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Next Manchester Event: Monday 6th Feb, Applied techniques for conversion rate optimisation:

25/01/2012 in Events

Eventbrite URL: http://nuxmcrfeb2012.eventbrite.com/

Paul Rouke, Head of Usability & Conversion at PRWD will share some stories about the user engagement sessions he has conducted and the key learnings which have developed his view and understanding of the conversion world. You will also learn about some applied techniques that brands use to improve their site conversion rate.

Date & Time: Monday 6th Feb 2012 at 6:30pm

Venue:  Code Computerlove – Ducie House, Ducie Street, Manchester, M1 2JW (The entrance is on Peak Street, look for the cartoon robot sign above the door)

Paul Rouke:

In 1999 Paul started working in the online space, joining as a web designer at Great Universal Stores, at the time the UK’s biggest home shopping business. Over the next 7 years he spent considerable time with end users understanding why they do what they do when shopping online and how site experiences can be improved so that they shop more often and spend more money than what they intended doing. In turn helping the online channel become 40% of overall revenue by the time he left in 2006.

Since 2006 Paul has run his own usability and conversion optimisation consultancy PRWD (PRoductivity Without Difficulty) in Manchester, working with clients including as Speedo, Lakeland, Bank of America, Monsoon Accessorize, Manchester Tourist Board, Stella McCartney, Booking.com, Speedy Hire and All Saints. Paul also works alongside digital agencies such as CTI, Ampersand and Building Blocks.

On any given day of the week Paul can be found either moderating user testing sessions, conducting expert site evaluations, writing user testing reports, speaking at conferences, delivering public and in-house training courses, providing in-house consultancy, having planning or presentation sessions with clients – or for about 2 hours every few months writing guest posts for Econsultancy, such as ‘WTF is usability best practice anyway?’ or ‘9 women x 9 hours = 9 usability insights‘.

You can follow PRWD(@prwd) and Paul(@paulrouke) on twitter.

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by Keith Doyle

Prototyping with Mobile First, Axure and Balsamiq

04/01/2012 in #nuxuk, Events, News, User Experience

The next Leeds event will be on Monday 23 January

This is a free, public event

Full Details & Registration on Eventbrite

Presenter

@keithdoyle from Navopia

Giveaways

Sponsor

Venue and refreshments provided by Simple Usability

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by Rozanne Driver

Next Leeds Event – Impact of Social Media and Changing People’s Behaviours

29/11/2011 in #nuxuk, Events

This is a free public event and will be held on Monday 12th December at 6:30pm

Charlotte Britton, MD of Optimum Exposure will make the final talk of the year for Leeds NUX. She takes her experience working with clients marketing strategies from the consumer point of view. Optimum Exposure is a social media and search engine optimisation agency / consultancy based in Leeds.

She will be talking about how social media has changed people’s behaviour of how they interact with companies online.  The overall presence is more fragmented and customer engagement is more crucial than ever before.  Find out what this means for your overall customer experience of your brand and how it impacts the customer journey and usability.

Tickets can be found here;

http://www.eventbrite.com/event/2570785288

As normal use twitter hashtag #nuxuk

The event will be hosted by SimpleUsability Ltd, situated in the Round Foundry Media Centre. Directions and instructions as to how to get there can be found on the eventbrite page above.

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by Ali Zaman

Next Manchester Event on Monday 5th December: All aboard the Metro UI

18/11/2011 in Events

This is a free, public event

Date & Time: Monday 5th December at 7pm

Venue:  Code Computerlove
Ducie House, Ducie Street, Manchester, M1 2JW (The entrance is on Peak Street, look for the cartoon robot sign above the door)

All aboard the Metro UI

If you aren’t aware of Metro now then you soon will be, and so will your users.  Microsoft’s new design language debuted to the mass market this year on the Windows Phone 7 and is soon to be joined by the Xbox and the next version of the Windows operating system.
Find out what all the fuss is about and how to make best use of it to ensure you stay ahead of the huge, worldwide opportunities that will become available over the next couple of years.  In this session we will deep dive into the interface and interactions of Metro on the phone, games console, tablet and PC and learn how to use it to create the best experiences for your users.

Ben Lowe

Ben Lowe is an Innovation Consultant for Tribal Group.  After many years working on the company’s Further Education MIS product (ebs) in many guises (including a number of years as a UXD concentrating on prototyping to development end of the UX spectrum) he now works as part of a dedicated Innovation Team within Tribal to future gaze technologies and functionality that will be of use to our customers in the education sector in the UK and abroad (HE, FE, private providers and as education providers in our own right) but always with his UX hat firmly pulled on at the requisite jaunty angle.

Twitter: @ben_lowe

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by Rozanne Driver

Next NUX in Leeds – Using Social Networking to Reduce Domestic Energy Use

10/11/2011 in #nuxuk, Events

November ’s Northern User Experience event, part of the Leeds Digital Festival, is tying in with World Usability Day.

This year’s subject is Education: Designing for Social Change and Derek Foster, Lecturer at the University of Lincoln, will present his current research on social networking usage to reduce domestic energy use.

His keen interest in sustainability and behaviour change using technology will see the talk focus on the power of social media tools such as Facebook.  Following the talk, there will be a discussion led by Derek on the power of social networking in today’s society to bring about behavioural change.

As always it will be held courtesy of SimpleUsability at the Round Foundry Media Centre.

You can register for tickets here;

http://www.eventbrite.com/event/2360131216/eorg

If you’re tweeting you can use #nuxuk

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by Rozanne Driver

Next Leeds Event on Monday 24th October; Developing Accessibility

11/10/2011 in Events

David Swallow will be discussing; Developing Accessibility – the more things change, the more they stay the same.

In an effort to try and improve the development of accessible websites, David is currently researching how better to support web developers. Charting the numerous web accessibility initiatives that have emerged in the last decade or so, as well as exploring the impact they have had, David aims to establish the factors that contribute towards and mitigate against accessible web development.
 
Rather than doing all the talking himself, however, David hopes to provoke a bit of a discussion and gain valuable feedback on your experiences of web accessibility: why you make your websites accessible, what tools and guidelines you use, and how you think accessible web development could be improved in future.

About David Swallow
David Swallow is a Research Associate in the Department of Computer Science at the University of York. He is currently working on a number of European Commission-funded projects, including i2Web, which aims to create tools for developing and evaluating accessible web applications. He is also undertaking a PhD investigating how best to support web developers in the creation of usable and accessible websites. This draws upon his work on the i2Web project and also his previous role as a web developer.

 

If you are planning on coming register here;

http://www.eventbrite.com/event/2121777293

The event will be held at the SimpleUsability Offices, held in the Round Foundry Media Centre and starting at 6:30pm (There will be beer, wine and plenty of soft drinks too!)

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by Ali Zaman

Next Manchester Event on Monday 10th October

27/09/2011 in Events

This is a free, public event – registration isn’t required

Date & Time: Monday 10th October 6.30pm – 9pm

Venue: The Bulls Head Pub, 84 London Road, Manchester M1 2PN (Opposite Piccadilly Station)

The October Manchester NUX event will take place on Monday 10th October. We’re doing something a little different for this event and having a more informal session.

Please note that the venue for this session is the Bulls Head pub and NOT our regular venue at code.

The agenda:

1. Get to know each other!

2. Show and Tell – Bring any work that you want any feedback on or want to show off

3. Planning for Future Events – Let us know if you’ve got any particular subjects you’d liked to see covered in future sessions or even want to present yourself.

 

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by Keith Doyle

Leeds September Event: SURVEYS FOR UX

31/08/2011 in Events

The next Leeds event will be on Monday 26 September

Stephen Corbett, head of UX at NHS Connecting for Health, will demonstrate how to create a simple online questionnaire using Google Docs.

There will be a hands-on excercise, so bring your laptop with you (wifi will be provided)

There will be time for questions and discussion, including how to use surveys for usability test participant recruitment, using surveys for user research, using surveys for measuring usability – including the web usability scale.

Register for this event

http://nux-leeds-sept-2011.eventbrite.com/

Twitter Hashtag

#nuxuk

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by Ali Zaman

Next Manchester Event on Monday 5th September at 7pm

05/08/2011 in Events

This is a free, public event

Date & Time: Monday 5th September at 7pm

Venue:  Code Computerlove
Ducie House, Ducie Street, Manchester, M1 2JW (The entrance is on Peak Street, look for the cartoon robot sign above the door)

PET: Designing for Persuasion, Emotion and Trust

- Overview of Persuasion, Emotion and Trust (PET)
- How PET works with User Centred Design (UCD)
- A look at some PET techniques in detail
- Case study – applying PET to a real world example
- The power of the Dark Side – using UX for evil

Barry Briggs

Barry is a User Experience Architect at Code Computerlove, a digital agency in Manchester. Beginning his career with some of best regarded agencies in Leeds over 10 years ago, Barry moved to William Hill to help shape their hugely successful online betting website before moving to Code over 3 years ago to work on some of their most high profile projects. In addition to being a usability obsessive and self-styled evil scientist, he spends far too much time in his quest for the perfect quiff.
Twitter: @quiffboy

If you are attending please register here http://www.eventbrite.com/event/2018203501 
(please note: you don’t have to register to attend but registering allows us to anticipate how many people to expect).

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by Ali Zaman

Next Manchester Event on Monday 1st August at 7pm

25/07/2011 in Events

This is a free, public event

Date & Time: Monday 1st August at 7pm

Venue:  Code Computerlove
Ducie House, Ducie Street, Manchester, M1 2JW (The entrance is on Peak Street, look for the cartoon robot sign above the door)

Making UX Strategic

Is providing a good user experience central to the way your organisation operates? Or is it a “nice to have”? Do you have people you need to get on board who just don’t hear what you’re saying? Are you under pressure to do more a more with fewer resources?

“Making UX Strategic” discusses what you can do to make user experience part of your organisation’s strategy – and help make the world a slightly better place…

Chris Collingridge

Chris has more than ten years’ experience as an interaction and user interface designer, usability strategist and evangelist. For the past six years he has worked in large multinational companies – currenty a FTSE 100 software company – trying to make those worlds a bit more user-centred.

Most of all, he believes passionately that – by inventing and producing outstanding products – we can make the world a better, more fun, more rewarding, less frustrating place.

Twitter: @ccollingridge

 

If you are attending please register here http://www.eventbrite.com/event/1976914003 

(please note: you don’t have to register to attend but registering allows us to anticipate how many people to expect).

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