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MinneUX Meetup Jan. 6: Demo of Zanby.com “discount” usability

Kristi Olson — Mon, 08 Dec 2008 20:30:56 +0000

Hola MinneUX’ers–

Next month we have a slight twist to our meetups — Lynn Smith, local IA/IxD pro, will be presenting a demo of a very creative, non-facilitated “discount” usability test/heuristic evaluation, followed by open discussion about the methodology used, its rigor and validity — basically, “Is this a good way to gather feedback?” Lynn and her partners created an Axure prototype, sent out an email survey to 3 distinct audiences — UX practitioners, friends familiar with Zamby, and others not familiar with Zamby — and used the data to iterate the design and get another round of feedback. It was CHEAP and RAPID usability test at its best.

I anticipate a VERY lively, dynamic and rich discussion! Come share your thoughts and questions, and be prepared to be inspired!

Here are details of the meeting:

Tuesday, January 6

5:00-7:00 p.m.

at the Monte Carlo in the Minneapolis Warehouse District

219 3rd Ave. N., Minneapolis 55401; 612-333-5900

Look for Kristi and the “MinneUX Meetup” table sign

If you have questions, please feel free to contact either myself or Garrick (email@garrickvanburen.com).

Happy December!

Kristi Olson

http://www.kolson7.com

Fred Beecher Teaching Axure Training @ MPL, Oct 13-15 2008

Garrick Van Buren — Wed, 17 Sep 2008 14:13:11 +0000

MNteractive’s own Fred Beecher is offering a Basic and Advanced class on prototyping with Axure at the Minneapolis Public Library in October.

They’re $599 each, and if you’re interested, sign up at http://axuretraining.eventbrite.com/

Axure Version 4 Released

Fred Beecher — Thu, 09 Mar 2006 21:08:28 +0000

One more post and then I’m done spamming this site. Promise.

Axure v4 was released this week. You can download a 30-day free trial copy atÂ http://axure.com/downloads.aspx.

There are some great new features:

Interactions: You can make prototypes respond to MouseOn and MouseOut events
Dynamic Panels: Widgets for which you can define multiple states, triggered by interactions
Masters on masters: You can now add a master to a master, which is something you couldn’t do before
Radio button grouping: You can now make radio buttons single select
CSV report generator: I haven’t played with this yet, but this might allow for some better integration with, e.g., Rational products for tracing requirements and such
Ultra-configurable Functional Spec generation: There’s pretty much nothing about your functional spec that you can’t control now… however I’ve played with this a bit and it still seems a little buggy.

And there’s a whole slew of other stuff. Check it out if you’re so inclined.

Twin Cities IA/UX Monthly Meetup – March 4, 2-4pm

Garrick Van Buren — Mon, 27 Feb 2006 19:00:54 +0000

Please join us for this month’s IA/UX Meetup at the Loring Park Coffee House from 2-4 pm on Saturday, March 4.

We’re moving this month’s meeting up by a week both because March is so busy between the ASIST IA Summit and other activities *and* to take advantage of the fact that Karl Fast (former Argus Associates IA and current PhD candidate in Information Visualization) will be in town and has graciously agreed to let us pick his brain a bit.

Another topic I’d like to discuss, either this week or in future, is how folks are prototyping and whether anyone is using tools like Axure, iRise, etc.

Hope to see you there.