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/
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.
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).
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.
| 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.
| 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.
| 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.
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).
| 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.
| June 15, 2009 | to | June 16, 2009 |
Red Forest Consulting is hosting “Human Factors Engineering & Medical Device Workshop” in Ann Arbor, Michigan on June 15-16, 2009. Learn:
See redforestconsulting.com for more information.
| April 8, 2009 | ||
| 6:00 pm |
The April International Institute of Business Analysis Columbus Chapter Meeting will feature James Goebel from Menlo Innovations presenting “Just Getting It Done Is Sometime Not Enough! Anthropology Can Help Us Get The Right Things Done.”
On-time, on-budget projects can meet specification and still fail. Often projects result in disagreements about the specifications, without the business benefiting from its investment. Can projects produce a successful result with less than perfect specifications? Learn how one organization uses anthropology and progressive elaboration to produce successful business outcomes.
See IIBA Columbus for more information.
