IxDA/Interact Seattle Proudly presents: the second of 3 events in the
Touch and Beyond: New Forms of Interaction series

a round-robin presentation of work
featuring projects from: frog design, Hornall Anderson (HAX),
T-Mobile Creation Center and Wirestone

Please note that pictures and content for these presentations can not be made public. Thank you!

Presentations:
A New View of Retail Wayfinding: Touch, Mobile, and Augmented Reality (Frog Design)
Katie Dill, Senior Interaction Designer, frogSF
This presentation of Intel’s Intelligent Digital Signage Proof-of-Concept explores how technology can enhance the consumer experience in a retail store. Using holographic glass, this sign provides an extraordinary glimpse of the retail environment: wayfinding and promotional information are presented to users in through an augmented reality view of the store. Touchscreen technology empowers users to view content that is relevant to them, while mobile integration allows users to send information from the sign to their mobile phone to consume at their own convenience.   

Emotionally Engaging UX through the Marriage of Content and Experience (Wirestone)
David Kelley, Principal UX Architect, Wirestone.
In this case study we will look at a touch wall and how the ambient marriage of rich media content, multi-touch and targeted sound work together to engage with users and help shape community awareness through emotional connections with content.  

Interactive Environments: the Difference Between an Impression and an Experience (Hornall Anderson)
Jamie Monberg, Chief Experience Officer Chris Monberg, Executive Producer Zak Menkel, Interactive Producer/Strategist
Hornall Anderson has recently been engaged in a number of large-scale environmental experiences, integrating interactive technology into environmental experiences. and will be presenting examples from the Empire State Building Sustainability Exhibit, the Madison Square Garden Sales Center, Microsoft CES 2010 Experience, and Various Prototypes from the Hornall Anderson Experience Lab (HAX)

Interaction Improv (T-Mobile)
Jon Mann, Senior Manager, Concept Design Team for Strategic Innovation Prarthana Panchal, Senior Interaction Designer, Concept Design Team for Strategic Innovation
The session will present exploration of kinetic UI’s, including novel brainstorming techniques and rapid prototyping examples.

Thursday, September 16
6:30 doors (space limited, first 120 people)
7:00–9:00 presentation

Location:

Frog Design Downtown Seattle:

http://www.frogdesign.com/contact/seattle.html 

(located between Sephora and the Hotdog stand in Westlake plaza. )

SPECIAL THANKS TO OUR SPONSORS.
Teague, Frog Design, Hornall Anderson Design Works, Wirestone

Every third Wed this coming meeting is Wed, September 15th at 7:00 – 8:30pm at Aquent Office in Seattle. Free parking after 6:00 pm. Meeting in the lobby and look for our great new Sign. If you get lost call David at : 206.653.5143

Our meetings are always free.

This month we have User Experience expeert Karisma Williams presenting “UX In Games and what it really means”.

Abstract: 

UX In Games and what it really means.  Karisma will be delving into UI/UX Design and Development Talking about the technical struggles, and why Games have always been playing “catch up” with the rest of the interactive design community and where it’s heading in the future.

Every third Wed this coming meeting is Wed, August 18th at 7:00 – 8:30pm at Aquent Office in Seattle. Free parking after 6:00 pm. Meeting in the lobby and look for our great new Sign. If you get lost call David at : 206.653.5143. Our meetings are always free.

This month we have User Experience Researcher Bob Edmiston presenting “Beyond the Line of Death,” a user data driven approach to feature prioritization.

Abstract: 

During this abbreviated workshop, attendees will learn how to construct a weighted Persona x Scenario matrix applicable to any product. The end result is an enlightening perspective on what your market needs from your product. From this new perspective, features are determined and considered interdependent requirements necessary for the end-to-end scenario. The matrix helps to prioritize and guide every stage of the user centered design process.

Over the past 15 years, Bob has conducted user research at NASA-Ames Research Center, Apple Computer, Google, Microsoft and the University of Washington.  Bob is currently consulting with the Office Unified Communcations group at Microsoft.

V1 #23 8/03/2010

Interact’s UX Digest is our oftentimes bi-weekly(ish) sometimes month digest of UX links, notes and other cool resources and events that attracted our attention out in the blogosphere. We also tweet daily on hot UX topics. Follow us on twitter or friend us on facebook,

This time in the UX Digest…

The Four Phases of Design Thinking http://bit.ly/arKzod

Usability Testing – Is your team stuck in a bubble? http://bit.ly/dzaJ6k

Diving Into The User Interface With Fundamental Questions http://bit.ly/cgenhw

Reason #3 Why UX Designers are like Therapists http://bit.ly/d5Boto

How Organizations Can Best Support Beginner UX Designers http://bit.ly/9xwhws

Eye Tracking: Best Way to Test Rich App Usability http://bit.ly/9esDMu

Apple Magic Trackpad: The Beginning of the End for Mac OS X http://bit.ly/9PiKUz

Making the Internet Accessible for All  http://bit.ly/aVGjKv

Madgets: Actuating Widgets on Interactive Tabletops http://bit.ly/auzaOe

new human machine interface metaphor… Tan Le: A headset that reads your brainwaves http://bit.ly/a3zxG8

Sheena Iyengar on the art of choosing http://bit.ly/9RyeoY

Facilitating Collaboration Between Visual Designers & Other UX Roles http://tinyurl.com/24rd4db

UX Challenges in Touch Interfaces http://bit.ly/97XDrh

When ideas have sex http://bit.ly/bwpdiB  (safe for work…

Local Events

Summer Series – Windows Phone 7 Development Going Deeper (Session 2) http://bit.ly/ablKvn

 “Beyond the Line of Death,” a user data driven approach to feature prioritization http://www.interactseattle.org/?p=669

Every third Wed this coming meeting is Wed, August 18th at 7:00 – 8:30pm at Aquent Office in Seattle. Free parking after 6:00 pm. Meeting in the lobby and look for our great new Sign. If you get lost call David at : 206.653.5143.  Our meetings are always free.

This month is our first in our IxDA/Interact Summer Series beyond touch with Steve Seow talking about:  Touch and Beyond: Some things change and some things don’t. The psychology of future interactions.(http://www.stevenseow.com/ )
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Abstract:
Some things change, and some things don’t. At Microsoft Surface, we have tested hundreds of users with countless design explorations and prototypes over the years. The design, the interaction model, the software and hardware technologies, and even the business have unavoidably and necessarily evolved, but in this dynamic multidimensional evolution, one factor stood as a constant—the psychology behind the core user interaction. We’ve pooled together years of quantitative and qualitative data, observation notes, and other information and distilled them down to a set of nine constants we called Surface Usability Maxims. These are what we believe hold true not just for Microsoft Surface and for touch computing, but also for any new interaction paradigm that may emerge in the future because… well, some things change, and some things don’t.

How can we design interactions that encourage specific behaviors?

A while back, LinkedIn experimented with a feature: a little meter above the users? information, showing their profile?s ?percentage completed.? Suddenly, more users filled out their profiles. The feature didn?t have a clever interface, a sophisticated information architecture, or show any technical prowess. It just leveraged basic human psychology.

As designers, we work hard to provide powerful features in our applications, but if users don?t take advantage, it?s all waste. We have to extend our designer?s toolkit, leveraging the latest thinking from behavioral economics, neuroscience, game mechanics, and rhetoric.

Stephen will guide you through specific examples of sites who?ve designed serendipity, arousal, rewards, and other seductive elements into their applications, especially during the post-signup period, when it?s so easy to lose people. He?ll demonstrate how to engage your users through a process of playful discovery, which is vital whether you make consumer applications or design for the corporate environment.

More about Stephen can be found on his site.
http://www.poetpainter.com/

See you at the event.

INVITE

V1 #22 6/26/2010

Interact’s UX Digest is our oftentimes bi-weekly(ish) sometimes month digest of UX links, notes and other cool resources and events that attracted our attention out in the blogosphere. We also tweet daily on hot UX topics. Follow us on twitter or friend us on facebook,

This time in the UX Digest…

Summer UX Series on Beyond Touch starting with ‘The Psychology of Future Interactions’ By IxDA/Interact Seattle http://www.interactseattle.org/?p=650

Summer Series Windows Phone 7 – By Seattle Silverlight User Group: http://www.SeattleSilverlight.net/

 9 Usability And UX Pitfalls: Learn How To Avoid Them http://bit.ly/cS97zA

  Away Back: Enhancing User Experience: http://bit.ly/aEtufD

Best Practices for Designing Faceted Search Filters http://bit.ly/465KZb

Designing modern Site Maps http://bit.ly/cXlycl

 Consider Prototypes (Agile Prototypes) http://bit.ly/dgQYG6

Design Better And Faster With Rapid Prototyping http://bit.ly/aTkqXA

Usability is in the details http://bit.ly/d9mu8v

Get Wireframing: The All-In-One Guide http://bit.ly/H0a6N

Paper Browser http://bit.ly/aZNVCf

The Genius of Design: A BBC Design Retrospective http://bit.ly/cBKBaf

UIEtips: The Best 15 Minutes of UX Advice http://bit.ly/bjdNoD

Five ways to make any usability test more credible http://bit.ly/91cgt1

Myth #19: You don’t need the content to design a website http://bit.ly/bmqgNf

UX ROI: User Experience Return on Investment http://bit.ly/3c4Zpr

Using Forms to Improve Your 404s http://bit.ly/93dYvI

IxDA and Interact Seattle are putting on a summer series UX program over several months talking about going beyond touch.  Touch has been around awhile and with iPhone and other multi-touch platforms becoming available we have started to build UX around things beyond just a mouse-less mouse, its now about the gesture, the motion, the emotional interaction between us and our hardware, from sensors to the psychology of gestures we hope to talk about these over the course of the series.  Stay tuned for more information.

Every third Wed this coming meeting is Wed, June 16th at 7:00 – 8:30pm at Aquent Office in Seattle. Free parking after 6:00 pm. Meeting in the lobby and look for our great new Sign. If you get lost call Eric at : 206.779.0314 

Our meetings are always free.

This month its Nick Finck of Blue Flavor, who has spoken at SXSW, MIX, IA Summit and Refresh, will be presenting… this:

As our industry matures, we are starting to see a cataclysmic change in how we work within each of our fields. Information architecture, interaction design, visual design, usability, accessibility, content, and marketing are colliding to form a better and more valuable user experience.

Interaction is no longer an afterthought, overshadowed by visual design. “Just getting noticed” on the web is no longer sufficient – what you produce will now be judged by the value of your information and the ease of your experience. Today, users reign supreme.

Now’s the time to ask the tough questions: Are you properly investing resources, energy, and time in your user experience? Do you really, like really, know what your users want and need? How are you planning for the future?

In this presentation, we’ll explore the seven characteristics of good user experience, where technology and innovation are taking the interactive industry, and what milestones we’ll pass along the way.

What will I get of this session?
* A sense of where user experience is headed
* Knowledge of how context impacts the user experience
* An understanding of how new technologies are changing both context and user experience

Who should attend?
* User experience professionals
* Marketing executives and managers
* Online community managers
* Web designers and web developers
* Others who want to learn about user experience design

V1 #21 6/10/2010

Interact’s UX Digest is our oftentimes bi-weekly(ish) digest of UX links, notes and other cool resources and events that attracted our attention out in the blogosphere. We also tweet daily on hot UX topics. Follow us on twitter or friend us on facebook,

This time in the UX Digest…

Augmented Everything: Envisioning Interactions in the Home of the Future http://post.ly/iyXv  

How to Manage Your News Consumption in the Real-Time Web Era http://tinyurl.com/2exwbqf

Poor User Experience with Smart Meters a risk for Energy suppliers http://bit.ly/cAL21V  

The peril of giving people what they want http://bit.ly/9m00kM  

From Industrial Design to User Experience: The heritage and evolving role of experience-driven design http://bit.ly/ath7oX  

How To Engage Customers In Your E-Commerce Website http://bit.ly/dAfDwW  

Designing with Behavioral Economics http://bit.ly/cO5zM9

Why Wireframe with Pencil and paper? http://bit.ly/aAmaF6

Quick and Dirty Remote User Testing http://bit.ly/d2g1vT

Handling the Business Side of Design http://bit.ly/9ruf3x

User Centred Design Poster http://bit.ly/a816cj

Quote of the day (not sure if this is real…):

maybe Steve Jobs said:

“This breach isn’t our fault. The iPad is totally secure as long as no one tries to hack it.”