The last Triangle UPA meeting (Wednesday 6/7, hosted by Lulu) focused on using personas in design. Robert Barlow-Busch (of Quarry Integrated Communications) presented an overview of personas: “rich descriptions of key customer groups, packaged in an engaging format and backed ideally by first-hand, ethnographic-style field research.”
Personas have many uses–not only can they inspire and guide [...]
Date: Tuesday, March 28th 2006
Time: 6:00 PM
Address: Johnny Carino’s in Southpoint
Ready for the first UX Cocktail Hour sponsored by the TriUPA? It’s here! Same great people gabbing about UX issues over dinner and drinks!
Hope to see you there; please RSVP if you can make it.
The TriUPA Planning Committee meeting is coming up next week on 2/22 @ 6PM @ Motricity.
If you attended the meeting last Tuesday, you’ll remember that I announced we would have online elections. Unfortunately, we’re not going to be able to hold online elections. For various reasons, we need to incorporate the [...]
The most recent Triangle UX meetup (and last before we become Triangle UPA) was held Tuesday, February 7th, at McKinney in Durham.
Rick Cecil (interim VP, Triangle UPA chapter) gave an overview of the new UPA chapter, which is focused on further expanding the community of user experience professionals in the Triangle. Elections for the [...]
Date: Wednesday, Jan 18, 2006
Time: 6:00 PM
Address: Johnny Carino’s in Southpoint - Map it
We’re back! Hope everyone had a nice break. Ready to get back into the swing of things?
Note this is on a Wednesday instead of our usual 3rd Tuesday. Hope you can make it!
Do you have co-workers or a boss who just doesn’t understand why usability matters? Consider having that person post ticket a usability violation. That’ll get them thinking about how usability affects their lives–and who knows, maybe you’ll get that testing budget you’ve been vying for all these years, and then you’ll get promoted because of [...]
The last Triangle UX meeting (Tuesday 9/20, hosted by the Council for Entrepreneurial Development) focused on designing ecommerce interfaces for mobile devices. Wendy Fischer (Motricity) gave a presentation entitled Selling Content and Building Trust using Mobile Devices. Slides are available on the Yahoo! Group.
Wendy emphasized the critical role of trust in encouraging [...]
The last Triangle IA/UX meeting (Tuesday 6/21, hosted by Hesketh.com) focused on the challenge of selling user experience work to colleagues and clients. Kim Ashley (Dialog) and Stephanie Perun (BlueCross BlueShield) led a lively discussion on this perennially interesting topic.
Selling UX work is much like selling any service: one has to persuade customers of [...]
