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Event Information
Join
us in Toronto on World Usability Day, Tuesday November 14th to LEARN,
SHARE and MEET with others interested in usability and user experience
at UsabilityCamp!
What
is UsabilityCamp, you ask? It’s an open and free event
for anyone interested in usability – whether it’s product, technology
or web user experience. We think bringing together designing minds from
different worlds is a great idea. It’s a chance for you to listen to,
mingle with and generally enjoy the company of your peers in the usability/user
experience, design and business communities.
This
is all happening as part of World Usability Day (WUD) – local activities
on a global scale which all take place on November 14th – organized by
the Usability Professionals’ Association. WUD promotes the value of usability
engineering, user-centered design and every user's responsibility to ask
for things that work better!
Our
theme for World Usability Day and the first official UsabilityCamp in
Toronto is Canadian innovation.
Agenda
| 6:00
– 7:00 p.m. |
Registration
& Networking |
| 7:00
– 9:00 p.m. |
Featured
presentations from:
Sapient
Umbra
ConceptShare
Autodesk
Canadian
Film Center Media Lab
Updated details about presentations below. |
| 9:00
p.m. – Late |
Pub
After-Party
Stick
around after the presentations to meet and socialize with your peers!
Bring your business cards!
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Location:
UsabilityCamp
will be held at the historic Gladstone
Hotel, 1214 Queen Street West (at Dufferin Street).
Featured
Speakers & Presentations:
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Sapient is a global leader in providing Internet strategy consulting
and sophisticated Internet-based solutions. Brett Maraldo,
Sr. Information Architect at Sapient Canada will be speaking
about Usability 2.0? -
examples of rich user experiences on the web.
The evolution of functionality and technology on the web allows
for a richer more immersive user experience. Interactive usability
practice is challenged more than ever to implement these innovations
by both adding value for our clients and providing users a positive
online experience. Sapient Canada will showcase examples of how
they’ve integrated these innovations in successful ways.
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- Umbra
is a worldwide leader in casual, contemporary, affordable design
for the home. The company's products are available at over 8,000
retailers in more than 70 countries. Michelle Ivankovic,
Sr. Designer at Umbra will share her thoughts on adding positive
value to the daily lives of users via product design
- people work hard for the purchases they make and time is often
tight so the products that they buy should not let them down.
Michelle's notable achievements include designing hundreds of
products for Umbra, working with manufacturers the world over
and being the first woman to be awarded a medal for Industrial
Design at OCAD.
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- ConceptShare
is a web-based application that allows for the creation and management
of interactive workspaces that present visual designs to others,
to communicate design intentions and gather feedback from team
members, managers and customers. Bernie Aho, Product Manager
and Co-Founder of ConceptShare will be speaking about Communicating
UX Design - creating a user interface before writing
code and other insights of managing usability strategy at a start-up.
Bernie's extensive background includes user experience design,
marketing, and traditional graphic design for companies including
BMW, ATI and Autodesk.
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- Autodesk
is the world's leading supplier of advanced 2D and 3D design,
digital content creation and project collaboration software tools
including AutoCAD, Autodesk Inventor, Autodesk MapGuide, Autodesk
Buzzsaw, Autodesk 3ds Max, and Autodesk Maya. Lynn Miller, Manager, User Experience Team,
will be speaking about one company's efforts to merge both user-centred
design and agile development by creating interconnected parallel
design and development tracks. Lynn has been a usability
practitioner for over 15 years and and oversees the User Experience team
at Autodesk. She oversees a group of interaction and graphic designers at Autodesk
who create innovative interfaces for complex 3d graphics applications.
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- The Canadian Film Centre (CFC) is Canada 's leading institution for advanced training in film, television and new media. ILONA POSNER, Usability Consultant and Faculty at the CFC Media Lab, will present ACTION PACT – a networked, collaborative multi-sensory experience where children use their bodies as controllers to play. The presentation will discuss the project's evolution to a new phase which includes cooperative design with children with physical mobility issues as active members in the testing and design process. Ilona has worked in the area of Human Computer Interaction for 20 years and teaches at CFC and the University of Toronto.
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| World
Usability Day
In
its first year, World Usability Day 2005 had 115 events in 35 countries
that attracted over 10,000 attendees all over the world. Find out
more about World Usability
Day 2006.
Speaker
Presentations:
Event
Organizers: Mira
Jelic, Jyotika Malhotra,
Richard
McCann, and Ilona
Posner.
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events!
Media
Inquiries: Please contact Jyotika
Malhotra
What
is UsabilityCamp?
UsabilityCamp
is based on the same "unconference" format as DemoCamp
and CaseCamp but focused on
usability. Our aim is to bring the product & industrial design,
technology, web and business communities together and engage you
in conversation about design, usability and user experience.
Sponsors
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Become a Camp Leader!
Want
to organize your own UsabilityCamp? Check out the UsabilityCamp
Wiki. Contact Sunir Shah
for details.
Acknowledgements:
Thank you to Wild Apricot for UsabilityCamp registration.
It's sweet!
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