This coming Monday, 23 November, there will be a coffee meetup in Civic, Canberra for local freelancers and entrepreneurs to meet and connect with other like-minded professionals. If you’re a user experience design freelancer then come along and share your experiences and learn from others from different industries.
RSVP now for Canberra Freelancers and Entrepreneurs Coffee.
| November 12, 2009 | ||
| 6:00 pm | to | 8:00 pm |
Baltimore Parlay (A Gathering for Baltimore User Experience People) is having its second meeting at 4thought, inc. at Clipper Mill.
| September 8, 2009 | ||
| 6:30 pm | to | 8:30 pm |
| September 16, 2009 | ||
| 5:15 pm | to | 9:15 pm |
THINK. DRINK. HYPERLINK.
Ready to eat, drink and be social? Great! Because the annual Minnesota Interactive Marketing Association’s (MIMA) Fall Social is back, and we’re NOT messing around. There will be fun, foodstuffs and libations a’plenty!
Where:
Calhoun Beach Club
2925 Dean Parkway
Minneapolis, MN 55416-4470
Pre-registration Fees
Members = FREE
Student Members = FREE
Non-Members = $20
Walk-in Registration Fees
Members = $20
Student Members = $20
Non-members = $20
See mima.org for more information.
| August 6, 2009 | ||
| 6:30 pm | to | 9:00 pm |
Location: Georgia Tech Global Learning Center - Map
Cost: $15 for CHI*A or AIMA Members, $25 for Nonmembers
In recent years, the people responsible for crafting our online experiences have – slowly but surely, and perhaps unwittingly – marginalized the process of creating and maintaining content customers actually care about. “Nobody really reads online.” “The design drives the experience.” “We can always fill in/fix the content later.”
Companies and agencies spend months and millions of dollars on how they’ll deliver content online, yet allocate very few resources toward creating and governing the content itself. Why? Distributed ownership, internal politics, scope creep, higher-than-anticipated costs … content is messy. To make matters worse, most of us don’t have the internal infrastructures necessary to support its ongoing care and feeding.
So. Who needs to “own” our content? How effective are web editorial standards and policies? What role does content strategy play in user experience design? When it comes to the CMS, will marketing and IT ever get along?
Kristina Halvorson, author of Content Strategy for the Web, will lead a conversation with representatives from marketing, user experience, and content management about the emerging discipline of web content strategy. We’ll discuss new opportunities for agencies and organizations to rethink the way they plan for and manage content.
MODERATOR: KRISTINA HALVORSON
Kristina Halvorson is widely recognized as one of the country’s leading web content strategists. For more than a decade, Kristina has led content projects for hundreds of websites across dozens of industries. She is a passionate advocate for web content strategy and speaks regularly on the topic to audiences around the country.
THE PANELISTS
USER EXPERIENCE: Karen McGrane, Bond Art + Science
Karen has been making the internet a better place since 1995. As a Senior Partner at Bond Art + Science, she provides user experience design, information architecture, and content strategy services to clients like Fast Company, The Atlantic, and Fiduciary Trust. Karen is an active participant in the User Experience community and a frequent speaker at conferences, including SIGCHI, the ASIST Information Architecture Summit, and From Business to Buttons. She has also contributed to several Forrester reports on developing personas.
MARKETING: John Muehlbauer, InterContinental Hotels Group
John currently leads a team focused on Product Strategy and Planning in IHG’s Distribution Marketing area. His areas of responsibility include: PMO, User Experience, Brand Experience, and International Experience across all marketing distribution channels. One of his current initiatives is to upgrade the hotel content, including writing and photography, at ~3200 newly repositioned Holiday Inn and Holiday Inn Express hotels.
VISUAL DESIGN: Brian Ikeda, Philips Design
Brian Ikeda is a Senior Interactive Art Director at Philips Design. He leads a team of talented information architects and visual designers who support all areas of Royal Philips Electronics by creating a variety of interactive products including ecommerce sites, marketing sites, intranet solutions, internal blogs and healthcare applications.
CMS / IT: Ryan Esparza, Content Management Consultant
Ryan Esparza is an enterprise content management consultant with experience in the ecommerce and online media fields. He has overseen multiple CMS implementations for use as web content management tools. Previously Ryan served as an Online Applications Manager at The Home Depot, where he was responsible for homedepot.com’s web content management strategy.
| July 15, 2009 | ||
| 7:00 pm |
Whether you’ve been doing information architecture for a while or you’re new to the field, go to the NYC IA meetup for informal discussion and to make new contacts.
For more details and to RSVP see http://ia.meetup.com/14/
| July 16, 2009 | ||
| 6:30 pm | to | 9:00 pm |
Location: User Insight
Directions: Map
Cost: FREE for Members
Join us for a fun evening of food, drinks, and networking with Atlanta’s best and brightest in user experience, product management, and interaction design.
Good membership standing with local chapters of CHI*Atlanta, PDMA, or IxDA is required.
CALL FOR CONVERSATION STARTERS!
To spark conversation during the social, we’re going to display slides showcasing each organization as well as good and bad examples of experience design.
We need your help! Send us a PowerPoint slide with your favorite example of good or bad design. Include “Submitted by [first name last name]” and a brief statement about why it’s your favorite.
| 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.
| April 15, 2009 | ||
| 7:00 pm | to | 9:00 pm |
Whether you’re an industry veteran or an aspiring information architect, join us for our monthly cocktail hour for networking and informal discussion.Hope to see you there!
| Website: | http://ia.meetup.com/14/calendar/9984303 |
| Location: | Location: White Rabbit |
| 145 E Houston St | |
| New York, NY - 10002, USA |
| March 18, 2009 | ||
| 7:00 pm | to | 9:00 pm |
Whether you’ve been doing information architecture for a while or you’re new to the field, come to the NYC IA meetup for informal discussion and to make new contacts.
