On Tuesday, April 14, we’ve got one of our most popular presentations from the last UI Conference, and one of our most popular presenters in Scott Berkun. Scott will ask the following: How often do you celebrate failures? Yes, you heard that right. Most shun failure, but in the right environment, you can get past [...]

Every design team has a design process.  Hopefully, one that meets deadlines, on budget, with the limited resources at your disposal.  Have you been exposed to Agile?  It’s one solution to consider, and the topic of our next Virtual Seminar. In this presentation, Jeff Patton will discuss the essentials of Agile Development, the distinct culture [...]

UIE’s Virtual Seminar on February 11 is sure to be a special treat for you.  Ginny Redish, author of the book Letting Go of the Words, will talk with us about Writing Web Content that Works. We love Ginny’s book and recommend it to all of our clients. This is going to be a great [...]

We’re looking for a little bit of help from you.  Scott Berkun, our top speaker at UI13, has agreed to present our April 14 UIE Virtual Seminar, and wants you to help select the topic. The guidelines are simple. As he says on his blog, the topic should be “design / usability related in some [...]

Last month, Deb Brown at Aligned Structures wrote up a great review of Joshua Porter’s recent UIE Virtual Seminar, Designing for Signup: Yesterday I attended an outstanding seminar by Joshua Porter produced by those great folks at UIE (yep shameless Ak’ing there.):) The topic was Designing for Sign-up. What struck me the most about the [...]

designing for the social web Our friends at Bookpool are passing along a special discount to the UIE audience.   You will find Josh’s book Designing for the Social Web, at bookpool.com.  For a limited time they’re offering a 38% discount in conjunction with the promotion of Josh’s December 11 online presentation Designing for Sign-up.  [...]

UIE Virtual Seminar – Essentials of Effective Visual Design with Patrick Hofmann of designPH and Google Australia Date: Thursday, November 20, 2008 Time: 1:30pm ET (Please note the unique start time) You have the Visual Design skills to do a good job, but what tools or tricks can you add to your toolbox? Does you [...]

UIE Virtual Seminar – The Quick, the Cheap, and the Insightful: Conducting Usability Tests in the Wild With Dana Chisnell of Usabilityworks Date: Wednesday, October 22, 2008 Time: 1pm ET It’s not clear when “quick and dirty” became a dirty phrase in the usability world. There are those that believe that testing must be scientific, [...]

We’ve got a unique and exciting UIE Virtual Seminar coming up in September: Testing Your Critiquing Skills: Site Navigation Date: Wednesday, September 24th, 2008 Time: 1pm ET / Noon CT / 11am MT / 10am PT When looking over someone else’s design, how do you ensure you’re delivering valuable insights that bring new perspectives to [...]

Brian Christiansen and I recorded a special episode comprised entirely of questions from our customers. On July 17, we held the UIE Virtual Seminar: The Scent of a Web Page—The Five Types of Navigation Pages. During the seminar, we received far more questions than time would allow answering. As is tradition, we put together this follow-up podcast to answer even more of your excellent questions.