Seattle, WA, USA

IUGA: User Experience Best Practices

Nick Finck will explore the best practices of user experience by reviewing some of the most popular and highly trafficked websites today such as eBay, Amazon, Toyota, Flickr, Twitter, Netflix and more. Nick will identify and explain both good an bad experiences on these sites on the merits of visual design, information architecture, interaction, and ease of use. If there is time we will open the floor for audience submissions and to provide quick feedback and areas of improvement.

Speakers: Nick Finck

May 29, 2008 in Seattle, WA @ University of Washington, Mary Gates Hall`

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UPA Seattle: Table-4-Eight with Nick Finck

The Seattle chapter of the Usability Professionals Association (UPA)
will host Nick Finck at its next Table-4-Eight event. The event will
be held on Thursday, June 12, from 7-9pm at La Spiga on 12th Avenue in
the Capitol Hill area of Seattle. (http://www.laspiga.com/)

Nick Finck (http://www.nickfinck.com/) is a 13-year veteran of the
web, and co-founder of Blue Flavor (http://www.blueflavor.com/), a web
design and development consultancy that focuses on people-centric
solutions. He founded his first web consultancy in 1994 in Portland,
Oregon, and has since created web experiences for various Fortune 50
and 500 companies including Adobe, Boeing, Blue Cross / Blue Shield,
Cisco, CitiGroup, FDIC, HP, IBM, Microsoft, PBS, Peet’s Coffee, and
others.

He’s also the founder and publisher of Digital Web Magazine
(http://www.digital-web.com/), and has built a reputation as a
community volunteer, where he helps promote growth within the web
industry both locally and abroad.

Space is limited. Please confirm your attendance by e-mailing
rskrobe@gmail.com.

What is Table-4-Eight?
Table-4-Eight is a quality-networking event, providing opportunities
for communication and exchange between like-minded usability
professionals in a relaxed atmosphere.

The format: – One round or square table at a nice restaurant. – One guest. – One moderator – Six participants (maximum)

Speakers: Nick Finck

June 12, 2008 in Seattle, WA @ La Spiga

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BizJam Seattle 08

BizJam Seattle is an indie business conference dedicated to building your small business in all the right ways. We do things a little differently than the conferences of old. More collaboration. More active exchange of ideas. More fun. Far fewer rules and stale donuts. We even do name badges differently.

BizJam Seattle brings together experts in social media and small business for two days of workshops that will leave you and your business positioned to ride the wave of change rather than get buried by it. It features top-notch speakers, networking opportunities and a party, all with the sole purpose of helping independent business people like you broaden your knowledge base, sharpen your skills and make connections in order to thrive in today’s increasingly competitive business environment.

Speakers: D. Keith Robinson, Eric Weaver, Matthew Haughey, DL Byron and many more

June 09, 2008 in Seattle, WA @ Youngstown Cultural Arts Center

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BarCamp Seattle

BarCamp is an ad-hoc gathering born from the desire for people to share and learn in an open environment. It is an intense event with discussions, demos, and interaction from attendees. It is an international network of user generated non-traditional social conferences— open, participatory workshop-events, whose content is provided by participants — often focusing on early-stage web applications, and related open source technologies, social protocols, and open data formats. Oh and super fun!!

Speakers: Tara Brown, Tantek Çelik, Buster McLeod, Jacob Sayles and more

June 15, 2008 in Seattle, WA @ Adobe Conference Center

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Blaze: The Marketing Innovation Summit

Blaze is a conference for business professionals who are responsible for managing their companies’ marketing efforts and web presence. Our mission is to educate these people on best practices and advancements in web design, online marketing, and web strategy.

Speakers: TBA

August 21, 2008 in Seattle, WA @ Bell Harbor International Conference Center

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Seattle Monthly Information Architecture Meetup

Join us for drinks, conversation, networking, and geeking out with
fellow information architects, librarians, usability experts, user
experience designers, and other like-minded user-centered
professionals and students. It’s open to anyone, so bring a friend —
especially those in other local organizations! The format will be
casual, but all are encouraged to bring something to discuss — recent
work, an interesting topic, or even your resume. This event is
organized by the Pacific Northwest chapter of the American Society for
Information Science & Technology.

See you there!
-Aaron

Speakers: None

June 10, 2008 in Seattle, WA @ Elysian Pub

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BarCampSeattle

BarCampSeattle is an ad-hoc gathering born from the desire for people to share and learn in an open environment. It is an intense event with discussions, demos, and interaction from attendees. It is an international network of user generated non-traditional social conferences— open, participatory workshop-events, whose content is provided by participants — often focusing on early-stage web applications, and related open source technologies, social protocols, and open data formats. Oh and super fun!!

Learn more from wiki at: http://barcampseattle.org

Speakers: Tantek Celik, Sean Bonner, Jacob Sayles, Tara Brown, and YOU!!

June 14, 2008 in Seattle, WA @ Adobe Conference Center 701 N 34th St., Seattle, WA

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Perspectives on Social Media

Come and join the fun, hear some amazing speakers, and drink beer.

Featuring:
“Mobile 2.0: Design and Develop for the iPhone and Beyond” – Bring Fling, Flingmedia

“Money, Media, and Your Mom’s Peach Cobbler – Social Media Marketing Done Right” – Justin Marshall, ZAAZ

“Single Athletic Female seeking Single Slender Male – The marriage of social media and metadata”
-Samantha Starmer, REI

“Slow Community” – Nancy White, Full Circle Associates

“Inclusive Universe 1.0 – Integrating Universal Design into Social Apps”
Wendy Chisholm Consulting

Speakers: Wendy Chisholm, Brian Fling, Justin Marshall, Samantha Starmer, Nancy White

July 08, 2008 in Seattle, WA @ ZAAZ

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Social Media Camp

Social Media Camp is coming to 7 U.S. cities during the months of July and August with the sole purpose to bring together the brightest minds in Social Media with people interested in learning more about the power of Community Based Marketing. It works like this – we find some of the top local names in Blogging, Podcasting, Live Streaming, and New Media and we give them the stage – BarCamp Style – to share what they know with the world.

Speakers: Anyone and everyone

July 12, 2008 in Seattle, WA @ Hotel Monaco

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SummerMash Seattle 2008

We’re counting down the days until Mashable arrives in Seattle to kick off the U.S. Summer Tour. If you didn’t know, Pete Cashmore, Sean Aune and Karen Hartline all love coffee, which is why we’ll be ready to keep the party going all night long in Seattle where the coffee flows like water. It’s our first time in Seattle and we need to be shown how it’s done. Join us at ShowboxSoDo where we’ll have food and drink, and DJ El Toro mixing things up and giving the evening a high energy vibe for connecting with others in the Seattle community. So start your Saturday night off with Mashable at ShowboxSoDo for a networking event unlike any other you’ve been to.

Speakers: Pete Cashmore, Sean Aune and Karen Hartline

July 12, 2008 in Seattle, WA @ Showbox SoDo

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