When
Tuesday November 16, 2010 at 5:30 PMto
Tuesday November 16, 2010 at 7:00 PM
Where
The Accelerator Centre West Entrance295 Hagey Blvd
Room 2
If front door locked email thom@communitech.ca
Waterloo N2L 6R5
This P2P group is for those interested in improving the User Experience with products or services (open to non-member and members of the Communitech Network or IxDA)
Imagine an ideal design for your friend. Now make it work for your parents. Your entire neighbourhood. Your town, province, and entire country. Then throw in a couple of continents’ worth of users for good measure. Adam Baker, a user interface designer at Google, will conduct a hands-on workshop about “designing for everyone,” inspired by lessons learned working on Google Search. He’ll guide a discussion of techniques, tradeoffs, design language, and ways of understanding so many users that you couldn’t possibly truly understand them.
Adam is currently a designer at Google.org in San Francisco, working on projects related to climate change adaptation and public health. While at Google he’s contributed to a variety of projects from search UI to public data visualization to web annotation. A Canadian native, he previously directed design at Marketcircle in Toronto, and worked in UX evangelism at Apple.
Information about group
Partnership between Communitech and IxDA
Meetings will alternate month to month from 3rd Tuesday and 3rd Thursday - however if you are on the distribution list you will receive notification click here to be added to distribution list
Practicing designers, Product Managers, and Marketing professionals share design theories and thinking to improve and promote the user experience of products and services to delight the customer who will ultimately use them. Guest speakers lead off the session followed by Q and A, or roundtable discussion.
Volunteer group champions:
Robert Barlow-Busch, Primal Fusion Twitter @becubed
Mark Connolly, Twitter @primalmark
Communitech group representative:
Thom Ryan, Director of Marketing
If you have any questions, feel free to contact Wanda Eby directly.
