Wednesday, October 28: Start a UX Movement at Your Company
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MiUPA
Oct 26, 2009, 1:28:28 PM10/26/09
to Michigan Usability Professionals' Association
It's not too late to register for the upcoming Michigan UPA meeting!
Brian Phelps of Tec-Ed will discuss strategies to start and maintain a
user-centered movement inside organizations. This is a great
opportunity to network and learn. Please RSVP to eve...@miupa.org or
on Upcoming:
http://upcoming.yahoo.com/event/4572637/MI/Ann-Arbor/Start-a-UX-Movement-at-Your-Company/
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ProQuest Hosts Michigan Usability Professionals’ Association
Workshop
ANN ARBOR, Mich., October 28, 2009 - ProQuest, an information and
technology company, will host the Michigan Chapter of the
International Usability Professional's Association’s (MIUPA) “Start a
UX Movement at Your Company” workshop at its Ann Arbor, Michigan
headquarters on Wednesday, October 28. The workshop brings together a
group of interface designers, usability engineers, information
architects, students, and other information professionals to network
and learn from Tec-Ed consultant and usability expert Brian Phelps.
The session will showcase strategies and tactics for starting and
fueling a user-centered movement inside an organization.
“ProQuest is proud to be a cornerstone in Michigan’s continuing
development in high-tech and information industries, said Bipin Patel,
ProQuest’s Chief Information Officer. “Our R&D and User Experience
teams have been recognized worldwide for their innovations. We’re
very pleased to provide a venue for knowledge sharing, and I’m
confident that we’ll all be inspired by the user-driven information
technology found within our own community.”
The workshop will help participants conquer a common corporate
dilemma: lower internal user experience standards for internal
corporate systems than in external-facing systems. Mr. Phelps will
showcase strategies and tactics to help start and then maintain a user-
centered movement inside organizations. He has been designing and
researching systems for more than 10 years, with eight years of
experience in user-centered design techniques, including usability
testing, heuristic evaluation, user interface design and development,
field usability studies, and contextual inquiry. As a Tec-Ed
consultant, Mr. Phelps has evaluated consumer-oriented wireless phone
websites, an in-home wireless hardware product, Web-based educational
systems, a volunteer organization’s website, e-commerce workflow,
virtual desktops, a test authoring system, and alternative Web-based
survey designs. His clients include Campbell-Ewald, McAfee, ETR
Associates, VMware, Nextivity, McGraw-Hill, Seagate, Chrysler, IEEE,
RightNow Technologies, The American Academy of Ophthalmology, and
Monarch Teaching Technologies. Prior to joining Tec-Ed, Brian was a
user experience researcher, designer, and evangelist at Pfizer, Inc.
where he designed Web-based applications and acted as the user
experience lead for more than 15 projects.
The “Start a UX Movement at Your Company” workshop will be held
Wednesday, October 28, 6:00 PM - 8:30 PM, at ProQuest’s Ann Arbor
headquarters. The session is $5 for Full-time Students (ID must be
presented) $10 for MIUPA and MOCHI members $20 for all others. All
proceeds go to MIUPA.
For more information, visit http://miupa.org/
Seating is limited, so please RSVP at Upcoming.org to ensure entrance
to this event. You can also send an RSVP to eve...@miupa.org
ProQuest is best known for the creation of information tools and
technologies that support research around the world in schools,
libraries, universities and businesses. Last month, the company was
ranked by InformationWeek magazine among the top 30 U.S. firms for
innovative use of business technology. It was also honored with the
2007 Red Hat Innovation Award for Increased Return on Investment.
About ProQuest
ProQuest creates specialized information resources and technologies
that propel successful research, discovery, and lifelong learning. A
global leader in serving libraries of all types, ProQuest offers the
expertise of such respected brands as Chadwyck-Healey™, UMI®, SIRS®,
and eLibrary®. With Serials Solutions®, Ulrich's™, RefWorks®, COS™,
Dialog® and now Bowker® part of the ProQuest brand family, the company
supports the breadth of the information community with innovative
discovery solutions that power the business of books and the best in
research experience.
More than a content provider or aggregator, ProQuest is an information
partner, creating indispensable research solutions that connect people
and information. Through innovative, user-centered discovery
technology, ProQuest offers billions of pages of global content that
includes historical newspapers, dissertations, and uniquely relevant
resources for researchers of any age and sophistication—including
content not likely to be digitized by others. Inspired by its
customers and their end users, ProQuest is working toward a future
that blends information accessibility with community to further
enhance learning and encourage lifelong enrichment.
For more information, visit www.proquest.com or the ProQuest parent
company website, www.cambridgeinformationgroup.com.
Brian Phelps of Tec-Ed will discuss strategies to start and maintain a
user-centered movement inside organizations. This is a great
opportunity to network and learn. Please RSVP to eve...@miupa.org or
on Upcoming:
http://upcoming.yahoo.com/event/4572637/MI/Ann-Arbor/Start-a-UX-Movement-at-Your-Company/
---
ProQuest Hosts Michigan Usability Professionals’ Association
Workshop
ANN ARBOR, Mich., October 28, 2009 - ProQuest, an information and
technology company, will host the Michigan Chapter of the
International Usability Professional's Association’s (MIUPA) “Start a
UX Movement at Your Company” workshop at its Ann Arbor, Michigan
headquarters on Wednesday, October 28. The workshop brings together a
group of interface designers, usability engineers, information
architects, students, and other information professionals to network
and learn from Tec-Ed consultant and usability expert Brian Phelps.
The session will showcase strategies and tactics for starting and
fueling a user-centered movement inside an organization.
“ProQuest is proud to be a cornerstone in Michigan’s continuing
development in high-tech and information industries, said Bipin Patel,
ProQuest’s Chief Information Officer. “Our R&D and User Experience
teams have been recognized worldwide for their innovations. We’re
very pleased to provide a venue for knowledge sharing, and I’m
confident that we’ll all be inspired by the user-driven information
technology found within our own community.”
The workshop will help participants conquer a common corporate
dilemma: lower internal user experience standards for internal
corporate systems than in external-facing systems. Mr. Phelps will
showcase strategies and tactics to help start and then maintain a user-
centered movement inside organizations. He has been designing and
researching systems for more than 10 years, with eight years of
experience in user-centered design techniques, including usability
testing, heuristic evaluation, user interface design and development,
field usability studies, and contextual inquiry. As a Tec-Ed
consultant, Mr. Phelps has evaluated consumer-oriented wireless phone
websites, an in-home wireless hardware product, Web-based educational
systems, a volunteer organization’s website, e-commerce workflow,
virtual desktops, a test authoring system, and alternative Web-based
survey designs. His clients include Campbell-Ewald, McAfee, ETR
Associates, VMware, Nextivity, McGraw-Hill, Seagate, Chrysler, IEEE,
RightNow Technologies, The American Academy of Ophthalmology, and
Monarch Teaching Technologies. Prior to joining Tec-Ed, Brian was a
user experience researcher, designer, and evangelist at Pfizer, Inc.
where he designed Web-based applications and acted as the user
experience lead for more than 15 projects.
The “Start a UX Movement at Your Company” workshop will be held
Wednesday, October 28, 6:00 PM - 8:30 PM, at ProQuest’s Ann Arbor
headquarters. The session is $5 for Full-time Students (ID must be
presented) $10 for MIUPA and MOCHI members $20 for all others. All
proceeds go to MIUPA.
For more information, visit http://miupa.org/
Seating is limited, so please RSVP at Upcoming.org to ensure entrance
to this event. You can also send an RSVP to eve...@miupa.org
ProQuest is best known for the creation of information tools and
technologies that support research around the world in schools,
libraries, universities and businesses. Last month, the company was
ranked by InformationWeek magazine among the top 30 U.S. firms for
innovative use of business technology. It was also honored with the
2007 Red Hat Innovation Award for Increased Return on Investment.
About ProQuest
ProQuest creates specialized information resources and technologies
that propel successful research, discovery, and lifelong learning. A
global leader in serving libraries of all types, ProQuest offers the
expertise of such respected brands as Chadwyck-Healey™, UMI®, SIRS®,
and eLibrary®. With Serials Solutions®, Ulrich's™, RefWorks®, COS™,
Dialog® and now Bowker® part of the ProQuest brand family, the company
supports the breadth of the information community with innovative
discovery solutions that power the business of books and the best in
research experience.
More than a content provider or aggregator, ProQuest is an information
partner, creating indispensable research solutions that connect people
and information. Through innovative, user-centered discovery
technology, ProQuest offers billions of pages of global content that
includes historical newspapers, dissertations, and uniquely relevant
resources for researchers of any age and sophistication—including
content not likely to be digitized by others. Inspired by its
customers and their end users, ProQuest is working toward a future
that blends information accessibility with community to further
enhance learning and encourage lifelong enrichment.
For more information, visit www.proquest.com or the ProQuest parent
company website, www.cambridgeinformationgroup.com.
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