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Adaptive Path Newsletter for October 4, 2006

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Case Study: Soundflavor by Lane Becker & Dan Saffer

Have you ever been listening to your own music playing on shuffle and said, “Wow, I didn’t know I owned this song?” Or heard a song and said, “I wish I had more songs just like this one?” Or realized that your music ran out an hour ago and you’ve been listening to nothing but air, and yet you’re still wearing your headphones? These are the problems that Soundflavor set out to address with its new application and website.

Read the Soundflavor Case Study.

Listen to Chiara and Dan’s UX Week Talks via Podcast

Tune in as Chiara Fox, senior information architect at Adaptive Path, takes a closer look at the fine art of content analysis. Includes insights into how to tackle your next site design, redesign or migration, as well as a strategic breakdown of the key deliverables: “content inventories,” “content audits” and “content maps.”

Listen to what Chiara has to say about “Understanding Your Content.”

Dan Saffer, senior interaction designer at Adaptive Path, peels back the three crucial layers of interactive design: technology (what is it, how does it work and what problems can it solve?), behavior (what happens when a user pushes that button?) and the users themselves (how will they actually use this technology?).

Listen to Dan’s take on “What Is Interaction Design?”

Sign Up for Dan’s “Designing for Interaction” Workshop in New York City on October 25

Perfect for either experienced designers or those looking to get started as an interaction designer, Dan Saffer’s workshop covers the underlying principles of interaction design as well as the tools you need to put those principles into practice. Learn multiple ways to approach interaction design for both products and services, discover the best strategies for interpreting design research, get ready for the future of interaction design and more.

Learn more about the “Designing for Interaction” workshop.

Adaptive Path Welcomes Robert to Our Team

Adaptive Path is pleased to welcome our new office manager: Robert Kinyon!

Robert joins Adaptive Path with over twenty years of experience in client service, accounting, human resources, purchasing, sales, recruiting, and facility and office management. He has helped increase profitability for several corporations including Delta Dental and Williams Sonoma and not-for-profit organizations such as the YMCA of Santa Clara County. Robert is an active volunteer for the AIDs Walk San Francisco and the Avon Walk for Breast Cancer.

Check out the IDEA Conference October 23-24 in Seattle, WA

Organized by Peter Merholz, the IDEA Conference is a unique event, bringing together people from a variety of backgrounds (museum design, information visualization, libraries, network engineering, interaction design, media arts, and more) to talk about the challenges of designing for complex information spaces of all kinds. The conference program is final, and abstracts for almost every talk are available. Quite a few Adaptive Pathers will be attending as well!

Discover what’s in store at the IDEA Conference.

Look for Dan’s Interview with Jim Leftwich on The WELL

Dan Saffer interviews illustrator/designer Jim Leftwich on The WELL’s Inkwell Writers Series. Look for the first installment on October 4 at The WELL.

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