- Our New Ventures Partnership
- AP in the News
- AP Launches Beyond Usability 2.0
- Make Your CMS Work For You
- Adaptive Path and Yahoo Present Ajax in Austin
- Jesse’s Off to Europe
- South by Southwest Podcasts Now Available
Our New Ventures Partnership
Adaptive Path is excited to announce that we’ve formed a partnership with Bay Area venture capital firm, Sierra Ventures. The strategic alliance, part of our New Ventures program, gives early-stage startups a combined package of venture capital and access to Adaptive Path’s proven product design methodologies.
As we decide whether to collaborate with a startup, Adaptive Path applies a set of criteria beyond the due diligence of a venture capital partner. We look into the value of the business, and the potential for us to add real worth through product design. The projects we choose will start with a short-term consulting engagement followed by a longer-term advisory period.
Stay tuned! We’ll tell you all about our first collaboration soon.
AP in the News
Here a quick roundup of where we’ve been showing up in the news recently:
Jesse’s latest BusinessWeek article.
An interview with Lane about the New Ventures deal.
Some lively Geek TV coverage of AP’s Fifth Anniversary Party.
An interesting interview on the impact of search on site design.
Jesse on Ajax in Digit.
AP Launches Beyond Usability 2.0
Join us in Chicago on May 17-18, for our first presentation of “Beyond Usability 2.0: Four Cornerstones for Successful Digital Product Design.” If you enjoyed our popular foundation workshop, “Beyond Usability: Designing the Complete User Experience,” this workshop outlines the next logical steps.
This two-day intensive still shows you how to incorporate user goals and business needs into your design process, but for the first time, our presenters will take you into the four essential aspects of digital product design. These four “deep dives” include: company insight, user research, information architecture, and interaction design. Come learn how to validate and defend your most important design decisions.
To get more in-depth information and to register, visit our events page.
Make Your CMS Work for You
Join us April 27 at our San Francisco offices for Chiara Fox’s “Make Your CMS Work for You” workshop.
Chiara has years of experience with large-scale content migrations, including one that involved integrating content in ten languages on twenty-three sites. Whether you’re struggling with a content management system or about to install one, find out why many CMS implementations fail, and what you can do to ensure success.
For more information on the CMS workshop,visit our events page.
Adaptive Path and Yahoo Present Ajax in Austin
Join Jesse James Garrett and Yahoo’s Bill Scott for our “Designing and Building with Ajax” workshop in Austin, Texas on May 10.
Jesse and Bill can help turn your enthusiasm about Ajax into practical knowledge, with design insights and technical grounding to get your team started.
To register, visit our events page.
Jesse’s Off to Europe
Jesse James Garrett is heading to Europe in May and June for a number of workshops and lectures.
In conjunction with the Norwegian Computer Society, Jesse will be in Oslo on May 22-23, where he’ll present on the “Elements of User Experience,” the “Nine Pillars,” “Beyond Usability,” and “Designing with Ajax.” If you speak Norwegian, you’ll find more information here.
On May 31, Jesse will be in Copenhagen where he’ll be teaching his “Elements of User Experience” as a pre-conference workshop for Reboot. To sign up, register on the Adaptive Path website.
Finally, on June 7, Jesse lectures on “Designing and Building with Ajax” in Amsterdam as a pre-conference seminar for the SIG-CHI Netherlands conference. To sign up, register on the Adaptive Path website.
South by Southwest Podcasts Now Available
A number of Adaptive Path folks participated on panels at South by Southwest. If you weren’t able to attend the conference in Austin, you can download the podcasts and hear what you missed:
- Jesse James Garrett was a panel member during the “Ajax: What Do I Need to Know?” session.
- Peter Merholz was a speaker for “What’s Hot in Web Applications.”
- Adaptive Path COO Bryan Mason was both the moderator and a panelist for “Running Your New Media Business.”
- Lane Becker and others gave their opinion on “The New Startup Cultures.”
- AP alum and founder Jeff Veen was the moderator and a panelist for the session on “Designing the Next Generation of Web Apps.”
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