Usability & Interaction Inside NYC Taxis: Design Lessons Learned (New York, NY)
Friday, October 31st, 2008 by Michele Marut| November 13, 2008 | ||
| 6:00 pm | to | 8:00 pm |
Please join the NYC Usability Professionals’ Association for this special World Usability Day (www.worldusabilityday.org) presentation:Usability & Interaction Inside NYC Taxis: Design Lessons Learned
What can taxis teach user experience professionals? Design strategist Rachel Abrams spent two years looking at New York through yellow lenses, researching the city’s cab industry. She’ll share the broader design lessons she learned, revealing how those who usually design for the digital world can approach designing for objects and experiences in the real world, how the power of storytelling can elucidate the value of and patterns in data, and where the opportunities lie for service designers working in public space.
Speaker: Rachel AbramsDate: Thursday, November 13, 2008
Time: 6:00 pm – 8:00 pm
Please arrive by 6pm to allow time to get through security.
Photo ID required by security to enter building.
It must match the name on the registration list.
Schedule
6:00 – 6:30 pm Registration, networking and refreshments
6:30 – 6:45 pm Announcements
6:45 – 7:45 pm Presentation + 15 minutes for Q&A
8-ish - ?? pm Optional dinner at a nearby restaurant*
*Please note that dinner is an optional, post-event social activity and is not included
in the event fee. Each person is responsible for his/her own drink and dining expenses.
Location: 277 Park Avenue
New York, NY 10017
(between 47th & 48th on EAST side of street)
Map: click here for map to the locationCost: NYC-UPA members & Non-members: $15
Non-members with 1 year membership: $30
Full-time students: $5 (please provide valid student ID)
Note: For this event we are not able to offer discounted member pricing.
RSVP: NO EMAIL RSVPs ACCEPTED FOR THIS EVENT
Please purchase a guaranteed ticket at the event registration site:
http://nycupawud08.eventbrite.comRegistration closes at 4 pm Wednesday, November 12, 2008 (1 day before the event).Refunds are available until noon, Monday, November 17, 2008 (2 business days after the event) by sending a request to RSVP@nycupa.org.
Ticket transfers can be made on or before 4 pm Wednesday, November 12, 2008 (1 day before the event) by sending a request to RSVP@nycupa.org . You must notify us, and get a confirmation, of this transfer or it will not be valid.
Members of our parent organization, the UPA (the Usability Professionals’ Association), must join the NYC chapter to qualify for member rates. We encourage everyone to join our parent organization, though you do not need to do so to become a member of our chapter. You can learn more about our NYC organization or learn about our parent organization.
Seats are limited and reservations are first come, first served. We advise you to register early as previous events have sold out and we had to turn people away.
About the speaker:
Rachel Abrams is Creative Director of Turnstone Consulting, a collaborative design practice in New York City . She designs technology-mediated experiences for commercial spaces and public places. As a 2006-7 Fellow of The Design Trust for Public Space, she co-edited Taxi07: Roads Forward, a report on the future of New York ’s yellow cabs. Previously, at Imagination (USA) and IBM, she was a content and user experience strategist. Her design writing has featured on Adobe.com, in the Design Council, The Economist, Good, Eye magazines, and in other international publications over the last ten years. She has a Master’s degree in Computer Related Design from the Royal College of Art, UK, a BA (Hons) in Social and Political Sciences from Cambridge University , and has taught at New York University ’s Interactive Telecommunications Program.
