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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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NUX Manchester Presentations from 8th November Event

18/11/2011 in Resources

Below is the presentation from the ‘Building a UX Team’ session held on Tuesday 8th November which was presented by Jane Murison, Head of BBC UX&D.



 

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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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Next Manchester Event on Tuesday 8th November: Building a UX Team by the Head of BBC UX&D

24/10/2011 in News

This is a free, public event

Date & Time: Tuesday 8th November 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)

Building a UX Team

Whether you have the chance to start from scratch or you join an established team, building a UX team can be a significant challenge.

This talk will cover how you can create a team profile, managing across projects and locations, developing better craft and what to do when it all goes wrong.

Jane Murison

Jane Murison is Head of UX&D for Knowledge & Learning and Children’s at BBC Future Media and Technology. After a MSc in Information Processing, she started her professional life as a Usability Specialist at a small agency in London. During her eight years at the BBC, she’s worked on Social Media, Content Management, Mobile, IPTV, and recently Knowledge & Learning (Vikings, recipes, exam revision and polar bears) and Children’s (CBBC and CBeebies). 

Project work ranges from iPlayer on TV (including the new PS3 version), the mobile homepage and games for kids (this recent one is excellent: http://www.bbc.co.uk/cbbc/games/barkmania-game ).  She moved North in 2010, and is one of those responsible for building a now 16-strong UX team in BBC North.  She manages UX designers in London, Salford, and Glasgow.

Twitter: @mewroh

If you are attending please register here  http://www.eventbrite.co.uk/event/2406830896
(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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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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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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NUX Manchester Presentation from 5th Sept Event

06/09/2011 in Resources

Below is the presentation and photos from the ‘PET: Designing for Persuasion, Emotion and Trust’ session held on Monday 5th September which was presented by Barry Briggs.



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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/

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#nuxuk

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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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NUX Manchester Presentation from 1st August Event

05/08/2011 in Resources

Below is the presentation and photos on the ‘Making UX Strategic’ session held on Monday 1st August which was presented by Chris Collingridge.



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