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 Cambridge USA 2008-10-17 Use the promo code "BOXES" for a free Flip Ultra camcorder when you register for the full conference, and $120 off the four day conference registration rate. Can't attend the entire conference? You'll get $30/day off for each day you register. At User Interface 13, the longest running conference dedicated to web design, information architecture, and usability, you’ll get 4 full days of in-depth techniques from the world’s leading web design and usability experts. We've asked the most forward-thinking minds in the world of experience design to address your biggest challenges. Our expert speakers will present on today's most pressing topics, including interaction design, information architecture, agile development, innovation, usability testing, Ajax, product strategy, and visual design. On Monday and Wednesday, you will attend full-day seminars with our expert speakers. On Tuesday, we have a day filled with 90-minute Featured Talks. We'll cap off the week on Thursday with our Showcase Seminar Day, where you can choose between UIE's most popular seminars. We’ve recruited a fabulous group of speakers, ready to help you solve your biggest design problems. You'll hear from: Jeff Patton, Kim Goodwin, Dana Chisnell, Jeremy Keith, Scott Burkun, Peter Merholz, Andrew Crow, Luke Wroblewski, Donna (Maurer) Spencer, Bill Verplank, Christine Perfetti, and Jared Spool Use the promo code "BOXES" for a free Flip Ultra Camcorder when you register for the full conference, and $120 off the four day conference registration rate. Can't attend the entire conference? You'll get $30/day off for each day you register. View the complete summit description, and register at http://www.uiconf.com UI13 is produced by User Interface Engineering. 491 MA Now in its thirteenth year, the UI13 Conference examines the biggest issues in the world of web design, information architecture, and usability. 2008-10-13 false http://www.uiconf.com http://events.boxesandarrows.com/events/491 http://events.boxesandarrows.com/event/logo/491/final_logo.jpg agile development, ajax, information architecture, innovation, interaction design, product strategy, usability, usability testing, visual design, web design