Meeting 6 August
07/08/2008 in Events, Usability, User Experience
Thanks to everyone who came along to Sage yesterday, and nice to meet some new people too. Apologies for the misleading 8pm start time posted in a couple of places….
I really enjoyed the discussion on measuring user behaviours and metrics for usability: it was great to have some input from people (particuarly Steve & Mike) who’ve done some of this with web analytics, and get some extremely valid context and caution from Judith. The stuff about measuring usability improvements (KPIs, A-B testing, and cash!) was good too, as was the discussion on surveys.
Our next meeting is due to be on 3 September. I won’t be able to be there, unfortunately, but Judith offered to kick off a discussion on personas, and Manchester Digital Development Agency was suggested as a possible venue that definitely sounded worth investigating.
Paul Rouke said on 07/08/2008
Likewise it was great to meet some new faces last night.
A few quick follow ups..
Mike – could you add me as an author for this blog? Also, Rob our lead technical architect will be taking a good look at the planned CMS improvements due with the next release of WordPress.
Chris, I’d recommend getting in touch with John Keys from the MDDA (Manchester Digital Development Agency) regarding using their meeting room on Portland Street for the next meeting – j { dot } keys [ at ] manchesterdda [dot] com
I have to get off now but next week I’ll be posting a quick summary of the evening on our usability blog, plus I have few suggestions for trying to grow the popularity of the monthly meet-up which I’ll post up on this site next week
Mike Little said on 08/08/2008
Paul,
It was good to meet you too. I’ve added you as an author. Don’t forget to fill in your details, we will eventually be having profile pages for members on here.
Get Rob to have a look at the current WP 2.6 there are some good features. He can drop me a line if he has any questions.
Paul Rouke said on 11/08/2008
Mike, thanks for setting me up. I’m in the process of writing a post with ideas for how the NUX can get greater exposure, as it seems a real shame that with the high quality of conversation we had last week there aren’t more people involved and taking part.
Rob will be in touch with you regarding WP soon also.
Rachel said on 26/08/2008
Hi everyone
Do we have a venue and an agenda sorted out for next wednesday and if so could someone post it to the blog and the mailing list?
Ta
pete bagnall said on 27/08/2008
Hi all,
I’m hoping to be along to the meeting on the 3rd. I’ll be fresh from teaching my persona tutorial at HCI, so I’ll be very interested to hear what other people make of the methodology, and how they’re using it.
Cheers
–Pete