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  <event>
    <city>Orlando</city>
    <country>USA</country>
    <end-on type="date">2007-01-27</end-on>
    <full-description>The convergence of Windows and the Web is upon us. Google Maps, Gmail, Flickr and a variety of new AJAX and Rich Internet applications have begun to legitimize moving beyond HTML to deliver interactive applications that deliver the best of the web and the best of the desktop experience. We will show how these techniques are changing the way designers think about their application designs. You will learn client server and windows applications without sacrificing user productivity. Plus, you'll see the usability challenges introduced when these new interaction techniques are implemented. Learn from the experts who have been helping companies develop world-class enterprise applications for over a decade. 

We will share with you the results of user testing this new breed of application design in our usability lab to help you leverage the technology and avoid the usability pitfalls. We will show you how to implement new interaction techniques such as enhanced client-side validation, drag and drop, partial form refresh to create fast, rich compelling user experiences without Java, Flash or ActiveX controls. Get a jump start on this compelling new technology to deliver highly effective application designed for your organization.</full-description>
    <id type="integer">155</id>
    <region>FL</region>
    <short-description>Learn the techniques that Google Maps, Gmail, Flickr and a variety of new AJAX and Rich Web applications have used to legitimize moving beyond HTML to deliver more usable interactive applications.</short-description>
    <start-on type="date">2007-01-25</start-on>
    <title>Advanced Web 2.0 Applications</title>
    <virtual type="boolean">false</virtual>
    <website>http://www.classicsys.com/css06/cfm/designingweb20.cfm</website>
    <url>http://events.boxesandarrows.com/events/155</url>
    <logo-url>http://events.boxesandarrows.com/event/logo/155/css_logo.gif</logo-url>
    <tag-string>ajax, ria, rich internet, web 2, web 20, web2</tag-string>
  </event>
  <event>
    <city>New York</city>
    <country>USA</country>
    <end-on type="date">2007-09-06</end-on>
    <full-description>Are you currently building web-based applications? Are you tasked with adding more interactivity to your web apps? Do you want to learn interaction design skills geared towards adding interactivity and richness to your web-based solutions?

Information spaces on the Web are becoming increasingly filled with complex interactions. Even simple transactional solutions like shopping carts and document management systems are becoming more complex with richer desktop-like interaction models. Today&#8217;s web designers and information architects need access to disciplines like interaction design and software design to create powerful and successful web applications. For example:

* The developers at a major financial institution are working on a mission-critical application that will be rolled out to more than 6,000 financial consultants, but they have no idea whether a Rich Internet Application (RIA) is the right solution. And if an RIA is the right choice, they&#8217;re unsure of what technology to use.

* The development team for a hotel reservation system would like to migrate their simple application to an RIA solution. Where should the developers start? How do they avoid making the same mistakes that other developers have already made?

To help designers solve these types of problems, expert web application designer David Malouf has created a seminar exploring some of the most important issues surrounding the web&#8217;s most sophisticated applications. In this information-packed seminar he will give you a solid introduction to RIAs and demonstrate the value RIAs can add to your web application.

See full description at
http://smartexperience.org/classes/ixd-workshop/

About David Malouf
David works at Motorola Enterprise Mobility and is the Vice President and founding director of the Interaction Design Association (IxDA), a 4500+ global member organization dedicated to the advancement and promotion of the discipline of interaction design.</full-description>
    <id type="integer">302</id>
    <region>NY</region>
    <short-description>Dave Malouf, an expert interaction designer, developed a six-week course to teach Internet designers in New York how to create rich internet applications that rock.</short-description>
    <start-on type="date">2007-09-05</start-on>
    <title>Interaction Design for Web Applications</title>
    <virtual type="boolean">false</virtual>
    <website>http://smartexperience.org/classes/ixd-workshop/</website>
    <url>http://events.boxesandarrows.com/events/302</url>
    <logo-url>http://events.boxesandarrows.com/event/logo/302/logo.100px.gif</logo-url>
    <tag-string>ajax, app, application, heller, interaction design, malouf, ria, web 20</tag-string>
  </event>
  <event>
    <city>New York</city>
    <country>USA</country>
    <end-on type="date">2008-10-17</end-on>
    <full-description>
Are you currently building web-based applications? Are you tasked with adding more interactivity to your web applications? Do you want to learn interaction design skills geared towards adding interactivity and richness to your web-based solutions?

As we manage more information, there is greater need for us to use more complex interactions to guide us through finding, selecting, creating, acting upon, sharing, and finally consuming the information around us. Whether through a web browser, an Adobe AIR application, or your cell phone, rich interactions can aid your users and provide differentiated value to the businesses that engage you.

Expert interaction designer David Malouf has created a seminar exploring the most important issues surrounding the web&#8217;s most sophisticated applications.

This course will teach you:

   1. What defines an RIA, its building blocks, the environment and the differing and complementary technologies.
   2. How to deconstruct existing applications to learn important lessons from those that came before you.
      How to guide in the selection of technologies and make your designs more technologically agnostic.
   3. What are design patterns and how they can help you over time increase design quality and consistency when used properly.
   4. Documentation techniques that help you move from static pages to rich application design communications.

This is a 1-day seminar with exercises for practice and lots of discussion.
</full-description>
    <id type="integer">529</id>
    <region>NY</region>
    <short-description>By popular demand, expert interaction designer David Malouf's seminar returns, exploring the most important issues surrounding the web's most sophisticated applications.</short-description>
    <start-on type="date">2008-10-16</start-on>
    <title>Interaction Design for Rich Internet Applications</title>
    <virtual type="boolean">false</virtual>
    <website>http://smartexperience.org/classes/interaction-design-for-rias/</website>
    <url>http://events.boxesandarrows.com/events/529</url>
    <logo-url>http://events.boxesandarrows.com/event/logo/529/smartexperience.logo.png</logo-url>
    <tag-string>design, interaction design, internet, ixda, malouf, ria, rich internet applications, web</tag-string>
  </event>
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