Our Next Event: Accessibility Makes the Experience More Usable by More People – IxDA Interact
Every third Wed 7:00 – 8:30pm at Bellevue Place where the Hyatt is located. Free parking after 6:00 pm is located under the hotel. We meet in the Hyatt Board room on the second level in the Atrium ( big dome), Look for our great new Sign. If you get lost call Eric at : 206.779.0314
Our meetings are always free.
This month Wendy Chrisholm is talking about Accessiblility Makes the Experience More Usable by More People.
Wendy is a user experience person by passion. Her focus is on creating experiences (both online and off)
that are accessible to people with disabilities which in turn should
make the experience more usable by more people. She is curious about
talking with you about applying universal design to your own work and
she may challenge your assumptions about people with disabilities; She also hopes you challenge my assumptions about design and what’s practical.
Wendy is looking towards the future (participated in the HTML5 Working
Group) and wants to pick your brains about where the web is headed and
how we can ensure it is inclusive…how can we make universal design
cheap and easy? i.e., how do we make accessibility accessible? What
barriers have you run into while making your work accessible? Or has
it never been an issue? If not, why not?
A bit more about her: she co-authored the O’Reilly book “Universal Design
for Web Applications” and I worked at the W3C for 6 years. She currently
splits her time between the UW and consulting.
For even more, including a link to her stint as Wonder Woman:
http://sp1ral.com/about/
Come join the fun with Wendy at IxDA Interact.
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WHEN
Date: Wednesday, Feb 17th, 2010
Time: 7:00pm – 8:30pm PAC
WHERE
Bellevue Place
10500 NE 8th St.
Bellevue, WA 98004
Cost
Attendence: Always Free.
Parking: Free.
Are you on LinkedIn and planning to attend? Well let us know.
News Feed
User eXperience Digest #13
v1 #12 2/1/2010
Interact’s UX Digest is our oftentimes weekly digest of UX links that attracted our attention out in the blogosphere. We also tweet daily on hot UX topics. Follow us daily on twitter or check out our tweets on facebook,
This week…
| 10 ways you can use photos to influence the user experience |  |
| Ninja Coders and Despot Designers: Game Over |  |
| User Experience Diagrams |  |
| Card Games for Information Architects |  |
| Better User Experience With Storytelling – Part One |  |
| Bringing User Centered Design to the Agile Environment |  |
| Call To Action; You need to have me at hello. |  |
| My Recommendation: Stop Making Design Recommendations |  |
| Fantastic Information Architecture and Data Visualization Resources |  |
| Constraints Fuel Creativity |  |
| The Affinity Diagram |  |
MEF (Managed Extensibility Framework) in Silverlight 4
MEF (Managed Extensibility Framework) in Silverlight 4 By Glenn Block and Seattle Silverlight User Group – Interact Silverlight SIG.
http://seattleslug.blogspot.com/2010/01/mef-managed-extensibility-framework-in.html
Seattle’s Silverlight User Group, in association with Interact and community organzations everywhere is having its next meeting on February 3rd, 2010 at Building 40/41 caff ( http://www.bing.com/maps/?v=2&where1=Microsoft%20Building%2041%2C%20WA&encType=1 ).
All the local Microsoftee’s and MVP’s will be there.
http://www.SeattleSilverlight.net/
Come join Seattle Silverlight User Group when Glenn Block talks about the new MEF (Managed Extensibility Framework) in Silverlight 4 and how you can use it to build more maintainable Silverlight applications which can be extended by third-parties. Come with questions ready the use MEF building extensible applications which can be partitioned across dynamically downloadable XAPs. In this talk we’ll drill into the core of MEF and discuss scenarios for it’s usage.
User eXperience (UX) Digest #12
v1 #12 1/25/2010
Interact’s UX Digest is our oftentimes weekly digest of UX links that attracted our attention out in the blogosphere. We also tweet daily on hot UX topics. Follow us daily on twitter or check out our tweets on facebook,
This week…
| Your Attention Is Riveted By Pictures Of People |  |
| You cannot not communicate. |  |
| Six Reasons Big Companies Aren’t Creative |  |
| eCommerce ROI: Why Usability ALWAYS Beats Advertising |  |
| 24 UX Articles to start 2010 |  |
| Interaction Design’s Early Formal Education & Beyond |  |
| Agile as a ‘Cargo Cult’ |  |
| More Like This: A Design Pattern |  |
| Questionnaires in Usability Engineering |  |
| Some incredible statistics about the iPlayer’s usage |  |
| Emotionally intelligent signage . . . in an airport? |  |
| a nifty and free utility for simulating color blindness |  |
Lunch With Interact – MVVM For Tards
We did a cool video pod cast on MVVM for Tads. Had Erik Mork, Fabio Matsui and Jeremiah Morrill and we talked about MVVM and MVVM for tards and did a demo showing how to build an MVVM for Tards or Tard’d application in Silverlight.
User eXperience (UX) Digest #11
v1 #11 1/18/2010
Interact’s UX Digest is our oftentimes weekly digest of UX links that attracted our attention out in the blogosphere. We also tweet daily on hot UX topics. Follow us daily on twitter or check out our tweets on facebook,
| People Don’t Remember what was said – People remember how they felt |  |
| Twelve emerging best practices for adding UX work to Agile development |  |
| The product owner and the product-shaped hole |  |
| The Bridge Between Cultures and Design |  |
| Color Coding for the Color Blind |  |
| We need to be aware of why as much as how systems should be designed. |  |
| 12 Lessons Learned for Getting Better Results from Developers |  |
| If (Successful) { throw new Exception(); } |  |
| Climate Change: A Consensus Among Scientists? |  |
IxDA Seattle Happy Hour, Tue, Jan 19
Only a few weeks left until the IxDA 10 conference – it’s is a great time to get together and meet fellow Interaction Designers, UX designers, Information Architects, UX Researchers, and everybody else who has an interest in interactive products and design. Let’s grab a drink, meet new people or catch up with people you haven’t seen in a while, and get inspired and inspire others.
Let’s talk about who’s going to the conference, who will be there, what everyone expects from the conference.
Also, friends and colleagues are more than welcome to come enjoy the happy hours with us, so feel free to share the group with others you know that might be interested. Anyone with Seattle ties who often travels to Seattle is also more than welcome.
Moving forward this will be a regular event every 3rd Tuesday of the month (unless anybody knows of any competing events that happen regularly on a 3rd Tuesday – please let us know if you do and we can move it)
The Seattle Web Design Meetup Group – Jan 27th
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Hallo! Let’s bring in 2010 with discussion on upcoming freelance and work opportunities, and useful mobile webwork workflow tips. Plus, whatever you want to discuss.
Espresso Vivace Alley 24
227 Yale Ave N
Seattle, WA 98109
Telephone [masked]
Open daily 6 am until 11 pm.”
http://webdesign.meetup.com/390/calendar/12223410/?a=cv1p_grp&rv=cv1p
Dec 09 Meeting Online – On Better Design, User Experience and Why It Matters
On Better Design, User Experience and Why It Matters
What is the return-on-investment of building better User Experiences (UX)?
How does User Interface (UI) design affect your business?
Come join the discussion on why User Experience matters and how it applies to the real world. In the current world of web 2.0 and with talk of design being important, help us understand why it matters to you and what we get out of good User Interface design. Let’s talk about the technologies on the web and on the desktop that do and don’t support the development of well designed applications, and how we can apply better practices to our own projects. Equally important, let’s discuss how we can bridge the typical gap in cross discipline team dynamics. Tell us about your secret sauce or just listen to what others have to say. From great enabling technologies like Silverlight to tried and true web development in Flash, everyone has a story to tell about UI and design in the UX World.
initial post here: http://www.interactseattle.org/?p=320
Modern UX Creation from the Eyes of a Developer
Every third Wed 7:00 – 8:30pm at Bellevue Place where the Hyatt is located. Free parking after 6:00 pm is located under the hotel. We meet in the Hyatt Board room on the second level in the Atrium ( big dome), Look for our great new Sign. If you get lost call Eric at : 206-779-0314
Our meetings are always free.
This month Silverlight MVP John Stockton from Ascentium is presenting:
Modern UX Creation from the Eyes of a Developer
Abstract: Have you ever wondered why the developer all of a sudden got grumpy when you gave him the latest comp for a project? Sometimes a change to a design or project plan can have unintended consequences for the developer. Come join a discussion of some project and design decisions that can have a negative effect on the development phase of a project, and ways to avoid potential issues.
Come join the fun with John at Interact.
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WHEN
Date: Wednesday, Jan 20th, 2010
Time: 7:00pm – 8:30pm PAC
WHERE
Bellevue Place
10500 NE 8th St.
Bellevue, WA 98004
Cost
Attendence: Always Free.
Parking: Free.
Are you on LinkedIn and planning to attend? Well let us know.