*Reminder:
*NYC Usability Professionals Association presents:
*Wayfinding: a real world signage system & its implications for online
design***
Think it's important to know how to get around a website? How about a
hospital? Find out how Sylvia Harris, a leading Information Design
Strategist, was able to create a new vision for visitor information delivery
at the New York area's largest hospital. Sylvia will share her information
design system and wayfinding masterplan to improve patient experience at
Columbia Presbyterian Hospital.
For more information on Sylvia's work, please visit her website at
sylviaharris.com.
*Speaker*: Sylvia Harris
*Date*: Tuesday, Feb 26, 2008
*Registration*: 6:00pm (refreshments served)
Please arrive by 6 to allow time to get through security.
Photo ID is required by security to enter building. It must match the name
on the registration list.
*Presentation*: 6:30pm to 8:00pm (includes Q&A)
*Networking*: 8:00pm to 8:30pm
Dinner at a nearby restaurant: 8:30pm to whenever
(participants pay for their own dinner)
*Location*: JPMorgan Chase,
277 Park Avenue (between 47th & 48th),
Room 1701 (17th floor)
*Cost*: NYC-UPA members: $10
Non-members: $20
Non-members with 1 year membership: $25
Full-time students: $5 (students please provide
valid ID)
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25, 2008*
(day before the event).
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Members of our parent organization, the UPA (the Usability Professionals'
Association), must join the NYC chapter to qualify for member rates. We
encourage everyone to join our parent organization, though you do not need
to do so to become a member of our chapter. You can learn more about our NYC
organization or learn about our parent organization.
Seats are limited and reservations are first come, first served. We advise
you to register early as previous events have sold out and we had to turn
people away.
For more information, visit Web site: http://nycupa20080226.eventbrite.com
*About the speaker:
*Sylvia Harris is New York City's "Public Designer". She has devoted
twenty-five years to the design and management of public-interest
communications.
A leading advisor to New York City's largest institutions, Sylvia conducts
assessments and formulates communication strategies for branding and public
information campaigns. She was the lead design strategist for the redesign
of the 2000 National Census and recently developed information master plans
for New York Presbyterian Hospital, the American Civil Liberties Union and
Columbia University.
She is currently a member of the U.S. Postal Service Citizens' Stamp
Advisory Committee and is on the advisory committees of WNYC's Studio 360,
the Design Trust for Public Spaces and the AIGA's Design for Democracy. She
has also lectured around the world and written numerous articles on culture,
design and diversity.
>From 1990 through 2000 Sylvia was a design critic at the Yale University
School of Art. She received her M.F.A. from Yale in 1980 and a B.F.A. from
Virginia Commonwealth University in 1975.
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