Mahtab Rezai, VP at EatonGolden will be talking about keeping usability relevant at the March 12 UPA-MN meeting (6-8pm at the OpenBook). $10 members, $30 non-members (Cash/Check only at the door).
I’ll be talking about how and why I built Cullect.com at the Feburary 12th UPA-MN event.
The agenda:
Developing a product you will use and the way you will use it.
Designing the API as the primary user interface.
A tour of some of the innovative UI concepts behind Cullect.
An activity in which you will be able to [...]
UPA-MN’s January 8, 2009 meeting at the Open Book will be a panel discussion (including David Hussman from DevJam, Bob Arnoldy of Avenet, and more?) on Agile in the context of user-centered design.
Jared Spool is in town this Monday and will have an informal meet-up with local UX people. These get-togethers have proven to be of great interest and are usually well attended. I look forward to joining fellow UPA members for this event as well as others in the local user experience community. Please feel [...]
Now that Web 2.0 is Dead, Samantha Bailey will be performing the autopsy at the next UPA-MN meeting on Thursday, Feb 9th. doors open at 6pm. $10.00 for non-members.
Location:
REI Bloomington – in their meeting room
(Note: the location has changed from what was originally announced)
Address:
750 W American Blvd, Bloomington, MN 55420
Agenda:
6:00 pm Networking, food and [...]
Join us for the August 11th UPA meeting when Gayna Williams of Microsoft will present on the User Research behind Windows Vista. (previously codenamed “Longhorn”) that will replace Windows XP….They built personas, benchmarked code, evaluated the emotional connection of the product, developed an instrumentation strategy, and did much more. This talk will share insights [...]
The description of tonight’s event can be found over at UPA-MN A Case Study for Strategic Usability Success. This was a practice round for Jen Bohmbach, Lyle Kantrovich, and Susan Dray – they’ll be presenting this a the UPA Conference in Montreal laster this month. If you’re going to Montreal, introduce yourself to them.
In the [...]
Successful collaboration on large projects requires an approach to user-centered design that distinguishes project roles and responsibilities. Jennifer Bohmbach, Susan Dray, and Lyle Kantrovich will present this case study showing an example of bridging corporate cultures for a more holistic UCD approach. They ’ll outline how three firms collaborated on a large website redesign, following [...]
Nicole Tollefson and Phil Kragnes are recognized as experts in the field of accessibility. They will be sharing some of the highlights from a day-long tutorial they’ll be conducting at the Montreal UPA International Conference in July. For the chapter meeting we’ll only be able to scratch the surface of the topic, [...]
Please join us on Tuesday, April 5th, for a visit to the Mayo Clinic. Just as seasons change, so do usability teams. A few years ago, the team at Mayo Clinics in Rochester was discovering what the world of usability was all about. Since our chapter’s last visit, the team and facilities at Mayo have [...]