Andrew’s Blog Post Makes Digg.com
Congratulations to Andrew Crow, whose blog post, Dashboard Widgets as iPhone Apps? got tagged by Digg.com. Stay ahead of the curve by reading more of Andy’s blog posts on bleeding edge technology, design, and brand experience or visit his personal site: Concrete Brain.
The UX Week Program is Complete
The long-anticipated UX Week program is now up and running. We’re excited to announce keynoter Lisa Strausfeld of Pentagram who will be sharing their work on One Laptop per Child and Lori Adams and Dermot Waters of CNN who will be presenting a case study of the CNN.com re-design. We’ve got many more killer speakers and topics at this year’s UX Week, from participatory design to interaction design in everyday life to the latest thinking in generative user research.
Don’t miss a thing — register before the last discounted registration date ends on July 13. If you’re not able to make all four-days, we’ve opened up single-day registration — join us for one, two, three or all four-days. As always, our newsletter subscribers are welcome to use discount code “FOAP” for an extra 15% discount to all of our events.
We’d like to put a big shout out to our UX Week program chair Sarah B. Nelson for all of her hard work in putting this conference together. Thank you Sarah, we can’t wait for August.
Sneak a Peek at Dan’s UX Week Keynote
Too often, when it comes time to be inspired about a product or feature, designers look to similar products for inspiration. Or maybe, if they are sophisticated, they might look at patterns like Yahoo!’s UI Pattern Library or Jennifer Tidwell’s Designing Interfaces. But the world is a deep, rich pattern library, waiting to be used. We can find inspiration in all sorts of places, and none of them are necessarily on the other side of a computer screen.
The buildings around us can inspire through their use of space and light to instigate interactions. Cinema shows us how storytelling and transitions can work. Nature shows us the complex simplicity of ecosystems, providing a multitude of movements, colors, and patterns. Mechanical objects demonstrate how things work — how transparency can occur and how for hundreds of years controls have been created.
Be sure to catch the rest of Dan’s keynote about new (old) sources of inspiration at UX Week 2007.
UX Week Ponies Up the Field Trips
We’re pleased to announce this year’s UX Week field trips on Thursday, August 16: International Spy Museum and The National Building Museum. These two field trips will cap off UX Week, bringing the discussion of user experience and interaction design out into everyday life in Washington, DC. Talks from key exhibition designers from their respective museums will precede the trips.
Cybelle Jones, Creative Director at Gallagher Associates will lead the discussion on the International Spy Museum. Gallagher Associates specialize in designing immersive, educational experiences for museums, learning and visitor centers.
Martin Moeller, Senior Vice President and Curator at The National Building Museum will walk us through the new exhibit “Reinventing the Globe: A Shakespearean Theater for the 21st Century.” Also running at TNBM is “David Macaulay, the Art of Drawing Architecture.”
To catch either of these trips, sign up for UX Week 2007. Don’t forget to use your special discount code “FOAP” for a 15% discount, just for newsletter subscribers.
Peter’s “Experience is the Product” Article Translated into Spanish
In case you missed Peter Merholz’s Experience is the Product article in Core77, it is now available at BusinessWeek.com. Also, it has been translated into Spanish on Capire.info. Peter muses about how experience is the product and the only thing users care about. He reviews icons such as Kodak, iPod, Tivo, Target Pharmacy, and Flickr, whose successful the products are simply an interface.
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