2006-10-18 Dan's succeeded in creating a fantastic introduction and overview of our discipline of interaction design. People are encouraged to participate in this discussion, and I know there are many of you with keen insights and thoughtful ideas that would greatly contribute. The open discussion will go on for the next week, until Tuesday October 17. Offsite (non-WELL member) readers with questions or comments may send them to inkwell@well.com to have them added to the conversation. About The WELL The WELL is a cherished and acclaimed destination for conversation and discussion. For twenty years it has captivated intelligent, creative people. It is widely known as the primordial ooze where the online community movement was born — where Howard Rheingold first coined the term "virtual community." Over the last two decades, it's been described as "the world's most influential online community" in a Wired Magazine cover story, and "the Park Place of email addresses" by John Perry Barlow. It's won Dvorak and Webby Awards, inspired songs and novels, and almost invisibly influences modern culture. Now run by Salon Media Group, independent publishers of the ground-breaking Salon.com online news magazine, The WELL continues to cast a long cultural shadow. For many people it's the place you aren't quite sure you've heard of, but may just wish you had. For members, it's a place to come up with the next interesting thing and a way to live. Hope to see you there! Jim James Leftwich, IDSA Orbit Interaction Palo Alto, California http://www.orbitnet.com 91 The WELL is hosting an online interview and discussion with Dan Saffer, of Adaptive Path coinciding with his new book, Designing For Interaction: Creating Smart Applications and Clever Devices. 2006-10-11 true http://user.well.com/engaged/iengaged.cgi?c=inkwell.vue&f=0&t=283&q=0- http://events.boxesandarrows.com/events/91 http://events.boxesandarrows.com/event/logo/91/DFI_Cover.jpg adaptive path, career, dan saffer, design, designing for interaction, discipline, hci, interaction design, interview, ixda, product design, research, service design, textbook, user experience, ux Lisbon Portugal 2006-11-05 Designing interdisciplinary discourse, conspiring for Design Leadership Wonderground - the 2006 Design Research Society International Conference in Lisbon, Portugal at IADE Instituto de Artes Visuais, Design e Marketing. The conference is co-chaired by Eduardo Corte-Real, Ken Friedman, and Terence Love with Chris Rust as chair of the research exhibition and Charles Burnette as chair of the scientific committee. The 2006 conference will invite 2 kinds of papers -- full papers at 5,000-6,000 words, working papers at 2,000 words plus references, as well as contributions to the research exhibition. Design Research News will publish the full call next month. 15 Portugal 2006 Design Research Society International Conference in Lisbon Designing interdisciplinary discourse, conspiring for Design Leadership 2006-11-01 false http://www.iade.pt/drs2006/index.html http://events.boxesandarrows.com/events/15 research, usability, user experience San Francisco USA 2006-12-09 As the foundation course in the Cooper U curriculum, the Practicum was designed for usability and design practitioners, product managers, and anyone else who strives to fill the gap between a product idea and what actually gets built. In this course, you will work through a specific design problem while learning how to: *Better understand business stakeholder needs *Plan and conduct ethnography-based research with users and potential users *Create a rigorously-defined persona set from user data *Use scenarios and goals to determine requirements *Apply scenarios, principles, and design patterns to define and iterate an interaction framework *Apply these methods to everything from pie-in-the-sky innovation to minor product updates The Practicum is held at Cooper's headquarters approximately 10 times a year. For the convenience of international travelers, our other courses are sometimes scheduled immediately after the practicum. All sessions are limited to 20 participants. WHAT PEOPLE ARE SAYING ABOUT THIS COURSE “This is commercially grounded, highly captivating, very interactive, a lot of fun, and has given me something to take back which I’m confident I can apply. The cost benefit is not an issue–--this has to be taken by our designers.â€? “Inspiring, educational, fun. I’m leaving with a lot of tools, information, and confidence.â€? “Well worth your time. Fills the large void between needs identification and construction.â€? “Great course. We can apply these design methods to the hole in our XP process.â€? “Highly recommended! Even as an experienced designer I both learned a lot and got a sanity check for the work I’m doing. I’m totally energized!â€? EARLY REGISTRATION AND GROUP DISCOUNTS AVAILABLE. If you have a large team to train, we can bring our courses to you. 48 CA Learn about Personas and Goal-Directed Design from the people who invented them! This intensive, hands-on workshop led by senior Cooper designers covers research, personas, scenarios, and design. 2006-12-05 false http://www.cooper.com http://events.boxesandarrows.com/events/48 http://events.boxesandarrows.com/event/logo/48/cooperlogo.jpg cooper, interaction design, personas, research, scenarios San Francisco USA 2007-01-20 As the foundation course in the Cooper U curriculum, the Practicum was designed for usability and design practitioners, product managers, and anyone else who strives to fill the gap between a product idea and what actually gets built. In this course, you will work through a specific design problem while learning how to: *Better understand business stakeholder needs *Plan and conduct ethnography-based research with users and potential users *Create a rigorously-defined persona set from user data *Use scenarios and goals to determine requirements *Apply scenarios, principles, and design patterns to define and iterate an interaction framework *Apply these methods to everything from pie-in-the-sky innovation to minor product updates The Practicum is held at Cooper's headquarters approximately 10 times a year. For the convenience of international travelers, our other courses are sometimes scheduled immediately after the practicum. All sessions are limited to 20 participants. WHAT PEOPLE ARE SAYING ABOUT THIS COURSE “This is commercially grounded, highly captivating, very interactive, a lot of fun, and has given me something to take back which I’m confident I can apply. The cost benefit is not an issue–--this has to be taken by our designers." “Inspiring, educational, fun. I’m leaving with a lot of tools, information, and confidence." “Well worth your time. Fills the large void between needs identification and construction." “Great course. We can apply these design methods to the hole in our XP process." “Highly recommended! Even as an experienced designer I both learned a lot and got a sanity check for the work I’m doing. I’m totally energized!" EARLY REGISTRATION AND GROUP DISCOUNTS AVAILABLE. If you have a large team to train, we can bring our courses to you. 87 CA Learn about Personas and Goal-Directed Design from the people who invented them! This intensive, hands-on workshop led by senior Cooper designers covers research, personas, scenarios, and design. 2007-01-16 false http://www.cooper.com http://events.boxesandarrows.com/events/87 http://events.boxesandarrows.com/event/logo/87/cooperlogo.jpg cooper, interaction design, personas, research, scenarios Atlanta USA 2007-10-19 Join us for insights and inspiration as two thought leaders engage in some friendly verbal sparring to compare and contrast their unique disciplinary viewpoints on design, HCI, and user experience. Joe Ballay is a nationally known industrial designer and Founder and Principal of MAYA Design, a design consultancy and technology research lab in Pittsburgh, PA. He is also a senior faculty member in the Department of Design at Carnegie Mellon University. As the head of the department, Joe was instrumental in orienting CMU's design programs toward integrating high technology with traditional graphic and industrial design. Gregory Abowd is a Professor in the School of Interactive Computing and GVU Center at Georgia Tech. His research focuses on application-driven research in ubiquitous computing. He has been associated with several large research efforts (Classroom 2000, the Aware Home, and information technologies for autism) and has consulted in the development of commercialized versions of his research. 318 GA CHI*Atlanta's October event will feature friendly verbal sparring between Joe Ballay of MAYA Design and Gregory Abowd of Gerogia Tech. Nick Sabadsoh will moderate. 2007-10-18 false http://www.evite.com/app/publicUrl/leen_jones@comcast.net/chia_oct http://events.boxesandarrows.com/events/318 chi atlanta, design, georgia institute of technology, georgia tech, gregory abowd, industrial design, joe ballay, maya, october, research, ubiquitous computing, user experience San Francisco USA 2007-11-15 Yahoo! Brickhouse 500 3rd St San Francisco, California 94107 6:00 – Social Hour 7:00 – Presentation FREE IxDA SF returns with its third event in our design tools series. This month we present Nate Bolt, CEO of Bolt | Peters, as he presents UX research about life. Not all UX research is about the interface. It’s about the habits, moods, location, and motivations of the people using your interface. Unfortunately, that junk is unpredictable and difficult to measure, but can make or break the accuracy of your research. Here are three examples of how we’ve structured research to uncover where peoples’ real lives meet technology: (I) Web Apps. Live intercepts and remote research. Get on the user’s time, instead of forcing participants to follow your time as a researcher. (II) Video Games. Simulated native environment testing and six-on-one moderation with TeamSpeak. Sounds crazy, and it is. We’ll show a short documentary on what all that means and how much better it is than standard video game research. (III) Cars. Getting into people’s cars to film them while they drive, smoke a cigarette, flip open their laptop, check traffic, and then play an iPod. Also, how to double-check safety and liability waivers. All three examples preserve the authenticity of users’ moods and behaviors by maintaining a native environment, allowing us to understand relevant background information about a user, and using a relaxed, non-sterile environment to conduct the research-preferably, the comfort of their own homes (or cars). Users also have a much bigger role in choosing their tasks and structuring the interview than the researchers. We’ll talk about splitting our scripts into passionate themes and backup questions, watch actual video and audio from recent research and explain what we found. -- Have a great idea for a future event? Interested in sponsorship? Get in touch! sf-local at ixda.org Presented by IxDA San Francisco and Yahoo! 355 CA Not all UX research is about the interface. It’s about the habits, moods, location, and motivations of the people using your interface. 2007-11-14 false http://ixda.org http://events.boxesandarrows.com/events/355 http://events.boxesandarrows.com/event/logo/355/assoc_ixda.jpg cars, design, interface, research, video games, web applications San Francisco USA 2008-06-21 Our four-day Practicum is an intensive, hands-on workshop led by senior Cooper designers. We’ll show you how to: * Identify and address business issues * Plan and conduct user research to uncover user goals and mental models * Turn user data into a set of personas that guide (and sell!) the design * Use scenarios and goals to identify and prioritize requirements * Apply scenarios, principles and patterns to define the right interaction framework * Apply these methods to everything from pie-in-the-sky innovation to minor product updates As the foundation course in the Cooper U curriculum, the Interaction Design Practicum was created for usability and design practitioners, product managers, and anyone else who strives to fill the gap between a list of requirements and what actually gets built. _______________________________________ What attendees have said about this course: "Highly recommended! Even as an experienced designer I both learned a lot and got a sanity check for the work I'm doing. I'm totally energized!" "Well worth your time. Fills the large void between needs identification and construction." "Inspirational, educational, fun. I'm leaving with a lot of tools, information, and confidence." _______________________________________ Our new "Business of Innovation" course happens the following week on June 23-24. If you can't attend this Practicum session, there's another July 22-25, followed by our two day Visual Interface Design and Communicating Design classes. 469 CA Learn about personas and Goal-Directed Design from the people who invented them! This 4 day hands-on course is taught by senior Cooper designers. 2008-06-17 false http://www.cooper.com/services/training/ixd_practicum.html http://events.boxesandarrows.com/events/469 http://events.boxesandarrows.com/event/logo/469/logo_cooperU.gif cooper, cooper u, interaction design, personas, research San Francisco USA 2008-07-26 Our four-day Practicum is an intensive, hands-on workshop led by senior Cooper designers. We’ll show you how to: * Identify and address business issues * Plan and conduct user research to uncover user goals and mental models * Turn user data into a set of personas that guide (and sell!) the design * Use scenarios and goals to identify and prioritize requirements * Apply scenarios, principles and patterns to define the right interaction framework * Apply these methods to everything from pie-in-the-sky innovation to minor product updates As the foundation course in the Cooper U curriculum, the Interaction Design Practicum was created for usability and design practitioners, product managers, and anyone else who strives to fill the gap between a list of requirements and what actually gets built. _______________________________________ What attendees have said about this course: "Highly recommended! Even as an experienced designer I both learned a lot and got a sanity check for the work I'm doing. I'm totally energized!" "Well worth your time. Fills the large void between needs identification and construction." "Inspirational, educational, fun. I'm leaving with a lot of tools, information, and confidence." _______________________________________ If you can stick around for a weekend in San Francisco, consider taking our two day Visual Interface Design and Communicating Design classes the following week. 470 CA Learn about personas and Goal-Directed Design from the people who invented them! This 4 day hands-on course is taught by senior Cooper designers. 2008-07-22 false http://www.cooper.com/services/training/ixd_practicum.html http://events.boxesandarrows.com/events/470 http://events.boxesandarrows.com/event/logo/470/logo_cooperU.gif cooper, cooper u, interaction design, personas, research Philadelphia USA 2008-09-12 WHEN: Thursday, September 11, 2008, 6:00 - 8:00 PM (social time from 6:00 - 6:30 PM) WHERE: Heilmeier Hall, University of Pennsylvania, 220 S 33rd St, Philadelphia, PA 19104 RSVP: phillychi@gmail.com ---- About the Presentation Like the proverbial shoe-less cobbler's children, user researchers have historically lacked appropriate technology for studying how people use technology. But this has changed with the emergence of a variety of tools that can be applied to data gathering, analysis and sharing. Now there is a need for awareness and guidance in the selection and use of such research technologies. This presentation will cover: - The basic characteristics of effective user research tools - Data on current usage of various technologies for data gathering, analysis and presentation - Demonstrations and tips on the latest technology tools for conducting user research, including high-speed digital video and pen computing - Concept designs of future user research tools For more background on the topic: http://tinyurl.com/6ae3tg About the Speaker Rob has over 15 years experience applying product/interface usability in the medical, industrial, commercial and consumer fields. He is Director of Research at Bresslergroup, an award-winning product design and development firm. Bresslergroup's research practice delivers expertise and training in design research, human factors and usability. Previously he was Director of Human Factors at Electronic Ink, and held positions at Siemens Medical Solutions and the Air Force Research Laboratory. Rob is author of DesigningforHumans.com, a blog focusing on events, methods and technology related to user research. He has represented design research as a juror for the ID Magazine Annual Design Review and the International Design Excellence Awards. Rob holds a PhD in Human Factors/Experimental Psychology and is a Certified Professional Ergonomist (CPE). 522 PA Rob Tannen will be previewing his upcoming Design Research Conference presentation - High-Definition Design Research 2008-09-11 false http://phillychi.acm.org http://events.boxesandarrows.com/events/522 http://events.boxesandarrows.com/event/logo/522/phillychi_logo.png research, usability Melbourne Australia 2009-04-22 Six full day workshops for web designers, developers and managers Indi Young - Mental Models If you are a product designer, user experience professional, or design researcher looking to create better web products for your organisation or clients, don’t miss this full day workshop. Lisa Herrod - Web usability: a holistic approach Creating a great user experience is now expected of the entire project team. This hands on practical workshop is for people who need to understand usability in the context of their role, who want to improve their skills and take a more professional approach to it in their work. Andy Clarke - Visual Web Design Masterclass This one day masterclass will inspire you to make the best design possible for the web, showing you new ways of working with CSS and standards based markup to create beautiful designs using classic typography and layout. Christian Heilmann - Pragmatic, accessible JavaScript in a web services world In this workshop we’ll take a rather messed up old web product and clean it up to make it accessible, easy to maintain and hand over to third parties, and always up-to-date by piggy-backing on web services like Yahoo’s YQL and Pipes, and social systems like Twitter, Flickr and Delicious. Brian Fling - Creating mobile 2.0 web apps More mobile devices can access the Internet than there are desktop computers. More people can make purchases with a mobile phone than have credit cards. But how do you build for it? And how can you make money doing it? In this full day workshop we will find answers to both these questions by creating a mobile application together. Grant Young - Engaging social media This workshop is ideal for anyone considering engagement in social media either at a strategy or tactical level. This is not a technical session and although we will briefly touch on some popular sites, the focus will be on how you and your organisation can effectively and authentically engage participants. 639 Australia Workshops. Indi Young: Mental Models, Lisa Herrod: Web Usability, Andy Clarke: Visual Design, Christian Heilmann: Pragmatic JavaScript, Brian Fling: Mobile 2.0 Web Apps & Grant Young: Social Media. 2009-04-20 false http://roadshow09.webdirections.org http://events.boxesandarrows.com/events/639 http://events.boxesandarrows.com/event/logo/639/logo.gif css, design, information architecture, javascript, layout, mental models, mobile, mobile web, research, social media, typography, usability, user experience, user research, user testing, visual design, web services, web standards Canberra Australia 2009-04-23 Indi Young - Mental Models There is no single methodology for creating the perfect web product. But you can increase your odds, and one of the best ways to do this is to really understand users' reasons for doing things. Indi Young's Mental Models workshop will give you the tools to help you grasp, and design for, those reasons. If you are a product designer, user experience professional, or design researcher looking to create better web products for your organisation or clients, don't miss this full day workshop. Lisa Herrod - Web usability: a holistic approach Creating a great 'User Experience' is now expected not only of the Usability Specialist, but also of the entire project team. More than ever, web practitioners across all roles within a team are required to have knowledge of and even experience in conducting user research and usability testing. The current economic climate adds to this pressure as businesses strive to get the best from their online investments. This workshop is for people who need to understand usability in the context of their role, who want to improve their skills and take a more professional approach to it in their work. This is a hands on practical workshop combined with discussions on a variety of methods and approaches to implementing usability in the real world. Andy Clarke - Visual Web Design Masterclass Sometimes, in all the excitement about AJAX, APIs, frameworks and other technical whizz-bangs, talk about visual design on the web gets lost. This one day masterclass by the the author of Transcending CSS, Andy Clarke, will inspire you to make the best design possible for the web, and show you how to discover new ideas and new ways of working with CSS and standards based markup. 640 Australia Full day workshops. Indi Young - Mental Models, Lisa Herrod - Web Usability, Andy Clarke - Visual Web Deisgn Masterclass 2009-04-22 false http://roadshow09.webdirections.org http://events.boxesandarrows.com/events/640 http://events.boxesandarrows.com/event/logo/640/logo.gif css, design, information architecture, javascript, layout, mental models, mobile, mobile web, research, social media, typography, usability, user experience, user research, user testing, visual design, web services, web standards Sydney Australia 2009-04-25 Six full day workshops for web designers, developers and managers Indi Young - Mental Models If you are a product designer, user experience professional, or design researcher looking to create better web products for your organisation or clients, don’t miss this full day workshop. Lisa Herrod - Web usability: a holistic approach Creating a great user experience is now expected of the entire project team. This hands on practical workshop is for people who need to understand usability in the context of their role, who want to improve their skills and take a more professional approach to it in their work. Andy Clarke - Visual Web Design Masterclass This one day masterclass will inspire you to make the best design possible for the web, showing you new ways of working with CSS and standards based markup to create beautiful designs using classic typography and layout. Christian Heilmann - Pragmatic, accessible JavaScript in a web services world In this workshop we’ll take a rather messed up old web product and clean it up to make it accessible, easy to maintain and hand over to third parties, and always up-to-date by piggy-backing on web services like Yahoo’s YQL and Pipes, and social systems like Twitter, Flickr and Delicious. Brian Fling - Creating mobile 2.0 web apps More mobile devices can access the Internet than there are desktop computers. More people can make purchases with a mobile phone than have credit cards. But how do you build for it? And how can you make money doing it? In this full day workshop we will find answers to both these questions by creating a mobile application together. Grant Young - Engaging social media This workshop is ideal for anyone considering engagement in social media either at a strategy or tactical level. This is not a technical session and although we will briefly touch on some popular sites, the focus will be on how you and your organisation can effectively and authentically engage participants. 641 Australia Workshops. Indi Young: Mental Models, Lisa Herrod: Web Usability, Andy Clarke: Visual Design, Christian Heilmann: Pragmatic JavaScript, Brian Fling: Mobile 2.0 Web Apps & Grant Young: Social Media. 2009-04-23 false http://roadshow09.webdirections.org http://events.boxesandarrows.com/events/641 http://events.boxesandarrows.com/event/logo/641/logo.gif css, design, information architecture, javascript, layout, mental models, mobile, mobile web, research, social media, typography, usability, user experience, user research, user testing, visual design, web services, web standards Arnhem Netherlands 2011-06-24 Chi Sparks is the bi-yearly conference of Chi Nederland that aims to find the sparks in current Human-Computer Interaction (HCI) research and tries to bring them to the attention of a wider audience. The theme of this year’s conference is ‘HCI research, innovation and implementation’. The conference shall take place on 23 June 2011 in Arnhem at the site of the Hogeschool van Arnhem en Nijmegen (HAN). With this edition, Chi Sparks emphasizes the contribution of good HCI research in realizing successful, innovative, products, systems or services for organizations or businesses. These can be tangible products or (web-based) systems ranging from child toys to large scale industrial automation systems; applications that have a genuine impact on people’s lives and work or society in general. Bachelor and Master students, PhD-candidates, researchers, academics and professors can submit their contribution to the conference to submission@chi-sparks.nl, before the 18th of April 2011. We also invite businesses active in the area of HCI to contribute to the conference, in this way emphasizing the importance of HCI research in product development. At Chi Sparks theory and practice not only meet, but also augment each other. Contributions can be in the format of full or short papers, posters, cases from practice in education or business. Additionally, interactive installations and demonstrations get the ability to step into the spotlight at Chi Sparks. All details on how to contribute can be found in the Call for Participation and the Submission Guidelines and Formats. For all additional questions, do not hesitate to contact submission@chi-sparks.nl All submissions will be evaluated by a team of carefully selected reviewers, supervised by the board of reviewers consisting of Dick Lenior, Janienke Sturm and Ingrid Mulder. We look forward to your submissions and registrations! 1559 Netherlands Chi Nederland 14th conference: ‘HCI research, innovation and implementation’ 2011-06-23 false http://chi-sparks.nl/ http://events.boxesandarrows.com/events/1559 http://events.boxesandarrows.com/event/logo/1559/banner-w180h150.jpg hci, human computer interaction, research