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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.
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Upcoming UIE Virtual Seminar
Search, Scent, and the Happiness of Pursuit
Jared M. Spool
Thursday, July 9, 2009
1:30pm ET
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Length: 90 Minutes
Price: $ 129.00 (includes handout)
Nobody wakes up in the morning with a smile on the face, thinking "Oh Boy! Today I'm going to search a huge web site!" Instead, they arrive at your web site with the simple goal to find something on your site that's important to them. If they find it, whether they search or not, they'll be happy. When they don't, frustration follows.
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June, 2009: Upgrading Your UX Team with Sarah Bloomer
Carrying the User Experience flag through your organization can be a daunting task. Whether you're a UX-Team-of-One or have a 20-person Experience Design team in place, our research shows that organizations are varied in their readiness to accept and act upon this idea of User Experience Design. To pull off successful design, regardless of where your organization is, you need to be sure your team has the right skills, is in the right place, and has champions in the organization to help spread the word about this shared vision.
May, 2009: Web Anatomy: Effective Interaction Design with Frameworks, with Robert Hoekman, Jr.
When starting a new design project, whether it's a design-from-scratch or an upgrade beyond existing functionality, much of what we are about to do has been done before. How do you make sure you've got everything the user will expect? This is where Interaction Design Frameworks come into play. A framework is a collection of patterns that make up an entire subsystem of the design. By using these interaction design frameworks, you'll have a ready kit of necessary components so you'll create the best possible design.
Do your users like to search or browse? Everyone does both and a well-constructed taxonomy will greatly improve their success at finding their desired content and enhancing their discovery of the knowledge hidden deep in your site.
April, 2009: Why Designers Fail and What to Do About It, with Scott Berkun
How often do you celebrate failures? Yes, you heard that right. Most shun failure, but in the right environment, you can get past the fears and inhibitions, and put the amazing power of studying failures to work for you.
March, 2009: Designing Better Navigation for Web Applications, with Hagan Rivers
In this presentation, Hagan Rivers will lead you through the design of global navigation for an imaginary application called Biblio Tech - a tool for librarians. She will show how to go from wireframes to a hub diagram, to the key elements of the navigation system. Then, you will see the same application with Tabs, Menus, and Tree navigation.
March, 2009: An Agile UX Primer, with Jeff Patton
Jeff Patton will discuss the essentials of Agile Development, the distinct culture and value system that Agile brings, and the common Agile process you're likely to see. You'll hear about the myths of Agile and common pitfalls organizations tend to encounter. Armed with the foundations, you'll explore some emerging UX practices and how to thrive within an agile process.
February, 2009: Writing Web Content that Works, with Ginny Redish
People visit your web site for the content, not for the joy of navigating or searching. The key
to great web content is to think about content as conversation.
January, 2009: The Road to Informed Decisions
In this presentation, Jared M. Spool will share state-of-the-art techniques to get from observation data
to informed decisions.
December, 2008: Designing for Sign-up
Designing for sign-up should be simple, yet it's often the most challenging area of your design. Do it wrong and you'll turn customers away. Do it right and you can build long-lasting relationships with users. Joshua Porter will show you how.
November, 2008: Essentials of Effective Visual Design
In this entertaining 90-minute presentation, Patrick Hofmann will help you make your products easier to use by applying surprising, memorable design techniques. Patrick, an expert in visual instruction and wordless communication, has worked with usability professionals like you to improve the design of digital, online, and hard copy information.
October, 2008: The Quick, the Cheap, and the Insightful: Conducting Usability Tests in the Wild
In this seminar, Dana will break down the process of collecting user research data, exploring the must-haves, the nice-to-haves, and the certainly-can-do-withouts. You'll learn how you can answer your essential design questions using methods that would make MacGyver proud.
September, 2008: Testing Your Critiquing Skills: Site Navigation
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?
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.
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