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 New York USA 2006-09-22 Come by and kick off the 2006 - 2007 season with NYC IxDA. See what everyone has been up to this Summer, meet old friends, and make new ones! Greg Petroff, Member of the IxDA Board of Directors & Treasurer, will also give a short presentation of the IxDA's vision for a new online community of practice and will show examples of the first steps towards getting there. WHEN: Thu, Sep 21 @ 6:30p - 8:30p WHERE: Brand Experience Lab 520 Broadway, 5th Floor (Map Link: http://tinyurl.com/pw3tu) 41 NY Come by and kick off the 2006 - 2007 season with NYC IxDA. See what everyone has been up to this Summer, meet old friends, and make new ones! 2006-09-21 false http://events.boxesandarrows.com/events/41 http://events.boxesandarrows.com/event/logo/41/logo.jpg interaction design, ixd, ixda, new york city, nyc, social, ux 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 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 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 New York City USA 2006-10-26 Dan Saffer, Adaptive Path's senior interaction designer and author of "Designing for Interaction: Creating Smart Applications & Clever Devices", will cover the four approaches to interaction design; the elements, principles, and attributes of good interaction design; design research techniques; documentation; designing for multitasking, adaptation, and hacking; and service design. Designing for Interaction is for new designers and anyone interested in interaction design, as well as more experienced designers who want a deeper view of and new methods for practicing interaction design. Participants will walk away with not only a firm grasp of the underlying principles of interaction design, but also the tools needed to put those into practice. 84 NY Based on Dan Saffer's book Designing for Interaction: Creating Smart Applications and Clever Devices, this workshop is for designers looking for new methods for practicing interaction design. 2006-10-25 false http://adaptivepath.com/promo/boxes2 http://events.boxesandarrows.com/events/84 http://events.boxesandarrows.com/event/logo/84/d4i_deck_nyc.jpg adaptive path, interaction design, ixd, service design, usability, user experience design, usercentered design Stockholm Sweden 2006-12-12 On Monday the 11th at ca 18:00 IxDA Sweden is arranging a lecture/discussion with Jonas Löwgren (Professor of interaction design, School of arts and communication ,Malmö University) on interaction design and aesthetics. Read more (in Swedish) at http://sweden.ixda.org/event3_ixdochestetik.shtml and about Jonas and his work (in English) at http://webzone.k3.mah.se/k3jolo/ The event will be held at and sponsored by Doberman, Brunnsgränd 1 in the Old town, Stockholm. (http://www.doberman.se) RSVP via mail to sweden@ixda.org. Interested in sponsoring refreshments? (1000-2000 SEK) Send us a mail! 145 Sweden On Monday the 11th ca 18:00 IxDA Sweden is arranging a lecture/discussion on IxD and aesthetics with Jonas Löwgren (Professor of interaction design, School of arts and communication, Malmö University) 2006-12-11 false http://sweden.ixda.org/event3_ixdochestetik.shtml http://events.boxesandarrows.com/events/145 http://events.boxesandarrows.com/event/logo/145/logo.gif aesthetics, design, free, interaction design, ixd New York USA 2006-12-13 The UX community in NYC will be getting together for a Holiday social event. Where: Eight Mile Creek (downstairs) 240 Mulberry Street (between prince and spring) http://www.eightmilecreek.com/ Time: 6p - 9p 99 NY In NYC all the UX related orgs will be meeting to create a different kind of experience. Come socialize and mingle amongst the designers, testers, architects and researchers. 2006-12-12 false http://events.boxesandarrows.com/events/99 bar, chanuka, chanukah, chrismas, hannukah, hanukah, holidays, information architecture, interaction design, ixd, kwanza, new york, new york city, nyc, party, social, soho, usability, user experience, ux, xmas Sunnyvale USA 2007-01-18 Socializing and refreshments: 7-7:30 pm Presentation: 7:30-9:30 pm Place: Yahoo!, Sunnyvale, Building C, Classroom 5 Directions: http://www.baychi.org/calendar/20070117/directions/ Presentation by Dan Saffer In design, there are no right answers, just many possible answers to a given problem. Some of those answers are better than others, and some of those answers are just...well, guesses. How do we make good guesses? Can we make better guesses? The best designer is often the one who makes the best guesses. This free event is open to the general public. :: Dan Saffer is an interaction designer at Adaptive Path. He previously worked at Organic and Datek, and has a Masters in Design, Interaction Design from Carnegie Mellon University. He has worked with a wide variety of clients, from startups to Fortune 100s, designing Web sites, applications and devices. Dan is the author of Designing for Interaction: Creating Smart Applications and Clever Devices. He is on the board of directors for IxDA and is also a member of AIGA and IDSA. Co-sponsors of this event: * IxDA (Interaction Design Association) Silicon Valley Face to Face * BayCHI IxD BOF For more information about his event, go to: http://www.baychi.org/calendar/20070117/ 158 CA Presentation by Dan Saffer: In design, how do we make good guesses? Can we make better guesses? The best designer is often the one who makes the best guesses. 2007-01-17 false http://www.baychi.org/calendar/20070117/ http://events.boxesandarrows.com/events/158 interaction design, ixd Sunnyvale USA 2007-03-22 Date: Wednesday, March 21, 2007 Socializing and refreshments: 7-7:30 pm Program: 7:30-9:30 pm Place: Yahoo!, Sunnyvale Some years ago, Paul Dourish introduced the concept of embodiment, which describes the distance between bytes and atoms. Leandro Agrò will speak about how an Italian company is working to reduce this distance, by creating emotional virtual agents to move bytes toward atoms on one side, while moving atoms toward bytes, Second Life's human users, on the other. :: Leandro Agrò has more than 10 years of experience as an interaction designer and manager of IxD teams. With extensive experience in multimodal interfaces based on eyetracking, he recently was seduced by the potential of virtual assistants with human-like behaviors. Leandro studied interaction design at the Domus Academy, in Milan, Italy—working on the '97 Apple Design Project. He is actively involved with the Milano Bicocca University, TorVergata University, Siena University, and others. Leandro is a prolific writer on topics from IxD, usability, and UX to natural, multimodal user interfaces. He is the founder of Idearium.org, the first Italian eZine/community for UX designers and co-producer of the Interaction Frontiers conference. For more information, see Leandro's blog, leeander.com. Co-sponsors of this event: * IxDA (Interaction Design Association) Silicon Valley Face to Face * BayCHI IxD BOF 179 CA A presentation about emotional virtual agents by Leandro Agrò. 2007-03-21 false http://www.baychi.org/calendar/20070321a/ http://events.boxesandarrows.com/events/179 ixd, virtual 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 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 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 Savannah USA 2008-02-11 Interaction 08 will be held from February 8-10, 2008 in historic and festive Savannah, Georgia, on the campus of The Savannah College of Art and Design. Join several hundred Interaction Designers from around the world as we address the design of interactive systems of all types: applications (web and desktop), mobile, consumer electronics, digitally enhanced environments, and more. Start your year off with stimulating talk, fun parties, and smart discussions about our growing field. Interaction 08 will feature two days of inspirational and tactical sessions geared at anyone who practices Interaction Design, as well as a day of pre-conference workshops. We're planning two tracks of thought provoking discussions during each day, followed by social gatherings on Friday and Saturday evenings. Keynotes: Alan Cooper - CEO; Cooper Sigi Moeslinger - Principal; Antenna Design Bill Buxton - Principal Researcher; Microsoft Malcolm McCullough - Prof. of Architecture; Univ. of Michigan Invited Speakers: # Jared Spool, UIE # Dan Brown, EightShapes # Sarah Allen, Laszlo Systems # Régine Debatty, We Make Money Not Art # Jenny Lam, Jackson Fish Market # Matt Jones, BBC # Aza Raskin, Humanized # Molly Wright Steenson, Princeton University Conference Pricing: Before November 15: $499 November 15 and After: $599 Students: $299 Half day workshops: $250 296 GA Interaction Design Association Inaugural International Conference in Savannah, GA, USA. 2008-02-08 false http://interaction08.ixda.org http://events.boxesandarrows.com/events/296 http://events.boxesandarrows.com/event/logo/296/ad1.gif design, georgia, industrial design, interaction design, interaction design association, international, ixd, ixda, scad, us New York USA 2008-07-25 - – - – - – - – - RSVP to: nyc-rsvp (at) ixda (dot) org - – - – - – - – - Throughout the electronic age, people have become accustomed to interacting with digital media indirectly, mediated through screens and peripheral devices. But now, as digital technology becomes invisibly embedded in everyday things, the “feeling” of everyday things is also increasingly becoming embedded in digital technology. In many senses, physical objects are becoming more important. In an immediate way, they can help us define new systems of relationships with digital information. Luke Williams, Creative Director at frog design, examines how perceptions and gestures formed through our experiences with physical products can effectively bring liberty to the relationship between brain, body, and digital media interface. WHEN Thursday, July 24th 6:15 – 7:00 networking (refreshments served) 7:00 – 8:00 presentation 8:00 – 8:30 Q&A and discussion WHERE Location details provided on RSVP - – - – - – - – - RSVP to: nyc-rsvp (at) ixda (dot) org - – - – - – - – - ABOUT OUR SPEAKER Luke Williams is Creative Director for frog design, and heads the Industrial Design practice for the New York and Austin studios. Prior to that, he worked in frog’s Silicon Valley and San Francisco studios as a creative lead for projects spanning a wide variety of enterprises such as Daimler Chrysler, Disney, Hewlett-Packard, Logitech, Microsoft, Motorola and Yahoo!. In addition to his role at frog design, Luke is an Adjunct Professor at NYU Stern School of Business where he co-founded the “Innovation and Design” course to teach design thinking in the graduate MBA program. Luke’s opinions on innovation and design have been sought after in interviews with National Public Radio (NPR), BusinessWeek, ID Magazine, and The Wall Street Journal, and he speaks regularly throughout the international design community. - – - – - – - – - RSVP to: nyc-rsvp (at) ixda (dot) org - – - – - – - – - 495 NY “The Naked Interface—Liberating Brain, Body, and Digital Interactions” a presentation by Luke Williams, Creative Director at frog design 2008-07-24 false http://ixda.org http://events.boxesandarrows.com/events/495 http://events.boxesandarrows.com/event/logo/495/IxDA_NYC_logo2.png design, industrial design, interaction design, ixd, ixda, user experience design, ux 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