Monday 28 May 2012 from 18:30 to 20:30 – note that this is not a bank holiday!

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This event is about creating websites which are optimised for mobile, tablet and desktop using ‘Responsive’ techniques. The presenters are Keith Doyle (Navopia) and Paddy Callaghan (University of Bradford)

• Definition of Responsive – everyone is using this term in slightly different ways – Keith will explain the jargon and come up with a definition we can all be happy with, as well as pointing out the seminal publications.
• Case study – Paddy will talk about a responsive site he has been developing at the University of Bradford, and will explain why the University is going down the responsive road, and findings from analytics and usability testing.
• Responsive UX Strategy – Keith will outline some key points you should consider when developing a Responsive strategy.
• Comments and questions from the audience.
• Responsive Clinic – a chance for you to have your responsive problems discussed – looking at either websites are you thinking of making responsive or which are responsive already.

Keith is a freelance information architecture trainer and consultant specialising in responsive user experience trading as Navopia. He has been working in the web since 1995 and has experience in the HE, banking and finance sectors in websites for marketing, intranets and e-commerce.

Paddy has over ten years’ experience of web development and has expert knowledge of all aspects of a project life cycle, and has a longstanding interest in the web and web development and has recently been honing his skills in responsive design. Paddy has several years of agency experience and currently practices in the HE sector at the University of Bradford.

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“Who Buys A Fridge from the Top Deck of a Bus?”

David Hawdale, a co-founder of NUX in the dim and distant past, works with companies such as Netflights, Lloyds TSB, Vodafone to make experiences better for customers and more profitable for businesses. Recently returned from an extended stint with The Times and Sunday Times setting up and leading their Concepting Lab, David is visiting Leeds from Manchester to talk mobile.

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Barry Briggs will be talking about 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 4 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

This is a free, public event

Full Details & Registration on Eventbrite

Presenter

@keithdoyle from Navopia

Giveaways

• One copy of Luke Wroblewski’s ‘Mobile First’ book
• Three copies of Balsamiq’s ‘Mockups for Desktop’
• One copy of Axure

Sponsor

Venue and refreshments provided by Simple Usability

If you have an idea that you feel passionate about or a topic that you think deserves discussion then we want to hear from you. If you are interested in contributing any thoughts then you can do by going to this questionnaire;

https://docs.google.com/spreadsheet/viewform?formkey=dGk2aE1ZWTVxa2JkdG8zel9vU0MxNnc6MQ

If you have expressed an interest in talking then a member of the steering group will be in touch to arrange this.

Thanks.

Sarah Thews slides: exploring users values motivations and emotions

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Beside the spelling mistake, the euphemism for ‘the application might break’, it’s also not clear after which ‘this’ occurring one should reload the application. And will I lose my work so far?

http://www.evolus.vn/Pencil/

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.

“- Journey to the Center of Design – Jared Spool
There’s a growing sentiment that spending limited resources on user research takes away from essential design activities. Is it time for user- centered design to evolve into something else? Or is there something else happening in our world of experience design that makes UCD obsolete? Jared Spool gives and entertaining and enlightening key note address at the 2008 IA Summit.(published 05/01/08)(published 04/25/08)”

I think it raises an interesting discussion point, on the business value of User Centred Design.

For a starter, I’ve sold UCD as a way to reduce time-to-market. The theory being – ask the user what they want, then do it, then test it again. The business don’t have to decide “what they think” the user wants, which is when I found a lot of time wasted.

How do other people approach this?

This is the link: http://www.boxesandarrows.com/view/ia-summit-2008-day-1