free 1-day course in design practice in Toronto - May 23
John Schrag
Hello,
My colleague Ian Hooper and I are going to be presenting a one-day tutorial at the UPA conference in June. To help us prepare for the event, we are going to do a “dry-run” of the tutorial in Toronto on Friday, May 23rd. (We like to test everything before we deploy it.) For that reason we are inviting people in the local UX and HCI community to come in and participate, at no cost.
Benefit to you: You can be in the tutorial without flying to Baltimore and paying an extra $500
Drawback: The presenters might be a little unpolished
Benefit to us: We get to do a practice run and figure out what needs to be improved
Details below. If you would like to participate, please send me an email. A limited number of places will be available.
Date: Friday, May 23, 2008
Time: 9am to 5:00pm
Location: Autodesk Toronto, 210 King Street East (at Sherbourne)
Title: Design Essentials for Non-Designers: Methods for Creating Innovative User Interfaces
This session is intended for practitioners who have come to interaction design from a research, psychology, information architecture, or other non-design background. It focuses on what happens after the requirements are done and before you build your first prototype. Design fields such as graphic arts, architecture, and industrial design have long-standing practices for innovative design, and these apply well to interaction design.
Participants are expected to have basic knowledge and skills in usability research and evaluation practices, including requirements gathering and conducting a usability test, as none of these topics will be covered. No design background or artistic skills of any kind are necessary, but you should be able to operate a pencil.
Participants in this tutorial will:
• Learn how to adapt traditional innovation practices to the design of user interfaces.
• Learn useful techniques to access their creativity, and to foster innovation during the design process.
• Actively participate in an interaction design process that bridges the gaps between requirements gathering, usability testing, and design iteration.
• Get a list of useful references and resources.
This tutorial does NOT cover:
• Requirements gathering
• HCI theory (when to use which widgets, etc, based on cognitive psychology)
• Art skills
• How to conduct a usability test
John Schrag
Interaction Designer
User Experience Team
Media and Entertainment Division
Autodesk, Inc.
210 King Street East
Toronto, Ontario,
Canada M5A 1J7
Direct: 416-874-8321
Bryce Johnson
John and Ian are uxIrg's old timers.
Count me in.
bryce
> John Schrag
> Interaction Designer
> User Experience Team
> Media and Entertainment Division
>
>
> Autodesk, Inc.
> 210 King Street East
> Toronto, Ontario,
>
> Canada M5A 1J7
>
>
> Direct: 416-874-8321
>
> >
>
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Bryce Johnson
Director of User Experience Design, Navantis Inc.
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Adam Schwabe
Thanks,
Adam Schwabe
User Experience Specialist
IBM Global Business Services
IBM Centres for Solution Innovation — Toronto
ibm.com/services/innovation/toronto/
On May 13, 3:01 pm, John Schrag <John.Sch...@autodesk.com> wrote:
> Hello,
>
> My colleague Ian Hooper and I are going to be presenting a one-day tutorial at the UPA conference in June. To help us prepare for the event, we are going to do a "dry-run" of the tutorial in Toronto on Friday, May 23rd. (We like to test everything before we deploy it.) For that reason we are inviting people in the local UX and HCI community to come in and participate, at no cost.
>
> Benefit to you: You can be in the tutorial without flying to Baltimore and paying an extra $500
> Drawback: The presenters might be a little unpolished
> Benefit to us: We get to do a practice run and figure out what needs to be improved
>
> Details below. If you would like to participate, please send me an email. A limited number of places will be available.
>
> Date: Friday, May 23, 2008
> Time: 9am to 5:00pm
> Location: Autodesk Toronto, 210 King Street East (at Sherbourne)
>
> Title: Design Essentials for Non-Designers: Methods for Creating Innovative User Interfaces
>
> This session is intended for practitioners who have come to interaction design from a research, psychology, information architecture, or other non-design background. It focuses on what happens after the requirements are done and before you build your first prototype. Design fields such as graphic arts, architecture, and industrial design have long-standing practices for innovative design, and these apply well to interaction design.
>
> Participants are expected to have basic knowledge and skills in usability research and evaluation practices, including requirements gathering and conducting a usability test, as none of these topics will be covered. No design background or artistic skills of any kind are necessary, but you should be able to operate a pencil.
>
> Participants in this tutorial will:
> * Learn useful techniques to access their creativity, and to foster innovation during the design process.
> * Actively participate in an interaction design process that bridges the gaps between requirements gathering, usability testing, and design iteration.
> * Get a list of useful references and resources.
> This tutorial does NOT cover:
> * HCI theory (when to use which widgets, etc, based on cognitive psychology)
> * Art skills
> * How to conduct a usability test
>
> [cid:image001....@01C8B507.15BDADD0]
> John Schrag
> Interaction Designer
> User Experience Team
> Media and Entertainment Division
>
> Autodesk, Inc.
> 210 King Street East
> Toronto, Ontario,
> Canada M5A 1J7
>
> Direct: 416-874-8321
>
> 1KViewDownload
Gavan Gibson
Gavan
--
Gavan Gibson
User Experience & Interaction Design
Voltage Communications Inc.
http://www.voltagedesign.ca
Ryan Feeley
(me, the senior designer) and Melina Stathopoulos (product manager)
>
> My colleague Ian Hooper and I are going to be presenting a one-day tutorial at the UPA conference in June. To help us prepare for the event, we are going to do a "dry-run" of the tutorial in Toronto on Friday, May 23rd. (We like to test everything before we deploy it.) For that reason we are inviting people in the local UX and HCI community to come in and participate, at no cost.
>
> Benefit to you: You can be in the tutorial without flying to Baltimore and paying an extra $500
> Drawback: The presenters might be a little unpolished
> Benefit to us: We get to do a practice run and figure out what needs to be improved
>
> Details below. If you would like to participate, please send me an email. A limited number of places will be available.
>
> Date: Friday, May 23, 2008
> Time: 9am to 5:00pm
> Location: Autodesk Toronto, 210 King Street East (at Sherbourne)
>
> Title: Design Essentials for Non-Designers: Methods for Creating Innovative User Interfaces
>
> This session is intended for practitioners who have come to interaction design from a research, psychology, information architecture, or other non-design background. It focuses on what happens after the requirements are done and before you build your first prototype. Design fields such as graphic arts, architecture, and industrial design have long-standing practices for innovative design, and these apply well to interaction design.
>
> Participants are expected to have basic knowledge and skills in usability research and evaluation practices, including requirements gathering and conducting a usability test, as none of these topics will be covered. No design background or artistic skills of any kind are necessary, but you should be able to operate a pencil.
>
> Participants in this tutorial will:
> * Learn useful techniques to access their creativity, and to foster innovation during the design process.
> * Actively participate in an interaction design process that bridges the gaps between requirements gathering, usability testing, and design iteration.
> * Get a list of useful references and resources.
> This tutorial does NOT cover:
> * HCI theory (when to use which widgets, etc, based on cognitive psychology)
> * Art skills
> * How to conduct a usability test
>
> [cid:image001....@01C8B507.15BDADD0]
> John Schrag
> Interaction Designer
> User Experience Team
> Media and Entertainment Division
>
> Autodesk, Inc.
> 210 King Street East
> Toronto, Ontario,
> Canada M5A 1J7
>
> Direct: 416-874-8321
>
> 1KViewDownload
vandy...@gmail.com
I 'll have to take a break in the afternoon for an appointment, but
will sit through the entire morning and towards the end if posible.
Cheers,
Vandy
>
> My colleague Ian Hooper and I are going to be presenting a one-day tutorial at the UPA conference in June. To help us prepare for the event, we are going to do a "dry-run" of the tutorial in Toronto on Friday, May 23rd. (We like to test everything before we deploy it.) For that reason we are inviting people in the local UX and HCI community to come in and participate, at no cost.
>
> Benefit to you: You can be in the tutorial without flying to Baltimore and paying an extra $500
> Drawback: The presenters might be a little unpolished
> Benefit to us: We get to do a practice run and figure out what needs to be improved
>
> Details below. If you would like to participate, please send me an email. A limited number of places will be available.
>
> Date: Friday, May 23, 2008
> Time: 9am to 5:00pm
> Location: Autodesk Toronto, 210 King Street East (at Sherbourne)
>
> Title: Design Essentials for Non-Designers: Methods for Creating Innovative User Interfaces
>
> This session is intended for practitioners who have come to interaction design from a research, psychology, information architecture, or other non-design background. It focuses on what happens after the requirements are done and before you build your first prototype. Design fields such as graphic arts, architecture, and industrial design have long-standing practices for innovative design, and these apply well to interaction design.
>
> Participants are expected to have basic knowledge and skills in usability research and evaluation practices, including requirements gathering and conducting a usability test, as none of these topics will be covered. No design background or artistic skills of any kind are necessary, but you should be able to operate a pencil.
>
> Participants in this tutorial will:
> * Learn useful techniques to access their creativity, and to foster innovation during the design process.
> * Actively participate in an interaction design process that bridges the gaps between requirements gathering, usability testing, and design iteration.
> * Get a list of useful references and resources.
> This tutorial does NOT cover:
> * HCI theory (when to use which widgets, etc, based on cognitive psychology)
> * Art skills
> * How to conduct a usability test
>
> [cid:image001....@01C8B507.15BDADD0]
> John Schrag
> Interaction Designer
> User Experience Team
> Media and Entertainment Division
>
> Autodesk, Inc.
> 210 King Street East
> Toronto, Ontario,
> Canada M5A 1J7
>
> Direct: 416-874-8321
>
> 1KViewDownload
Ian Hooper
Thanks to everyone for the enthusiastic response. It really goes to show what a great community we have in Toronto.
-Ian