September 2010

IDEA2010

Integration: Designing for tomorrow. (September 30 - October 2 2010, Philadelphia USA)
A global, interconnected network of people and information is emerging faster than many of us can take pause to understand. We believe that the world faces great challenges we must address as a design community: from the socioeconomic digital divide to health care, sustainability to global poverty. This year, IDEA2010 in Philadelphia provides the perfect place where we as UX professionals can come together to exchange insights and share perspectives for designing better experiences across physical and virtual information spaces. IDEA2010 will be hosted at the unique Independence Seaport Museum on Oct 1st and 2nd with a workshop day at Messagefirst studios on September 30th. IDEA2010 is a design conference tailored for you. This year's unique mix of traditional presentations with structured activity time assures that you'll get high-level concepts from big thinkers, and the space to apply them with peers.

Start date: September 30, 2010 | Permalink

Euro IA VI

European Information Architecture Sixth Summit (September 23-25, 2010 - Paris, France)
Following our fifth successful European Information Architecture Summit, the planning committee thought it was time to share some of the background for our conference, our selection process, and our goals moving forward toward our next conference in Paris, France, September 23-25 2010. The need for a network. When we kicked off our first conference in Brussels, back in 2005, few attendees knew more than one or two other people in the room. Although there had been conferences on the fuzzy edges of information architecture and user experience in Paris, London, and Amsterdam, these had been highly local in character. There was no network of IA/ID/UX professionals, despite the important work being done through the individual CHI, STC, and UPA chapters.

Start date: September 23, 2010 | Permalink

Demarcating User eXperience

Seminar (September 15-18 2010 ~ Leibniz GER)
The concept of user experience (UX) is widely used but understood in many different ways. The multidisciplinary nature of UX has provoked several definitions and perspectives to UX, each approaching the concept from a different viewpoint. UX is seen as a holistic concept covering all aspects of experiencing a phenomenon, but we are facing the point where UX has become a concept too broad to be useful in practice. Practitioners have difficulties to understand the concept and to improve UX in their work, and researchers rather use some other term to make their research scope clear. Instead of dismiTssing the whole term of user experience, we believe UX can be defined to cover a certain set of cases and to make its scope clear. In this seminar, we will demarcate the field of user experience.

Start date: September 15, 2010 | Permalink

UX Brighton 2010

A conference on designing for behaviour (September 13 2010, Brighton UK)
UX Brighton 2010 is an extension of one of our successful monthly meetings. It is the conference for the design and web technology community. Due to the success of the monthly meetups, we decided to turn the September meetup into a full blown one day event. This one day event gives wide exposure to some of the most recent captivating and provocative ideas on User Experience from all over the UK and Europe. The speakers combine the well-known, such as Rory Sutherland and Eric Reiss, with others who are yet to be discovered. It is an opportunity for the User Experience community to hear about and discuss design and behaviour in both theory and practise.

Start date: September 13, 2010 | Permalink

Transforming Design

Design/Management Europe 14 (September 7-8, 2010 ~ London UK)
Design is now recognized as an enabler of business transformation, because design leads change, which is critically needed to save and solve our future. It is a solution that addresses problems, and problems behind problems. Design connects businesses to their customers, and customers to new products, services and experiences. Design is a process tool, an innovation tool, a tool to build experiences, and a transformation tool. Transformation is as much a way of thinking as it is a result.

Start date: September 07, 2010 | Permalink