Wednesday, January 12, 2011
Los Angeles UX Planning Meeting
The Los Angeles "meeting of the UX families" happened last night at Pete's in DTLA. We had representatives from the LA - Usability Professionals' Association Chapter, IxDA Los Angeles, The UX Book Club and our trusted leadership from the LA UX Meetup Group. It was a great night of planning out our respective group's activities and floating ideas about what we would like to have happen as a community.
Some of the more fundamental issues we dealt with were the overlapping of group agendas, and in some cases, redundancy in programming. We managed to come up with some really great ideas for events, and somehow work out a tentative calendar for the first-half of 2011.
This was from my personal notes for the meeting, so if there's anything incorrect here, please feel free to email me any corrections.
The Los Angeles "meeting of the UX families" happened last night at Pete's in DTLA. We had representatives from the LA - Usability Professionals' Association Chapter, IxDA Los Angeles, The UX Book Club and our trusted leadership from the LA UX Meetup Group. It was a great night of planning out our respective group's activities and floating ideas about what we would like to have happen as a community.
Some of the more fundamental issues we dealt with were the overlapping of group agendas, and in some cases, redundancy in programming. We managed to come up with some really great ideas for events, and somehow work out a tentative calendar for the first-half of 2011.
Some of the topics that were floated were as follows:- A UX Debate: An event that would be in the debate format
- User Experience and Movies: Exploring the intersection between film-making, digital technology and user experience.
- Artificial Intelligence and User Experience: With rapidly evolving technology, where does User Experience fit into the self-actualized system?
- P.E.T. Design and Application: What is designing for P.E.T. or Persuasion, Emotion, and Trust?
- Prototyping: The 2011 Refresher and evolved methods of...
- Eye-tracking
Some of the established events for the first part of the year include:- A tentative meet up at Coloft in Santa Monica on January 25th, where the topic will be eye-tracking. (*See the LA UX Meetup Group page for the latest information on schedules.)
- Hopefully we can keep the IxDA meeting on in February
- Interaction Conference Recap, first week of March.
- Schedule of all combined UX meeting should be the last Tuesday of every month.
This was from my personal notes for the meeting, so if there's anything incorrect here, please feel free to email me any corrections.
Monday, December 06, 2010
Friday, September 10, 2010
"Digital ADD" Breaking Through
Tuesday, Sept. 14th
7:30 AM - 9:00 AM
Akasha Restaurant
9543 Culver Boulevard
Culver City, CA 90232
"Having a hard time breaking through the clutter in today's complex digital media ecosystem? In today's digital environment companies like yours are finding it harder and harder to engage users who have developed a serious condition we call "Digital ADD." How can you create products that stand out without having to make a lot of unnecessary noise?
Join us and a panel of experts from some of LA's Top media & entertainment companies in a dynamic conversation moderated by Chief Visionary Jose Caballer from The Groop."
Panelists will include: Mike Macadaan, VP of User Experience at MySpace, JP Bedoya, Sr. Director of Product/User Experience at Citysearch and Noam Dromi, COO of TempleHome, Producer and Co-host of MIPtalk, Co-Founder of Noco Media Group
More information:
http://www.groopthink.net/2010/09/08/5-reasons-to-attend-groop-skools-executive-breakfast/
Registration:
http://executivebreakfast.eventbrite.com/
Thursday, September 09, 2010
Inkling for iPad: eTextbook Reading Done Right
iPad Ebook Features review from Adaptive Path
Here's a great article from Ljuba Miljkovic on the new Inkling app for the iPad.
Inkling for iPad: eTextbook Reading Done Right
Here's a great article from Ljuba Miljkovic on the new Inkling app for the iPad.Inkling for iPad: eTextbook Reading Done Right
Wednesday, September 08, 2010
The Rise of Collaborative Consumption
With the rise of products like Zip Cars and local sharing platforms such as NeighborGoods and Share Some Sugar, there has emerged the concept of Collaborative Consumption. While renting cars and sharing items is not a new concept, there is a school of thought that looks at this trend as a paradigm shift in market behavior. The idea that these concepts are "reinvented through social technologies and peer communities" is something very intertesting.
Click below for the complete article by Rachel Botsman.
READ THE FULL ARTICLE HERE
With the rise of products like Zip Cars and local sharing platforms such as NeighborGoods and Share Some Sugar, there has emerged the concept of Collaborative Consumption. While renting cars and sharing items is not a new concept, there is a school of thought that looks at this trend as a paradigm shift in market behavior. The idea that these concepts are "reinvented through social technologies and peer communities" is something very intertesting.
Click below for the complete article by Rachel Botsman.
READ THE FULL ARTICLE HERE
Tuesday, April 06, 2010
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