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DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20061009
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20061013
SUMMARY:UI11 - User Interface 11 Conference
LOCATION:Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA
DESCRIPTION:Use BOXES promotion code and receive $50 off each day or $250 o
 ff a four-day registration.
\n
\nKeynotes by Jared Spool and Barry Schwartz
 
\n
\nGround-breaking Full-Day Seminars:
\n
\nCreating Persuasion Architect
 ure Online 
\nBryan and Jeffrey Eisenberg, Future Now 
\n
\nDevelop a strat
 egy for persuading your users to take action.  You'll learn how to map your
  user goals with your site's business goals. 
\n
\n  - o - o -
\nHow to Des
 ign a Task-Based Information Architecture 
\nGerry McGovern
\n
\nGet a soli
 d grounding in information architecture that will enable you to create desi
 gns that help users find what they want.
\n
\n  - o - o -
\nBuilding and Ma
 naging a Successful User Experience Team 
\nSarah Bloomer and Susan Wolfe
\
 n
\nLearn proven processes for creating a successful usability team, includ
 ing how the best teams work together and report success.
\n
\n  - o - o -
\
 nRich Internet Applications and AJAX
\nDavid (Heller) Malouf & Bill Scott, 
 Yahoo! 
\n
\nLearn to create your own Rich Internet Application solution us
 ing powerful technologies, such as AJAX or Flash.
\n
\n  - o - o -
\nMaking
  Meaning: Creating an Engaging User Experience 
\nNathan Shedroff
\n
\nLear
 n the most effective processes for establishing a deep and meaningful conne
 ction with your users.
\n
\n  - o - o -
\nSite Seeing: Communicating Succes
 sfully with Visual Design 
\nLuke Wroblewski, Yahoo! 
\n
\nGet practical in
 sights and strategies for boosting your site's visual appeal and delighting
  your users.
\n
\n  - o - o -
\nBringing User-Centered Design Practices int
 o Agile Development Projects 
\nJeff Patton, ThoughtWorks 
\n
\nUtilize Agi
 le Development processes to speed development, improve quality, reduce feat
 ure creep, and encourage team collaboration.
\n
\n  - o - o -
\nAdvanced Me
 thods for Usability Testing 
\nRolf Molich
\n
\nUncover the best practices 
 for usability testing with rare insights pulled from research on more than 
 a dozen usability teams.
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\n  - o - o -
\nFull-day seminars by Jared Spoo
 l, Christine Perfetti, and Josh Porter
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DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20061025
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20061027
SUMMARY:Cooper U  |  Visual Interface Design
LOCATION:San Francisco, California, USA
DESCRIPTION:Although the right features and behavior are essential to succe
 ssful product design, the way they are presented can be just as important. 
 The application of type, color, icons, and other aspects of visual design a
 re critical to the usability of your product or Web site. Visual design cho
 ices are also critical to connecting emotionally with your customers (and t
 o selling more products). This is not just a class on principles! It also c
 overs process you won't see anywhere else.
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\nWHO SHOULD ATTEND:
\nDesign
 ers, developers, usability professionals, brand managers, and anyone else r
 esponsible for delivering products that are desirable as well as usable.
\n
 
\nYOU WILL LEARN HOW TO:
\n*Use visual design to clarify interaction and i
 nformation
\n
\n*Use research and personas to guide visual choices and driv
 e consensus
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\n*Create learnable, memorable icons
\n
\n*Adapt your corpor
 ate identity to a product or Web site
\n
\n*Apply visual design principles 
 to multiple platforms
\n
\n*Develop a comprehensive visual system for consi
 stent, easy application
\n
\n*Capture your work in a comprehensive Visual S
 tyle Guide
\n
\nCOURSE MATERIALS INCLUDE:
\n*Course binder with hard copies
  of slides and a variety of useful handouts
\n
\n*Visual Style Guide exampl
 e
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\n“Five stars!�
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\n“Take this course! There’s really none li
 ke it. Till now, you’d have to have taken a few graphic design classes to
  get this complete and focused a study.�
\n
\n“Prescriptive information
  that’s really useful.�
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\n“The instructors are clear, kind, enthus
 iastic, knowledgeable, sophisticated, and respectful!!!�
\n
\n“I felt t
 he presenters CARED about the topic and were experts.�
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\n“It’s har
 d to come up with anything to improve. I love the classes here. Can’t wai
 t for the next one!�
\n
\nJUST ONE SEAT LEFT AS OF SEPTEMBER 22ND! Attend
 ance is limited to 20 people. This course is held quarterly. 
\n
\nIf you h
 ave a large group, Cooper U can come to you!
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DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20061113
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20061114
SUMMARY:Eyetracking Web Usability
LOCATION:Copenhagen, Denmark
DESCRIPTION:Jakob Nielsen and Kara Pernice Coyne from Nielsen Norman Group 
 come to Denmark to present their newest research findings. 
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\n255 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 indicat
 e where people look on Web pages.
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\nThe findings have implications for h
 ow to design:
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\n* homepage layout
\n
\n* page design
\n
\n* search
\n
\n
 * content and writing
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\n* pictures/images
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DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20070919
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20070825
SUMMARY:Silicon Valley IxDA Meeting, September 19, at Yaho
LOCATION:Sunnyvale, California, USA
DESCRIPTION:Please join us at the next Silicon Valley IxDA meeting, on Sept
 ember 19, 2007. Kim Goodwin and Nate Fortin of Cooper will give a talk on:
 \n
\nWhere Usability Meets Desirability: Visual Design with Personas and Go
 als
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\nVisual design contributes to usability by clarifying hierarchy and
  relationships, making type more readable, and making screens less cluttere
 d. It enhances desirability by appealing to our aesthetic sense and emotion
 s. In spite of its importance, though, few practitioners have the tools to 
 integrate visual design with interaction design processes or to help stakeh
 olders evaluate visual design based on objective criteria. Cooper’s Kim Goo
 dwin and Nate Fortin will discuss  how field research, personas, and requir
 ements provide effective means for doing so. Specific topics will include:
 \n
\n* Why it’s ideal to have team members dedicated to either interaction 
 design or visual design.
\n
\n* How minor adjustments to interaction design
  personas can help designers guide, assess, and communicate about visual de
 sign and brand choices.
\n
\n* 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.
\n
\n* How vi
 sual design requirements help designers develop visual style studies and gu
 ide stakeholders in selecting an appropriate direction.
\n
\n* How iteratio
 n, continual reduction, and collaboration among disciplines can form a cohe
 rent visual system.
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\nKim Goodwin, VP Design & General Manager, Cooper
\
 n
\nKim has been a major contributor to the development of Cooper’s Goal-Di
 rected Design methods and is primarily responsible for the curriculum of it
 s respected Cooper U courses. Kim has been a popular instructor at full-day
  CHI tutorials, UIE’s national conferences, and numerous other events.
\n
\
 nNate Fortin, Director of Visual Design & Branding, Cooper
\n
\nAs head of 
 Cooper’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 rigor
 ous as Cooper’s interaction design methods. Nate was closely involved in th
 e development of Cooper’s two-day visual interface design course and has be
 en a popular Cooper U instructor.
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\nDate & Time:
\nWednesday, September 
 19, 2007
\n7:00-7:30 pm--Socializing
\n7:30-9:30 pm--Program
\n
\nLocation:
 
\nYahoo!
\n701 First Avenue
\nSunnyvale, California 94089
\nRoom: To be an
 nounced
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\nFor directions, go to: http://www.baychi.org/calendar/20070919
 /directions/
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\nCo-sponsors of this event:
\n
\n* BayCHI IxD BOF
\n* IxDA
  (Interaction Design Association) Silicon Valley Face to Face
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DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20071105
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20071109
SUMMARY:UI12 - User Interface 12 Conference
LOCATION:Boston, Massachusetts, USA
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 ht
 tp://www.uiconf.com
\n
\nBOXES promo code cannot be combined with any other
  special offer or promotional code, and is only valid for 4 day registratio
 ns. 
\n
\nFor the User Interface 12 Conference 
\n( 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.  
\n
\nFor 4 full days, you'll learn in-depth tech
 niques from these top experts, and come away with the knowledge and confide
 nce necessary to tackle your biggest design challenges. 
\n
\nNow in its tw
 elfth year, the UI12 Conference examines the most critical web design and u
 sability issues facing designers, information architects, and usability pro
 fessionals. Topics include: Agile Development, Task-based Information Archi
 tecture, Usability Testing, Visual Design, Building Innovative Designs, Com
 municating with Comics, Interaction Design, and Designing with CSS. 
\n
\nO
 n Monday, November 5th, you'll have the chance to attend one of four full-d
 ay seminars from Larry Constantine, Gerry McGovern, Rolf Molich, or Luke Wr
 oblewski. 
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\nOn Tuesday, November 6th, you'll have the chance to attend 
 several of the informative and entertaining 90-minute Featured Talks from e
 ach of our conference speakers, as well as the UI12 Conference Keynote pres
 entation from Jared M. Spool. 
\n
\nOn Wednesday, November 7th, you'll have
  the chance to attend one of four full-day seminars from Scott Berkun, Kevi
 n Cheng, Kim Goodwin, or Cameron Moll. 
\n
\nWe'll cap off the week on Thur
 sday, November 8th, with our Showcase Seminar Day, where you can choose bet
 ween UIE's most popular seminars.
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DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20080728
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20080730
SUMMARY:Cooper U: Visual Interface Design course
LOCATION:San Francisco, California, USA
DESCRIPTION:Visual interface design combines detailed interaction design, s
 creen layout, and branding to ensure that a well-conceived, well-behaved pr
 oduct 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.
\n
\nThis two-day workshop 
 will teach you how to:
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\n    * Use research and personas to guide visual
  choices and drive consensus
\n    * Use color, size, and other visual prop
 erties to clarify interaction and information
\n    * Create learnable, mem
 orable icons
\n    * Adapt your corporate identity to a product or Web site
 
\n    * Apply visual design principles to multiple platforms
\n    * Manag
 e the collaboration between interaction design and visual interface design
 \n    * Develop a comprehensive visual system for consistent, easy applicat
 ion
\n    * Capture your work in a comprehensive visual style guide
\n
\nAf
 ter taking this course, interaction designers, programmers, and product man
 agers will be better able to evaluate and discuss visual interface design. 
 Practicing visual interface designers and graphic designers may find that t
 he sections on brand and using visual properties to establish hierarchy are
  review.
\n______________________________________
\n
\nHere's what attendee
 s are saying:
\n
\n"Take this course! There's really none like it."
\n
\n"E
 xcellent course. Good mix of theory and practical application."
\n
\n"Inten
 se and challenging--full of information that can be used in real life."
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 ______________________________________
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\nMake the trip even more worthwh
 ile! Our four-day Interaction Design Practicum is the previous week, and ou
 r two-day course on Communicating Design is the same week.
\n
\nAll Cooper 
 U courses are taught by senior Cooper designers. Courses are limited to 20 
 people to ensure plenty of interaction.
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DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20081013
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20081017
SUMMARY:User Interface 13 (UI13)
LOCATION:Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA
DESCRIPTION:Use the promo code "BOXES" for a free Flip Ultra camcorder when
  you register for the full conference,  and $120 off the four day conferenc
 e registration rate.  Can't attend the entire conference?  You'll get $30/d
 ay off for each day you register.
\n
\nAt User Interface 13, the longest ru
 nning conference dedicated to web design, information architecture, and usa
 bility, you’ll get 4 full days of in-depth techniques from the world’s lead
 ing web design and usability experts. 
\n
\nWe've asked the most forward-th
 inking minds in the world of experience design to address your biggest chal
 lenges. Our expert speakers will present on today's most pressing topics, i
 ncluding interaction design, information architecture, agile development, i
 nnovation, usability testing, Ajax, product strategy, and visual design.
\n
 
\nOn Monday and Wednesday, you will attend full-day seminars with our expe
 rt 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 y
 ou can choose between UIE's most popular seminars.
\n
\nWe’ve recruited a f
 abulous group of speakers, ready to help you solve your biggest design prob
 lems. You'll hear from:
\n
\nJeff Patton, Kim Goodwin, Dana Chisnell, Jerem
 y Keith, Scott Burkun, Peter Merholz, Andrew Crow, Luke Wroblewski, Donna (
 Maurer) Spencer, Bill Verplank, Christine Perfetti, and Jared Spool
\n
\nUs
 e 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.
\n
\nView the complete summit description, and register 
 at http://www.uiconf.com
\n
\nUI13 is produced by User Interface Engineerin
 g.
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20081120
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20081121
SUMMARY:UIE Virtual Seminar: Essentials of Visual Design
LOCATION:Virtual
DESCRIPTION:What questions do you have about Visual Design? You have the Vi
 sual Design skills to do a good job, but what tools or tricks can you add t
 o your toolbox?  Does you team have a complete understanding that Visual de
 sign can dramatically improve the experience with your products, and when t
 hey're stuck, how do you help them?  
\n
\nIn this entertaining 90-minute p
 resentation, Patrick will help you make your products easier to use by appl
 ying surprising, memorable design techniques. Patrick, an expert in visual 
 instruction and wordless communication, has worked with usability professio
 nals like you to improve the design of digital, online, and hard copy infor
 mation.
\n
\nUse the promotion code BOXES and register with our lowest pric
 e of just $99!
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