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Massaging Media 2 (Boston, MA, USA)

Massaging Media 2: Graphic Design Education in the Age of Dynamic Media conference will gather a diverse group of presenters and attendees from around the world for a provocative conversation on how graphic design education is being affected by dynamic media.

Through keynote presentations, panel discussions, multiple-track speaker sessions, a working lunch, and a breakfast roundtable, the conference will focus on five key subject areas: pedagogy; practice; theory; future history; and making it work.

Massaging Media is an AIGA regional design education conference.

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Cocktails for Creatives (Cleveland, OH, USA)

Cleveland AIGA’s Cocktail for Creatives for January is at Sullivan’s Irish Pub & Restaurant.

Sullivan’s Irish Pub & Restaurant
13368 Madison Ave,
Cleveland, OH 44107

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Gain 2008 (New York, NY, USA)

Gain: AIGA Business and Design Conference 2008 will be October 23–25 in New York City.

Hear business and design leaders share their innovative approaches to generating greater return on investment, fostering emotional connections and providing positive brand experiences for customers.

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Designer Dialogue VI: The Bank of New York Mellon (Pittsburgh, PA)

7:30 am - 9:30 am

Good design is more than just looking good. AIGA Pittsburgh’s Designer Dialogue program is a series of frank and open discussions, for AIGA members only, about what really goes into making design happen. Presenters will be talking about projects in-depth, providing a behind-the-scenes look into design goals and fruition - successes, failures, research, processes, and results.

Host: The Bank of New York Mellon
Presenters: Dave Vissat, Kurt Valenta and Steve Farrar
Case Study: Beyond brand standards: how a brand’s character shines through every project. We’ll take a look at a number of very different projects for Zippo to illustrate how an agency and client can work together to make sure a brand’s true essence can rise above budget challenges, language differences, retailer mandates, and whatever else stands in its way. All it takes is a little creative thinking, a lot of great design and the freedom to invent opportunities every now and again. Join us for the fun.

Location: 11 Stanwix Street, Fifth Floor
Pittsburgh, PA 15222
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Registration
These free events are MEMBERS ONLY. Space is limited to an audience of 30 attendees. Reservations are strongly recommended and very appreciated. If you wish to attend, and are not a current member, go to aiga.org to join or renew your membership. You will need to let us know about your recent membership or renewal.

http://pittsburgh.aiga.org/designerdialogue/

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Bob Jacobson sees DUX 2007 conference as fundamentally off the mark

Bob Jacobson, design consultant and editor of the anthology Information Design (MIT Press, 1999), is on a roll these days. Today the focus of his provocative commentary is the DUX 2007 conference, which he thinks is “ideologically discomforting” and “fundamentally off the mark”. “The DUX 2007 conference begins today in Chicago. Thematically, content-wise, and in terms of approach, this is the consummate conference on cutting-edge design. The speakers are top-notch, too. But ideologically, DUX is discomforting. For all its virtues, DUX embodies a set of values that, while commendable, are incomplete and off-kilter. It’s user-centric, not human-centric. And experience, if it is anything, is human.” Go Bob, I think you are absolutely right. Read full story

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Design Revival 2008 (Harrodsburg, KY, USA)

AIGA Cincinnati is hosting its next Design Revival from October 3-5 at Shaker Village of Pleasant Hill.

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Save the date for DUX: November 5-7

The date and location for DUX 2007 were just made public: November 5-7, Chicago, Illinois, USA. This is the 3rd Conference on designing for user experience. I missed the first DUX in 2003, attended the second in 2005.

We are planning some UXnet meetings in conjunction with the conference - so I am definitely going. The challenge will be to get back home for World Usability Day on November 8th. Being in Chicago will help.

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DUX 2005, a product of professional association collaboration

A great example of the benefits of professional association collaboration is the Designing for User eXperience conference, the second of which (DUX 2005) will be taking place 3-5 November at the Fort Mason Center in San Francisco, CA USA. AIGA, ACM SIGGRAPH, and ACM SIGCHI have joined forces again to develop what many consider to be the premier conference for user experience practitioners.

Supporting AIGA, SIGGRAPH, SIGCHI, and DUX 2005 are several cooperating societies: IxDG, IIID, UPA, STC, AIS SIGHCI, HFES, IDSA, and IAI. Plus, BayDUX, the local presence of UXnet in the San Francisco Bay Area, is sponsoring the conference’s opening plenary reception, in part in honor of World Usability Day which was scheduled to coincide with the opening day of the conference.

Congratulations to all involved in helping make this event reflect a cross-section of the user experience professional community.

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DUX 2005

The 2003 Designing for User Experiences Conference (DUX2003) as been cited as a good example of how organizations can collaborate to create a conference serving the multi-disciplinary needs of user experience practitioners.

We are happy to see the DUX 2005 conference recently be announced: November 3-5 in San Francisco, California. This second DUX conference is, like the first, being co-developed by ACM SIGCHI, AIGA and ACM SIGGRAPH.

You can submit Design Case Studies, Design Practice Studies, Design Research Studies, and (briefer) Design Sketches. Deadline: June 15.

See dux2005.org for more information.

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User Experience: Why Do So Many Organizations Believe They Own It?

Don Norman and a panel of representatives of UX organizations discuss several UXnet themes at this BAYCHI event on Tuesday, October 12 at Stanford’s Kresge Auditorium.

Years ago, Don Norman coined the term, “user experience,” which has since become a prominent label for a multidisciplinary field. But what did Don intend the term to mean? What is “user experience,” really? Why do so many professional societies believe they own it? Why do so many organizations in a business believe they own it? Don Norman tackles these and related questions in a conversation with Richard Anderson.

A panel discussion with representatives from multiple UX organizations (UPA, SIGCHI, AIfIA, IxDG, SIGGRAPH, STC, AIGA Experience Design, HFES, IDSA, and UXnet) will follow. The panel, moderated by Rashmi Sinha, will explore the goals and interests of each organization, and how they come together to form the mosaic that is UX.

Representatives from UX organizations

Christina Wodtke representing AIfIA (Asilomar Institute for Information Architecture), an organization dedicated to advancing and promoting information architecture.

John Zapolski representing AIGA Experience Design, a community of practice that brings together all types of experience design practitioners.

Abbas Moallem representing BACHFES (Bay Area Chapter of the Human Factors and Ergonomics Society) which provides a forum for exchange of information and ideas on human factors and ergonomics issues.

Stacie Hibino representing BayCHI, the San Francisco Bay Area chapter of ACM SIGCHI (Special Interest Group in Computer Human Interaction).

Mark Rolston representing SF IDSA, the San Francisco chapter of “the voice of the industrial design profession.”

Pabini Gabriel-Petit representing IxDG (Interaction Design Group), an international community of people working to promote, advance, and encourage high standards of practice in the discipline of interaction design.

Brian Blau representing the San Francisco and Silicon Valley Chapters of ACM SIGGRAPH (Special Interest Group on Computer Graphics and Interactive Techniques).

Andrea Ames representing the STC (Society for Technical Communication), the largest individual membership organization dedicated to advancing the arts and sciences of technical communication.

Kaaren Hanson representing the UPA (Usability Professionals Association) which supports people who promote and advance the development of usable products.

Richard Anderson representing UXnet, an organization dedicated to exploring opportunities for cooperation and collaboration among UX-related organizations and individuals.

More information, including bios…

Update (originally added as a comment): Here are some links to reports from the BayCHI “owning user experience” panel:

• Richard Anderson’s blog
• Fred Sampson’s article in interactions
• Corante Total Experience

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