18th August JHB UX Meetup
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Kathy
Aug 5, 2009, 7:26:57 AM8/5/09
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Event: User Experience Design & Design Thinking in Business (SA UX
Forum)
Venue: University of Johannesburg, FADA Building Auditorium
18th August 2009
Starts: 6.00pm (drinks will be provided)
Keynote address:
Sylvain Cottong (Integrated Place, Luxemburg) will be speaking on the
use of design methods to solve business problems. He will explore how
these approaches, traditionally applied to digital, interface driven
experiences, can be applied in service design, physical spaces and
business management problems.
UX Tools:
Kat Roderick (Miscrsoft, SA) will demonstrate SketchFlow, a new tool
for creating schematics (wireframes) for design and prototyping.
She’ll also be giving away a few free copies of the software.
Forum feedback:
Jason Hobbs (jh-01, SA) will provide a welcome and introduction to the
User Experience Forum. He will feedback on a workshop held earlier
this year where various representatives of corporate, educational,
media, marketing and agency industries gathered to understand their
needs from the practice of user experience design in SA.
Please RSVP as soon as possible by emailing phi...@jh-01.com
Venue and directions:
FADA Building Auditorium, ground floor in the FADA Building (the
Design School opposite the UJ Hotel School) on the Bunting Road Campus
of the University of Johannesburg.
The campus entrance is opposite the Gas Works in Auckland Park. Enter
in Bunting Road. Pass through the boom, take your first right into the
first parking lot. Park and walk all the way down (heading North with
the Hotel School on your right). At the bottom walk left over the
pedestrian bridge into the Design School and FADA building.
About Sylvain Cottong:
After his studies in economics, Sylvain started to work for the first
multimedia production studio in Luxembourg back in 1995. Along with
interactive CD Rom productions the agency "352 Production" he also
started to produce websites at the very early stages of the World Wide
Web. Always interested in the usability, usefulness, desirability and
business value of things, Sylvain then got interested in web usability
and software usability on a more general level. In 1997 he became an
independent consultant in user experience design and networked
business strategies. During that time, he also was acting as an
adviser to the Luxembourg government on eGovernment & knowledge
management strategies as well on Internet communication.
In 2006, he founded integratedPlace, together with his partner Georges
Zigrand, who then came back to Luxembourg after 8 years of
professional experience as an industrial designer in London.
IntegratedPlace is a design consultancy and a design management agency
that
specialises in (user) experience design, social media communication,
environmental design, service design and business innovation.
Sylvain has attended numerous international conferences in different
areas of interest during his career and would call himself a "problem
solver using design thinking".
About the SA UX Forum:
The Forum was started by Jason Hobbs several years ago to develop a
local community of practice for user experience design in South
Africa. The Forum exists through a Google Group and has meet-ups in
both Cape Town and Johannesburg. Please feel free to join the group:
http://groups.google.com/group/sa-ux-forum
Please feel free to invite your friends.
This event is being kindly sponsored by jh-01, Microsoft SA and The
University of Johannesburg.
Forum)
Venue: University of Johannesburg, FADA Building Auditorium
18th August 2009
Starts: 6.00pm (drinks will be provided)
Keynote address:
Sylvain Cottong (Integrated Place, Luxemburg) will be speaking on the
use of design methods to solve business problems. He will explore how
these approaches, traditionally applied to digital, interface driven
experiences, can be applied in service design, physical spaces and
business management problems.
UX Tools:
Kat Roderick (Miscrsoft, SA) will demonstrate SketchFlow, a new tool
for creating schematics (wireframes) for design and prototyping.
She’ll also be giving away a few free copies of the software.
Forum feedback:
Jason Hobbs (jh-01, SA) will provide a welcome and introduction to the
User Experience Forum. He will feedback on a workshop held earlier
this year where various representatives of corporate, educational,
media, marketing and agency industries gathered to understand their
needs from the practice of user experience design in SA.
Please RSVP as soon as possible by emailing phi...@jh-01.com
Venue and directions:
FADA Building Auditorium, ground floor in the FADA Building (the
Design School opposite the UJ Hotel School) on the Bunting Road Campus
of the University of Johannesburg.
The campus entrance is opposite the Gas Works in Auckland Park. Enter
in Bunting Road. Pass through the boom, take your first right into the
first parking lot. Park and walk all the way down (heading North with
the Hotel School on your right). At the bottom walk left over the
pedestrian bridge into the Design School and FADA building.
About Sylvain Cottong:
After his studies in economics, Sylvain started to work for the first
multimedia production studio in Luxembourg back in 1995. Along with
interactive CD Rom productions the agency "352 Production" he also
started to produce websites at the very early stages of the World Wide
Web. Always interested in the usability, usefulness, desirability and
business value of things, Sylvain then got interested in web usability
and software usability on a more general level. In 1997 he became an
independent consultant in user experience design and networked
business strategies. During that time, he also was acting as an
adviser to the Luxembourg government on eGovernment & knowledge
management strategies as well on Internet communication.
In 2006, he founded integratedPlace, together with his partner Georges
Zigrand, who then came back to Luxembourg after 8 years of
professional experience as an industrial designer in London.
IntegratedPlace is a design consultancy and a design management agency
that
specialises in (user) experience design, social media communication,
environmental design, service design and business innovation.
Sylvain has attended numerous international conferences in different
areas of interest during his career and would call himself a "problem
solver using design thinking".
About the SA UX Forum:
The Forum was started by Jason Hobbs several years ago to develop a
local community of practice for user experience design in South
Africa. The Forum exists through a Google Group and has meet-ups in
both Cape Town and Johannesburg. Please feel free to join the group:
http://groups.google.com/group/sa-ux-forum
Please feel free to invite your friends.
This event is being kindly sponsored by jh-01, Microsoft SA and The
University of Johannesburg.
supermonkey
Aug 5, 2009, 7:38:28 AM8/5/09
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Any chance of Sylvain spending some time in Cape Town?
Patrick Homan (JH-01)
Aug 5, 2009, 8:23:38 AM8/5/09
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Hey Dennis
Unfortunately Sylvain won't be appearing in Cape Town too, but we will be
recording the event & will put it up as a webinar or podcast soon after the
event.
After all, sharing is caring :)
Looking forward to it!
:)
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Unfortunately Sylvain won't be appearing in Cape Town too, but we will be
recording the event & will put it up as a webinar or podcast soon after the
event.
After all, sharing is caring :)
Looking forward to it!
:)
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supermonkey
Aug 5, 2009, 9:15:46 AM8/5/09
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Indeed. Looking forward to it and appreciate the effort you guys are
putting in.
The RSVP link above is funky...
putting in.
The RSVP link above is funky...
supermonkey
Aug 5, 2009, 9:17:32 AM8/5/09
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oops - sorry - funky email was my mistake! scrap that.
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