San Francisco USA 2006-10-27 Although the right features and behavior are essential to successful product design, the way they are presented can be just as important. The application of type, color, icons, and other aspects of visual design are critical to the usability of your product or Web site. Visual design choices are also critical to connecting emotionally with your customers (and to selling more products). This is not just a class on principles! It also covers process you won't see anywhere else. WHO SHOULD ATTEND: Designers, developers, usability professionals, brand managers, and anyone else responsible for delivering products that are desirable as well as usable. YOU WILL LEARN HOW TO: *Use visual design to clarify interaction and information *Use research and personas to guide visual choices and drive consensus *Create learnable, memorable icons *Adapt your corporate identity to a product or Web site *Apply visual design principles to multiple platforms *Develop a comprehensive visual system for consistent, easy application *Capture your work in a comprehensive Visual Style Guide COURSE MATERIALS INCLUDE: *Course binder with hard copies of slides and a variety of useful handouts *Visual Style Guide example “Five stars!â€? “Take this course! There’s really none like it. Till now, you’d have to have taken a few graphic design classes to get this complete and focused a study.â€? “Prescriptive information that’s really useful.â€? “The instructors are clear, kind, enthusiastic, knowledgeable, sophisticated, and respectful!!!â€? “I felt the presenters CARED about the topic and were experts.â€? “It’s hard to come up with anything to improve. I love the classes here. Can’t wait for the next one!â€? JUST ONE SEAT LEFT AS OF SEPTEMBER 22ND! Attendance is limited to 20 people. This course is held quarterly. If you have a large group, Cooper U can come to you! 50 CA 2-day class on visual design process, principles and examples that will help you make your interactive products not only more usable, but also more desirable. Taught by senior Cooper visual designers. 2006-10-25 false http://www.cooper.com http://events.boxesandarrows.com/events/50 http://events.boxesandarrows.com/event/logo/50/cooperlogo.jpg cooper, interface design, personas, visual design Austin USA 2006-11-07 Monday, November 6th, 2006 Alamo Drafthouse Downtown 409 Colorado St. Austin, TX 78701 TOPICS * How CSS really works. * How to sell design to tough clients. * How to redesign websites to increase content and brand effectiveness. * Better design and usability through better writing. * And more. SPEAKERS Jeffrey Zeldman is the founder and executive creative director of Happy Cog, whose clients include AIGA, Advertising Age, and Amnesty International USA. He publishes A List Apart for people who make websites, and has written many articles and two books, notably Designing With Web Standards, 2nd Edition. In 1998, he co-founded The Web Standards Project, a grassroots coalition that persuaded Netscape and Microsoft to support the same technologies in their browsers. Eric 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 partner in our efforts to transform Macromedia Dreamweaver MX 2004 into a revolutionary tool for CSS-based design." Molly E. Holzschlag is a well-known 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 groups 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 showcases interesting and instructive csszengarden.com designs. Happy Cog creative director Jason Santa Maria has been recognized for designing stylistic and imaginative web interfaces that maintain a balance of usability and effective content presentation. His work has won dozens of awards, including seven Addys in 2004. He is also well known for his award-winning personal site, jasonsantamaria.com, where he frequently discusses design and its benefits. 90 TX It's the final Event Apart of 2006! Join Jason Santa Maria, Molly E. Holzschlag, Eric Meyer and Jeffrey Zeldman for a Texas-sized day of design and code. 2006-11-06 false http://www.aneventapart.com/ http://events.boxesandarrows.com/events/90 http://events.boxesandarrows.com/event/logo/90/eventapart-horiz.jpg best practices, content, css, design, editing, graphic design, interface design, markup, usability, web design, web standards, writing Washington DC USA 2007-10-13 Register now for User Focus 2007, the second annual conference of The Washington, DC Metro chapter of the Usability Professionals' Association (UPA), on Friday, October 12, 2007 at the Renaissance Washington DC Hotel. The conference is a one-day exchange of ideas and experiences that demonstrate the value of usability in successful design. Registration deadline is October 8 - last year's conference sold out early! LEARN about important trends, cutting edge methods, and case studies in usability and user-centered design. NETWORK with folks who do what you do, and meet potential employers and employees. LEAVE motivated to create user experiences that drive results with a toolkit of techniques and best practices. The keynote address, The Dawning of the Age of Experience, will be delivered by Jared Spool, a well respected leader in the field of usability and design since 1978. Other highlights include a panel on Web 2.0, a presentation on the Future of Usability, and two tracks of presentations that offer the latest research, techniques and best practices, for people new to usability as well as experienced practitioners. Three optional 90-minute tutorials provide extra depth on software design and usability testing topics. About UPA-DC Metro Chapter UPA-DC Metro Chapter is a member-driven, multidisciplinary organization committed to the design and development of usable products. UPA-DC Metro provides a network and opportunities through which usability professionals can communicate and share information about skills and skill development, methodology used and/or proposed in the profession, tools, technology, and organizational issues. For more information, visit our website at http://www.userfocus.org or email us at conference@upa-dc-metro.org Registration fees: $140 UPA-DC Metro Members $165 Non-Members 322 DC Second annual conference of The Washington, DC Metro chapter of the Usability Professionals' Association (UPA) at the Renaissance Washington DC Hotel 2007-10-12 false http://userfocus.org http://events.boxesandarrows.com/events/322 http://events.boxesandarrows.com/event/logo/322/logo_upadc.gif information architecture, information design, interface design, usability, usability testing, usability training, user experience, user interface design Sunnyvale USA 2008-02-24 Instructor Andrei Herasimchuk Andrei Herasimchuk is a principal of Involution Studios, where he is responsible for the design practice of the company. Andrei spent a number of years at Adobe, where he was their first interface designer. He provided the interface strategy for the initial Creative Suite, was responsible for the design of Photoshop, Illustrator and the original InDesign, as well as for founding the internal UI team, developing it to more than 20 people. This full-day course will teach software professionals how to lead a collaborative architecture process for software products. Participants will be taken through the entire process using 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 the design team, while creating a clearly articulated starting point for the design itself. These methods inherently involve cross-disciplinary teams, 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, desktop or mobile platforms, as well as cross-platform design; and is equally relevant for consumer, B2B and enterprise applications. As with all Involution Master Academy courses, this class is limited to nine students. This guarantees each student significant interaction with Andrei 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 available, so sign up today! 393 CA This full-day course will teach software professionals how to lead a collaborative architecture process for software products. 2008-02-23 false http://involutionstudios.com/?p=109&cat=8 http://events.boxesandarrows.com/events/393 http://events.boxesandarrows.com/event/logo/393/logo_involutionstudios.jpg design, design class, information architecture, interface design, product architecture Portsmouth USA 2008-04-18 When: Thursday, April 17th Refreshments & Networking: 6-7:00 PM Meeting: 7:00 PM – 8ish Where: Fat Belly's Grill & Bar (http://www.fatbellysgrillandbar.com) 2 Bow Street Portsmouth, NH 03801 Street Map: http://tinyurl.com/448pk3 Parking Map: http://tinyurl.com/ytsuz8 (street parking is also available) RSVP: An RSVP is not required, but it helps us to have an idea of the head count for the venue. Please send RSVPs to info@nhupa.org. Topic: ~ Article Discussion ~ For 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 discussion point about each article, then come prepared to discuss. Your discussion point can be a question, an example from your experience, or simply your 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. Thank you for your votes on the articles to read. The three "winners" are: "Cultures of Prototyping", Michael Schrage http://hci.stanford.edu/bds/10-Schrage.pdf "Getting the Right Design and the Design Right: Testing Many Is Better Than One", Maryam Tohidi, William Buxton, Ronald Baecker, Abigail Sellen. http://www.billbuxton.com/rightDesign.pdf "Feature Richness and User Engagement", Jakob Nielsen http://www.useit.com/alertbox/features.html NH UPA meetings are always open to anyone who is interested in attending. Membership to the UPA is NOT required. Hope to see you there! 455 NH Please join us for our April meeting to take part in an interesting article discussion... 2008-04-17 false http://www.nhupa.org http://events.boxesandarrows.com/events/455 http://events.boxesandarrows.com/event/logo/455/upa_logo_-_yahoo.jpg hci, interaction design, interface design, nh upa, upa, usability Sunnyvale USA 2008-05-11 This full-day course will teach designers how to contribute to the direction of their company by synthesizing and articulating clear, actionable business and product strategies. Often, growth opportunities for designers 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 illuminating important decision-drivers like market or user research, web analytics, financials, and product reports. This hands-on course is created for experienced designers, enabling them to influence and improve strategic decision-making within their department or company. They will learn principles 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 organization make better decisions. Instructor Luke Wroblewski LukeW 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, Functioning Form, is an industry-leading resource for design intelligence. Instructor Tom Chi Tom Chi is a Senior Principal Designer at Yahoo! and has worked as each of Designer, Product Manager, Developer, and Consultant. He was a key design driver on many products, including Yahoo Answers, the new Yahoo Search, Microsoft Outlook, and several other enterprise applications. As 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 with the recognized industry expert on this topic and your eight classmates. It also means that there are very few seats available, so sign up today! 450 CA Influencing Strategy by Design Date: May 10, 2008 10:00AM-6:00PM Location: Sunnyvale, CA Website: http://involutionstudios.com/?p=123&cat=8 2008-05-10 false http://http://involutionstudios.com/?p=123&cat=8 http://events.boxesandarrows.com/events/450 http://events.boxesandarrows.com/event/logo/450/logo_involutionstudios.jpg design strategy, interface design, product strategy Sunnyvale USA 2008-06-01 This full-day course is focused on teaching methods and techniques to get past obstacles, big and small, that prevent great design from happening. 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 leader, and working with difficult team members. Tom will help you take the initiative and make sure the great design you’re part of creating actually sees the light of day. It will also help you grow as a professional, both within and beyond design. Key areas of focus include: * Representing your designs * Establishing action networks * Managing organizational energy * Understanding stakeholders * Connecting with your purpose * Taking ownership * Utilizing official and guerilla channels Using practical, real-world examples with an emphasis on activities and hands-on learning, Tom will help designers and design stakeholders develop the skills and approaches necessary to get people, departments and companies behind great design that actually ships. The result is increased job satisfaction and growth for you and more success for your company. Instructor Tom Chi Tom Chi is a Senior Principal Designer at Yahoo! and has worked as each of Designer, Product Manager, Developer, and Consultant. He was a key design driver on many products, including Yahoo Answers, 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 publications. As with all Involution Master Academy courses, this class is limited to nine students. This guarantees each student significant interaction 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 available, so sign up today! 452 CA Date: May 31, 2008 10:00AM-6:00PM Location: Sunnyvale, CA Website: http://involutionstudios.com/?p=126&cat=8 2008-05-31 false http://involutionstudios.com/?p=126&cat=8 http://events.boxesandarrows.com/events/452 http://events.boxesandarrows.com/event/logo/452/logo_involutionstudios.jpg design leadership, interface design San Francisco USA 2008-07-30 Visual interface design combines detailed interaction design, screen layout, and branding to ensure that a well-conceived, well-behaved product 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. This two-day workshop will teach you how to: * Use research and personas to guide visual choices and drive consensus * Use color, size, and other visual properties to clarify interaction and information * Create learnable, memorable icons * Adapt your corporate identity to a product or Web site * Apply visual design principles to multiple platforms * Manage the collaboration between interaction design and visual interface design * Develop a comprehensive visual system for consistent, easy application * Capture your work in a comprehensive visual style guide After taking this course, interaction designers, programmers, and product managers will be better able to evaluate and discuss visual interface design. Practicing visual interface designers and graphic designers may find that the sections on brand and using visual properties to establish hierarchy are review. ______________________________________ Here's what attendees are saying: "Take this course! There's really none like it." "Excellent course. Good mix of theory and practical application." "Intense and challenging--full of information that can be used in real life." _______________________________________ Make the trip even more worthwhile! Our four-day Interaction Design Practicum is the previous week, and our two-day course on Communicating Design is the same week. All Cooper U courses are taught by senior Cooper designers. Courses are limited to 20 people to ensure plenty of interaction. 471 CA Learn how Goal-Directed visual interface design can ensure that a product is both usable and desirable, and that decisions and evaluation are based on clear criteria, rather than subjective opinion. 2008-07-28 false http://www.cooper.com/services/training/visual_interface_design.html http://events.boxesandarrows.com/events/471 http://events.boxesandarrows.com/event/logo/471/logo_cooperU.gif cooper, cooper u, interface design, personas, visual design