October 2008

Don't Make Me Think!

Web Usability Workshop (with Steve Krug) (October 17, 2008 - Chicago IL, USA)
"In this day-long workshop, I'll do my darndest to teach you how to think about your site's usability problems in a useful way, and how to make low-cost/no-cost testing an everyday part of your design process."

Start date: October 17, 2008 | Comments (0) | Permalink

Site Search Analytics for a Better User Experience

by Louis Rosenfeld (October 16, 2008 - Chicago IL, USA)
In this day-long workshop, Lou Rosenfeld—co-author of Information Architecture for the World Wide Web and the forthcoming Search Analytics for your Site: Conversations with your customers—will combine lecture, discussion, and extensive hands-on exercises to cover the basics of site search analytics. And he'll show you how spending even an hour a week analyzing your search queries can help tune and improve your site and expose new opportunities for improving your business strateg

Start date: October 16, 2008 | Comments (0) | Permalink

Design & Emotion Conference 2008

Dare to Design (October 6-9, 2008 - Hong Kong)
The International Conference on Design & Emotion is a forum where practitioners, researchers and industry meet and exchange knowledge and insights concerning the cross-disciplinary field of design and emotion.

Design and Emotion - Dare to Desire

Our relationship with the world is affective, and all human-product interactions are coloured with emotion. The last ten years, design science has shown an increasing interest in this emotional impact of product design. And although this has stimulated some valuable attempts to formalize and model design emotions, we must not loose sight of the fact that emotion is holistic and an effect of the overall quality of the product or service, and the universal, cultural, and personal values of the user. It sometimes almost seems as if emotion has become just one of the many design demands. So that is why this year we say 'dare to desire' - dare to surrender to the multifaceted behavioural, mental, expressive, and physical phenomena we call emotion. Good design is desirable design, and design for emotion is not about products and services that feel good, but about products and services that make us feel great.

Start date: October 06, 2008 | Comments (0) | Permalink