Nov
04
2011
Three Bentley MSHFID students – Diego Mendes, Amanda Davis, and Vignesh Krubai – will be presenting for World Usability Day 2011 on Thursday, November 10 from 6-9 p.m at Microsoft NERD Center (1 Memorial Drive, Cambridge, MA 02138).
The presentation, titled “The User Experience of Interactive Educational Systems: An iPad Study”, details their new technique for data collection in a usability study, as well as the qualitative findings from their research.
Learn about World Usability Day 2011 or register for this free event.
May
18
2011
IxDA Boston Presents: Presentation Skills for Designers
Thursday, May 19, 2011 from 6:30 PM – 9:00 PM (ET)
Autodesk Waltham
Get all the details at Eventbrite. (sic. Will companies please please stop misspelling words just to be cute or get a domain? It’s a lost battle, I know…..)
May
03
2011
Chris Haas has announced the speaker roster for this year’s UPA Boston event on May 25th.. There are a lot of HFID-affiliated folks on the list! Congratulations to those current and former HFID students on the panel.
Last year’s conference was excellent. Do try to attend if you can. Note that students get a very generous discount. You can register here: http://www.upaboston.org/miniconf11/register.shtml.
Check out this tempting list of presentations:
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Avram Baskin (and panel)
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Certification of Usability Professionals
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Dan Berlin
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Putting design psychology to work
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Sarah Bloor
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Beyond Features and Flow: Finding the “Why” in Experience Design.
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Anna Bradley
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Localization research: If we can do it, so can you!
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Tony Brown
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Video Wall UX – Multi-Touch
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Dustin DiTommaso
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More Than Points: Architecting Engagement Through Game Design Thinking
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Dustin DiTommaso
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Grid Systems: Building Blocks to a Better User Experience
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Kris Engdahl
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Usability of Electronic Health Records
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Jonathan Follett
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Designing Enterprise Dashboards
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Debra Gelman
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Conducting Multiple-Method Design Research with 6-8 Year Olds: A Case Study
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Vijay Hanumolu
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4 mobile apps 2 dev teams 1 Enterprise mobile solution – An (sleepless) Interaction Designer’s experience doing mobile design in Agile!
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Michael Hawley
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Beyond Usability Testing: Assessing the Usefulness of Your Design
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Eva Kaniasty
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Mobile App Design for BehaviorChange
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Demetrios Karis
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Diary Studies: An Overview and Practical Advice
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Justin Kaufman
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See me, feel me, touch me, heal me: Accessibility and opportunity in mobile computing.
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David Kozatch
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Let’s Put it All Together: Why UX Practitioners and Marketing Researchers Need to Join Forces Now
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Jeremy Kriegel
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Agile 101
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Traci Lepore
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I’m in the user’s shoes, now what? How finding an empathetically user-centered perspective on design builds innovation.
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Tom McCann
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Are the in-store and e-commerce shopping experiences really that different?
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Jen McGinn
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Persona Development:Everything you wanted to know but were afraid to ask
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Dharmesh Mistry
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Can “Smart Home” technology change the future of how older adults live?
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Joe Ranft
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The Nuts and Bolts of Running a Single Person Consultancy
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Colleen Roller
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When 98% is more than 100%: how number format influences judgment and decisions
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Amanda Rotondo
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Values in design: A hands-on workshop
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Michael Ryan
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Rock! Paper! iPad! Comparing UX Tools on the iPad to Traditional Methods
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Will Schroeder
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Lightning Prototyping Strikes Again: Very Rapid Design and Test Revisited
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Kyle Soucy
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Collaging: Getting Answers to the Questions You Didn’t Know to Ask
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Julie Strothman
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Fact or Question? Analytics for User Experience
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Brian Sullivan
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Designing for Awareness in the Attention Economy
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Bob Thomas (and panel)
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Building Out a User Experience Team: Making UX Relevant Companywide
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Tom Tullis
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How Should Text Links Be Presented?
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Tom Vollaro
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Creating an online community for user research: moving beyond Facebook and Twitter
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Mar
22
2011
The NH UPA chapter is sponsoring this presentation by Dana Chisnell, author of the Handbook of Usability Testing: Howto Plan, Design, and Conduct Effective Tests (which is a required book for HF710). Chisnell will discuss The 5 Top UX Issues on the Social Web
Here is the information from the NH UPA announcement. If you want to go, be sure to register at eventbright.
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