UXIrregulars have a bonus meetup for you this month! Don Turnbull is in town from Austin. Welcome him back to Toronto in style!

So don’t fret if you missed last week’s meetup with your local colleagues (and visiting friends from Adaptive Path). You’re invited to join us for a couple of hours at The Bottom Line to socialize, network and maybe even talk about user experience & interaction design.

Newcomers are always welcome so bring a friend. See you there!
Upcoming
http://upcoming.yahoo.com/event/1003165
http://rurl.org/xa2

Bottom Line
22 Front Street West
416.362.7585
http://www.bottomlinerestaurant.com

Don Turnbull is an assistant professor in the School of Information at the University of Texas at Austin. Don’s teaching and research focuses on designing Web information architectures, information systems analysis, Information Retrieval the Semantic Web and Knowledge Management Systems.

UX Irregulars are a rag-tag, fugitive fleet of user experience designers, researchers and strategists who design mostly Web interactions, but also software, and sometimes crazy things like ski hills.
http://groups.google.com/group/UXIrregulars

In honour of our Adaptive Path friends who are visiting from San Francisco, we’re holding our August meetup a few days earlier than the usual second Tuesday.

You’re invited to join us for a couple of hours downstairs at C’est What to talk about Aurora, design, interaction, user experience or something completely different (while Adaptive Path HQ celebrates at the Aurora Launch Party in SF).

Newcomers are always welcome so bring a friend. See you there!

Upcoming
http://upcoming.yahoo.com/event/984983/
http://rurl.org/wxx

C’est What
67 Front St. E
http://www.cestwhat.com/contact.asp

 
Adaptive Path’s mission is to deliver great experiences that improve people’s lives, while sharing advances in the field with clients, partners, and peers.

UX Irregulars are a rag-tag, fugitive fleet of user experience designers, researchers and strategists who design mostly Web interactions, but also software, and sometimes crazy things like ski hills.
http://groups.google.com/group/UXIrregulars

(via Sam Ladner)

Steve Portigal is in town and for this special occasion, we’re inviting a “crossing of the streams.”

The UX Irregulars group is also invited! For those of you who don’t know the UX Irregulars, they’re a rag-tag, fugutive fleet of user experience designers who design mostly Web interactions, but also software, and sometimes crazy things like ski hills. They LOVE anthropologists. No really, they do.

Steve is the founder of Portigal Consulting, a boutique firm that helps clients to discover and act on new insights about themselves and their customers.

Upcoming
upcoming.yahoo.com/event/945571
rurl.org/wem

Victory Cafe
581 Markham Street
www.victorycafe.ca

Tales of information architecture from IBM.com

Ever wonder how a large corporate web site navigation system is designed, and how it evolves over time? How certain links find their way to the corporate home page, while other ones do not? How major changes in the corporation’s business affect the web site navigation? And how the IA of the corporate web site can give clues about how well the business is doing?

If so, then join Keith Instone as he tells stories about the information architecture of ibm.com.

Keith Instone has been the information architecture lead for IBM.com for the last several years.

Where
Room 1220
Bahen Centre, University of Toronto
40 St. George Street
Toronto, ON

Google Map
http://rurl.org/tp9
http://maps.google.com/maps?f=q&hl=en&geocode=&q=40+St.+George+Street,+Toronto,+Ontario

ToRCHI
http://www.torchi.org/Default.aspx?pageId=91841&eventId=17628

Upcoming
http://upcoming.yahoo.com/event/823375

Meet designers, anthropologists, business peeps, and maybe a sociologist or two! We’ll talk about translating insights into product design (loosely defined).

Where
Pauper’s Pub street-level patio
539 Bloor Street West

Google Maps
http://maps.google.com/maps?q=539+Bloor+St.+W.,+Toronto,+ON

We’re meeting at our usual place (Duke of Devon patio) and time (second Tuesday of every month).

Current forecast is 26 C & mostly sunny - perfect for an evening on the patio for discussions about all things UX and beyond with friends & colleagues. Newcomers are always welcome so bring a friend.

The Duke is accessible underground via the PATH network from King, Union & St. Andrew TTC subway stations so on the off-chance it rains (Weather Network predicts a 30% chance) you don’t even have to step
outside!

If you’re on Upcoming, please indicate if you plan to attend so we have numbers for what will surely be a busy patio

Where
Duke of Devon (patio)
Toronto Dominion Centre, TD Tower
66 Wellington Street West (just West of Bay & Wellington)
Toronto, Ontario M5K 1H1
Google Maps
http://tinyurl.com/3ba24u
http://maps.google.com/maps?q=66+Wellington+Street+West,+Toronto,+ON

Upcoming.org
http://upcoming.yahoo.com/event/778494/

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.

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

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

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/