Toronto, ON, Canada

Explore Design ‘08 (Toronto, Canada)

Explore Design is North America’s First Design Education Fair for Youth. A consortium of educational institutions, associations and professional groups will provide 2 days of interactive exhibits, hands-on workshops, and seminars. Keynote presentations will be provided by internationally recognized design professionals and design celebrities.

The full range of design disciplines will be represented including video/game design, furniture design, architecture industrial design, textile design, fashion design, interior design, graphic design, and the dozens of other design disciplines.

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Practical Usability Testing (Toronto, ON, Canada)

Progressive testing of Web sites and software applications is a critical component of creating a user-centered design. This seminar provides practical techniques to help move the web and application design into compliance with the user’s needs, limitations, mental models and cognitive styles. Rich functionality is worth little if the user can’t access it. This seminar provides usability practitioners with quick and practical tools to accurately predict how users will experience their applications.

Cost: $1195 per person; $1075 each if three or more attend from same company
(Prices are in USD. 5% GST will be added to course fees.)

More information: http://www.humanfactors.com/training/usabilitytesting.asp

To register:

https://www.humanfactors.com/training/registration/registration.asp?id=267

Location information: http://www.humanfactors.com/training/registration/ucdetail.asp?id=267

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User-Centered Analysis and Conceptual Design (Toronto, ON, Canada)

User-centered analysis is the basis for interface design that make sense to the user. With a clear definition of user requirements, developers and designers are able to create effective and usable software interface designs. Students learn the methods of analyzing user-centered requirements.Topics covered are user profiling, data gathering, scenarios, and transitioning to final design. The course offers stimulating lectures and hands-on exercises to give the student the tools and confidence needed to conduct an effective analysis. This course is an excellent complement to our Web design course.

Cost: $1495 per person; $1345 each if three or more attend from same the company (Prices are in USD. 5% GST will be added to course fees.)

More information: http://www.humanfactors.com/training/useroriented.asp

To register:
https://www.humanfactors.com/training/registration/registration.asp?id=266

Location information:
http://www.humanfactors.com/training/registration/ucdetail.asp?id=266

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Tali Krakowsky - Architecture of Play - OCAD Faculty of Design Speaker Series (Toronto, ON, Canada)

Tali Krakowsky - Algorithmic Anthologies: The Architecture of Play

Tali Krakowsky, Director of Experience Design for Imaginary Forces, has been extensively involved for the last five years in concept development, management and development of the division and its projects in both the New York and Los Angeles offices. She has a Bachelor of Arts in Communication Design from Parsons the New School for Design and a Master of Arts from UCLA’s School of Architecture, with a thesis on interactive architecture.

Krakowsky has had a leading role in a range of projects for Imaginary Forces, including immersive environments for Airbus, BMW, IBM, MoMA and the Grimaldi Forum in Monaco. Additionally, she has worked on the World Trade Center redesign competition, an installation for the Netherlands Architecture Institute and MoMA’s Tall Buildings exhibition as part of the design consortium United Architects. In addition to her work at Imaginary Forces, Tali has published several articles on design, architecture, and innovation through collaboration, and has been teaching a class on Experience Design at Southern California Institute of Architecture in Los Angeles.

Presented with the generous support of M.C. McCain.

All are welcome to attend, and admission is free. This presentation takes place in the OCAD Auditorium at 100 McCaul Street, Toronto. Limited seating available; guests are advised to arrive early.

Ontario College of Art & Design
100 McCaul Street, Toronto
www.ocad.ca | 416-977-6000

Upcoming.org
http://upcoming.yahoo.com/event/410775/

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Tags: Canada | design | education | lecture | ocad | ontario | ontario college of art & design
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Anthrodesign (Toronto, ON, Canada)

Anthrodesign is a group of anthropologists, sociologists, and other design researchers.

We’re starting up a local Toronto meet up to talk about design and research. So far we’ve got a nice assortment of Ontario College of Art & Design (OCAD) faculty, independent anthropologists, human factors specialists, university types and UX types. We may even have a couple of industrial designers.

Come to the inaugural meeting. All are welcome.

Where
The Rivoli (upstairs) - 334 Queen St. W., Toronto, Canada

Google Maps
http://rurl.org/in6
http://maps.google.com/maps?q=334+Queen+St.+W.,+Toronto,+Ontario+

Upcoming.org
http://upcoming.yahoo.com/event/428791/

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CASCON 2008 (Richmond Hill, ON, Canada)

CASCON 2008 is the 18th Annual International Conference hosted by the IBM Centers for Advanced Studies. This “Meeting of Minds” provides an exciting forum for exchanging ideas and experiences in the ever-expanding and critical fields of software development and computing.

The CASCON 2008 program will include keynote presentations, technical papers, workshops, and a technology showcase. The technical papers program will feature experience reports and original research papers. The technology showcase will feature poster presentations and demonstrations on research in progress. As such, CASCON 2008 will be an excellent venue for presenting original work, exchanging new ideas, sharing results and experiences, and networking with researchers and practitioners from academia, industry, and government.

Suggested topics include User Experience: interaction design; multimodal interfaces; privacy and trust; web-based interface design; development tool adoption.

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UXIrregulars February (Toronto, ON, Canada)

With most UXers back in town from vacations, CES, Macworld, VizThink, Web Directions North and other events, the UXIrregulars “second Tuesday” monthly meetups are back, too.

Spend a relaxed evening with your friends and colleagues as we return to our winter headquarters at C’est What. Bring a friend and meet your peers.

http://groups.google.com/group/UXIrregulars

Where
C’est What (downstairs) - 67 Front St. E., Toronto, Canada

Google Maps:
http://rurl.org/hc7
http://maps.google.com/maps?q=67+Front+St.+E.,+Toronto,+Ontario

Upcoming.org:
http://upcoming.yahoo.com/event/422881/

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Tags: Canada | design | ia | information architecture | interaction design | ixd | research | uxirregulars
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Agile 2008 (Toronto, ON, Canada)

Agile 2008 will be an exciting conference about techniques and technologies, attitudes and policies, research and experience, and the management and development sides of agile software development.

The User Experience Stage focuses on the concerns of and practice of user experience work in Agile projects.

The broad definition of user experience leaves virtually every role in software development with some responsibility to contribute to the quality of user experience. In Agile development in particular, where many decisions are deferred to the last responsible moment, we all make critical decisions that affect quality of experience. And in Agile development where we’re concerned with the delivery of value to the business who pays for the software, quality of user experience can either magnify that value or ruin it.

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Tour of IBM’s Innovation Centre (Toronto, ON, Canada)

The February ToRCHI meeting is a Tour of IBM’s Innovation Centre. The IBM Customer Facing Solutions (CFS) User Experience team, working out of the Toronto Innovation Centre is a one-stop-shop for interactive solutions. We deliver exceptional user experiences across all customer touch points, implementing multichannel business solutions for clients in all sectors across Canada, the U.S., and internationally.

IBM’s User Centered Design (UCD) methodology encompasses the entire process of designing and developing compelling experiences for the Web, kiosks, intranets, business applications, pervasive devices, and more. UCD is an iterative methodology that integrates the outputs of differentiated strategic, creative, and technical work streams to build a compelling interactive customer experience.

See the ToRCHI site for more information.

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AMCIS 2008 (Toronto, ON, Canada)

The 14th Americas Conference on Information Systems, AMCIS 2008, will be in Toronto, Ontario, 14-17, August 2008. “Learning from the past & charting the future of the discipline” is the theme.

AIS/SIGHCI is sponsoring a mini-track on Human Computer Interaction Studies in Information Systems.

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