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Thursday, November 13, 2008 from 6:00 PM - 8:00 PM (ET)
A NYC Usability Professionals' Association special World Usability Day presentation(www.worldusabilityday.org):
What can taxis teach user experience professionals? Design strategist Rachel Abrams spent two years looking at New York through yellow lenses, researching the city's cab industry. She'll share the broader design lessons she learned, revealing how those who usually design for the digital world can approach designing for objects and experiences in the real world, how the power of storytelling can elucidate the value of and patterns in data, and where the opportunities lie for service designers working in public space.
Speaker: Rachel Abrams
Date: Thursday, November 13, 2008
Cost: See ticket prices at top of page (Pre-payment online required)
Note: For this event we are not able to offer discounted member pricing.
Time: Approx. 6:00 – 8:00 pm
Please arrive by 6 to allow time to get through security. Photo ID required by security to enter building. It must match the name on the registration list.
| Schedule | |
| Networking and refreshments | 6:00-6:30 |
| Announcements | 6:30-6:45 |
| Presentation | 6:45-7:45 + 15 minutes for Q&A |
Location: 277 Park Avenue, 17th floor (Between 47th & 48th on EAST side of street)
Dinner: Optional, post-event dinner*
*Please note that dinner is an optional, post-event social activity and is not included in the event fee. It will be the responsibility of each individual who chooses to attend the dinner to pay for their own food, drink and any other expenses that may be associated with the dinner.
Registration closes at 4 PM Wednesday, November 12th, 2008 (1 day before the event).
Refundable until noon, Monday, November 17th, 2008 (2nd business day after the event) by sending a request to RSVP@nycupa.org.
Transferable on or before noon Wednesday, November 12th, 2008 (1 day before the event) by sending a request to RSVP@nycupa.org. You must notify us, and get a confirmation, of this transfer or it will not be valid.
NO EMAIL RSVPs ACCEPTED FOR THIS EVENT
Members of our parent organization, the UPA (the Usability Professionals' Association), must join the NYC chapter to qualify for member rates. We encourage everyone to join our parent organization, though you do not need to do so to become a member of our chapter. You can learn more about our NYC organization or learn about our parent organization.
Rachel Abrams is Creative Director of Turnstone Consulting, a collaborative design practice in New York City. She designs technology-mediated experiences for commercial spaces and public places. As a 2006-7 Fellow of The Design Trust for Public Space, she co-edited Taxi07: Roads Forward, a report on the future of New York’s yellow cabs. Previously, at Imagination (USA) and IBM, she was a content and user experience strategist. Her design writing has featured on Adobe.com, in the Design Council, The Economist, Good, Eye magazines, and in other international publications over the last ten years. She has a Master’s degree in Computer Related Design from the Royal College of Art, UK, a BA (Hons) in Social and Political Sciences from Cambridge University, and has taught at New York University’s Interactive Telecommunications Program.
The NYC chapter of the Usability Professionals' Association (NYC UPA) seeks to gather members of the marketing, design, technology and research communities who share a common vision: creating websites, applications, and projects that are compelling, intuitive and customer driven. By bringing together professionals from different industries and disciplines and sharing our collective experiences, the NYC UPA hopes to create a forum for learning and professional growth in the New York City metropolitan area.
We are the NYC chapter of the Usability Professionals Association.
Our website is http://www.nycupa.org
Our parent organization's website is www.upassoc.org
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