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  <event>
    <city>Cambridge</city>
    <country>USA</country>
    <end-on type="date">2006-10-13</end-on>
    <full-description>Use BOXES promotion code and receive $50 off each day or $250 off a four-day registration.

Keynotes by Jared Spool and Barry Schwartz

Ground-breaking Full-Day Seminars:

Creating Persuasion Architecture Online 
Bryan and Jeffrey Eisenberg, Future Now 

Develop a strategy for persuading your users to take action.  You'll learn how to map your user goals with your site's business goals. 

  - o - o -
How to Design a Task-Based Information Architecture 
Gerry McGovern

Get a solid grounding in information architecture that will enable you to create designs that help users find what they want.

  - o - o -
Building and Managing a Successful User Experience Team 
Sarah Bloomer and Susan Wolfe

Learn proven processes for creating a successful usability team, including how the best teams work together and report success.

  - o - o -
Rich Internet Applications and AJAX
David (Heller) Malouf &amp; Bill Scott, Yahoo! 

Learn to create your own Rich Internet Application solution using powerful technologies, such as AJAX or Flash.

  - o - o -
Making Meaning: Creating an Engaging User Experience 
Nathan Shedroff

Learn the most effective processes for establishing a deep and meaningful connection with your users.

  - o - o -
Site Seeing: Communicating Successfully with Visual Design 
Luke Wroblewski, Yahoo! 

Get practical insights and strategies for boosting your site's visual appeal and delighting your users.

  - o - o -
Bringing User-Centered Design Practices into Agile Development Projects 
Jeff Patton, ThoughtWorks 

Utilize Agile Development processes to speed development, improve quality, reduce feature creep, and encourage team collaboration.

  - o - o -
Advanced Methods for Usability Testing 
Rolf Molich

Uncover the best practices for usability testing with rare insights pulled from research on more than a dozen usability teams.

  - o - o -
Full-day seminars by Jared Spool, Christine Perfetti, and Josh Porter</full-description>
    <id type="integer">22</id>
    <region>MA</region>
    <short-description>Our eleventh annual conference is being held October 9-12, 2006 in Cambridge, MA. We've lined up fantastic speakers giving full-day seminars on today's critically important design topics.</short-description>
    <start-on type="date">2006-10-09</start-on>
    <title>UI11 - User Interface 11 Conference</title>
    <virtual type="boolean">false</virtual>
    <website>http://www.uiconf.com</website>
    <url>http://events.boxesandarrows.com/events/22</url>
    <logo-url>http://events.boxesandarrows.com/event/logo/22/UI11-badge.jpg</logo-url>
    <tag-string>agile developement, ajax, barry schwartz, bill scott, discount, gerry mcgovern, ia, information architecture, jared spool, luke wroblewski, managing teams, nathan shedroff, persuasion architecture, rias, teams, usability testing, user experience, visual design</tag-string>
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  <event>
    <city>San Francisco</city>
    <country>USA</country>
    <end-on type="date">2006-10-27</end-on>
    <full-description>Although the right features and behavior are essential to successful product design, the way they are presented can be just as important. The application of type, color, icons, and other aspects of visual design are critical to the usability of your product or Web site. Visual design choices are also critical to connecting emotionally with your customers (and to selling more products). This is not just a class on principles! It also covers process you won't see anywhere else.

WHO SHOULD ATTEND:
Designers, developers, usability professionals, brand managers, and anyone else responsible for delivering products that are desirable as well as usable.

YOU WILL LEARN HOW TO:
*Use visual design to clarify interaction and information

*Use research and personas to guide visual choices and drive consensus

*Create learnable, memorable icons

*Adapt your corporate identity to a product or Web site

*Apply visual design principles to multiple platforms

*Develop a comprehensive visual system for consistent, easy application

*Capture your work in a comprehensive Visual Style Guide

COURSE MATERIALS INCLUDE:
*Course binder with hard copies of slides and a variety of useful handouts

*Visual Style Guide example

&#226;&#8364;&#339;Five stars!&#226;&#8364;?

&#226;&#8364;&#339;Take this course! There&#226;&#8364;&#8482;s really none like it. Till now, you&#226;&#8364;&#8482;d have to have taken a few graphic design classes to get this complete and focused a study.&#226;&#8364;?

&#226;&#8364;&#339;Prescriptive information that&#226;&#8364;&#8482;s really useful.&#226;&#8364;?

&#226;&#8364;&#339;The instructors are clear, kind, enthusiastic, knowledgeable, sophisticated, and respectful!!!&#226;&#8364;?

&#226;&#8364;&#339;I felt the presenters CARED about the topic and were experts.&#226;&#8364;?

&#226;&#8364;&#339;It&#226;&#8364;&#8482;s hard to come up with anything to improve. I love the classes here. Can&#226;&#8364;&#8482;t wait for the next one!&#226;&#8364;?

JUST ONE SEAT LEFT AS OF SEPTEMBER 22ND! Attendance is limited to 20 people. This course is held quarterly. 

If you have a large group, Cooper U can come to you!</full-description>
    <id type="integer">50</id>
    <region>CA</region>
    <short-description>2-day class on visual design process, principles and examples that will help you make your interactive products not only more usable, but also more desirable. Taught by senior Cooper visual designers.</short-description>
    <start-on type="date">2006-10-25</start-on>
    <title>Cooper U  |  Visual Interface Design</title>
    <virtual type="boolean">false</virtual>
    <website>http://www.cooper.com</website>
    <url>http://events.boxesandarrows.com/events/50</url>
    <logo-url>http://events.boxesandarrows.com/event/logo/50/cooperlogo.jpg</logo-url>
    <tag-string>cooper, interface design, personas, visual design</tag-string>
  </event>
  <event>
    <city>Copenhagen</city>
    <country>Denmark</country>
    <end-on type="date">2006-11-14</end-on>
    <full-description>Jakob Nielsen and Kara Pernice Coyne from Nielsen Norman Group come to Denmark to present their newest research findings. 

255 users used a variety of websites to perform real tasks while their gaze direction was recorded by an eyetracker. The resulting 1.2 million fixations indicate where people look on Web pages.

The findings have implications for how to design:

* homepage layout

* page design

* search

* content and writing

* pictures/images</full-description>
    <id type="integer">100</id>
    <region>Denmark</region>
    <short-description>One-day seminar presenting the results from new eyetracking research on how users look at Web pages.</short-description>
    <start-on type="date">2006-11-13</start-on>
    <title>Eyetracking Web Usability</title>
    <virtual type="boolean">false</virtual>
    <website>http://www.intrateam.dk/Default.aspx?ID=2065</website>
    <url>http://events.boxesandarrows.com/events/100</url>
    <logo-url nil="true"></logo-url>
    <tag-string>content, denmark, eyetracking, homepages, images, jakob nielsen, search, usability, user research, visual design, writing</tag-string>
  </event>
  <event>
    <city>Sunnyvale</city>
    <country>USA</country>
    <end-on type="date">2007-08-25</end-on>
    <full-description>Please join us at the next Silicon Valley IxDA meeting, on September 19, 2007. Kim Goodwin and Nate Fortin of Cooper will give a talk on:

Where Usability Meets Desirability: Visual Design with Personas and Goals

Visual design contributes to usability by clarifying hierarchy and relationships, making type more readable, and making screens less cluttered. It enhances desirability by appealing to our aesthetic sense and emotions. In spite of its importance, though, few practitioners have the tools to integrate visual design with interaction design processes or to help stakeholders evaluate visual design based on objective criteria. Cooper&#8217;s Kim Goodwin and Nate Fortin will discuss  how field research, personas, and requirements provide effective means for doing so. Specific topics will include:

* Why it&#8217;s ideal to have team members dedicated to either interaction design or visual design.

* How minor adjustments to interaction design personas can help designers guide, assess, and communicate about visual design and brand choices.

* How using research and personas to develop a set of visual design requirements can give designers and stakeholders more objective assessment criteria and help them build consensus.

* How visual design requirements help designers develop visual style studies and guide stakeholders in selecting an appropriate direction.

* How iteration, continual reduction, and collaboration among disciplines can form a coherent visual system.

Kim Goodwin, VP Design &amp; General Manager, Cooper

Kim has been a major contributor to the development of Cooper&#8217;s Goal-Directed Design methods and is primarily responsible for the curriculum of its respected Cooper U courses. Kim has been a popular instructor at full-day CHI tutorials, UIE&#8217;s national conferences, and numerous other events.

Nate Fortin, Director of Visual Design &amp; Branding, Cooper

As head of Cooper&#8217;s visual design discipline for the past five years, Nate has played a critical role in developing an approach to visual design that is as rigorous as Cooper&#8217;s interaction design methods. Nate was closely involved in the development of Cooper&#8217;s two-day visual interface design course and has been a popular Cooper U instructor.

Date &amp; Time:
Wednesday, September 19, 2007
7:00-7:30 pm--Socializing
7:30-9:30 pm--Program

Location:
Yahoo!
701 First Avenue
Sunnyvale, California 94089
Room: To be announced

For directions, go to: http://www.baychi.org/calendar/20070919/directions/

Co-sponsors of this event:

* BayCHI IxD BOF
* IxDA (Interaction Design Association) Silicon Valley Face to Face</full-description>
    <id type="integer">298</id>
    <region>CA</region>
    <short-description>Please join us at the next Silicon Valley IxDA meeting, on September 19, 2007. We are very pleased to announce that Kim Goodwin and Nate Fortin of Cooper will give a talk on:</short-description>
    <start-on type="date">2007-09-19</start-on>
    <title>Silicon Valley IxDA Meeting, September 19, at Yaho</title>
    <virtual type="boolean">false</virtual>
    <website>http://www.baychi.org/calendar/20070919/</website>
    <url>http://events.boxesandarrows.com/events/298</url>
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    <tag-string>interaction design, visual design</tag-string>
  </event>
  <event>
    <city>Boston</city>
    <country>USA</country>
    <end-on type="date">2007-11-09</end-on>
    <full-description>Register for all 4 days by October 23rd with the promotion code BOXES to receive $30 off each day and a limited-edition UI12 iPod video http://www.uiconf.com

BOXES promo code cannot be combined with any other special offer or promotional code, and is only valid for 4 day registrations. 

For the User Interface 12 Conference 
( http://www.uiconf.com ), Jared M. Spool and his team of usability researchers have asked the most forward thinking minds in the world of usability to present on today's most pressing design topics.  

For 4 full days, you'll learn in-depth techniques from these top experts, and come away with the knowledge and confidence necessary to tackle your biggest design challenges. 

Now in its twelfth year, the UI12 Conference examines the most critical web design and usability issues facing designers, information architects, and usability professionals. Topics include: Agile Development, Task-based Information Architecture, Usability Testing, Visual Design, Building Innovative Designs, Communicating with Comics, Interaction Design, and Designing with CSS. 

On Monday, November 5th, you'll have the chance to attend one of four full-day seminars from Larry Constantine, Gerry McGovern, Rolf Molich, or Luke Wroblewski. 

On Tuesday, November 6th, you'll have the chance to attend several of the informative and entertaining 90-minute Featured Talks from each of our conference speakers, as well as the UI12 Conference Keynote presentation from Jared M. Spool. 

On Wednesday, November 7th, you'll have the chance to attend one of four full-day seminars from Scott Berkun, Kevin Cheng, Kim Goodwin, or Cameron Moll. 

We'll cap off the week on Thursday, November 8th, with our Showcase Seminar Day, where you can choose between UIE's most popular seminars.</full-description>
    <id type="integer">196</id>
    <region>MA</region>
    <short-description>User Interface 12 is being held November 5-8, 2007 in Cambridge, MA. We've lined up fantastic 
speakers giving full-day seminars and short talks on today's most pressing usability and design issues.</short-description>
    <start-on type="date">2007-11-05</start-on>
    <title>UI12 - User Interface 12 Conference</title>
    <virtual type="boolean">false</virtual>
    <website>http://www.uiconf.com</website>
    <url>http://events.boxesandarrows.com/events/196</url>
    <logo-url>http://events.boxesandarrows.com/event/logo/196/ui12-badge.gif</logo-url>
    <tag-string>agile development, book, book seller, comics, content, content management, css, design, designer, developer, engineering, folksonomy, information architecture, innovation, interaction, interface, jared spool, management, personas, professional, seminar, social, social web design, taxonomy, testing, tutortial, ucd, uie, usability, user, ux, visual design, web application, web site, workshop</tag-string>
  </event>
  <event>
    <city>San Francisco</city>
    <country>USA</country>
    <end-on type="date">2008-07-30</end-on>
    <full-description>Visual interface design combines detailed interaction design, screen layout, and branding to ensure that a well-conceived, well-behaved product is also a usable and desirable one. Doing visual interface design the Goal-Directed way helps ensure that decisions and evaluation are based on clear criteria, rather than subjective opinion.

This two-day workshop will teach you how to:

    * Use research and personas to guide visual choices and drive consensus
    * Use color, size, and other visual properties to clarify interaction and information
    * Create learnable, memorable icons
    * Adapt your corporate identity to a product or Web site
    * Apply visual design principles to multiple platforms
    * Manage the collaboration between interaction design and visual interface design
    * Develop a comprehensive visual system for consistent, easy application
    * Capture your work in a comprehensive visual style guide

After taking this course, interaction designers, programmers, and product managers will be better able to evaluate and discuss visual interface design. Practicing visual interface designers and graphic designers may find that the sections on brand and using visual properties to establish hierarchy are review.
______________________________________

Here's what attendees are saying:

"Take this course! There's really none like it."

"Excellent course. Good mix of theory and practical application."

"Intense and challenging--full of information that can be used in real life."
_______________________________________

Make the trip even more worthwhile! Our four-day Interaction Design Practicum is the previous week, and our two-day course on Communicating Design is the same week.

All Cooper U courses are taught by senior Cooper designers. Courses are limited to 20 people to ensure plenty of interaction.
</full-description>
    <id type="integer">471</id>
    <region>CA</region>
    <short-description>Learn how Goal-Directed visual interface design can ensure that a product is both usable and desirable, and that decisions and evaluation are based on clear criteria, rather than subjective opinion.</short-description>
    <start-on type="date">2008-07-28</start-on>
    <title>Cooper U: Visual Interface Design course</title>
    <virtual type="boolean">false</virtual>
    <website>http://www.cooper.com/services/training/visual_interface_design.html</website>
    <url>http://events.boxesandarrows.com/events/471</url>
    <logo-url>http://events.boxesandarrows.com/event/logo/471/logo_cooperU.gif</logo-url>
    <tag-string>cooper, cooper u, interface design, personas, visual design</tag-string>
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    <end-on type="date">2008-11-21</end-on>
    <full-description>What questions do you have about Visual Design? You have the Visual Design skills to do a good job, but what tools or tricks can you add to your toolbox?  Does you team have a complete understanding that Visual design can dramatically improve the experience with your products, and when they're stuck, how do you help them?  

In this entertaining 90-minute presentation, Patrick will help you make your products easier to use by applying surprising, memorable design techniques. Patrick, an expert in visual instruction and wordless communication, has worked with usability professionals like you to improve the design of digital, online, and hard copy information.

Use the promotion code BOXES and register with our lowest price of just $99!</full-description>
    <id type="integer">570</id>
    <region nil="true"></region>
    <short-description>This online 90-minute presentation is the introduction to visual design that you&#8217;ve been after! </short-description>
    <start-on type="date">2008-11-20</start-on>
    <title>UIE Virtual Seminar: Essentials of Visual Design </title>
    <virtual type="boolean">true</virtual>
    <website>http://www.uie.com/events/virtual_seminars/Visual_PH/</website>
    <url>http://events.boxesandarrows.com/events/570</url>
    <logo-url nil="true"></logo-url>
    <tag-string>patrick hofmann, uie, virtual seminar, visual design</tag-string>
  </event>
  <event>
    <city>Melbourne</city>
    <country>Australia</country>
    <end-on type="date">2009-04-22</end-on>
    <full-description>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&#8217;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&#8217;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&#8217;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.</full-description>
    <id type="integer">639</id>
    <region>Australia</region>
    <short-description>Workshops. Indi Young: Mental Models, Lisa Herrod: Web Usability, Andy Clarke: Visual Design, Christian Heilmann: Pragmatic JavaScript, Brian Fling: Mobile 2.0 Web Apps &amp; Grant Young: Social Media.</short-description>
    <start-on type="date">2009-04-20</start-on>
    <title>Web Directions Roadshow: Melbourne</title>
    <virtual type="boolean">false</virtual>
    <website>http://roadshow09.webdirections.org</website>
    <url>http://events.boxesandarrows.com/events/639</url>
    <logo-url>http://events.boxesandarrows.com/event/logo/639/logo.gif</logo-url>
    <tag-string>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</tag-string>
  </event>
  <event>
    <city>Canberra</city>
    <country>Australia</country>
    <end-on type="date">2009-04-23</end-on>
    <full-description>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.</full-description>
    <id type="integer">640</id>
    <region>Australia</region>
    <short-description>Full day workshops. Indi Young - Mental Models, Lisa Herrod - Web Usability, Andy Clarke - Visual Web Deisgn Masterclass</short-description>
    <start-on type="date">2009-04-22</start-on>
    <title>Web Directions Roadshow: Canberra</title>
    <virtual type="boolean">false</virtual>
    <website>http://roadshow09.webdirections.org</website>
    <url>http://events.boxesandarrows.com/events/640</url>
    <logo-url>http://events.boxesandarrows.com/event/logo/640/logo.gif</logo-url>
    <tag-string>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</tag-string>
  </event>
  <event>
    <city>New York</city>
    <country>USA</country>
    <end-on type="date">2009-04-23</end-on>
    <full-description>Interaction design, visual design, and industrial design are distinct disciplines for good reason: Each excels in different ways. Interaction designers must be good at imagining structure and flow, which requires strong analytical skills and a high degree of rigor, especially for complex systems. Visual designers and industrial designers are masters of visual and physical usability but are also masters of emotion: They know how to evoke caution, attract attention, and instill desire for a product at first glance. Users have just one experience of a product, though. All three aspects of the design must work in concert, or the product will fail to satisfy. Integration of the three disciplines is a central theme of Kim&#8217;s new book, Designing for the Digital Age.

DATE and TIME
Wednesday evening, April 22, 2009
6:30 - 7:00 Refreshments and networking
7:00 - 8:00 Presentation
8:00 - 8:30 Open discussion

The event is free of charge

LOCATION
(Midtown Manhattan: details will be emailed to those who sign up)

ABOUT THE SPEAKER
Kim Goodwin is vice-president, design and general manager at Cooper, where she both leads an integrated practice of interaction, visual, and industrial designers and has led the development of the acclaimed Cooper U design curriculum. Kim knows the design world from multiple angles; she started as an in-house and freelance designer and spent several years as an in-house creative director before joining Cooper eleven years ago. Kim has led projects involving a tremendous range of design problems, including web sites, complex analytical and enterprise applications, phones, medical devices, services, and even organizations. Her clients and employers have included everything from one-man startups to the world&#8217;s largest companies, as well as universities and government agencies. This range of experience and a passion for teaching have led to Kim&#8217;s popularity as an author and as a speaker at conferences and companies around the world.</full-description>
    <id type="integer">691</id>
    <region>NY</region>
    <short-description>Designing a Unified Experience: Bringing Interaction, Visual, and Industrial Design Together</short-description>
    <start-on type="date">2009-04-22</start-on>
    <title>IxDA NYC - Kim Goodwin</title>
    <virtual type="boolean">false</virtual>
    <website>http://tinyurl.com/ixdanyc-april22</website>
    <url>http://events.boxesandarrows.com/events/691</url>
    <logo-url nil="true"></logo-url>
    <tag-string>industrial design, interaction design, ixda, multidisciplinary, new york city, visual design</tag-string>
  </event>
  <event>
    <city>Sydney</city>
    <country>Australia</country>
    <end-on type="date">2009-04-25</end-on>
    <full-description>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&#8217;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&#8217;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&#8217;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.</full-description>
    <id type="integer">641</id>
    <region>Australia</region>
    <short-description>Workshops. Indi Young: Mental Models, Lisa Herrod: Web Usability, Andy Clarke: Visual Design, Christian Heilmann: Pragmatic JavaScript, Brian Fling: Mobile 2.0 Web Apps &amp; Grant Young: Social Media.</short-description>
    <start-on type="date">2009-04-23</start-on>
    <title>Web Directions Roadshow: Sydney</title>
    <virtual type="boolean">false</virtual>
    <website>http://roadshow09.webdirections.org</website>
    <url>http://events.boxesandarrows.com/events/641</url>
    <logo-url>http://events.boxesandarrows.com/event/logo/641/logo.gif</logo-url>
    <tag-string>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</tag-string>
  </event>
  <event>
    <city>New York</city>
    <country>USA</country>
    <end-on type="date">2009-05-20</end-on>
    <full-description>Difficult Conversations in Creative Environments

a presentation by Dan Brown, Founder and Principal, EightShapes

Every designer faces difficult conversations &#8212; defending design decisions, explaining project mishaps, managing conflicting requirements from different stakeholders. Good designers must recognize their strengths and weaknesses not only in creative skill, but also in their ability to interact with others day-to-day.

This presentation will establish a framework for evaluating and understanding the interpersonal dynamics of common scenarios in creative projects. With the theory as a backdrop, the second half of the session will focus on skills and techniques for making conversations easier.

Dan Brown is founder and principal at EightShapes, LLC, a user experience consulting firm based in Washington, DC. Dan has been practicing information architecture and user experience design since 1995. He is the author of Communicating Design (New Riders, 2006) and a frequent contributer to Boxes and Arrows, UX Matters, the CHI Bulletin, and Interactive Television Today. Dan is a popular speaker at conferences and is an active leader in the DC information architecture community.

Doors open at 6:00 p.m.
Announcements begin at 6:30 p.m.
Non-members $15; Members $10; Students $5
Online pre-payment required at http://nycupa.org.

Location to be announced.

Special Notes:

Please help Dan and EightShapes by participating in the design documentation survey: http://is.gd/u5Iq.

NYCUPA elections are coming up soon. Candidates for the offices of President and Vice President will be taking a few minutes to address the audience. Paid members are eligible to vote (and receive discounted entry to events), so join the chapter!</full-description>
    <id type="integer">724</id>
    <region>NY</region>
    <short-description>The NYC chapter of UPA is pleased to announce open registration at http://nycupa.org for Dan Brown's presentation "Difficult Conversations in Creative Environments." Suitable for all creatives.</short-description>
    <start-on type="date">2009-05-19</start-on>
    <title>NYCUPA hosts Dan Brown of EightShapes</title>
    <virtual type="boolean">false</virtual>
    <website>http://nycupa.org</website>
    <url>http://events.boxesandarrows.com/events/724</url>
    <logo-url nil="true"></logo-url>
    <tag-string>career development, design communication, information architecture, interaction design, user experience, visual design</tag-string>
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  <event>
    <city>Cambridge</city>
    <country>USA</country>
    <end-on type="date">2009-09-17</end-on>
    <full-description>no conference</full-description>
    <id type="integer">491</id>
    <region>MA</region>
    <short-description>Incorrect listing. Trying to delete. </short-description>
    <start-on type="date">2009-09-13</start-on>
    <title>No conference</title>
    <virtual type="boolean">false</virtual>
    <website>http://www.none.com</website>
    <url>http://events.boxesandarrows.com/events/491</url>
    <logo-url>http://events.boxesandarrows.com/event/logo/491/DasherZoey081708_3.jpg</logo-url>
    <tag-string>agile development, ajax, information architecture, innovation, interaction design, product strategy, usability, usability testing, visual design, web design</tag-string>
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  <event>
    <city>Boston</city>
    <country>USA</country>
    <end-on type="date">2009-11-04</end-on>
    <full-description>Register with the promotion code BOXES and get $50/day off the current registration price. Register for all 3 days and you'll also get a free gift. Your choice of Bose in-ear or around-ear headphones.  

Whether you&#8217;re looking for insights into new strategies, you need to learn the latest advancements, or you want a primer for new skills, this conference is the one for you. Our team of experts will set your imagination on fire, powering up your creative juices so you can dazzle and delight, whether you&#8217;re a member of a large team or a UX-Team-Of-One. 

  * Gerry McGovern shows you his unique scoring method, Customer Carewords, which tells you in precise, statistical terms what your users top tasks are. 

   * Ginny Redish gives you key concepts on planning and writing for the web and how to develop a cohesive content strategy for your site. 

   * Dana Chisnell brings your user research skills to the next level with advanced recruiting techniques and methods the pro use to analyze data faster.

   * Scott Berkun tackles the executive mandate "go forth and innovate" by explaining how to convert the knowledge you have into ideas that can change the world.

   * Donna Spencer introduce you to a variety of techniques to solve hard IA problems, such as choosing good labels and matching the right organization scheme for your audiences.

   * Leah Buley teaches you secrets for quickly exploring a range of design alternatives, moving from back-of-the-napkin sketching to mapping out your design's interaction, flow, and form.

   * Todd Zaki Warfel shows you how easy prototyping is and how to collect insightful and critical feedback quickly from your team with the latest methods.

   * Dan Rubin gives you a crash course on how to create visual designs that look great and function brilliantly.

Don't forget to use promo code BOXES for your $50/day discount.

Read more about the program and register at www.uiconf.com</full-description>
    <id type="integer">941</id>
    <region>MA</region>
    <short-description>Now in its fourteenth year, the UI14 Conference examines the biggest issues in the world of web design, content management, information architecture, and usability.</short-description>
    <start-on type="date">2009-11-01</start-on>
    <title>User Interface 14 (UI14)</title>
    <virtual type="boolean">false</virtual>
    <website>http://www.uiconf.com</website>
    <url>http://events.boxesandarrows.com/events/941</url>
    <logo-url>http://events.boxesandarrows.com/event/logo/941/UI14logo.jpg</logo-url>
    <tag-string>information architecture, interaction design, prototyping, usability testing, user interface, visual design, web design</tag-string>
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  <event>
    <city>San Francisco</city>
    <country>USA</country>
    <end-on type="date">2010-11-18</end-on>
    <full-description>The Dragonfly Effect is a must-read for designers and developers interested in connecting meaning with social media and the design principles invaluable for affecting big change in small acts. Please join Cooper on November 17th from 6-9PM at 100 First Street, 26th Floor, San Francisco.
</full-description>
    <id type="integer">1521</id>
    <region>CA</region>
    <short-description>Join Cooper for an open studio with Jennifer Aaker, co-author of The Dragonfly Effect, to hear about quick, effective and powerful ways to use social media to drive social change.</short-description>
    <start-on type="date">2010-11-17</start-on>
    <title>Social Media for Social Good</title>
    <virtual type="boolean">false</virtual>
    <website>http://www.cooper.com/journal/2010/11/the_dragonfly_effect_social_me.html</website>
    <url>http://events.boxesandarrows.com/events/1521</url>
    <logo-url>http://events.boxesandarrows.com/event/logo/1521/calendarpostimage.png</logo-url>
    <tag-string>cooper, dragonfly effect, interaction design, open studio, visual design</tag-string>
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  <event>
    <city>San Francisco</city>
    <country>USA</country>
    <end-on type="date">2010-11-18</end-on>
    <full-description>The Dragonfly Effect is a must-read for designers and developers interested in connecting meaning with social media and the design principles invaluable for affecting big change in small acts. Please join Cooper on November 17th from 6-9PM at 100 First Street, 26th Floor, San Francisco.
</full-description>
    <id type="integer">1523</id>
    <region>CA</region>
    <short-description>Join Cooper for an open studio with Jennifer Aaker, co-author of The Dragonfly Effect, to hear about quick, effective and powerful ways to use social media to drive social change.</short-description>
    <start-on type="date">2010-11-17</start-on>
    <title>Social Media for Social Good</title>
    <virtual type="boolean">false</virtual>
    <website>http://www.cooper.com/journal/2010/11/the_dragonfly_effect_social_me.html</website>
    <url>http://events.boxesandarrows.com/events/1523</url>
    <logo-url>http://events.boxesandarrows.com/event/logo/1523/calendarpostimage.png</logo-url>
    <tag-string>cooper, dragonfly effect, interaction design, open studio, visual design</tag-string>
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  <event>
    <city>San Francisco</city>
    <country>USA</country>
    <end-on type="date">2011-08-06</end-on>
    <full-description>Now in its second year, Device Design Day (D3) is a one day conference for professionals who create consumer products with embedded technology. D3 brings together designers, technologists, and product
developers and also features speakers such as Robert Brunner of Ammunition, Branko Lukic of Nonobject, and Mike Kruzeniski of Microsoft, among others. This is a multi-perspective conversation with expert content on making better products and intuitive tools within technology. The event will take place in San Francisco on August 5, 2011 at the prestigious San Francisco Art Institute.</full-description>
    <id type="integer">1585</id>
    <region>CA</region>
    <short-description>A one-day conference for professionals who design hardware or software for consumer electronics, appliances, and mobile devices.</short-description>
    <start-on type="date">2011-08-05</start-on>
    <title>Device Design Day (D3)</title>
    <virtual type="boolean">false</virtual>
    <website>http://devicedesignday.com/</website>
    <url>http://events.boxesandarrows.com/events/1585</url>
    <logo-url>http://events.boxesandarrows.com/event/logo/1585/180x180.jpg</logo-url>
    <tag-string>appliances, consumer electronics, interaction design, mobile devices, visual design</tag-string>
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