Please join us at the next Silicon Valley IxDA meeting, on Wednesday, January 16, 2008. Jonathan Arnowitz and Michael Arent will give a talk on prototyping.
Effective Prototyping Jonathan Arnowitz and Michael Arent Who ineffectively prototypes? Unfortunately, we all do. The current state of the art of prototyping relies heavily on serendipity. How can you take a more strategic view of prototyping? This interactive discussion covers the strategy, tactics, and tools of prototypingincluding a demonstration of some unlikely prototyping tools. Presenter Bios: Jonathan Arnowitz is currently a User Experience Architect at Google Inc. He has over 20 years experience in designing user experiences. Jonathan started out designing interactive multimedia software. In 1991, Jonathan moved to the Netherlands where he was an interaction design consultant for over 10 years. Most recently, he worked as a Senior Interaction Designer for PeopleSoft, then as User Experience Architect for SAP Labs, where he worked on designing, training, and implementing user experience patterns for the next generation of SAP applications. Jonathan also volunteers with ACM/SIGCHI, for which, among other things, he was a co-founder of the DUX conference (Designing for User Experiences), co-editor in chief of Interactions Magazine, and most recently, the Design Community co-chair for CHI2008. Jonathan is also co-author of the book Effective Prototyping for Software Makers, published by Morgan Kaufmann. Michael Arent is currently Vice President of User Interface Architecture at SAP Labs, in Palo Alto, California. He leads a team of user experience professionals in defining and specifying the user interface building blocks for application software targeted to the small and medium-size business marketplace. His team also defines and manages the user interface standards and guidelines that ensure consistency and quality in the user interface and user experience of SAP software solutions. Michael has had a distinguished career in UX design, as a manager and individual contributorprior to SAP, with such major companies as PeopleSoft, Adobe Systems, MetaDesign, Sun Microsystems, and Apple Computer. In addition to enterprise business and analytics software solutions, he has been involved in forward-thinking projects, including interactive multimedia and TV and Internet-based commerce. Michael is also co-author of the recently released book Effective Prototyping for Software Makers. Date & Time: Wednesday, January 16, 2008 6:30-7:30 pmSocializing and Refreshments 7:30-9:30 pm--Program and Q&A Location: Google 1600 Amphitheatre Parkway Mountain View, California 94043 Go to the Lobby of Building 41 to sign in with security, who will then escort you to the event in Building 40. For more information, go to: http://www.baychi.org/calendar/20080116/ For directions, go to: http://www.baychi.org/calendar/20080116/directions/ Co-sponsors of this event: * IxDA (Interaction Design Association) Silicon Valley Face to Face * BayCHI IxD BOF Pabini Gabriel-Petit IxDA Silicon Valley Local Coordinator BayCHI IxD BOF Leader Principal User Experience Architect Spirit Softworks LLC www.spiritsoftworks.com [EMAIL PROTECTED] ________________________________________________________________ *Come to IxDA Interaction08 | Savannah* February 8-10, 2008 in Savannah, GA, USA Register today: http://interaction08.ixda.org/ ________________________________________________________________ Welcome to the Interaction Design Association (IxDA)! To post to this list ....... [EMAIL PROTECTED] Unsubscribe ................ http://www.ixda.org/unsubscribe List Guidelines ............ http://www.ixda.org/guidelines List Help .................. http://www.ixda.org/help
