User experience

Design & Emotion

7th International Conference on Design & Emotion (October 4-7, 2010 ~ Chicago USA)
The Institute of Design, Illinois Institute of Technology, and the Design & Emotion Society are pleased to invite you to participate in the 7th International Conference on Design & Emotion in Chicago, October 4-7. The International Conference on Design & Emotion is a forum held every other year where practitioners, researchers and industry leaders meet and exchange knowledge and insights concerning the cross-disciplinary field of design and emotion. The conference will offer workshops, research paper presentations, design case presentations, and poster presentations. The conference language is English.

Since this conference was first established in 1999, what many predicted then came to be. Technologies are now able to achieve emotional qualities and design examples using these technologies abound. While we have made significant progress in research and practice relevant to emotional factors in design, many fundamental questions remain unanswered and new issues have been raised as we experience major changes in technological, social, cultural and economic environments. We are at the stage for another leap forward in the development of new understanding and vision of emotional factors in design through our critical reflection, innovative exploration and collaborative endeavor. This conference calls for your contribution to this exciting international forum of research and practice representing academic, professional and business communities.

Start date: October 04, 2010 | Permalink

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

UX Week 2010

Adaptive Path Event (August 24-27 2010, San Francisco, USA)
Calling UX professionals (or aspiring professionals) of all levels! Join us at UX Week, the premier user experience conference, for fun times, inspiring sessions on the main stage and roll-up-your-sleeves learning during two full days of workshops. It's going to rock.

Start date: August 24, 2010 | Permalink

UXcamp Europe 2010

(May 29-30, 2010 - Berlin, Germany EU)
Taking the lead from the hugely successful UXcamp Berlin 2009, we have decided to extend our borders and create an international event. In addition, there will be space for other topics like Research, Product Design or Marketing in relation to User Experience. No spectators, just participants! This BarCamp-rule does not mean everybody has to do a Session, but everybody should come prepared to participate in an active manner.

Start date: May 29, 2010 | Permalink

UX Lx

User Experience Lisbon (May 12-14, 2010 - Lisbon, Portugal EU)
3 Eventful Days in Lisbon for User Experience Professionals Meet a fabulous set of world renowned speakers and absorb their knowledge with thought-provoking talks and in-depth workshops. Share your own ideas by proposing a talk and network with the other participants with our awesome range of side-activities.

Start date: May 12, 2010 | Permalink

UX London

Inspirational Learning for User Experience Designers (May 19-21, 2010 - London UK)
UX London is a unique three-day event combining inspirational talks with in-depth workshops presented by some of the industry's biggest names. Whether you're beginning your career, or a seasoned professional, UX London is your chance to add core skills, absorb strategic thinking, and learn advanced techniques from pioneers in the field.

Start date: April 19, 2010 | Permalink

DeSForM 2009

Design and Semantics of Form and Movement (October 26-27, 2009 - Taipei, Taiwan)
The scope of the conference is the design of products, systems and services with a focus on the meanings conveyed by their forms and behaviors. After four successful workshops in the Europe, DeSForM 2009 comes to Asia and creates an international platform where researchers and practitioners across different cultures can share findings and insights about the aesthetics and meanings of human-object interactions.

Start date: November 26, 2009 | Permalink

DPPI 2009

Designing Pleasurable Products and Interfaces (October 13-16, 2009 - Compiègne, France)
This conference originally was driven by the need to move away from a purely functional approach to usability, and focused on a more experiential approach to human-product interaction. Now, the rationalization of the means for design and production leading to a relative standardisation of the products on the market, the sharp competition between the mature companies exhorts to take into account the aspects linked to the perceptions of the final users and to turn innovation into a more experiential approach to human-product interaction.

Start date: October 13, 2009 | Permalink

Engaging Artifacts

August 30 - September 1, 2009 (The Oslo School of Architecture and Design, Oslo Norway)
Design research aims to provide new insights to the ways in which we understand - and do - design. The conference invites contributions from researchers in universities, design schools and industry who share an interest in understanding and developing design as a trans-disciplinary practice that is always in the making. The scope of the conference reaches beyond the traditional design disciplines and includes other research areas with mutual interest in design research and engaging artefacts. NORDES '09 directs its interest towards the diversity, challenges and emerging practices and understandings of design. The conference theme reflects a range of issues that characterize design and design research today.

Start date: August 30, 2009 | Permalink

UX London

June 15-17, 2009 (Cumberland Hotel, London UK)
UX London is a fantastic three-day event for user experience designers. If you are an information architect, visual designer, user experience manager or web producer, then UX London is for you! It combines a day of inspirational conference with four half days of practical, in-depth, hands-on workshops, all presented by some of the biggest names in the industry.

Start date: June 15, 2009 | 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

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

UX Intensive

Adaptive Path (November 12-15, 2007 - Vancouver BC, Canada)
This intermediate-to-advanced workshop series examines the four key elements that contribute to a successful interactive experience: Design Strategy, Design Research, Interaction Design and Information Architecture. Workshops are led by Adaptive Path's team of experts.

Start date: November 12, 2007 | Permalink

DUX'07

Conference on designing for user experience (November 5-7, 2007 - Chigago IL, USA)
Social media and networks are producing a new set of expectations regarding people's ability to contribute, create, personalize, and share information. These new expectations are changing the roles, methods and responsibilities of designers and researchers.

Start date: November 05, 2007 | Comments (0) | Permalink

DPPI07

Designing Pleasurable Products and Interfaces (August 22-25, 2007 - University of Art and Design, Helsinki FI)
we challenge you to participate in an exhilarating week of listening, doing, research, designing, discussing, learning and having fun. The organizing committee did its best to build an attractive program for you. As any conference, we have paper and poster presentations, as well as invited speakers. However, like in DPPI previously, we go beyond the normal conference format.

Start date: August 22, 2007 | Comments (0) | Permalink

User Experience Week 2007

Adaptive Path (August 13-17, 2007 - Washington DC, USA)
Under the guidance of experienced practitioners from Adaptive Path and other top companies, this four-day conference introduces user experience practitioners to new rich internet application design approaches, practical prototyping techniques, effective cross-organization communications strategies and more.

Start date: August 13, 2007 | Comments (0) | Permalink

Persuasive07

The Second International Conference on Persuasive Technology (April 27-28, 2006 - Stanford University, Palo Alto CA, USA)
Can a web site persuade you to be politically active? Can a mobile phone motivate you to exercise more? Does instant feedback on gasoline use change how people drive? Do online rating systems inspire people to behave better online? PERSUASIVE 07 will focus on how digital technology can motivate and influence people. This event will bring together researchers, designers, and developers interested in computers designed to change human attitudes and behaviors in positive ways. Key themes of PERSUASIVE 07 include health, education, sustainability, productivity, social relationships, trust, ethics and more. Technologies of interest include web sites, mobile phones, video games, and electronic devices, among others.

Start date: April 27, 2007 | Comments (0) | Permalink

Doors of Perception 9

JUICE: Food, Energy, Design (March 3, 2007 - India Habitat Centre, New Delhi India)
Global food systems are not sustainable. Industrialised food consumes ten times more energy in production and distribution than enters our bodies as nutrition. In 'developed' countries, the food consumption of a single family generates eight tonnes of CO2 emissions a year. This madness is enabled by non renewable fossil fuel. But what to do? Doors 9 breaks the food systems issue into bite-sized design chunks.

Start date: March 03, 2007 | Comments (0) | Permalink

UI11

User Interface 11 Conference: Enriching the Experience (October 9-12, 2006 - Cambridge MA, USA)
At User Interface 11, you'll get 4 full days of in-depth techniques from the world's leading web design and usability experts. On Monday and Wednesday, you will attend full-day seminars with our expert speakers. On Tuesday, we have a day filled with 90-minute Featured Talks. We'll cap off the week on Thursday with our Showcase Seminar Day, where you'll have the choice between UIE's most popular seminars or Rolf Molich's Master Workshop.

Start date: October 09, 2006 | Comments (0) | Permalink

Fifth Conference on Design and Emotion

The Design and Emotion Society and Chalmers University of Technology (September 27-29, 2006 - Gothenburg SE, EU)
Emotions arise towards people, towards places, towards food, and towards things. Emotions influence our well-being as well as our purchase decisions. From a design perspective, we need to know more about how artefacts elicit emotions. We also need to know more about the way we can identify the relevant emotional aspects and how we can evaluate the emotional impact of a particular design.

Start date: September 27, 2006 | Comments (0) | Permalink

euroGel 2006 conference

Gel is going international (September 1, 2006: Copenhagen DK)
euroGel 2006 will be a Europe-wide conversation about good experience, featuring speakers from across the continent.

Start date: September 01, 2006 | Comments (0) | Permalink

Webvisions 2006

Explore the Future of the Web (July 20-21, 2006 - Oregon, USA)
WebVisions explores the future of design, content creation, user experience and business strategy to uncover the trends and agents of change that will shatter your assumptions about the Web. Be ready to network, share ideas and be inspired by an all-star lineup of speakers.

Start date: July 20, 2006 | Comments (0) | Permalink

Interaction Frontiers 2006

(June 16, 2006 - Milan, Italy EU)
The adventure of Interaction Frontiers started by raising issues about user experience. This year it will take a step into the future of user experience, with presentations on avatars that enrich the windows of traditional GUIs, digital products with input devices and sensors that can collect information about users’ emotions, and user experiences that leave the screen and move around on wheels and robot legs.

Start date: June 16, 2006 | Comments (0) | Permalink

The Web and Beyond

10th SIGCHI.NL Conference (June 8, 2006 - Amsterdam, The Netherlands EU)
On Thursday, June 8, SIGCHI.NL will organise its 10th conference 'The Web and Beyond' in the Tuschinski Theatre in Amsterdam. The conference will take a closer look at the developments which by some are summarized as 'Web 2.0'. Subjects like dynamic interface solutions, technological developments, user generated content, social networking and, of course, consequences for individuals, businesses and society will be discussed. The main focus will be on interaction design in daily practice. Influential speakers from both the User Experience community and professional businesses will present their vision on the future of the web.

Start date: June 08, 2006 | Comments (0) | Permalink

MEX: Mobile User Experience

The PMN Mobile User Experience conference (May 31 - June 1, 2006 - London, UK)
The MEX speaking programme educates, provokes debate and provides a context for networking at the conference.

Start date: May 31, 2006 | Comments (0) | Permalink

Persuasive06

First International Conference on Persuasive Technology for Human Well-Being (May 18-19, 2006: Eindhoven University of Technology, Netherlands)
"(...) aimed at exploring technology in the service of human well-being, within the broader context of a socially and ecologically sustainable society. Join academic researchers, designers, and technology developers from around the world in investigating the potential of persuasive technologies to positively affect human attitudes and behaviour. The goal of PERSUASIVE 06 is to bring together a multidisciplinary group of social scientists studying persuasion, and engineers developing persuasive technologies in areas such as health and rehabilitation, housing, information and communication, and energy conservation, so they can meet, share experiences, present research, and exchange ideas."

Start date: May 18, 2006 | Comments (0) | Permalink

DUX 2005

Designing for User Experiences (November 3-5, 2005 - Fort Mason Center, San Francisco CA USA)
As was DUX 2003, DUX 2005 is being co-developed by three professional associations: ACM SIGCHI, AIGA Experience Design, and ACM SIGGRAPH. The DUX 2005 conference chairs: Richard Anderson, John Zapolski, and Brian Blau (contact all three of us via conference@dux2005.org). The DUX 2005 program chairs: Nancy Frishberg, Rakhi Rajani, and Clark Dodsworth.

Start date: November 03, 2005 | Comments (0) | Permalink

about, with, and for 2005

Advancing the practice of user-centered design research (October 28-29, 2005 - Chicago IL, USA)
2005 AWF conference will explore how products and services, arrived at through user-centered design research, can aid in making work more productive, profitable and fun.

Start date: October 28, 2005 | Comments (0) | Permalink

Experience Design Unplugged

SIGGRAPH 2005 Web Program Paradigm Track - Presented by Peter Morville (August 3, 2005 - Los Angeles, CA USA)
At the crossroads of web design and ubiquitous computing, the user experience is out of control. Salvation lies in the strange connections between social software, semantic webs, convergent architecture, and interaction design.

Start date: August 03, 2005 | Comments (0) | Permalink

Don't Make Me Think: The Workshop

Learn how to think like a usability expert in eight hours or less - Presented by Steve Krug (June 3, 2005 - Denver, CO 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: June 13, 2005 | Comments (0) | Permalink

Don't Make Me Think: The Workshop

Learn how to think like a usability expert in eight hours or less - Presented by Steve Krug (May 13, 2005 - Boston, MA 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: May 13, 2005 | Comments (0) | Permalink

Seeing, Understanding, Learning in the Mobile Age

Conference organized by the Institute for Philosophical Research of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences and T-Mobile Hungary Co. Ltd. (April 28–30, 2005 - Budapest, Hungary EU)
While in all areas of life we witness a radical increase in the demand for mobile internet access, questions as regards further directions of development are at many points open, and need to be addressed by the social sciences. Contrary to earlier expectations, the emergence of computer-based, networked, interactive communication enhances, rather than diminishes, the physical mobility of users. The mobile telephone is by now more than merely a device to transmit voice. It has become a multi-purpose data transmitter – a mobile companion.

Start date: April 28, 2005 | Comments (0) | Permalink

Don't Make Me Think: The Workshop

Learn how to think like a usability expert in eight hours or less - Presented by Steve Krug (April 8, 2005 - San Diego, CA 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: April 08, 2005 | Comments (0) | Permalink

DESIGN IT! Pre-Conference 2005

Design: Strategy for Business Renovation with IT (February 28, March 1-2, 2005 - Tokyo, Japan)
Achieving successful corporate reform amidst a constantly changing environment is an enormous challenge, and the vision to integrate the power of design and IT is essential for such reform. The DESIGN IT! Pre-Conference 2005 is a three-day conference held in Tokyo, Japan, that leads this vision towards integrating design and IT so that we can create a human-centered and people-friendly society.

Start date: February 28, 2005 | Comments (0) | Permalink

The Future of Digital Product Design: Dirk Knemeyer and a panel of digital product design professionals

IxDG, AIGA-ED, AIGA Center for Brand Experience, and BayDUX (Wednesday December 8, 2004) - Yahoo! 701 First Avenue - Sunnyvale, California
"Technology and business trends are rapidly changing the landscape of digital product design. Powerful forces for change are affecting everyone who contributes to the innovation and design of digital products. Products are converging. Organizations are sending technology, design, and usability jobs offshore. At the same time, product development teams are becoming increasingly integrated and multi-disciplinary. Individuals, organizations, and even industries are trying to understand the dynamic forces that are now at work and determine their roles in this new world of digital product design. With change comes opportunity as well as risk. The user experience design community is poised to assume a pivotal role in the design of digital products—ensuring that the products companies bring to market are useful, usable, and enjoyable. To help prepare us all to take advantage of the opportunities at hand, Dirk will offer insights into how current trends in both technology and business will change the work we do."

Start date: December 08, 2004 | Comments (0) | Permalink

User Experience 2004

Nielsen Norman Group - November 1-6, 2004 - Amsterdam, The Netherlands
"Get a broader view of usability's future and your role in it as NN/g leaders offer four stimulating keynotes on what's happening and what lies ahead. (...) Our biggest conference ever with 33 full-day tutorials: 16 brand-new seminars, including advanced content usability and Web-based applications, 17 best-selling classics like information architecture and e-commerce usability."

Start date: November 01, 2004 | Comments (0) | Permalink

Beyond Usability: Designing the Complete User Experience

(Amsterdam - June 22-23, 2004)
"This two-day presentation covers the process of user experience design from gathering initial business requirements through developing functional specifications." (Adaptive Path)

Start date: June 22, 2004 | Comments (0) | Permalink