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DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20060921
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20060922
SUMMARY:NYC IxDA Sept Meeting - Season Kickoff
LOCATION:New York, New York, USA
DESCRIPTION: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 on
 es!
\n
\nGreg Petroff, Member of the IxDA Board of Directors & Treasurer, w
 ill also give a short presentation of the IxDA's vision for a new online co
 mmunity of practice and will show examples of the first steps towards getti
 ng there.
\n
\nWHEN: 
\nThu, Sep 21 @ 6:30p - 8:30p
\n
\nWHERE: 
\nBrand Ex
 perience Lab
\n520 Broadway, 5th Floor
\n(Map Link: http://tinyurl.com/pw3t
 u)
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DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20061024
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20061025
SUMMARY:NYC IxDA Oct Meeting
LOCATION:New York, New York, USA
DESCRIPTION:WHEN:
\nTue, Oct 24 @ 6:30p
\n
\nWHERE:
\nLocation given upon R
 SVP
\n
\nRSVP:
\nnyc-rsvp@ixda.org
\n
\nOur websites have become more funct
 ionally rich, thanks to Ajax, Flash, Flex and the like. But our documentati
 on hasn't kept up. We need rich documentation to match the rich experiences
  we're now able to provide online. In this discussion, we'll explore what w
 ireframes can still do, plus new forms of documenting including lo-fi anima
 tions and state diagrams.
\n
\nDan Saffer is a Senior Interaction Designer 
 at Adaptive Path (http://www.adaptivepath.com/). Dan's book, Designing for 
 Interaction, has been called a "fresh, accessible and thoughtful guide to i
 nteraction design" (Richard Grefe, Executive Director, AIGA) and "a bookshe
 lf must-have for anyone thinking of creating new designs" (Jared Spool, CEO
  of UIE). He served as the senior interaction designer for Ameritrade, the 
 top online brokerage. He led the initial redesign of the Ameritrade site, f
 ocusing its features and functionality on active traders.
\n
\nIxDA: Intera
 ction Design Association
\nThis event is part of the global community of Ix
 DA. IxDA is a global community of peers dedicated to the advancement and pr
 omotion of Interaction Design. Learn more at http://ixda.org/
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DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20061212
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20061213
SUMMARY:NYC UX Holiday Party
LOCATION:New York, New York, USA
DESCRIPTION:The UX community  in NYC will be getting together for a Holiday
  social event.
\n
\nWhere: 
\nEight Mile Creek
\n(downstairs)
\n240 Mulberr
 y Street 
\n(between prince and spring)
\nhttp://www.eightmilecreek.com/
\n
 
\nTime:
\n6p - 9p
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DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20071016
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20071017
SUMMARY:Information Architecture 3.0
LOCATION:New York, New York, USA
DESCRIPTION: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, ta
 gging, and user participation?
\n
\nIn this advanced seminar, Peter Morvill
 e draws upon stories, examples, case studies, and discussions to explore th
 e future present of information architecture and user experience.
\n
\nTopi
 cs include:
\n
\n* Integrating product development, information architectur
 e, 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).
\n
\n* Designing next-generation enterprise search syst
 ems that combine best practices in taxonomies and tagging with search analy
 tics, guided navigation, thesauri, clustering algorithms, and rich result i
 nterfaces.
\n
\n* Evaluating the multi-channel challenges and real-world op
 portunities presented by ambient findability and the emerging Internet of o
 bjects.
\n
\nAbout Peter Morville
\nPeter Morville is widely recognized as 
 a founding father of information architecture. He co-authored (with Louis R
 osenfeld) the best-selling book, Information Architecture for the World Wid
 e Web, and has consulted with such organizations as Harvard, IBM, the Inter
 national 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 Univer
 sity of Michigan. His work has been featured in many publications including
  Business Week, The Economist, Fortune, The Washington Post, and The Wall S
 treet Journal. Peter's latest book, Ambient Findability, was published in 2
 005. He blogs at findability.org.
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DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20080616
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20080617
SUMMARY:IxDA Event: "Micro-Interactions..." David Armano
LOCATION:New York, New York, USA
DESCRIPTION:"Micro-Interactions in a 2.0 World"
\nWe live in a world where 
 the little things really do matter. Each encounter -- no matter how brief -
 - is a micro interaction which makes a deposit or withdrawal from our ratio
 nal and emotional subconscious. The sum of these interactions and encounter
 s adds up to how we feel about a particular product, brand or service. Litt
 le things. Feelings. They influence our everyday behaviors more than we rea
 lize.
\n
\nSPEAKER
\nDavid Armano
\nVP Experience Design
\nCritical Mass 
\
 n
\nWHEN
\nMonday, June 16th
\n6:15 - 7:00 networking (refreshments served)
 
\n7:00 - 8:00 presentation
\n8:00 - 8:30 Q&A and discussion*
\n
\nWHERE
\n
 SoHo; location details provided on RSVP
\n
\nRSVP
\nSend e-mail to: nyc-rsv
 p@ixda.org
\n
\nABOUT THE SPEAKER
\nDavid Armano has over 14 years experien
 ce in the communications industry with the majority of his time spent in di
 gital marketing and experience design. An active thought leader in the indu
 stry, David authors the popular Logic + Emotion blog currently ranked in th
 e top 25 of the “Power 150” as listed by Advertising Age. David’s writing a
 nd visual thinking has been cited by respected sources such as by Forrester
 , Crain’s and landed him in BusinessWeek on several occasions including the
 ir “Best of 2006”.  David leads an interdisciplinary group of designers, wr
 iters and content strategists for the Chicago office of Critical Mass a mar
 keting agency focused on creating extraordinary experiences.  Aside from hi
 s presence on the Web, David is known as an evangelist for customer-centric
  strategies and acts as an advocate for the creation of meaningful interact
 ions.  In his spare time he contributes articles to various professional pu
 blications and spends as much quality time with his family as possible.
\n
 \n*After the event we'll move from micro interactions to macro interactions
  with some of the smartest, hippest, coolest and geekiest people around. Jo
 in us for drinks at Sweet & Vicious (5 Spring St between Bowery & Elizabeth
 ).
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DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20080917
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20080918
SUMMARY:IxDA NYC: "Tap is the New Click" by Dan Saffer
LOCATION:New York, New York, USA
DESCRIPTION:“Tap is the New Click” 
\n
\nEven though the technology has bee
 n around for decades, only now are we starting to see mass production and a
 doption of touchscreen and gestural devices for the public. Jeff Han’s infl
 uential 2006 TED demonstration of his multitouch system, followed by the la
 unches of Nintendo’s Wii, Apple’s iPhone, and Microsoft Surface, have annou
 nced a new era of interaction design, one where gestures in space and touch
 es on a screen will be as prominent as pointing and clicking.
\n
\nBut how 
 do you create products for this new paradigm? While most of us know how to 
 design desktop and web applications, what do you need to know to design for
  interactive gestures?
\n
\nThis introduction to designing gestural interfa
 ces will cover the basics: usability and ergonomics; a brief history of the
  technology; some elemental patterns of use; prototyping and documenting; a
 nd how to communicate that a gestural interface is present to users.
\n
\nW
 hen:
\n6:15 - 7:00 networking
\n7:00 - 8:00 presentation
\n8:00 - 8:30 Q&A
 \nPlan to arrive by 6:45 p.m. to clear security and be seated
\n
\nWhere:
\
 nR/GA
\n350 West 39th Street
\nNew York, NY 10018
\n
\nRSVP: http://tinyurl
 .com/67ukh6
\n(If you have any problem with the URL, send email to: nyc.ixd
 a (at) gmail (dot) com)
\n
\nABOUT OUR SPEAKER
\nDan Saffer is an experienc
 e design director for Adaptive Path. An international speaker and author, h
 is writing on design has appeared in BusinessWeek and many online publicati
 ons. His acclaimed book Designing for Interaction: Creating Smart Applicati
 ons and Clever Devices has been called “a bookshelf must-have for anyone th
 inking of creating new designs” and has been translated into several langua
 ges. His new book on interactive gestures will be published by O’Reilly in 
 October 2008.
\n
\nDan is a member of the Industrial Designers Society of A
 merica (IDSA) and the Interaction Design Association (IxDA). He received hi
 s Master of Design in Interaction Design from Carnegie Mellon University.
\
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