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    • March 16, 2010
    • 06:00 PM - 08:00 PM
    • JPMorgan Chase, 277 Park Ave (East side of st., btw. 47–48th)

    DESCRIPTION

    Mark Hurst will demonstrate the "listening lab" research method pioneered by his company, Creative Good, since the late 1990s. This is a truly disruptive process, Mark wrote recently, but may be most unusual for UX practitioners in that it does not require writing specific tasks before the research. Read more ».

    WHO SHOULD ATTEND?

    This presentation is open to all levels and requires no previous experience in conducting usability sessions. The nature of this technique is primarily qualitative.

    ABOUT THE SPEAKER

    Mark HurstMark Hurst founded Creative Good, the world's first online customer experience firm, in 1997 - a time when few people had heard the term "customer experience" and even fewer knew why it was so important. Since then Creative Good has worked with hundreds of clients, from Fortune 500 to startups, on becoming more customer-centered and improving business metrics in the process.

    In his spare time Mark pursues his wider interest in all forms of "good experience" including writing a newsletter and blog called Good Experience, which reaches tens of thousands of people every week, and running an annual conference called Gel (short for Good Experience Live) to spotlight the heroes and leaders in good experience.


    Please arrive by 6:00 p.m. to allow time for security and registration. Photo ID required for building entry. It must match the name on the registration list.

    Schedule 
    Networking and Refreshments:6:00 pm to 6:30 pm
    Announcements:6:30 pm to 6:45 pm
    Presentation and Q&A:6:45 pm to 8:00 pm

    Location & Host

    JPMorgan Chase, 277 Park Ave (East side of st., btw. 47–48th)


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    Deadlines, Transfers, Policies

    Registration closes at noon Monday March 15th, 2010.

    Refundable until noon Monday March 15th, 2010. Please send refund requests to RSVP@nycupa.org.

    Transferable on or before noon Monday March 15th, 2010 by sending a request to RSVP@nycupa.org. You must get a confirmation of this transfer or it will not be valid.

    NO EMAIL RSVPs ACCEPTED FOR THIS EVENT.

    • March 27, 2010
    • 12:00 PM - 05:00 PM
    • The McGraw-Hill Companies 1221 Ave. of the Americas (entrance on 49th St side)

    DESCRIPTION

    The UPA's Usability Body of Knowledge (BoK) project is the subject of a special afternoon interactive session this month. The Body of Knowledge can become a valuable Web resource for usability and design, but only with your help!

    At this event, you will get the inside story on the UPA's initiative to create a living reference for the usability profession, and participate in making it happen. The Usability BoK needs your help to edit and review existing information topics, create new entries, contribute your favorite useful links, and help design a usability reference site for the future. These things are easier and more fun when we do it together, and we all learn new things at the same time. The NYC UPA chapter invites you to help move the Usability BoK forward. Together, in just a few hours we can make 20-30 really useful topics available to usability practitioners world-wide! We all benefit.

    We provide the space and the food. You provide your good ideas, experience, and camaraderie. You don't have to be an "expert" in any particular aspect of usability (although that's good, too!) – bring your enthusiasm and interests, and we'll work together to make things happen. Please bring your laptop computer if you have one.

    The afternoon will include:

    • An overview of the Usability BoK project, the topics, and the current web site
    • Identifying what areas you are most interested in, and what experience you can share
    • Small group activities focused on your interests, such as:
      • contribute/review valuable web references
      • final editing and publishing current "draft" topics
      • focus on a single larger topic area, to draft its related sub-topics
      • feedback and refining the design for the future Usability BoK web site

    WHO SHOULD ATTEND?

    Anyone who is interested in participating in this free knowledge sharing session.

    Cost: Free


    Please arrive by 11:45 a.m. to allow time for security and registration. Photo ID required for building entry. It must match the name on the registration list.

    Location & Host

    The McGraw-Hill Companies 1221 Ave. of the Americas (entrance on 49th St side)


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    NO EMAIL RSVPs ACCEPTED FOR THIS EVENT.

 
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