BEGIN:VCALENDAR VERSION:2.0 PRODID:-//Ensemble Independent//vPim 0.360//EN CALSCALE:Gregorian X-WR-CALNAME:Boxes and Arrows Events Calendar tagged "interface design" BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20061025 DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20061027 SUMMARY:Cooper U | Visual Interface Design LOCATION:San Francisco, California, USA DESCRIPTION:Although the right features and behavior are essential to succe ssful product design, the way they are presented can be just as important. The application of type, color, icons, and other aspects of visual design a re critical to the usability of your product or Web site. Visual design cho ices are also critical to connecting emotionally with your customers (and t o selling more products). This is not just a class on principles! It also c overs process you won't see anywhere else. \n \nWHO SHOULD ATTEND: \nDesign ers, developers, usability professionals, brand managers, and anyone else r esponsible for delivering products that are desirable as well as usable. \n \nYOU WILL LEARN HOW TO: \n*Use visual design to clarify interaction and i nformation \n \n*Use research and personas to guide visual choices and driv e consensus \n \n*Create learnable, memorable icons \n \n*Adapt your corpor ate identity to a product or Web site \n \n*Apply visual design principles to multiple platforms \n \n*Develop a comprehensive visual system for consi stent, easy application \n \n*Capture your work in a comprehensive Visual S tyle Guide \n \nCOURSE MATERIALS INCLUDE: \n*Course binder with hard copies of slides and a variety of useful handouts \n \n*Visual Style Guide exampl e \n \n“Five stars!â€? \n \n“Take this course! There’s really none li ke it. Till now, you’d have to have taken a few graphic design classes to get this complete and focused a study.â€? \n \n“Prescriptive information that’s really useful.â€? \n \n“The instructors are clear, kind, enthus iastic, knowledgeable, sophisticated, and respectful!!!â€? \n \n“I felt t he presenters CARED about the topic and were experts.â€? \n \n“It’s har d to come up with anything to improve. I love the classes here. Can’t wai t for the next one!â€? \n \nJUST ONE SEAT LEFT AS OF SEPTEMBER 22ND! Attend ance is limited to 20 people. This course is held quarterly. \n \nIf you h ave a large group, Cooper U can come to you! END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20061106 DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20061107 SUMMARY:An Event Apart Austin LOCATION:Austin, Texas, USA DESCRIPTION:Monday, November 6th, 2006 \nAlamo Drafthouse Downtown \n409 Co lorado St. \nAustin, TX 78701 \n \nTOPICS \n \n* How CSS really works. \n* How to sell design to tough clients. \n* How to redesign websites to increa se content and brand effectiveness. \n* Better design and usability through better writing. \n* And more. \n \nSPEAKERS \n \nJeffrey Zeldman is the fo under and executive creative director of Happy Cog, whose clients include A IGA, Advertising Age, and Amnesty International USA. He publishes A List Ap art for people who make websites, and has written many articles and two boo ks, notably Designing With Web Standards, 2nd Edition. In 1998, he co-found ed The Web Standards Project, a grassroots coalition that persuaded Netscap e and Microsoft to support the same technologies in their browsers. \n \nE ric Meyer is the best-selling CSS author and best-recognized CSS authority in the world. His seven books have been translated into six languages; his clients include America On-Line, Apple Computer, Sandia National Laboratory , Wells Fargo Bank, and Macromedia, who described Eric as "a critical partn er in our efforts to transform Macromedia Dreamweaver MX 2004 into a revolu tionary tool for CSS-based design." \n \nMolly E. Holzschlag is a well-know n web standards advocate, instructor, and author. She is Group Lead for The Web Standards Project and an invited expert to the HTML and GEO working gr oups at the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C). Among her thirty-plus books is the The Zen of CSS Design, co-authored with Dave Shea. The book artfully s howcases interesting and instructive csszengarden.com designs. \n \nHappy C og creative director Jason Santa Maria has been recognized for designing st ylistic and imaginative web interfaces that maintain a balance of usability and effective content presentation. His work has won dozens of awards, inc luding seven Addys in 2004. He is also well known for his award-winning per sonal site, jasonsantamaria.com, where he frequently discusses design and i ts benefits. END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20071012 DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20071013 SUMMARY:User Focus 2007 LOCATION:Washington DC, District of Columbia, USA DESCRIPTION:Register now for User Focus 2007, the second annual conference of The Washington, DC Metro chapter of the Usability Professionals' Associa tion (UPA), on Friday, October 12, 2007 at the Renaissance Washington DC Ho tel. The conference is a one-day exchange of ideas and experiences that dem onstrate the value of usability in successful design. Registration deadline is October 8 - last year's conference sold out early! \n \nLEARN about imp ortant trends, cutting edge methods, and case studies in usability and user -centered design. \n \nNETWORK with folks who do what you do, and meet pote ntial employers and employees. \n \nLEAVE motivated to create user experien ces that drive results with a toolkit of techniques and best practices. \n \nThe keynote address, The Dawning of the Age of Experience, will be delive red by Jared Spool, a well respected leader in the field of usability and d esign since 1978. Other highlights include a panel on Web 2.0, a presentati on on the Future of Usability, and two tracks of presentations that offer t he latest research, techniques and best practices, for people new to usabil ity as well as experienced practitioners. Three optional 90-minute tutorial s provide extra depth on software design and usability testing topics. \n \ nAbout UPA-DC Metro Chapter \n \nUPA-DC Metro Chapter is a member-driven, m ultidisciplinary organization committed to the design and development of us able products. UPA-DC Metro provides a network and opportunities through wh ich usability professionals can communicate and share information about ski lls and skill development, methodology used and/or proposed in the professi on, tools, technology, and organizational issues. \n \nFor more information , visit our website at http://www.userfocus.org or email us at conference@ upa-dc-metro.org \n \nRegistration fees: \n$140 UPA-DC Metro Members \n$165 Non-Members END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20080223 DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20080224 SUMMARY:Involution Master Academy:Product Architecture LOCATION:Sunnyvale, California, USA DESCRIPTION:Instructor Andrei Herasimchuk \nAndrei Herasimchuk is a princip al of Involution Studios, where he is responsible for the design practice o f the company. Andrei spent a number of years at Adobe, where he was their first interface designer. He provided the interface strategy for the initia l Creative Suite, was responsible for the design of Photoshop, Illustrator and the original InDesign, as well as for founding the internal UI team, de veloping it to more than 20 people. \n \nThis full-day course will teach so ftware professionals how to lead a collaborative architecture process for s oftware products. Participants will be taken through the entire process usi ng hands-on exercises designed to give a deep and real-world understanding. At its conclusion this architecture process results in a shared vision of the upcoming design by all stakeholders, including those far-removed from t he design team, while creating a clearly articulated starting point for the design itself. \n \nThese methods inherently involve cross-disciplinary te ams, so this course is appropriate for either individuals or teams who want to participate in the architecture and design vision of software products. This approach works well for redesigns as well as new designs; for web, de sktop or mobile platforms, as well as cross-platform design; and is equally relevant for consumer, B2B and enterprise applications. \n \nAs with all I nvolution Master Academy courses, this class is limited to nine students. T his guarantees each student significant interaction with Andrei and a uniqu e opportunity to roll up your sleeves and put these ideas into practice wit h the recognized industry expert on this topic and your eight classmates. I t also means that there are very few seats available, so sign up today! END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20080417 DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20080418 SUMMARY:NH UPA April Meeting LOCATION:Portsmouth, New Hampshire, USA DESCRIPTION:When: \nThursday, April 17th \nRefreshments & Networking: 6-7:0 0 PM \nMeeting: 7:00 PM – 8ish \n \nWhere: \nFat Belly's Grill & Bar (http: //www.fatbellysgrillandbar.com) \n2 Bow Street \nPortsmouth, NH 03801 \n \n Street Map: http://tinyurl.com/448pk3 \nParking Map: http://tinyurl.com/yts uz8 (street parking is also available) \n \nRSVP: \nAn RSVP is not required , but it helps us to have an idea of the head count for the venue. Please s end RSVPs to info@nhupa.org. \n \nTopic: \n~ Article Discussion ~ \n \nFor this meeting, we'd ask that you read the selected articles ahead of time ( don't worry, they're short articles, not books), jot down at least one disc ussion point about each article, then come prepared to discuss. Your discus sion point can be a question, an example from your experience, or simply yo ur perspective. We only ask that you keep your points constructive and not overly critical of the article or the authors. We will have two moderators that will help facilitate the discussion. \n \nThank you for your votes on the articles to read. The three "winners" are: \n \n"Cultures of Prototypin g", Michael Schrage \nhttp://hci.stanford.edu/bds/10-Schrage.pdf \n \n"Gett ing the Right Design and the Design Right: Testing Many Is Better Than One" , Maryam Tohidi, William Buxton, Ronald Baecker, Abigail Sellen. \nhttp://w ww.billbuxton.com/rightDesign.pdf \n \n"Feature Richness and User Engagemen t", Jakob Nielsen \nhttp://www.useit.com/alertbox/features.html \n \n \nNH UPA meetings are always open to anyone who is interested in attending. Memb ership to the UPA is NOT required. \n \nHope to see you there! END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20080510 DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20080511 SUMMARY:Influencing Strategy by Design LOCATION:Sunnyvale, California, USA DESCRIPTION:This full-day course will teach designers how to contribute to the direction of their company by synthesizing and articulating clear, acti onable business and product strategies. Often, growth opportunities for des igners are artificially limited by org charts that fail to fully capitalize on the galvanizing role that design can have beyond product or marketing. This course empowers designers by giving them tools to impact strategy by i lluminating important decision-drivers like market or user research, web an alytics, financials, and product reports. \n \nThis hands-on course is crea ted for experienced designers, enabling them to influence and improve strat egic decision-making within their department or company. They will learn pr inciples for communicating and influencing strategy, along with practicing skills and techniques thru group activities, and working directly with Luke and Tom. This course will maximize a designer’s ability to help their orga nization make better decisions. \n \nInstructor Luke Wroblewski \nLukeW is currently Senior Principal of Product Ideation & Design at Yahoo! Inc., and Principal of LukeW Interface Designs. Luke authored the book “Site-Seeing: A Visual Approach to Web Usability” and his online publication, Functionin g Form, is an industry-leading resource for design intelligence. \n \nInst ructor Tom Chi \nTom Chi is a Senior Principal Designer at Yahoo! and has w orked as each of Designer, Product Manager, Developer, and Consultant. He w as a key design driver on many products, including Yahoo Answers, the new Y ahoo Search, Microsoft Outlook, and several other enterprise applications. \n \nAs with all Involution Master Academy courses, this class is limited to nine students. This guarantees each student significant interaction with Luke and Tom and a unique opportunity to put these ideas into practice wit h the recognized industry expert on this topic and your eight classmates. I t also means that there are very few seats available, so sign up today! \n END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20080531 DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20080601 SUMMARY:Design That Ships:Making Design In Any Environment LOCATION:Sunnyvale, California, USA DESCRIPTION:This full-day course is focused on teaching methods and techniq ues to get past obstacles, big and small, that prevent great design from ha ppening. This starts with forging a shared vision with people at all levels of the org chart, having the right mindset and approach to be a design lea der, and working with difficult team members. Tom will help you take the in itiative and make sure the great design you’re part of creating actually se es the light of day. It will also help you grow as a professional, both wit hin and beyond design. \n \nKey areas of focus include: \n \n * Represen ting your designs \n * Establishing action networks \n * Managing org anizational energy \n * Understanding stakeholders \n * Connecting wi th your purpose \n * Taking ownership \n * Utilizing official and gue rilla channels \n \nUsing practical, real-world examples with an emphasis o n activities and hands-on learning, Tom will help designers and design stak eholders develop the skills and approaches necessary to get people, departm ents and companies behind great design that actually ships. The result is i ncreased job satisfaction and growth for you and more success for your comp any. \n \nInstructor Tom Chi \nTom Chi is a Senior Principal Designer at Ya hoo! and has worked as each of Designer, Product Manager, Developer, and Co nsultant. He was a key design driver on many products, including Yahoo Answ ers, the new Yahoo Search, Microsoft Outlook, and several other enterprise applications. Tom is a co-creator of OK/Cancel, and has published over 200 comic strips about user experience in a variety of online and printed publi cations. \n \nAs with all Involution Master Academy courses, this class is limited to nine students. This guarantees each student significant interact ion with Tom and a unique opportunity to roll up your sleeves and put these ideas into practice with the recognized industry expert on this topic and your eight classmates. It also means that there are very few seats availabl e, so sign up today! END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20080728 DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20080730 SUMMARY:Cooper U: Visual Interface Design course LOCATION:San Francisco, California, USA DESCRIPTION:Visual interface design combines detailed interaction design, s creen layout, and branding to ensure that a well-conceived, well-behaved pr oduct is also a usable and desirable one. Doing visual interface design the Goal-Directed way helps ensure that decisions and evaluation are based on clear criteria, rather than subjective opinion. \n \nThis two-day workshop will teach you how to: \n \n * Use research and personas to guide visual choices and drive consensus \n * Use color, size, and other visual prop erties to clarify interaction and information \n * Create learnable, mem orable icons \n * Adapt your corporate identity to a product or Web site \n * Apply visual design principles to multiple platforms \n * Manag e the collaboration between interaction design and visual interface design \n * Develop a comprehensive visual system for consistent, easy applicat ion \n * Capture your work in a comprehensive visual style guide \n \nAf ter taking this course, interaction designers, programmers, and product man agers will be better able to evaluate and discuss visual interface design. Practicing visual interface designers and graphic designers may find that t he sections on brand and using visual properties to establish hierarchy are review. \n______________________________________ \n \nHere's what attendee s are saying: \n \n"Take this course! There's really none like it." \n \n"E xcellent course. Good mix of theory and practical application." \n \n"Inten se and challenging--full of information that can be used in real life." \n_ ______________________________________ \n \nMake the trip even more worthwh ile! Our four-day Interaction Design Practicum is the previous week, and ou r two-day course on Communicating Design is the same week. \n \nAll Cooper U courses are taught by senior Cooper designers. Courses are limited to 20 people to ensure plenty of interaction. \n END:VEVENT END:VCALENDAR