680/Gerry_McGovern_Masterclass_small-1.bmp carewords, customercentric, gerry mcgovern, ia, information architecture, killer web content, taskonomy, taxonomy, usability, user experience, web design Vancouver Canada 2009-05-29 We are pleased to announce a series of presentations of an updated version of the Masterclass that sold out the last two times in Ottawa. We want to ensure everyone has the opportunity to experience Gerry's powerful, captivating, humorous and insightful session. This Masterclass will give you the techniques and arguments to prove that a self-service, top tasks, customer-centric approach will maximize value for your organization, whether you are involved with a government, university, commercial website, or intranet. In Gerry's Masterclass, you will learn: -How to identify the top tasks of your customers. -How to measure the performance of these top tasks -How to create killer web content based on a unique approach developed over five years of research and testing. -The three golden rules of ranking high in search engines. "Gerry has a gift for making the complex simple, the basics fresh, and the important compellingly so. This he accomplished with irrefutable logic, a dollop of wit, and a double serving of passion. The man knows his stuff -- and will make a believer out of you." David Shaw, Asia-Pacific Brand & Communications Manager, HP Services, Hewlett-Packard Company Hosted by Neo Insight Inc. in collaboration with (OCRI) Ottawa Centre for Research and Innovation Don't let others miss out on this opportunity. Please forward this announcement to friends and colleagues (distribution lists too) who have a stake in good Web design. We have several people who have attended previous Gerry McGovern workshops and were so impressed that they have registered again for this Masterclass. Come join us! Seating is limited so reserve your place early! 681 Canada 2009 Masterclass series presented by Gerry McGovern, World-renowned Web content and usability expert 2009-05-28 false http://www.neoinsight.com/workshops/mcgovern-register.html http://events.boxesandarrows.com/events/681 http://events.boxesandarrows.com/event/logo/681/Gerry_McGovern_Masterclass_small-1.bmp carewords, customercentric, gerry mcgovern, ia, information architecture, killer web content, taskonomy, taxonomy, usability, user experience, web design Edmonton Canada 2009-05-30 We are pleased to announce a series of presentations of an updated version of the Masterclass that sold out the last two times in Ottawa. We want to ensure everyone has the opportunity to experience Gerry's powerful, captivating, humorous and insightful session. This Masterclass will give you the techniques and arguments to prove that a self-service, top tasks, customer-centric approach will maximize value for your organization, whether you are involved with a government, university, commercial website, or intranet. In Gerry's Masterclass, you will learn: -How to identify the top tasks of your customers. -How to measure the performance of these top tasks -How to create killer web content based on a unique approach developed over five years of research and testing. -The three golden rules of ranking high in search engines. "Gerry has a gift for making the complex simple, the basics fresh, and the important compellingly so. This he accomplished with irrefutable logic, a dollop of wit, and a double serving of passion. The man knows his stuff -- and will make a believer out of you." David Shaw, Asia-Pacific Brand & Communications Manager, HP Services, Hewlett-Packard Company Hosted by Neo Insight Inc. in collaboration with (OCRI) Ottawa Centre for Research and Innovation Don't let others miss out on this opportunity. Please forward this announcement to friends and colleagues (distribution lists too) who have a stake in good Web design. We have several people who have attended previous Gerry McGovern workshops and were so impressed that they have registered again for this Masterclass. Come join us! Seating is limited so reserve your place early! 682 Canada 2009 Masterclass series presented by Gerry McGovern, World-renowned Web content and usability expert 2009-05-29 false http://www.neoinsight.com/workshops/mcgovern-register.html http://events.boxesandarrows.com/events/682 http://events.boxesandarrows.com/event/logo/682/Gerry_McGovern_Masterclass_small-1.bmp carewords, customercentric, gerry mcgovern, ia, information architecture, killer web content, taskonomy, taxonomy, usability, user experience, web design Dallas USA 2009-05-31 The Big Design Conference is an intense day of learning within the scope of Strategy, Social Media, User Experience, and Code Development. Experts from across the country will gather to present theories, research, experiences, and best practices to students, professionals, and executives looking to stay on the bleeding edge. 670 TX The biggest ideas in Strategy, Social Media, User Experience, and Development converge on Dallas for an intense day of learning. Experts will present theories, research, stories, and best practices. 2009-05-30 false http://www.bigdesignconference.com http://events.boxesandarrows.com/events/670 http://events.boxesandarrows.com/event/logo/670/big_design_logo.png conference, dallas, design, event, exhibit, ia, media, social, sponsor, strategy, thinking, usability, ux King of Prussia USA 2009-06-19 Date: Thursday, June 18, 2009 Time: 6:00 - 8:00 Location: Kildare’s Irish Pub Address: 826 Dekalb Pike, King of Prussia, PA19406 Phone: 610-337-4772 Website: http://www.kildarespub.com/main.php RSVP: phillychi@gmail.com (nice, but not necessary) About PhillyCHI PhillyCHI is the Philadelphia region’s chapter of the ACM SIGCHI, an interdisciplinary academic and professional group interested in Human-Computer Interaction, User Experience, Usability, and other related disciplines. PhillyCHI holds monthly meetings and socials to network and discuss current topics in HCI. For more information visit: http://phillychi.acm.org/. 813 PA Come celebrate the beginning of summer with PhillyCHI in the Western 'burbs. Stop by for a pint and conversation. All PhillyCHI events are free and open to the public, so feel free to invite a friend! 2009-06-18 false http://phillychi.acm.org http://events.boxesandarrows.com/events/813 http://events.boxesandarrows.com/event/logo/813/phillychi_logo_200x50.png acm, chi, design, happy hour, hci, ia, information architecture, networking, phillychi, sigchi, social, user experience, ux Los Angeles USA 2009-06-24 A coffee house in Holland decided to attract people by providing free wi-fi. To deal with free-loading students that wouldn't even look at the menu, the coffee house used the wi-fi UI to push their message. When visitors try to connect, they have to select "HaveYouTriedTheCarrotCake?" as the wireless network. This is called a nudge and it is what we will be discussing in the next IxDA meeting. Sarah G. Mitchell will be leading a discussion based on the book from Richard H Thaler and Cass R. Sunstein (Obama's head of Information and Regulatory Affairs) titled "Nudge:Improving Decisions about Health, Wealth and Happiness". It breaks down the effects of defaults, option placement and other aspects of choice architecture. 826 CA The Los Angeles chapter of IxDA will be having it's June face 2 face at Sapient in Santa Monica. Join us for an interesting discussion around Choice Architecture. 2009-06-23 false http://ixdala.ning.com/events/nudge-1 http://events.boxesandarrows.com/events/826 http://events.boxesandarrows.com/event/logo/826/IxDALA200.gif ia, interaction design, ixda, los angeles, meetings, networking New York USA 2009-07-17 DUANE BRAY, interaction designer and head of Digital Media for IDEO, and RYAN JACOBY, who leads IDEO’s Business Design discipline, will co-lead a discussion about the intersection of interaction and business design. Drawing on examples from IDEO’s past work as well as inspirational stories elsewhere in the world, the two will consider the question of how interaction and business designers approach problems, how the relationship between the two disciplines has changed, and how collaboration can lead to rich user experiences and business solutions. 6:00 - 7:00 Networking and refreshments 7:00 - 7:15 Welcome and announcements 7:15 - 8:30 Presentation and Q&A 8:30 - 9:30 More networking and refreshments The event is free of charge and open to all interested parties. Please note that pre-registration and photo ID at the door are required to attend. Registration will close at midnight Wednesday, July 15. Check out the Bloomberg online invitation for this event! http://www.bloomberg.com/promo/Jul/34994797/731media.html Full detail available on the event registration page. 931 NY IxDA NYC invites you to join us in welcoming Duane Bray and Ryan Jacoby of IDEO, hosted by Bloomberg 2009-07-16 false http://ixdanycjuly2009.eventbrite.com http://events.boxesandarrows.com/events/931 bloomberg, business, design, ia, ideo, interaction, ixd, ixda, nyc, ux Seattle USA 2009-10-12 InfoCamp is a collaborative unconference for the information community. It features an egalitarian, community-driven format in which most presentations are designed and delivered by participants. And it's a lot of fun! Folks who attended last year's InfoCamp said... "Amazing diversity and enthusiasm. I felt like I was part of a community of passionate professionals." "I needed a break from the rules and restrictions of the domain I work in and just explore ideas and concepts. InfoCamp totally did that for me." "I felt much more at ease presenting at InfoCamp than I have anywhere else - the participants were amazing: they asked questions, made comments/discussion, were interested and friendly - in short, IT WAS AWESOME!" Tickets: $50 (or $10 for students). Register online at http://infocamp2009.eventbrite.com Schedule: 9am-5pm on both Saturday and Sunday, with a party on Saturday evening. Speakers: At InfoCamp, most sessions are given by the participants (that means you). But to kick things off, we're bringing in a couple of speakin' superstars! This year, our keynote speaker on Saturday will be Axel Roesler (prof. of interaction design at the UW school of art), and our plenary speaker on Sunday will be Vanessa Fox (SEO expert, consultant, and writer). Get involved: http://www.infocamp.info http://twitter.com/infocamp http://infocampseattle.pbworks.com info@infocamp.info Join us at InfoCamp Seattle 2009 on October 10 & 11! 1070 WA Join us for an unconference about UX, IA, user-centered design, librarianship, information management, and related fields. 2009-10-10 false http://infocamp.info http://events.boxesandarrows.com/events/1070 http://events.boxesandarrows.com/event/logo/1070/InfoCamp-2009-icon.png ia, information architecture, user experience, ux Las Vegas USA 2009-10-17 Fundamental Guidelines for Web Usability, Jakob Nielsen, Kara Pernice, & Hoa Loranger Interaction Design 1, Bruce “Tog” Tognazzini Agile Development and Usability, Chris Nodder Write Your Way to Cost-Effective Online Customer Care, Catherine Toole User Testing, Garrett Goldfield Interaction Design 2, Bruce “Tog” Tognazzini Ajax Design and Usability, William Hudson Information Architecture 1, Jen Cardello All Your Own Words: How to Create a Brand Tone of Voice Online, Catherine Toole Constructing Data-Driven Personas, John Pruitt & Tamara Adlin Application Usability 1, Chris Nodder Research Beyond User Testing, Christian Rohrer Content Usability 1, John Morkes Information Architecture 2, Jen Cardello Designing for Mobile Devices, Raluca Budiu From User Data to Great Design, Tamara Adlin & John Pruitt Application Usability 2, Chris Nodder Managing User Experience Strategy, Christian Rohrer Content Usability 2, John Morkes Wireframing and Prototyping, Hoa Loranger Card Sorting, William Hudson Designing Multi-User Services: Lessons from Social Psychology, John Boyd Designing Complex Applications and Websites 1, Lynn Pausic Integrating Social Features on Mainstream Websites, Jen Cardello Intranet Usability 1, Kara Pernice Websites that Sell, Bruce “Tog” Tognazzini Guerilla Usability: UCD Without a Budget, Garrett Goldfield Research Update, Raluca Budiu Designing Complex Applications and Websites 2, Lynn Pausic Usability and the Human Mind: How Your Customers Think, Hoa Loranger & Raluca Budiu Intranet Usability 2, Kara Pernice Thinking by Design: How to Work with User-Centered, Cross-Functional Teams, Armando González, Dorelle Rabinowitz, & Elissa Darnelle Competitive Usability Testing, John Morkes 1319 NV Annual conference organized by Nielsen Norman Group with 33 full-day tutorials. Keynotes: College-Aged Adults: How Are They Using the Internet? and Web Design Is a Lot Like Dating 2009-10-11 false http://www.nngroup.com/events/ http://events.boxesandarrows.com/events/1319 http://events.boxesandarrows.com/event/logo/1319/uw2009.gif agile, application design, card sorting, ia, interaction design, intranets, mobile web, personas, psychology, usability, user testing, writing for the web Toronto Canada 2010-03-05 Monday, 9 August, 2010 * Information Architecture 1 Jen Cardello & Kathryn Whitenton * Writing for the Web 1 Janelle Estes * User Testing Celeste Buckhalter * Visual Web Design 1 Tammy Liran Guy * Interaction Design 1 Bruce “Tog” Tognazzini Tuesday, 10 August, 2010 * Information Architecture 2 Jen Cardello * Writing for the Web 2 Janelle Estes * Principles of HCI Kathryn Whitenton * Visual Web Design 2 Tammy Liran Guy * Interaction Design 2 Bruce “Tog” Tognazzini Wednesday, 11 August, 2010 * Fundamental Guidelines for Web Usability Jakob Nielsen, Hoa Loranger, & Kara Pernice * Agile Development and Usability Melissa Federoff * Email Newsletter Usability Janelle Estes * Integrating Social Features on Mainstream Websites Jen Cardello * Interaction Design 3 Bruce “Tog” Tognazzini Thursday, 12 August, 2010 * Usability and the Human Mind: How Your Customers Think Hoa Loranger * Application Usability 1 Kara Pernice * Big, Famous Sites: Design Patterns Celeste Buckhalter & Kathryn Whitenton * Brand Tone of Voice Online Catherine Toole Friday, 13 August, 2010 * Wireframing and Prototyping Hoa Loranger * Application Usability 2 Kara Pernice * Brand as Experience Kara McCain * Customer Care Content as User Experience Catherine Toole Saturday, 14 August, 2010 * Visioneering Jakob Nielsen, Kara Pernice, & Kathryn Whitenton * Websites that Sell Bruce “Tog” Tognazzini * Emerging Patterns for Web Design Kara McCain Hilton Toronto 145 Richmond Street West Toronto, Ontario M5H 2L2 Canada Tel: +1 (416) 869-3456 Fax: +1 (416) 869-3187 1425 Canada Strategies for user experience. 9-14 August 2010 Toronto, ON, Canada 2010-03-04 false http://www.nngroup.com/events/toronto/agenda.html http://events.boxesandarrows.com/events/1425 design, ia, information architecture, usability, user interface New York USA 2010-03-23 Agenda (New York) Monday, March 22, 2010 Choose one of the following full-day tutorials: * Writing for the Web 1 Hoa Loranger * Emerging Patterns for Web Design Kara McCain * Intranet Usability 1 Kara Pernice & Amy Schade Tuesday, March 23, 2010 Choose one of the following full-day tutorials: * Writing for the Web 2 Hoa Loranger * User Testing Celeste Buckhalter * Intranet Usability 2 Kara Pernice & Amy Schade * From Print to Web Kara McCain Wednesday, March 24, 2010 Choose one of the following full-day tutorials: * Fundamental Guidelines for Web Usability Jakob Nielsen, Kara Pernice, & Hoa Loranger * Integrating Social Features on Mainstream Websites Jen Cardello * Designing Mobile Websites Raluca Budiu Thursday, March 25, 2010 Choose one of the following full-day tutorials: * Information Architecture 1 Jen Cardello * The Human Mind and Usability: How Your Customers Think Hoa Loranger & Raluca Budiu * Big, Famous Sites: Design Patterns Celeste Buckhalter, Marieke Obdeyn, & Kathryn Whitenton Friday, March 26, 2010 Choose one of the following full-day tutorials: * Email Newsletter Usability Amy Schade * Information Architecture 2 Jen Cardello * iPhone Apps Design Raluca Budiu REGISTER: http://www.nngroup.com/events/new_york/ 1423 NY Strategies to enhance the user experience. 22-26 March 2010 New York, NY The Westin New York at Times Square 270 West 43rd Street New York, NY 10036 2010-03-22 false http://www.nngroup.com/events/new_york/agenda.html http://events.boxesandarrows.com/events/1423 design, ia, information architecture, usability, user interface Chicago USA 2010-04-20 Monday, April 19, 2010 * Usability In Practice: 3-Day Intensive Camp (Day 1) Jakob Nielsen, Hoa Loranger, Kara Pernice, & Amy Schade * Interaction Design 1 Bruce “Tog” Tognazzini * From Print to Web Kara McCain Tuesday, April 20, 2010 * Usability In Practice: 3-Day Intensive Camp (Day 2) Jakob Nielsen, Hoa Loranger, Kara Pernice, & Amy Schade * Interaction Design 2 Bruce “Tog” Tognazzini * Visual Web Design 1 Tammy Liran Guy Wednesday, April 21, 2010 * Usability In Practice: 3-Day Intensive Camp (Day 3) Jakob Nielsen, Hoa Loranger, Kara Pernice, & Amy Schade * Interaction Design 3 Bruce “Tog” Tognazzini * Visual Web Design 2 Tammy Liran Guy Thursday, April 22, 2010 * Fundamental Guidelines for Web Usability Jakob Nielsen, Hoa Loranger, & Kara Pernice * Agile Development and Usability Melissa Federoff * iPhone Apps Design Raluca Budiu * Email Newsletter Usability Amy Schade * Guerilla Usability: UCD Without a Budget Garrett Goldfield * Integrating Social Features on Mainstream Websites Jen Cardello Friday, April 23, 2010 * Information Architecture 1 Jen Cardello & Kathryn Whitenton * Writing for the Web 1 Hoa Loranger * Designing for Mobile Devices Raluca Budiu * Emerging Patterns for Web Design Kara McCain * Intranet Usability 1 Kara Pernice & Amy Schade * Application Usability 1 Garrett Goldfield Saturday, April 24, 2010 * Information Architecture 2 Jen Cardello * Writing for the Web 2 Hoa Loranger * The Human Mind and Usability: How Your Customers Think Raluca Budiu * Big, Famous Sites: Design Patterns Celeste Buckhalter, Marieke Obdeyn, & Kathryn Whitenton * Intranet Usability 2 Kara Pernice & Amy Schade * Application Usability 2 Garrett Goldfield REG: http://www.nngroup.com/events/chicago/ 1424 IL Strategies to enhance the user experience. 19-24 April 2010 Chicago, IL 2010-04-19 false http://www.nngroup.com/events/chicago/agenda.html http://events.boxesandarrows.com/events/1424 design, ia, information architecture, usability, user interface Dallas USA 2010-05-29 Experts from across the country will gather to present theories, research, experiences, and best practices to students, professionals, and executives looking to stay on the bleeding edge. Speakers include Jared Spool (founder, User Interface Engineering), Bill Scott (Netflix/author of Designing Web Interfaces: Principles and Patterns for Rich Interactions), Russ Unger (principal, UserGlue), Ryan Merket (founder, Ping.fm), Chris Bernard (UX Evangelist, Microsoft), and many more (full list at http://bigdesign10.com/speakers/). Cost is a mere $50 per day (when both days are purchased together). The event will sell out, get your tickets now! 1431 TX The Big Design Conference is an intense day of learning within the scope of Strategy, Social Media, User Experience, and Code Development. 2010-05-28 false http://bigdesignconference.com http://events.boxesandarrows.com/events/1431 http://events.boxesandarrows.com/event/logo/1431/logo-mashable.png code development, design, ia, social media, strategy, usability, user experience Pittsburgh USA 2010-08-22 Pittsburgh Web Design Day is a one day, low cost conference for web professionals in Western PA. Our conference is designed to highlight local talent as well as those with strong ties to Pittsburgh who have gone on to be leaders in our industry. Organized by G. Jason Head & Val Head of Refresh Pittsburgh and On the Fridge, LLC (organizers of Flashpitt), Web Design Day is designed to be an affordable Pittsburgh-based event. Web Design Day features a number of high-end web design presentations, a tasty lunch catered by our friends at Franktuary and a great networking opportunities - all in a professional (and totally sweet) meeting space! This year's speakers include: • Geoff Barnes, Director of User Experience for Elliance • Margot Bloomstein, Brand & Content Strategy Consultant at Appropriate, Inc. • Chris Cashdollar, Creative Director for Happy Cog • Jon Dascola, Interactive Designer for Elliance • Matt Griffin & Michael Hellein, Co-founders of Bearded Studio • Kevin Hoffman, User Experience Director for Happy Cog • Elliott Munoz, Sr, Web Designer for The Washington Post • Zack Naylor, User Experience Manager at Piximal. Registration is $75 and is strictly limited to 100 attendees! 1497 PA A one-day, low-cost conference for web professionals in Western Pennsylvania. No high priced registration fees, no expensive travel, just a full day of learning from Pittsburgh web gurus... and lunch! 2010-08-21 false http://www.webdesignday.com http://events.boxesandarrows.com/events/1497 http://events.boxesandarrows.com/event/logo/1497/pwdd-rp.gif content strategy, design, ia, user experience, ux, web design, web development Los Angeles USA 2010-08-25 The Interactive Design Group at Metro is responsible for customer-facing websites, as well as ensuring Metro is in the social media, mobile platform, and developer community. Leading a new team at Metro for the last two years, Lan-Chi will go deep on two themes driving their current work: information relevance and customer-focus. Come out and mingle with the best and brightest in the LA interactive design community and enjoy tasty food & beverages courtesy of LA Metro. This event is FREE! Be sure to RSVP for a spot at this unique event! Getting There — Never taken the LA Metro? Now's the time. The Metro Red, Purple, and Gold lines all take you to Union Station. Meet us at the third floor plaza of the Metro Headquarters building, which is located right next to Union Station. If you are traveling from Hollywood, East LA, Los Feliz, Mid-Wilshire/Koreatown, or Pasadena, Go Metro! Use the experience of riding the Metro to inform your questions for Lan-Chi. Driving? From 101 Southbound – Exit at Alameda St. Turn left at Commercial St, left atCenter St and continue straight on toRamirez St. Cross Vignes St into the underground parking entrance (use middle lane). From 101 Northbound – Exit at Vignes St and stay in left-hand lane. Then turn left at the light into the underground parking entrance (use middle lane). Parking is not validated so it is recommended that you carpool or take the Metro. For more transit directions, and a map of the location, visit Metro at http://metro.net/about/contact/ 1503 CA Join Lan-Chi Lam, Interactive Design & Strategy Manager for Metro Communications, to discuss how Metro is turning to the digital arena to improve public transportation in Los Angeles. 2010-08-26 false http://www.ixda.org/local/event/26936 http://events.boxesandarrows.com/events/1503 ia, interaction, interactive, ixda, public transit, ux 2010-11-06 The aim of this competition is to design applications for the next generation Internet of Things. It calls for ideas of interfaces, interactions and applications that can be designed with technologies such as embedded Radio Frequency Identification (RFID), short-range wireless communication, ubiquitous data networks, mobile devices, hardware prototyping tools and digital fabrication which point towards intense technological interventions in people´s lives. The deadline to submit projects is until December 15th 1010 and the award is valued in 16.000€. This is the link to the contest website: http://www.interactiondesigncontest.com/?lang=en ¡Good luck! INTERACTION DESIGN CONTEST C/ Pujades 102, bajos. 08021 Barcelona, Spain. +34 935 191 201 / +34 678 961 011 1519 The aim of this competition is to design applications for the next generation Internet of Things. Deadline: 15 December 2010 2010-10-01 true http://www.interactiondesigncontest.com/?lang=en http://events.boxesandarrows.com/events/1519 contest, design, ia, information architecture, interaction design Seattle USA 2010-10-04 InfoCamp is an unconference for the information community. It features an egalitarian, community-driven format in which the agenda is created during the event -- so anyone who attends can present! Join us at InfoCamp Seattle 2010 for an exciting weekend of talking & learning about: - user experience - information architecture - user-centered design - interaction design - library & information science - online search - information management - informatics - anything relating to the intersections of information, people and/or technology A keynote from an invited speaker will kick off each day before we leap into multiple tracks of participant-led sessions & discussions. We'll provide a light breakfast, coffee, lunch, and snacks to keep the energy up. InfoCamp Seattle 2010 will be on October 2 and 3 at Seattle University. See you there! Want to learn more? Check out: - seattle.infocamp.org - wiki.infocamp.org 1495 WA An unconference for the information community! 2010-10-02 false http://seattle.infocamp.org http://events.boxesandarrows.com/events/1495 cataloging, chi, hci, humancomputer interaction, ia, informatics, information architecture, information management, information science, interaction design, ixd, librarian, librarians, librarianship, libraries, library, library and information science, lis, metadata, mlis, msim, taxonomy, tc, technical communication, ucd, unconference, user experience, usercentered design, ux, web design Sydney Australia 2011-04-30 WORKSHOP 1: Information Architecture for Strategic Web Design (Thursday 28 April 2011, 9:30-17:00) - This workshop focuses on the conceptual and strategic side of information architecture (IA). Topics include: alignment diagrams, mental models, concept maps, Cores and Paths, information structures and facets. WORKSHOP 2: Web Navigation Design (Friday 29 April 2011, 9:30-17:00) – This workshop focuses on the nuts and bolts of good navigation design. Topics include principles of web navigation, navigation mechanisms, types of navigation, the scent of information, and faceted navigation. COST • Earlybird (to April 2): AUD 660 • Regular Price: AUD 759 AUDIENCE Beginner to intermediate web designers, interaction designers and IAs; usability experts looking to improve web design skills; and project managers, product managers, and others seeking to better understand web navigation design 1550 Australia Come to Sydney in April and learn about faceted search, IA, web navigation design, and more. International guest James Kalbach will be giving two day-long workshops. 2011-04-28 false http://www.anzuxworkshops.com http://events.boxesandarrows.com/events/1550 faceted search, ia, information architecture, web navigation Munich Germany 2011-05-22 Shaping the Mobile Experience. The annual German IA Konferenz presents a cross section of current ideas in information architecture, methods and case studies. It is the principal German language IA event, drawing attendees and speakers from Germany, Austria and Switzerland and beyond. The IA Konferenz 2010 provides insight into the strategies, processes, techniques and methods employed in the attempt to achieve “true” or perhaps subtle innovation, and utilizes case studies to demonstrate the models that can lead to success. Particular emphasis is placed on methods and ideas that are common to the growing field of mobile design and the methodology of smart user experiences. 1547 Germany The leading IA Summit for the German speaking part of Europe. This year's motto: Shaping the Mobile Experience. 2011-05-20 false http://http://www.iakonferenz.org/ http://events.boxesandarrows.com/events/1547 http://events.boxesandarrows.com/event/logo/1547/IAK_Logo.jpg agile, design, ia, informationarchitecture, interaction design, ixd, mobile, prototyping, usability, user, user experience, ux