November 2008

Don't Make Me Think: The Workshop

Learn how to think like a usability expert in eight hours or less - Presented by Steve Krug (November 12, 2008: Washington DC, 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: November 12, 2008 | Comments (0) | Permalink

Site Search Analytics for a Better User Experience

by Louis Rosenfeld (November 11, 2008 - Washington DC, 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: November 11, 2008 | Comments (0) | Permalink

UX Week

November 3-6, 2008 - Paço de Arcos, Oeiras Portugal
Interface stands on the shoulders of infrastructure. User experience relies on the foundation systems of information architecture. And, the biggest problem on today’s web sites and intranets is findability. In this presentation, Peter Morville draws upon examples from e-commerce, education, and government to illustrate best practices and fundamental concepts of user-centered design. He explores the complex relationships between strategy and structure, showing how user research should guide decisions about technology and features. And, he highlights key challenges and opportunities in interaction design, information architecture, and search.

This fast-paced overview is suitable for executives, entrepreneurs, developers, and designers of web sites, software products, and interactive services.

Start date: November 03, 2008 | Comments (0) | Permalink