Dang! It's times like this I wished I lived in California. Are you planning on recording the event, Pabini?
Hugh Griffith User Interface Designer On Wed, Jan 20, 2010 at 7:38 PM, Pabini Gabriel-Petit < [email protected]> wrote: > Come join us at our next Silicon Valley IxDA event! Luke Wroblewski, author > of Web Form Design, will give a talk on the topic Input: Moving Beyond > Web Forms. > > When: Wednesday, February 17, 2010 > > Socializing: 7:00-7:30 pm > > Program: 7:30-9:30 pm > > Where: Yahoo! Inc. > 701 First Avenue > Meeting room: Building C, Classroom 5 > Sunnyvale, CA 94089 > > Input: Moving Beyond Web Forms > > A Web application can't exist without users' input. We need the data, but > do we need Web forms to get it? Traditional Web forms—made up of text > fields, radio buttons, check boxes, and a Submit button—have been the > mainstay of Web application design. In ecommerce, social networking > applications, and productivity tools, Web forms continue to define crucial > Web interactions. Thankfully, new approaches for user input are now giving > designers more to work with and create better user experiences. > > Luke will explore several novel ways in which Web applications can collect > user input, through both mobile devices and desktop software, without > forcing users to complete lengthy, sequential forms. He’ll provide detailed > research-based solutions that articulate not only the how, but the why, as > well. You'll walk away with practical solutions you can immediately put to > use. > > Luke Wroblewski is an internationally recognized product-design leader who > has designed or contributed to software more than 700 million people use > worldwide. Currently Chief Design Architect at Yahoo! Inc., Luke is working > on forward-looking, integrated customer experiences on the Web, mobile, TV, > and beyond. > > Luke is the author of two popular Web design books: Web Form Design and > Site-Seeing: A Visual Approach to Web Usability. He also publishes > Functioning Form, a leading online publication for interaction designers. > Luke is consistently a top-rated speaker at conferences and companies around > the world and is a Co-founder and former Board member of the Interaction > Design Association (IxDA). > > Previously, Luke was the Lead User Interface Designer on the platform team > at eBay, where he led the strategic design of new consumer products such as > eBay Express and Kijij, as well as internal tools and processes. He is also > founder of LukeW Ideation & Design, a product strategy and design > consultancy, has taught interface design courses at the University of > Illinois, and worked as a Senior Interface Designer at the National Center > for Supercomputing Applications (NCSA), the birthplace of the first popular > graphic Web browser, NCSA Mosaic. > Co-sponsors of this event: > > IxDA (Interaction Design Association) Silicon Valley Face to Face > BayCHI IxD BOF > I hope to see you there! > > Regards, Pabini > _____________________ > > Pabini Gabriel-Petit > > Principal UX Architect > Spirit Softworks LLC > www.spiritsoftworks.com > > Publisher & Editor in Chief > UXmatters > www.uxmatters.com > > > > > ________________________________________________________________ > 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 > ________________________________________________________________ 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
