Keith Instone
I am the local ambassador for Toledo, OH, USA (read my personal blog for the Toledo user experience community). I am also on the UXnet board and enter in a lot of content on this site for many other locales.
Website: http://instone.org/
Monday, September 7th, 2009
| September 17, 2009 |
| 7:30 am | to | 9:30 am |
TechColumbus is putting on a panel as part of their Business Breakfast series: Enhancing the Consumer Experience Through Technology and Design (Part 1).
Today, led by the Internet, new technologies continue to change how consumers engage with brands. Limitless online resources empower consumers to personalize shopping, seeking information whenever and however they like. Consumers choose not only products, but also how they shop and seek information. Shopping has become a lifestyle experience. Today’s businesses face the Experience Economy—a playing field leveled by technology and filled with consumers who are eager to be engaged, but on their own terms.
The Web has traditionally been an environment that serves many. Combining the emotional power of design and the tools available through technology, it can be remodeled into an environment that serves one. Companies can not only broadcast brand messages and provide fast service, but inspire in-store interaction—dynamic give-and-take that compels a brand and an individual to have “good chemistry.”
Consumer expectations have never been higher. New technologies and customers’growing design acumen have transformed expectations for the online experience. Tomorrow’s business leaders will find their point of differentiation in a new and bold fusion of design and technology, delivering the customer experience that today’s online users deserve and expect. In tomorrow’s retail experience, the customer is not a faceless member of the buying public, but a valued member of a brand family. Desires and buying preferences are known and instantly accommodated. The store delivers a brand experience specific to each consumer.
See techcolumbus.org for more information.
Posted in Calendar | Columbus, OH, USA | Local meeting
Tags: TechColumbus
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Wednesday, July 15th, 2009
Contribute a user experience evaluation method or tool you think is state-of-the-art for a research study. The method or tool should be used to evaluate designs (instead of creating them).
More about the research project:
High quality user experience (UX) has become a central competitive factor of product development in mature consumer markets. Although the term user experience (or UX) is widely used, there is a lack of practical methods and tools for iterative UX evaluation.
We are conducting a survey to develop an overview of State-of-the-art User Experience Evaluation Methods (UXEM). The survey is an improved version of the template we used at CHI 2009.
If you would like to share with us a UX evaluation method or tool that you have applied or simply know, please complete this survey consisting of 20 questions. Five questions are on background data and 15 on the method/tool. It will take you about 15-20 minutes to complete it. Please answer the questions for one single method. In case you have more than one UXEM to share, please enter each one as a new instance of the survey.
The method/tool should focus at investigating aspects of how users experience the use of a system, rather than on usability in terms of objective performance (e.g., task effectiveness) only. Moreover, it should be a method/tool to evaluate designs or design proposals, rather than a creative method/tool aiming at inventing new designs.
Results of this survey will be combined with those from the UXEM08 workshop at CHI 2008 (poster, PDF) and the Special Interest Group session at CHI 2009 (overview, PDF). The aggregated outcomes will be published and will then be disseminated through appropriate venues in due time.
If you would like to receive an overview of the collected methods, you can leave your email address at the end of the survey.
This research is a cooperative effort between:
Again, please contribute to this research project by filling out this survey for a user experience evaluation method or tool. Thanks!
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Friday, June 12th, 2009
We are trying to learn about the kinds of services that we can provide to help user experience people connect and succeed in the workplace.
You can help us by answering this short survey. You can enter your name in a drawing to win 4 free Rosenfeld Media books as well.
Thanks in advance and feel free to pass on this invitation to fill out the survey.
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Friday, May 29th, 2009
The Designers’ Ubiquitous Computing Testbed (DUCT) research group (led by Asst. Prof. Mark Newman) at the University of Michigan School of Information is conducting research on the practices of experience designers working at the forefront of technology.
We are currently looking for designers who are willing to talk to us about projects they have done that involve designing “off the desktop” systems (i.e., mobile and place‐specific). If you have, or are currently, designing a system that is mobile, embedded, tangible or otherwise not a traditional desktop computer, we would love to speak with you about your work. Similarly, if you have or are working on a project that involves computing that takes into account the location, activity or presence of users then we would also like to speak with you about your work.
If you’re interested or have more questions, please contact Jared Bauer (jaredsb@umich.edu).
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Friday, May 29th, 2009
Great to see a local Refresh group:
Refresh Toledo is a community of designers and developers working to refresh the creative, technical, and professional culture of New Media endeavors in the Toledo, Ohio area. Promoting design, technology, usability, and web standards, Refresh Toledo is a part of the Refresh movement.
Looking forward to collaborating with them on user experience topics.
See refreshtoledo.org for more information about this group - and refreshingcities.org for groups in other areas.
Posted in Refresh | Toledo, OH, USA
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Monday, May 18th, 2009
| July 11, 2009 |
| 5:00 pm | to | 11:00 pm |
What: User Experience Day with the Mud Hens
When: Saturday, July 11 (first game of the double header starts at 5:30pm)
Where: Fifth Third Field, downtown Toledo, Ohio
Would you like to enjoy the company of fellow interaction designers, information architects, usability engineers, developers and others interested in enabling quality user experiences for their customers? And enjoy the world-famous Toledo Mud Hens in a double-header, with fireworks after the games? Bring your family, too, if they are willing to put up with us talking about user experience in between pitches.
40 tickets have been reserved for this group outing. Tickets will cost $9. The ticket order will be placed in mid June, so if you are interested, please contact me (instone at uxnet.org) for more information soon.
This event is being supported/sponsored by NWOACM and Refresh Toledo.
Posted in Calendar | Social | Toledo, OH, USA
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Friday, May 15th, 2009
| May 20, 2009 |
| 11:30 am | to | 1:00 pm |
Lack Bredenfoerder is a design director in the Cincinnati office of Landor Associates, specializing in color
strategy, trends, and forecasting. He is internationally recognized as a color authority and has been featured in leading business, consumer, and design publications, such as the Financial Times, Communication Arts, Advertising Age, ID magazine, HGTV, and the New Yorker. Jack often presents color strategy and color trend directions to professional associations, including the American Society of Interior Designers, Color Marketing Group, and the Event Design Forum. He holds an MBA from Xavier University with a specialization in marketing and a BA from Bowling Green State University of Ohio with an art major in design and a minor in business administration.
See adclubtoledo.org to download a flyer with more information.
Posted in Calendar | Local meeting | Toledo, OH, USA
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Thursday, April 23rd, 2009
| May 21, 2009 |
| 7:00 pm | to | 9:30 pm |
Columbus Volume #9 of Pecha Kucha Night willl be at Landmark’s Gateway Theater at South Campus Gateway.
See pecha-kucha.org for more information.
Posted in Calendar | Columbus, OH, USA | Emergent
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Tuesday, April 14th, 2009
We are going to try out Lefora for a discussion/working forum for UXnet. So far for a free service, looks good. We want to make the forum be part of this site, so we hope we can have forum.uxnet.org be the custom domain for uxnet.lefora.com (if the offer still stands).
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Tuesday, April 14th, 2009
| April 21, 2009 |
| 6:30 pm | to | 8:30 pm |
How is writing for the web different from writing for other media? How can you craft your words to grab the attention of your readers? What do you need to know to create engaging content that people will want to read?
Join Refresh Detroit on Wednesday, April 21, 2009 for a panel discussion featuring local experts offering ideas to the many different writers who create content for the web.
See refresh-detroit.org for more information.
Posted in Calendar | Detroit, MI, USA | Local meeting | Refresh
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