Video: Aaron Powers
posted at 10:40 AM on November 4, 2008
Aaron Powers | UX Week 2008 | Adaptive Path from Adaptive Path on Vimeo.
Video: Jay Torrence & Sarah B. Nelson
posted at 2:20 PM on September 24, 2008
Jay Torrence & Sarah B. Nelson Speaking at UX Week 2008 by Adaptive Path from Adaptive Path on Vimeo.
Video: Jane McGonigal
posted at 2:18 PM on September 24, 2008
Jane McGonigal | UX Week 2008 | Adaptive Path from Teresa Brazen on Vimeo.
Video: Rod Naber & Dan Levine
posted at 2:16 PM on September 24, 2008
Rod Naber & Dan Levine | UX Week 2008 | Adaptive Path from Adaptive Path on Vimeo.
Video: Dan Albritton
posted at 2:14 PM on September 24, 2008
Dan Albritton | UX Week 2008 | Adaptive Path from Adaptive Path on Vimeo.
Video: Aurora Panel
posted at 2:09 PM on September 24, 2008
Aurora Panel | UX Week 2008 | Adaptive Path from Adaptive Path on Vimeo.
Session Slides
posted at 9:45 AM on August 21, 2008
Some of our presenters have posted slides for their main stage talks and/or their workshops. Here’s links to the slides that are currently available. All are in PDF format.
- NEW!! The History of the Ribbon by JensenHarris
- Quick and Easy Flash Prototyping by Alexa Andrzejewski
- Design is Made of People
by Sara B. Nelson and Julia Houck-Whitaker (worksheets) - TV With an API! Current at the Collision of TV and the Internet
by Rod Naber and Dan Levine - TheDailyShow.com: Fake News 24/7 by Audrey Chen
- New Paradigms for Interaction in Physical Space by Jake Barton
- Interaction Techniques Using the Wii Remote
by Johnny C. Lee (videos on YouTube) - Designing Gestural Interfaces by Dan Saffer
- Designing Our Way Through Data by Jeffrey Veen
- Designing Natural Interfaces by Nathan Moody and Darren David
- Tap is the New Click by Dan Saffer
- Become a Sticky-Note Ninja by Kate Rutter (hand-out also available)
- Beyond Wireframes - Making Interactive Sketches by Dan Harrelson
- Good Design Faster
by Leah Buley and Brandon Schauer (hand-outs one, two, three) - Making Thinking Tangible by Todd Wilkens
We’ll post more as we get them.
Single Day Registration for Days 1 and 2 are Sold Out
posted at 5:23 PM on August 4, 2008
Just a quick note that we’ve sold out for single day registrations for Days 1 and 2 of UX Week 2008. We’ve still got single-day availability for Days 3 and 4, and we still have spots available for people interested in registering for all four days.
The UX Week Social Network
posted at 7:42 PM on August 2, 2008
As part of UX Week, we’re offering a social network where attendees can meet and connect before the event. It’s a large event this year and we want to make sure you get as much out of networking in the lobby as you do from the sessions.
Browse the network and sign up for an account!
What should you do once you’re in?
- Add a picture. That’ll help people put a name to a face.
- Fill out your profile. This will help people find you.
- Find people you want to meet. From their profile you can let them know that you are a “fan” or that you “want-to-meet.” Or you leave a comment with something more specific.
We’re working with CrowdVine to provide the social network. They’re here to provide support, answer your questions, and give tips on how to make the most of the experience. They’ve provided a moderator who you can contact directly: Tony Stubblebine, < tony at crowd vine dot com>
Single Day Registration Available
posted at 10:39 AM on June 25, 2008
We wanted to announce this before the price jump on June 30. You can now register for UX Week 2008 on a day-by-day basis. I explained in an earlier blog post the day-by-day narrative of the event, which I’ll briefly recap here:
- Day 1: Fundamentals of User Experience
- Day 2: Service and Media Design
- Day 3: Play and Immersion
- Day 4: The Future of User Experience
Never before has an event put together such a tightly orchestrated collection of talks and workshops on what really matters in the field of user experience.
Companies attending UX Week 2008
posted at 6:22 AM on June 25, 2008
We’ve got an impressive list of companies attending UX Week 2008. If you’ve already registered — you’re in good company! If you haven’t yet — look at some the organizations represented:
Design Firms
- Cooper
- Avenue A | Razorfish
- Schematic
- Navigation Arts
- Habanero Consulting
- Flow Interactive
- Arc Worldwide
Mobile Devices
- Nokia
- Research in Motion
- Sony Ericsson
Financial Services and Insurance
- Fidelity
- Vanguard
- Wells Fargo
- Allstate
- Nationwide
- Charles Schwab
- Wachovia
Software
- SAP
- Sage Software
- SAS
- Microsoft
- TellMe
- Skype
E-Commerce / Retail
- eBay
- Walmart.com
- Zappos.com
- Gap
- LiveNation
- AutoTrader
- Best Buy
Travel
- Continental Airlines
- American Airlines
- Expedia
Health Care/Biotech
- Humana
- Walgreen Health Services
- Genentech
Big Complicated Objects
- Boeing
- Caterpillar
- 3M
Search Engine
- Yahoo!
Schedule is Complete
posted at 6:54 AM on June 6, 2008
The schedule for UX Week 2008 is complete, and we think it’s the best conference we’ve put together yet. On Day 1, we focus on the fundamentals of user experience kicking off with legendary Don Norman, and following that with presentations on the intense redesign of Microsoft Office, and workshops covering a range of essential UX techniques, from prototyping to storytelling to sketching.
On Day 2, we look at the next step in user experience, the emerging field of service design, which aims to address the design of experiences across multiple platforms and touchpoints. Carsharing company Zipcar’s CEO Scott Griffith will explain the wicked design challenges of providing their service, from online reservations to what happens if something goes wrong with the car. We’ll hear from representatives of TheDailyShow.com and Current TV, both pioneers in bridging the television experience to the Web. The workshops on this day will give you tools to succeed in this emerging world, looking towards the future with topics such as information visualization and designing gestural interfaces. We’ll end the day with an inspiring session from Milkshake Media on their work designing the brand experience for Lance Armstrong’s LIVESTRONG foundation.
On Day 3, we immerse ourselves in real-world experiences. We begin with alternate reality game designer Jane McGonigal, who is taking gaming off the screen and onto the streets, and continue with sessions on the institutions that are leading the way with immersive experiences: museums. We then leave the hotel for a field trip to the Exploratorium, perhaps the nation’s premier hands-on science museum, where we’ll immerse ourselves in their lessons on designing complete experiences.
For our final day, Day 4, we look toward the future of user experience. We begin with Michael B. Johnson from Pixar, who will share how the famed studio pulls together its work to consistently create the best animated films on the market. We’ll then look towards designing for the post-PC world, designing for mobile, large-scale multitouch, gestural interfaces, physical computing, and even designing for robots. We will have an expo space for attendees to use Microsoft Surface, ThingM’s WineM, Johnny Lee’s Wiimote Hacks, and other new interaction paradigms. We’ll also look at work we’ve done at Adaptive Path on the future of the Web browser, and finish with design visionary and science-fiction author Bruce Sterling, who will send us out with his rousing message.
We can confidently say that no user experience event points the way forward like UX Week. You’ll walk away with techniques and ideas you can use immediately, and also with a mind for the future of our field.
Our Schedule is Nearly Complete
posted at 7:52 AM on April 24, 2008
Take a look at the list of speakers, workshops, and the schedule. We’ve got an amazing lineup featuring leading thinkers and practitioners in user experience, speaking and teaching on essential topics in the field. From the grounded experience of Don Norman to the flights of fancy of Bruce Sterling, from designing for the Web to designing for robots, from the sober stories of the LIVESTRONG experience to the comic flights of TheDailyShow.com, no other event covers as much ground and provides as much fun while doing it.
At UX Week, You Will
posted at 8:15 PM on March 15, 2008
- EXPLORE the latest thinking in multi-channel experiences, product and service ecologies, social media, user research, prototyping, storytelling, and interaction design.
- GAIN practical user experience skills and techniques, whether you’re a director, manager, or practitioner.
- LEARN to effectively communicate, evangelize and contextualize user experience across an organization.
- CONNECT with a network of preeminent user experience practitioners.
What You Can Expect
posted at 8:13 PM on March 15, 2008
Past UX Weeks featured such luminaries as Steven Johnson (author, Emergence, The Ghost Map), Jan Chipchase (designer and researcher, Nokia), Lisa Strausfeld (design director, One Laptop Per Child), Deborah Adler (designer, Target’s ClearRx pharmacy system), Michael Bierut (Principal, Pentagram), and Jared Spool (principal, User Interface Engineering).
Though don’t just take it from us. Here’s what an attendee has to say:
“Attending the Adaptive Path UX Week is like going to summer camp! Summer camp for designers, or as the opening slide stated, User Experience Professionals.” - David Shadle, Microsoft
Here’s some of what happened at UX Week 2007:
Deborah Adler discusses her design of the Target pill bottle
Lisa Strausfeld and her team give the first public demonstration of Sugar, the UI for the $100 Laptop
Jan Chipchase, design researcher at Nokia, shares what he’s learned from observing people all over the world
Adaptive Path unveils Charmr, our prototype diabetes management system
And subscribe to our UX Week 2007 podcast and listen to the presentations!
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2 New Montgomery Street
San Francisco, CA 94105
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