UIE Virtual Seminars
Get the latest thinking on design without the expense of traveling.
The UIE Virtual Seminars, User Interface Engineering's monthly series of online seminars, gives you the chance to hear the latest perspectives in the world of design from the field's premier experts. Instead of traveling to a training course, you and your colleagues can hear the latest insights on the most important design topics right from your office for only $129. Once you purchase the seminar, you can watch the presentation right on your PC screen.
Monthly Live Seminar:
Testing Your Critiquing Skills: Site Navigation
Jared M. Spool
Date: Wednesday, September 24th, 2008, 1pm ET
Length: 90 Minutes
Price: $129.00
Opinions are cheap but insights are priceless. When looking over someone else's design, how do you ensure you're delivering valuable insights that bring new perspectives to the table?
The best critiques not only deliver value to the original designer, but to everyone involved, because it raises the discourse to the underlying fundamentals and goals, not just the specifics of color and font size. Learning to critique well is like many other skills: the more you practice, the better you get.
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August, 2008: Galleries: The Hardest Working Pages on Your Site
In this seminar, we take a detailed look at your site's most critical page: the gallery. Galleries are the most used navigational element on any web site and many sites have hundreds of them. And yet, they are often the most difficult pages to design well.
July, 2008: The Scent of a Web Page: The Five Types of Navigation Pages
In this entertaining and informative seminar, UIE’s Founder, Jared M. Spool, will show how designers control whether users find their site’s content or not. As users traverse through a web site, UIE’s latest research shows they encounter five different types of navigation pages. The designers of today’s most successful sites, such as Lands’ End, the Bureau of Labor and Statistics, CNN, and the BBC, understand these different types of web pages and make design choices based on each page’s specific purpose.
June, 2008: The Scent of Information: Getting Users to Their Content
Does your site effectively pull users to their content? In this seminar, we're bringing User Interface Engineering's most popular conference presentation right to you. Founding Partner, Jared Spool, will present UIE's groundbreaking research on Information Scent.
May, 2008: Strike Up the Brand: How Smart Design Can Strengthen Your Brand
Jared M. Spool will discuss UIE's recent usability research into how people perceive brands on the internet and how teams can ensure their designs strengthen each user's relationship with the brand.
February, 2008: Mental Models: Getting Into Your Customer's Head
Indi will introduce you to the concept of Mental Models, a method for modeling the attention flow of your users. Mental Models give design teams a solid method for matching functionality and features to the user's motivations, thought processes, emotions, and philosophies.
November, 2007: Building Robust Personas in 30 Days or Less
Based on UIE's research into state-of-the-art development practices of today's most successful teams, you can learn the secrets to building robust personas in 30 days or less. In this presentation, usability and design expert, Jared M. Spool, will walk through an easy-to-accomplish 30 day plan for developing your own persona-based scenarios.
September, 2007: Don't Panic: Design and Usability Under Pressure
One of the most common reasons designs fail users is because the design team didn't have the time or resources to focus on user research. To help designers
and usability professionals deliver usable sites and applications despite the obstacles, we turned to Larry Constantine, author of the landmark book, Software for Use, to share his proven techniques on how to conduct design and usability efforts quickly and efficiently, even when there is barely time to do anything at all.
August, 2007: Web 2.0: The Power Behind the Hype
In the past year or so, Web 2.0 has been garnering a lot of attention. Web 2.0 isn't a thing, but a collection of approaches, which are all converging on the development world at a rapid pace. These approaches, including APIs, RSS, Folksonomies, and Social Networking, suddenly give application developers a new and effective way to approach hard problems.
June, 2007: The Analysis Toolbox: Making Sense of Usability Test and Field Study Data
Field studies and usability tests produce a vast amount of quality data. However, making sense of what you've learned is often a huge challenge that many teams find difficult to overcome. In this 90-minute presentation, UIE's Jared M. Spool shares some tricks and techniques for organizing your field study or usability test and getting the most out of the immense data you'll collect.
May, 2007: The User is Always Right: Making Personas Work for Your Website
Steve Mulder, author of The User Is Always Right: A Practical Guide to Creating and Using Personas for the Web, put together a comprehensive 90-minute online seminar covering the basics of personas.
April, 2007: Social Design: Designing for the Social Lives of Users
Amid the rise of social networking sites like MySpace and Facebook, a new discipline of social design is emerging. UIE's Joshua Porter put together a seminar for folks who recognize the incredible value of social features, but aren't sure where to start. He describes 9 principles that will give you a solid foundation for adding social features to improve your user's experiences.
March, 2007: Field Studies: The Ultimate Tool in Your Usability Toolbox
Field Research is the best way to truly understand your users' goals, attitudes, and workplaces. Kate Gomoll explains how to turn the incredibly rich data culled from field studies into powerful, intuitive, and easy-to-use products.
February, 2007: Demystifying Usability Tests: Learning the Basics
UIE's Christine Perfetti has put together a fabulous Virtual Seminar designed explicitly to share the basics of usability testing.
January, 2007: Paper Prototyping: Streamlining the User-Centered Design Process
Paper prototyping is one of the easiest, cheapest and fastest approaches you can use to design, test, and refine user interfaces. In this presentation, Carolyn will share some of her most important findings about paper prototyping, its techniques, and its effectiveness.
December, 2006: Gallery Pages: The Hardest Working Pages on Your Site
If your site has more than one page, it has a gallery page. When a user lands on your gallery page, it has only one job: to help the user decide which content page they want to end up on. The best gallery pages do that quickly and efficiently. The worst, well, it gets ugly.
November, 2006: The Visual Design of Web Applications: Creating Usable and Beautiful Designs
Learn the key strategies for creating both usable and aesthetically pleasing web applications for your customers.
September, 2006: Adventurous Usability Techniques
UIE's Christine Perfetti will show you usability testing methods you've probably never heard of—techniques only practiced by the most adventuresome usability professionals.
August, 2006: What Makes a Design Seem Intuitive?
Everyone wants an intuitive interface: the users, the designers, and the content publishers. But building them is hard. User Interface Engineering's recent research has given insight into why it's hard and how to get past major obstacles.
July, 2006: Users as Information Architects: Is Tagging Right for My Site?
In this presentation, UIE's Joshua Porter talks about the difficult challenge of organizing content on web sites. He discusses tagging, a new design approach that may help alleviate content challenges by allowing users to organize the information all by themselves.
June, 2006: Initial Scent: The Latest Thinking on Home Page Design
The key to a successful home page is how it communicates the "scent" to direct the user to the content they seek. In this entertaining and enlightening seminar, Jared will share UIE's most recent thinking on the best approaches for designing the optimal home page.
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