[IxDA Discuss] [ EVENT RECAP ] IxDA NYC Table-4-20 w/ Special Guests (Whitney Hess and Karen McGrane) on Feb 18
We'd like to thank everyone who came out for our February 18 “Table-4-20” IxDA NYC event. A special thanks to industry leaders Whitney Hess and Karen McGrane who attended as our special guests. For two hours, the attendees shared casual conversation and New York pizza. The atmosphere was very relaxed, and no one hesitated to switch seats and join conversations at other parts of the table. *The Event Objectives Were:* - To gather professionals of similar interest together for a focused conversation - To give access to leaders in the field for direct questions - To introduce IxD professionals to each other We look forward to having a similar event in the spring! *About our guests:* *WHITNEY HESS* is a user experience design consultant based in New York City. She helps make stuff easy and pleasurable to use. Prior to going independent, Whitney was on the design team at Liquidnet, an international financial software company that runs the leading electronic marketplace for wholesale stock-trading. Previously, she was an interaction designer at two marketing agencies, Digitas and Tribal DDB, where her clients included American Express, The New York Times, Allstate, Claritin, Tropicana, and EarthLink. Most notably, she helped to conceive, design, and test an innovative card search tool for American Express, and is named as a co-inventor on its U.S. patent. Whitney is a strategic partner with Happy Cog and user experience consultant for Boxee, among other startups and major corporations. She received a Bachelor of Arts in Professional Writing and a Master’s degree in Human-Computer Interaction from Carnegie Mellon University. She writes about improving the human experience on her blog, Pleasure and Pain http://whitneyhess.com/blog/ and can always be reached viaTwitter @whitneyhesshttp://twitter.com/whitneyhess . *KAREN MCGRANE *If the internet is more awesome than it was in 1995, Karen would like to claim a very tiny piece of the credit. For more than 15 years, Karen has helped create more usable digital products through the power of user experience design and content strategy. Today, as Senior Partner at Bond Art + Science, she works with clients to create personalized portals that dynamically update based on user behavior, develops data visualizations that make complex quantitative information easy to understand, and consults with publishers on ways to make their sites more appealing to readers and successful for advertisers. Prior to starting Bond, Karen helped build the User Experience practice at Razorfish, hired as the very first Information Architect and leaving as the VP and National Lead for UX. Over the decade she spent there, she led projects for dozens of clients, overseeing major redesign initiatives for The New York Times, Condé Nast, Disney, and Citibank. Karen is also on the faculty of the new MFA in Interaction Design program at SVA in New York, where she teaches Interaction Design History, focusing on the key movements and trends that have shaped the field, and Design Management, which aims to give students the skills they need to run successful projects, teams, and businesses. She received an MS in Technical Communication fromRensselaer Polytechnic Institute, with a focus on Human-Computer Interaction. See you then, IxDA New York Local Leaders http://www.ixda.org http://www.twitter.com/IxDA_NYC Welcome to the Interaction Design Association (IxDA)! To post to this list ... disc...@ixda.org Unsubscribe http://www.ixda.org/unsubscribe List Guidelines http://www.ixda.org/guidelines List Help .. http://www.ixda.org/help
[IxDA Discuss] Re-cap of November Event Steve Po rtigal presents “Yes, My Iguana Loves to Cha- Cha: Improv, Creativity and Collaboration. ”
On November 19 Steve Portigal presented “Yes, My Iguana Loves to Cha-Cha: Improv, Creativity and Collaboration.” We’d like to thank our special guest speaker for engaging us in a relaxed, informative, and truly interactive evening of improv games that gave us fresh ways of thinking about our creative work. Steve did a fantastic job facilitating a nicely-paced mix of slide presentation, exercises with audience members, and subsequent group discussion in which the room was openly engaged. A lot of interesting and thoughtful ideas were exchanged. We also are grateful to the good people of R/GA for hosting us, especially Chloe Gottlieb, VP, Executive Creative Director, Interaction Design and Courtney Buckle, Recruiter. Thanks to all of our amazing local volunteers who made the evening possible, especially MJ Broadbent who worked with Steve to develop the program and Jesse Wilbur who managed virtually all of the logistics at R/GA (including live streaming) while working on a major pitch that ran concurrently with our event. And last but not least, a big thank you to the brilliant IxDA New York community members who attended: your participation in the improv games and conversation really electrified the event! Video: http://www.ustream.tv/recorded/2595655 Slides: http://www.slideshare.net/steveportigal/yes-my-iguana-loves-to-chacha-improv-creativity-and-collaboration * * *Upcoming Events:* NYC UX Community Holiday Party Tuesday, December 8th, 2009 http://bit.ly/7a8cui UX Show and Tell with Chris Avore Thursday, December 17, 2009 http://ixdanycdec09.eventbrite.com/ http://ixdanycdec09.eventbrite.com/Interaction 10 February 4-7, 2010 http://interaction.ixda.org/ See you there! The IxDA NYC local leaders Welcome to the Interaction Design Association (IxDA)! To post to this list ... disc...@ixda.org Unsubscribe http://www.ixda.org/unsubscribe List Guidelines http://www.ixda.org/guidelines List Help .. http://www.ixda.org/help
[IxDA Discuss] [Event] IxDA NYC presents UX Show and Tell with Chris Avore
IxDA NYC is pleased to present UX Show and Tell with Chris Avore UX Show and Tell is a casual workshop that’s all about the work, where you get feedback on your UX, IA and IxD deliverables from practitioners instead of stakeholders. Because let's face it: even the most involved practitioners of the UX community have few places to share work with other helpful colleagues in a face to face environment. Even if you don't have something to show, help your fellow IA's, designers, and researchers by sharing solutions with those who are showing work. The Format There will be three rooms to keep the number of people small and facilitate discussion. Each person gets about ½ hour. They begin by providing a background on the project and the deliverable or document he or she will show. Presenters then identify whether they're providing work that addressed a unique problem that others could benefit learning from, or they state the problem or issue they're facing and ask the group for help. The next 15 to 20 minutes are spent walking through the document and how others have solved similar problems. The remaining half is reserved for feedback and discussion. We plan on having 3 – 5 presentations per room depending how quick each one is. If you are interested in showing your work please contact us at nyc.i...@gmail.com. We're looking for 9 – 15 people to share their work. Work can be any type of deliverable or artifact, such as personas, wireframes, scenarios and user stories, concept models, site maps, prototypes, content strategy, sketchboards, design process, your portfolio, your resume, so forth. We need people with work in different formats, we'll have projector in one room, a large LCD in another, and the third will not have something to display. ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ Registration: http://ixdanycdec09.eventbrite.com/ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ WHEN Thursday, December 17, 2009 6:30 - 7:00 p.m. Networking and refreshments 7:00 - 7:10 p.m. Welcome and announcements 7:10 - 8:45 p.m. Break out into 3 groups and begin sessions. WHERE Moment 13 Crosby Street New York, NY 10013 http://www.momentnyc.com/ Map: http://bit.ly/6r2qF1 -- Free and open to everyone interested however tickets are required. IMPORTANT!! Seating is limited. So you must have a ticket to attend. Please only RSVP if you know you can attend. Cancellations: Please email us (nyc.i...@gmail.com) as soon as you know you cannot use your ticket. We'll release your seat for one of your fellow practitioners and generate good IxD karma for all involved! -- ABOUT OUR SPEAKER Chris Avore (@erova http://twitter.com/erova) is an independent user experience designer in the New York area following 10 years in and around Washington DC. He's currently integrating social interaction design into a corporate enterprise portal for a Fortune 100 pharmaceutical and research company. He also organizes UX Show and Tell events where interaction designers, user experience professionals and information architects of all backgrounds and experience share work with each other. To date, Chris has organized UX Show and Tell workshops in Baltimore, Washington DC, and Philadelphia, and will also be hosting a UX Show and Tell in Savannah, Georgia at Interaction 10 in February. For any additional information, visit www.erova.com or uxshowandtell.comhttp://www.eventbrite.com/uxshowandtell.com . ABOUT OUR HOST Moment is an interaction design firm. We design products and services for the web, mobile devices, and emerging platforms. www.momentdesign.com http://www.momentdesign.com/ ABOUT OUR REFRESHENTS SPONSOR noise is a business invention agency that creates and markets new businesses, brands, platforms and programs for companies targeting young adults. The company’s mission: To dramatically improve the way brands engage with young adults. To that end we have created a tightly knit team of creatives, marketers, developers and entrepreneurs. Our mantra: Be respectful. It applies to co-workers, clients, and consumers alike. We try really hard to avoid team members who don’t have an equal amount of respect for all three.www.noisenewyork.com ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ Registration: http://ixdanycdec09.eventbrite.com/ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ See you there! The IxDA NYC local leaders Welcome to the Interaction Design Association (IxDA)! To post to this list ... disc...@ixda.org Unsubscribe http://www.ixda.org/unsubscribe List Guidelines http://www.ixda.org/guidelines List Help .. http://www.ixda.org/help
[IxDA Discuss] [Event] NYC UX Community Holiday Party December 8, 2009
Please join us for an evening of merriment at the Fifth Annual UX Community Holiday Party! This is a great time to toast the holidays, reconnect with old colleagues, friends and associates, and make new ones! Tuesday, December 8th, 2009 7:00 - 9:00 PM White Rabbit 145 E. Houston st. New York, NY 10002 (212) 477-5005 www.whiterabbitnyc.comhttp://www.facebook.com/l/13b72;www.whiterabbitnyc.com Map: http://bit.ly/7uitZG No need to RSVP for this event, just show up and join the fun! Participating organizations: - Content Strategy of New York City (CSNYC) - Interaction Design Association New York City (IxDA NYC) - NYC Agile Experience Design Meetup - NYC-CHI - NYC IA Meetup - NYC Usability Professionals Association (NYC UPA) - UX Bookclub NYC See you there! Happy Holidays, IxDA NYC Local Leaders Welcome to the Interaction Design Association (IxDA)! To post to this list ... disc...@ixda.org Unsubscribe http://www.ixda.org/unsubscribe List Guidelines http://www.ixda.org/guidelines List Help .. http://www.ixda.org/help
[IxDA Discuss] IxDA NYC presents Steve Portigal Yes, My Iguana Loves to Cha-Cha: Improv, Creativity and Collaboration - Just a few seats left!
There are just a few seats left for Steve Portigal Yes, My Iguana Loves to Cha-Cha: Improv, Creativity and Collaboration. Register Now: http://www.eventbrite.com/event/458927665/ *An interactive evening with Steve Portigal :* *Yes, My Iguana Loves to Cha-Cha: Improv, Creativity and Collaboration* Improv is not stand-up comedy. It's a series of games with rules that offer huge degrees of freedom within a set of constraints. In these games we bring out a lot of basic, quickly understood and communicated rules of culture that are implicit, not explicit. The activities of design (collaboration, creativity, and design research, for starters) have interesting similarities with improv: All have in-the-moment aspects; we learn upon reflection; there's enormous unspoken interaction and there is often an aha moment. Design and improv also have important similarities: the need to collaborate and brainstorm, the importance of breakthrough thinking, the balance between process, structure, and unfettered creativity. Playing with improv can make us more mindful of the power of listening, and can be harnessed to create a more collaborative work culture, as a way to develop one's own creativity, or to help warm up teammates and clients in workshops and design sessions. In this interactive presentation you will learn more about improv, listening, creativity, and how they all connect together to support one another. No iguanas will be harmed. *WHEN* Thursday, November 19, 2009 6:30 - 7:00 p.m. Networking and refreshments 7:00 - 7:10 p.m. Welcome and announcements 7:10 - 8:30 p.m. Presentation and QA *WHERE* R/GA 350 West 39th Street New York, NY 10018 Map: http://tinyurl.com/rgalocation -- Free and open to everyone interested however tickets are required. Register: http://www.eventbrite.com/event/458927665/ *IMPORTANT!! *Public seating is limited to 100. Tickets will be honored on a first-to-arrive, first-seated basis. Tickets are being oversold to accommodate the typical show-up/no-show rates. (Sorry, there will not be a wait list.) *Cancellations:* Please email us (nyc.i...@gmail.com) as soon as you know you cannot use your ticket. We'll release your seat for one of your fellow practitioners and generate good IxD karma for all involved! -- *ABOUT OUR SPEAKER* Steve Portigal is the principal of Portigal Consultinghttp://www.portigal.com/, a bite-sized firm that brings together user research, design and business strategy. Portigal Consulting helps clients to discover and act on new insights about themselves and their customers. Steve speaks regularly at design events (IDSA, IXDA, interaction09, etc.). He writes for *interactions * magazine, Core77 http://www.core77.com/ and the Portigal Consulting blog, All This ChittahChattah http://www.portigal.com/blog. He is an avid photographer who has a Museum of Foreign Groceries in his home. *ABOUT OUR HOST* R/GA http://www.rga.com/ is a full-service digital agency that transforms the way people interact with brands. A commitment to design, technology, strategy, and innovation has defined R/GA's continuing legacy as an iconoclast in the world of communications and marketing. With a holistic range of offerings that includes brand design, mobile, and retail, R/GA's agency model is adaptable to the ever-changing needs of consumers in the digital landscape. Founded in 1977, R/GA has received the most prestigious creative awards for film, broadcast, design, advertising, and interactive. It was selected for Adweek's Agency of the Year in 2008, Ad Age's Agency A-List in 2008 and Digital A-List in 2009, and Creativity's Interactive Agency of the Year in 2007. R/GA is part of The Interpublic Group (NYSE:IPG), one of the world's largest advertising and marketing services organizations. Register: http://www.eventbrite.com/event/458927665/ See you there! The IxDA NYC local leaders Welcome to the Interaction Design Association (IxDA)! To post to this list ... disc...@ixda.org Unsubscribe http://www.ixda.org/unsubscribe List Guidelines http://www.ixda.org/guidelines List Help .. http://www.ixda.org/help
[IxDA Discuss] Only a few days left to register! Designing for a Sustainable World - World Usability Day 2009, Nov 12
Time grows short to get your seat for *Designing for a Sustainable World - World Usability Day 2009*. This event is a partnership with IxDA and the School of Visual Arts, and offers a lineup of speakers from design, products, and academia who can show us that it is possible to design a product and make a living in an eco-friendly way. *See the full agenda register!*http://nycupa.org/EmailTracker/LinkTracker.ashx?linkId=Y2GURSat%2b0%2fGZnV2jVGrDA%3d%3d Our lineup includes: - Peter Mullan, Director of Planning for Friends of the High Line - Keynote - Beto Lopez, Senior Designer at IDEO - Wendy Brawer, Founder, Green Map System - Ted Booth, Interaction Design Lead at Smart Design - J Grossen, Creative Director at Frog Design - Debera Johnson, Academic Director of Sustainability at Pratt - Michael Dwork, Founder of VerTerra - Marty Odlin, Co-founder, Bamboo Bike Studio ...and more! These entrepreneurs have built successful business models around the core values of sustainability and social responsibility, and can share those stories with you. The event also represents a great networking opportunity. Date: November 12th, 2009 Location: School of Visual Arts Auditorium 333 West 23rd Street (between 8th 9th) New York, NY 10011 | Maphttp://nycupa.org/EmailTracker/LinkTracker.ashx?linkId=Lft6sYnyZywXPEhskQa7bw%3d%3d Registration from 12-1PM Program: 1-5:30PM | View the full agendahttp://nycupa.org/EmailTracker/LinkTracker.ashx?linkId=BCbIadhwLX6FhQr%2bvuuIVA%3d%3d Networking: 5:30-6:30PM Light lunch refreshments included. Students $25 NYC UPA members $65 Non-members $95 For more information and to register,* click herehttp://nycupa.org/EmailTracker/LinkTracker.ashx?linkId=E2T89yTJv0Pxsw0VlrqMdw%3d%3d !* We look forward to seeing you there. Sincerely, Peter March New York Local Leader Interaction Design Association Welcome to the Interaction Design Association (IxDA)! To post to this list ... disc...@ixda.org Unsubscribe http://www.ixda.org/unsubscribe List Guidelines http://www.ixda.org/guidelines List Help .. http://www.ixda.org/help
[IxDA Discuss] [EVENT] IxDA NYC - Thu Nov 19 - Steve Portigal ...Improv, Creativity and Collaboration
REGISTRATION http://ixdanycnov09.eventbrite.com *IxDA NYC is pleased to present an interactive evening with Steve Portigal * *Yes, My Iguana Loves to Cha-Cha: Improv, Creativity and Collaboration* Improv is not stand-up comedy. It's a series of games with rules that offer huge degrees of freedom within a set of constraints. In these games we bring out a lot of basic, quickly understood and communicated rules of culture that are implicit, not explicit. The activities of design (collaboration, creativity, and design research, for starters) have interesting similarities with improv: All have in-the-moment aspects; we learn upon reflection; there's enormous unspoken interaction and there is often an aha moment. Design and improv also have important similarities: the need to collaborate and brainstorm, the importance of breakthrough thinking, the balance between process, structure, and unfettered creativity. Playing with improv can make us more mindful of the power of listening, and can be harnessed to create a more collaborative work culture, as a way to develop one's own creativity, or to help warm up teammates and clients in workshops and design sessions. In this interactive presentation you will learn more about improv, listening, creativity, and how they all connect together to support one another. No iguanas will be harmed. WHEN Thursday, November 19, 2009 6:30 - 7:00 p.m. Networking and refreshments 7:00 - 7:10 p.m. Welcome and announcements 7:10 - 8:30 p.m. Presentation and QA WHERE R/GA 350 West 39th Street New York, NY 10018 Map: http://tinyurl.com/rgalocation = = = = = = = = = = = = REGISTRATION http://ixdanycnov09.eventbrite.com Free and open to anyone interested however TICKETS ARE REQUIRED. *IMPORTANT!! *Public seating is limited to 100. Tickets will be honored on a first-to-arrive, first-seated basis. Tickets are being oversold to accommodate the typical show-up/no-show rates. (Sorry, there will not be a wait list.) *Cancellations:* Please email us (nyc.i...@gmail.com) as soon as you know you cannot use your ticket. We'll release your seat for one of your fellow practitioners and generate good IxD karma for all involved! = = = = = = = = = = = = ABOUT OUR SPEAKER Steve Portigal is the principal of Portigal Consulting, a bite-sized firm that brings together user research, design and business strategy. Portigal Consulting helps clients to discover and act on new insights about themselves and their customers. Steve speaks regularly at design events (IDSA, IXDA, interaction09, etc.). He writes for interactions magazine, Core77 and the Portigal Consulting blog, All This ChittahChattah. He is an avid photographer who has a Museum of Foreign Groceries in his home. ABOUT OUR HOST R/GA is a full-service digital agency that transforms the way people interact with brands. A commitment to design, technology, strategy, and innovation has defined R/GA's continuing legacy as an iconoclast in the world of communications and marketing. With a holistic range of offerings that includes brand design, mobile, and retail, R/GA's agency model is adaptable to the ever-changing needs of consumers in the digital landscape. Founded in 1977, R/GA has received the most prestigious creative awards for film, broadcast, design, advertising, and interactive. It was selected for Adweek's Agency of the Year in 2008, Ad Age's Agency A-List in 2008 and Digital A-List in 2009, and Creativity's Interactive Agency of the Year in 2007. R/GA is part of The Interpublic Group (NYSE:IPG), one of the world's largest advertising and marketing services organizations. See you there! The IxDA NYC local leaders Welcome to the Interaction Design Association (IxDA)! To post to this list ... disc...@ixda.org Unsubscribe http://www.ixda.org/unsubscribe List Guidelines http://www.ixda.org/guidelines List Help .. http://www.ixda.org/help
[IxDA Discuss] Nov 12: IxDA NY NYC UPA Present World Usability Day: Designing for a Sustainable World - Register Now!
November 12th is World Usability Day, and this year's theme is Designing for a Sustainable World. IxDA New York is pleased to partner with NYC UPA and the School of Visual Arts to present a diverse mix of thought leaders who will speak about their experiences connecting sustainability with usable design. Our speaker list includes: Peter Mullan, Director of Planning for Friends of the High Line - Keynote Beto Lopez, Senior Designer at IDEO Ted Booth, Interaction Design Lead at Smart Design J Grossen, Creative Director at Frog Debera Johnson, Academic Director of Sustainability at Pratt …along with a number of entrepreneurs who have built successful business models around the core values of sustainability and social responsibility. Who should attend? This conference directly benefits marketers, designers and researchers who seek to integrate sustainability in branding, product design and messaging in an authentic way. Consumers increasingly consider sustainability in their checkout (or click through) decisions and attach value to brands and experiences that win on intuitive, engaging design and social responsibility. This event is a chance to hear directly from successful pioneers in the field and incorporate their ideas and actions into practice. If your employer isn't yet focused on sustainability and you want to lead the way, or if you want to work for a company that already fights the good fight, this event represents a great networking opportunity. But seats are limited, so mark November 12th in your calendar and register at http://nycupa.org/WorldUsabilityDay now. Date: November 12th Location: School of Visual Arts Auditorium 333 West 23rd Street (between 8th 9th) New York, NY 10011 | Maphttp://maps.google.com/maps?f=qsource=s_qhl=engeocode=q=333+West+23rd+Street,+New+York,+NYsll=37.0625,-95.677068sspn=59.639182,62.314453ie=UTF8hq=hnear=333+W+23rd+St,+New+York,+10011z=17 Registration from 12-1PM Program: 1-5:30PM Networking: 5:30-6:30PM Light lunch refreshments included. Students $25 NYC UPA members $65 Non-members $95 (Note: You can save money by registering as a member of NYC UPA first) For more information and to register, click herehttp://nycupa.org/WorldUsabilityDay ! We look forward to seeing you there. Sincerely, Peter March Local Leader IxDA New York Gloria Petron President NYC Usability Professionals' Association Welcome to the Interaction Design Association (IxDA)! To post to this list ... disc...@ixda.org Unsubscribe http://www.ixda.org/unsubscribe List Guidelines http://www.ixda.org/guidelines List Help .. http://www.ixda.org/help
[IxDA Discuss] Nov 12: NYC UPA IxDA NY Present World Usability Day: Designing for a Sustainable World - Register Now!
November 12th is World Usability Day, and this year's theme is *Designing for a Sustainable World*. NYC UPA is pleased to partner with IxDA New York and the School of Visual Arts to present a diverse mix of thought leaders who will speak about their experiences connecting sustainability with usable design. Our speaker list includes: - Peter Mullan, Director of Planning for Friends of the High Line - Keynote - Beto Lopez, Senior Designer at IDEO - Ted Booth, Interaction Design Lead at Smart Design - J Grossen, Creative Director at Frog - Debera Johnson, Academic Director of Sustainability at Pratt …along with a number of entrepreneurs who have built successful business models around the core values of sustainability and social responsibility. Who should attend? This conference directly benefits marketers, designers and researchers who seek to integrate sustainability in branding, product design and messaging in an authentic way. Consumers increasingly consider sustainability in their checkout (or clickthrough) decisions and attach value to brands and experiences that win on intuitive, engaging design *and* social responsibility. This event is a chance to hear directly from successful pioneers in the field and incorporate their ideas and actions into practice. If your employer isn't yet focused on sustainability and you want to lead the way, or if you want to work for a company that already fights the good fight, this event represents a great networking opportunity. But seats are limited, so mark November 12th in your calendar and register at http://nycupa.org/WorldUsabilityDay now. Date: November 12th Location: School of Visual Arts Auditorium 333 West 23rd Street (between 8th 9th) New York, NY 10011 | Maphttp://docs.google.com/%3Ciframe%20width=%22425%22%20height=%22350%22%20frameborder=%220%22%20scrolling=%22no%22%20marginheight=%220%22%20marginwidth=%220%22%20src=%22http:/maps.google.com/maps?q=333+West+23rd+Street+New+York,+NY+10011amp;oe=utf-8amp;client=firefox-aamp;ie=UTF8amp;gl=usamp;ei=X1rVSumfFYvSlAeLnLScCQamp;ved=0CA4Q8gEwAAamp;hq=amp;hnear=333+W+23rd+St,+New+York,+10011amp;z=16amp;ll=40.745927,-73.999747amp;output=embed%22%3E%3C/iframe%3E%3Cbr%20/%3E%3Csmall%3E%3Ca%20href=%22http://maps.google.com/maps?q=333+West+23rd+Street+New+York,+NY+10011amp;oe=utf-8amp;client=firefox-aamp;ie=UTF8amp;gl=usamp;ei=X1rVSumfFYvSlAeLnLScCQamp;ved=0CA4Q8gEwAAamp;hq=amp;hnear=333+W+23rd+St,+New+York,+10011amp;z=16amp;ll=40.745927,-73.999747amp;source=embed%22%20style=%22color:#FF;text-align:left%22%3EView%20Larger%20Map%3C/a%3E%3C/small%3E Registration from 12-1PM Program: 1-5:30PM Networking: 5:30-6:30PM Light lunch refreshments included. Students $25 NYC UPA members $65 Non-members $95 (Note: You can save money by registering as a member of NYC UPA first) For more information and to register,* click herehttp://nycupa.org/WorldUsabilityDay !* We look forward to seeing you there. Sincerely, Gloria Petron President NYC Usability Professionals' Association Peter March Local Leader IxDA New York Welcome to the Interaction Design Association (IxDA)! To post to this list ... disc...@ixda.org Unsubscribe http://www.ixda.org/unsubscribe List Guidelines http://www.ixda.org/guidelines List Help .. http://www.ixda.org/help
[IxDA Discuss] IxDA New York Fall Workshop, Sat. Oct. 17 - Just a few seats left
, User Experience Practice Lead for Twin Technologies with 14 years industry experience in interaction design, information architecture, and user experience strategy. His experiences includes directing UX for AIR Worldwide, UX Architect for social media site Gather.com http://gather.com/, and UX Architect responsible for the interaction design of Kayak.com http://kayak.com/. He worked at Lotus/IBM where he was the senior information architect, and for Curl - a DARPA-funded MIT project when he was at the MIT Laboratory for Computer Science. Prior to Curl, Will was an interaction designer for Dataware working on various search and KM related product suites including KM Suite II and QueryServer. Will earned an MBA as well as masters degrees in human-computer interaction and cognitive psychology. His passions include design and critical theory, information architecture, information visualization and red wine. He lives in Washington, D.C., drinks far to much coffee, wears only black, and is Design Co-Chair for the IxDA’s Interaction 10 conference in Savannah, Georgoa in February, 2010. *Michele Tepper* Michele Tepper is a Principal Designer in frog design's New York studio. Her work includes a wide range of consumer and enterprise projects, ranging from office equipment for small businesses to mobile health services to combat HIV in South Africa. In 2008, she co-led an frog global expert group on convergent design, bringing together experts from all of frog's studios to develop best-practices for hardware/software interaction design and collaboration. Before frog, Michele worked for IBM, setting interaction standards for the company's global website. She has written influential essays on social software and online community formation, and holds a Ph.D. in English from the University of Michigan. *Todd Zaki Warfel* Todd Zaki Warfel, founder and principal designer at Messagefirst, has been designing products and services for over 15 years. Todd’s clients have included fortune 500 companies like ATT Wireless, Bankrate, Citibank, and Comcast, as well as smaller companies like Numara and rPath. An internationally recognized thought leader on research and design, and member of the Web Standards Project Education Task Force, he has spoken at conferences and taught workshops around the globe. His upcoming book, Practical Prototyping (Rosenfeld Media) will discuss how prototypes are more than just a design tool and show you how to use prototyping to create a common language, market a product, gain internal buy-in, and test feasibility with your development team. Anticipated publication is in 2009. Todd currently lives in Philadelphia, is a known food aficionado with an impressive wine cellar and is the Design Co-Chair for the IxDA’s Interaction 10 conference in Savannah, Georgia in February, 2010. * ABOUT THE VENUE SPONSOR* LBi IconNicholson is a global digital marketing and technology agency that blends creativity and expertise to solve business problems. Well, that sounds fairly impressive, eh? Here’s more: We’re the largest genuinely full service digital agency in Europe, offering branded content, service design, media, CRM, technology, managed hosting, support services and more. And what do the letters L-B-i stand for? We’re not telling. We like a little mystery. There are over 1,500 LBi-ers in European, American and Asian business centers, like Amsterdam, Atlanta, Berlin, Brussels, London, Milan, Mumbai, New York, Paris and Stockholm. * ABOUT IxDA* The Interaction Design Association (http://www.ixda.org/) is a member-supported organization committed to serving the needs of the international interaction design community. With the help of more than 10,000 members worldwide, we provide a network for advancing the discipline of interaction design. IxDA was founded in 2003 as an online discussion list and in just five years the organization has grown to include over 60 local groups worldwide and an annual global conference on interaction design for interaction designers. As one of the largest local groups, IxDA NYC produces monthly face-to-face events for Interaction Design and User Experience professionals who create systems and products of all types: web, desktop, mobile, consumer electronics, digitally-enhanced environments, etc. If you'd like to know more, please email nyc-lo...@ixda.org. See you there, IxDA New York Local Leaders Welcome to the Interaction Design Association (IxDA)! To post to this list ... disc...@ixda.org Unsubscribe http://www.ixda.org/unsubscribe List Guidelines http://www.ixda.org/guidelines List Help .. http://www.ixda.org/help
[IxDA Discuss] IxDA New York Fall Workshop, Sat. Oct. 17
Worldwide, UX Architect for social media site Gather.com, and UX Architect responsible for the interaction design of Kayak.com. He worked at Lotus/IBM where he was the senior information architect, and for Curl - a DARPA-funded MIT project when he was at the MIT Laboratory for Computer Science. Prior to Curl, Will was an interaction designer for Dataware working on various search and KM related product suites including KM Suite II and QueryServer. Will earned an MBA as well as masters degrees in human-computer interaction and cognitive psychology. His passions include design and critical theory, information architecture, information visualization and red wine. He lives in Washington, D.C., drinks far to much coffee, wears only black, and is Design Co-Chair for the IxDA’s Interaction 10 conference in Savannah, Georgoa in February, 2010. *Michele Tepper* Michele Tepper is a Principal Designer in frog design's New York studio. Her work includes a wide range of consumer and enterprise projects, ranging from office equipment for small businesses to mobile health services to combat HIV in South Africa. In 2008, she co-led an frog global expert group on convergent design, bringing together experts from all of frog's studios to develop best-practices for hardware/software interaction design and collaboration. Before frog, Michele worked for IBM, setting interaction standards for the company's global website. She has written influential essays on social software and online community formation, and holds a Ph.D. in English from the University of Michigan. *Todd Zaki Warfel* Todd Zaki Warfel, founder and principal designer at Messagefirst, has been designing products and services for over 15 years. Todd’s clients have included fortune 500 companies like ATT Wireless, Bankrate, Citibank, and Comcast, as well as smaller companies like Numara and rPath. An internationally recognized thought leader on research and design, and member of the Web Standards Project Education Task Force, he has spoken at conferences and taught workshops around the globe. His upcoming book, Practical Prototyping (Rosenfeld Media) will discuss how prototypes are more than just a design tool and show you how to use prototyping to create a common language, market a product, gain internal buy-in, and test feasibility with your development team. Anticipated publication is in 2009. Todd currently lives in Philadelphia, is a known food aficionado with an impressive wine cellar and is the Design Co-Chair for the IxDA’s Interaction 10 conference in Savannah, Georgia in February, 2010. * ABOUT THE VENUE SPONSOR* LBi IconNicholson is a global digital marketing and technology agency that blends creativity and expertise to solve business problems. Well, that sounds fairly impressive, eh? Here’s more: We’re the largest genuinely full service digital agency in Europe, offering branded content, service design, media, CRM, technology, managed hosting, support services and more. And what do the letters L-B-i stand for? We’re not telling. We like a little mystery. There are over 1,500 LBi-ers in European, American and Asian business centers, like Amsterdam, Atlanta, Berlin, Brussels, London, Milan, Mumbai, New York, Paris and Stockholm. * ABOUT IxDA* The Interaction Design Association (http://www.ixda.org/) is a member-supported organization committed to serving the needs of the international interaction design community. With the help of more than 10,000 members worldwide, we provide a network for advancing the discipline of interaction design. IxDA was founded in 2003 as an online discussion list and in just five years the organization has grown to include over 60 local groups worldwide and an annual global conference on interaction design for interaction designers. As one of the largest local groups, IxDA NYC produces monthly face-to-face events for Interaction Design and User Experience professionals who create systems and products of all types: web, desktop, mobile, consumer electronics, digitally-enhanced environments, etc. If you'd like to know more, please email nyc-lo...@ixda.org. See you there, IxDA New York Local Leaders Welcome to the Interaction Design Association (IxDA)! To post to this list ... disc...@ixda.org Unsubscribe http://www.ixda.org/unsubscribe List Guidelines http://www.ixda.org/guidelines List Help .. http://www.ixda.org/help
[IxDA Discuss] Reminder: IxDA at the Shake Shack, Wed. Sept. 24
School is back in session but there is still time left to play! Join IxDA NYC for some interactive discussion and last-of-summer fun at the Shake Shack in Madison Square Park on Wednesday, Sept. 23. Look for our IxDA teal-colored balloons. Microsoft will also be on hand to hand out some goodies to promote the recent launch of Expression Studio 3. No RSVP needed -- the event is open to everyone! Show up, enjoy some tasty summer treats, and help us send summer off with a bang! Check out the Shack Shack’s menu here: http://www.shakeshacknyc.com The event will start at 5:30 and go until we decide we’re done! Rain date is Thursday, September 24. SAVE THE DATE: OCTOBER DESIGN WORKSHOPS While you’re marking your calendar, don’t forget to save the date for our annual fall Design Workshop: Saturday, October 17. We're holding this ever-popular event on a Saturday this year so participants will have more time to design and present. We're pleased to announce two excellent workshops, both with interaction design rock-stars: one with Todd Zaki Warfel and Will Evans, the other with Ted Booth and Michelle Tepper. Full details and registration coming soon! See you at Madison Square Park, The IxDA Local Leaders Welcome to the Interaction Design Association (IxDA)! To post to this list ... disc...@ixda.org Unsubscribe http://www.ixda.org/unsubscribe List Guidelines http://www.ixda.org/guidelines List Help .. http://www.ixda.org/help
[IxDA Discuss] IxDA NYC at the Shake Shack, Wed. Sept. 23
School is back in session but there is still time left to play! Join IxDA NYC for some interactive discussion and last-of-summer fun at the Shake Shack in Madison Square Park on Wednesday, Sept. 23. Look for our IxDA teal-colored balloons. Microsoft will also be on hand to hand out some goodies to promote the recent launch of Expression Studio 3. No RSVP needed -- the event is open to everyone! Show up, enjoy some tasty summer treats, and help us send summer off with a bang! Check out the Shack Shack’s menu here: http://www.shakeshacknyc.com The event will start at 5:30 and go until we decide we’re done! Rain date is Thursday, September 24. SAVE THE DATE: OCTOBER DESIGN WORKSHOPS While you’re marking your calendar, don’t forget to save the date for our annual fall Design Workshop: Saturday, October 17. We're holding this ever-popular event on a Saturday this year so participants will have more time to design and present. We're pleased to announce two excellent workshops, both with interaction design rock-stars: one with Todd Zaki Warfel and Will Evans, the other with Ted Booth and Michelle Tepper. Full details and registration coming soon! See you at Madison Square Park, The IxDA Local Leaders Welcome to the Interaction Design Association (IxDA)! To post to this list ... disc...@ixda.org Unsubscribe http://www.ixda.org/unsubscribe List Guidelines http://www.ixda.org/guidelines List Help .. http://www.ixda.org/help
[IxDA Discuss] REMINDER: [EVENT] IxDA NYC - Thurs, August 13 - Prototyping for UX Practitioners
One last reminder for Thursday's event. If you haven't gotten a chance to sign up, you'll want to do so soon. Look forward to seeing everyone there! Ever had a moment when you’re presenting your detailed design work and you get an unenthusiastic Is that it? from your audience? This can sometimes happen when a project has been in design development without conceptual feedback or consensus-building. We often move forward rapidly with our detailed design work due to time pressure. Sure, we incorporate our assumptions about the users, their needs, the technology, and the business. But those assumptions need to be validated early and often (with stakeholders and end users) to ensure success. Prototyping -- building a mockup of a design to validate its direction -- has never been easier. Designers today have a plethora of tools for every stage of the development process. New techniques make it fast and easy to get a design working, allowing you to effectively communicate your intentions to others. We've invited Todd Zaki Warfel, author of the upcoming book “A Practitioner's Guide to Prototyping”, to give us a comprehensive overview of the prototyping landscape. You'll see the full gamut of prototyping techniques, from paper to JavaScript and everything in between. Todd will also lead participants in a hands-on paper prototyping exercise to demonstrate the amazing power of paper. The event is free of charge and open to all interested parties. However, for security reasons, only those on the guest list will be admitted. Please bring photo ID. ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ Registration: http://tinyurl.com/IxDAAug09 ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ WHEN Thursday, August 13, 2009 6:30 - 7:00 p.m. Networking and light refreshments 7:00 - 8:30 p.m. Discussion Please plan to arrive by 7:00 p.m. as the security desk will close at that time. WHERE Pace University One Pace Plaza New York, NY 10038 Be sure to enter via the Spruce Street entrance. Well will be on the Level B of the building. Map: http://tinyurl.com/lge53z Subway: 2/3, A/C, 4/5/6, N/R ABOUT THE SPEAKER Todd Zaki Warfel, founder and principal designer at Messagefirst, has been designing products and services for over 15 years. Todd’s clients have included fortune 500 companies like ATT Wireless, Bankrate, Citibank, and Comcast, as well as smaller companies like Numara and rPath. An internationally recognized thought leader on research and design, and member of the Web Standards Project Education Task Force, he has spoken at conferences and taught workshops around the globe. His upcoming book, Practical Prototyping (Rosenfeld Media) will discuss how prototypes are more than just a design tool and show you how to use prototyping to create a common language, market a product, gain internal buy-in, and test feasibility with your development team. Anticipated publication is in 2009. Todd currently lives in Philadelphia, blogs at toddwarfel.com, and twitters @zakiwarfel. ABOUT OUR LOCATION SPONSER For more than 100 years, Pace University has been preparing students to become leaders in their fields by providing an education that combines exceptional academics with professional experience and the New York advantage. Pace has three campuses, in New York City, Westchester, and White Plains. A private metropolitan university, Pace enrolls approximately 13,500 students in bachelor’s, master’s, and doctoral programs in the Dyson College of Arts and Sciences, Lienhard School of Nursing, Lubin School of Business, School of Education, Seidenberg School of Computer Science and Information Systems, and School of Law. ABOUT IxDA The Interaction Design Association (http://www.ixda.org) is a member-supported organization committed to serving the needs of the international interaction design community. With the help of more than 10,000 members worldwide, we provide a network for advancing the discipline of interaction design. IxDA was founded in 2003 as an online discussion list and in just five years the organization has grown to include over 60 local groups worldwide and an annual global conference on interaction design for interaction designers. As one of the largest local groups, IxDA NYC produces monthly face-to-face events for Interaction Design and User Experience professionals who create systems and products of all types: web, desktop, mobile, consumer electronics, digitally-enhanced environments, etc. If you'd like to know more, please email nyc-lo...@ixda.org. ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ Registration: http://tinyurl.com/IxDAAug09 ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ See you there! The IxDA NYC Local Leaders Welcome to the Interaction Design Association (IxDA)! To post to this list ... disc...@ixda.org Unsubscribe http://www.ixda.org/unsubscribe List Guidelines http://www.ixda.org/guidelines List Help .. http://www.ixda.org/help
[IxDA Discuss] [EVENT] IxDA NYC - Thurs, August 13 - Prototyping for UX Practitioners
Ever had a moment when you’re presenting your detailed design work and you get an unenthusiastic Is that it? from your audience? This can sometimes happen when a project has been in design development without conceptual feedback or consensus-building. We often move forward rapidly with our detailed design work due to time pressure. Sure, we incorporate our assumptions about the users, their needs, the technology, and the business. But those assumptions need to be validated early and often (with stakeholders and end users) to ensure success. Prototyping -- building a mockup of a design to validate its direction -- has never been easier. Designers today have a plethora of tools for every stage of the development process. New techniques make it fast and easy to get a design working, allowing you to effectively communicate your intentions to others. We've invited Todd Zaki Warfel, author of the upcoming book “A Practitioner's Guide to Prototyping”, to give us a comprehensive overview of the prototyping landscape. You'll see the full gamut of prototyping techniques, from paper to JavaScript and everything in between. Todd will also lead participants in a hands-on paper prototyping exercise to demonstrate the amazing power of paper. The event is free of charge and open to all interested parties. However, for security reasons, only those on the guest list will be admitted. Please bring photo ID. ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ Registration: http://tinyurl.com/IxDAAug09 ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ WHEN Thursday, August 13, 2009 6:30 - 7:00 p.m. Networking and light refreshments 7:00 - 8:30 p.m. Discussion Please plan to arrive by 7:00 p.m. as the security desk will close at that time. WHERE Pace University One Pace Plaza New York, NY 10038 Be sure to enter via the Spruce Street entrance. Well will be on the Level B of the building. Map: http://tinyurl.com/lge53z Subway: 2/3, A/C, 4/5/6, N/R ABOUT THE SPEAKER Todd Zaki Warfel, founder and principal designer at Messagefirst, has been designing products and services for over 15 years. Todd’s clients have included fortune 500 companies like ATT Wireless, Bankrate, Citibank, and Comcast, as well as smaller companies like Numara and rPath. An internationally recognized thought leader on research and design, and member of the Web Standards Project Education Task Force, he has spoken at conferences and taught workshops around the globe. His upcoming book, Practical Prototyping (Rosenfeld Media) will discuss how prototypes are more than just a design tool and show you how to use prototyping to create a common language, market a product, gain internal buy-in, and test feasibility with your development team. Anticipated publication is in 2009. Todd currently lives in Philadelphia, blogs at toddwarfel.com, and twitters @zakiwarfel. ABOUT OUR LOCATION SPONSER For more than 100 years, Pace University has been preparing students to become leaders in their fields by providing an education that combines exceptional academics with professional experience and the New York advantage. Pace has three campuses, in New York City, Westchester, and White Plains. A private metropolitan university, Pace enrolls approximately 13,500 students in bachelor’s, master’s, and doctoral programs in the Dyson College of Arts and Sciences, Lienhard School of Nursing, Lubin School of Business, School of Education, Seidenberg School of Computer Science and Information Systems, and School of Law. ABOUT IxDA The Interaction Design Association (http://www.ixda.org) is a member-supported organization committed to serving the needs of the international interaction design community. With the help of more than 10,000 members worldwide, we provide a network for advancing the discipline of interaction design. IxDA was founded in 2003 as an online discussion list and in just five years the organization has grown to include over 60 local groups worldwide and an annual global conference on interaction design for interaction designers. As one of the largest local groups, IxDA NYC produces monthly face-to-face events for Interaction Design and User Experience professionals who create systems and products of all types: web, desktop, mobile, consumer electronics, digitally-enhanced environments, etc. If you'd like to know more, please email nyc-lo...@ixda.org. ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ Registration: http://tinyurl.com/IxDAAug09 ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ See you there! The IxDA NYC Local Leaders Welcome to the Interaction Design Association (IxDA)! To post to this list ... disc...@ixda.org Unsubscribe http://www.ixda.org/unsubscribe List Guidelines http://www.ixda.org/guidelines List Help .. http://www.ixda.org/help
[IxDA Discuss] [Event] IxDA NYC - Thurs, August 13 - Prototyping for UX Practitioners
Ever had a moment when you’re presenting your detailed design work and you get an unenthusiastic Is that it? from your audience? This can sometimes happen when a project has been in design development without conceptual feedback or consensus-building. We often move forward rapidly with our detailed design work due to time pressure. Sure, we incorporate our assumptions about the users, their needs, the technology, and the business. But those assumptions need to be validated early and often (with stakeholders and end users) to ensure success. Prototyping -- building a mockup of a design to validate its direction -- has never been easier. Designers today have a plethora of tools for every stage of the development process. New techniques make it fast and easy to get a design working, allowing you to effectively communicate your intentions to others. We've invited Todd Zaki Warfel, author of the upcoming book “A Practitioner's Guide to Prototyping”, to give us a comprehensive overview of the prototyping landscape. You'll see the full gamut of prototyping techniques, from paper to JavaScript and everything in between. Todd will also lead participants in a hands-on paper prototyping exercise to demonstrate the amazing power of paper. The event is free of charge and open to all interested parties. However, for security reasons, only those on the guest list will be admitted. Please bring photo ID. ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ Registration: http://tinyurl.com/IxDAAug09 ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ WHEN Thursday, August 13, 2009 6:30 - 7:00 p.m. Networking and light refreshments 7:00 - 8:30 p.m. Discussion Please plan to arrive by 7:00 p.m. as the security desk will close at that time. WHERE Pace University One Pace Plaza New York, NY 10038 Be sure to enter via the Spruce Street entrance. Well will be on the Level B of the building. Map: http://tinyurl.com/lge53z Subway: 2/3, A/C, 4/5/6, N/R ABOUT THE SPEAKER Todd Zaki Warfel, founder and principal designer at Messagefirst, has been designing products and services for over 15 years. Todd’s clients have included fortune 500 companies like ATT Wireless, Bankrate, Citibank, and Comcast, as well as smaller companies like Numara and rPath. An internationally recognized thought leader on research and design, and member of the Web Standards Project Education Task Force, he has spoken at conferences and taught workshops around the globe. His upcoming book, Practical Prototyping (Rosenfeld Media) will discuss how prototypes are more than just a design tool and show you how to use prototyping to create a common language, market a product, gain internal buy-in, and test feasibility with your development team. Anticipated publication is in 2009. Todd currently lives in Philadelphia, blogs at toddwarfel.com, and twitters @zakiwarfel. ABOUT OUR LOCATION SPONSER For more than 100 years, Pace University has been preparing students to become leaders in their fields by providing an education that combines exceptional academics with professional experience and the New York advantage. Pace has three campuses, in New York City, Westchester, and White Plains. A private metropolitan university, Pace enrolls approximately 13,500 students in bachelor’s, master’s, and doctoral programs in the Dyson College of Arts and Sciences, Lienhard School of Nursing, Lubin School of Business, School of Education, Seidenberg School of Computer Science and Information Systems, and School of Law. ABOUT IxDA The Interaction Design Association (http://www.ixda.org) is a member-supported organization committed to serving the needs of the international interaction design community. With the help of more than 10,000 members worldwide, we provide a network for advancing the discipline of interaction design. IxDA was founded in 2003 as an online discussion list and in just five years the organization has grown to include over 60 local groups worldwide and an annual global conference on interaction design for interaction designers. As one of the largest local groups, IxDA NYC produces monthly face-to-face events for Interaction Design and User Experience professionals who create systems and products of all types: web, desktop, mobile, consumer electronics, digitally-enhanced environments, etc. If you'd like to know more, please email nyc-lo...@ixda.org. ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ Registration: http://tinyurl.com/IxDAAug09 ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ See you there! The IxDA NYC Local Leaders Welcome to the Interaction Design Association (IxDA)! To post to this list ... disc...@ixda.org Unsubscribe http://www.ixda.org/unsubscribe List Guidelines http://www.ixda.org/guidelines List Help .. http://www.ixda.org/help
