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Entries Tagged as 'Events'

Get a 15% discount to DelveUI in NYC

July 23rd, 2009 · 4 Comments · Conferences, Design, Events

I’m very excited to be attending DelveUI on August 5-6 in NYC, and even more excited that I get to give away a 15% discount on the $595 registration fee to the first 15 people to comment on this post. Delve:UI – A 2-Day Masterclass on Designing User Interfaces August 5-6, 2009 (Wed-Thurs), 8am-6:30pm 13 [...]

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Ultra Light User Experience

June 25th, 2009 · No Comments · Events, User Experience

A couple months ago Graham Lawlor asked me to be on the July panel for Ultra Light Startups, a group of entrepreneurs who collaborate to help each other launch startups quicker and cheaper. Their events have a unique format. As Graham describes it, “The first hour is ‘introductions by elevator pitch’ where people give a [...]

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10 Most Common Misconceptions About User Experience Design — the presentation

April 6th, 2009 · 1 Comment · Career, Conferences, Events, User Experience

In early January I wrote an article for Mashable titled “10 Most Common Misconceptions About User Experience Design” in which I asked 20 of the most prominent leaders in the user experience community what they think is the biggest misunderstanding about what we do. I was blown away by the response to the article — [...]

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More than 600 people attend boxee NYC meetup

March 25th, 2009 · 1 Comment · Events

Last night I had the absolute pleasure of participating in a tremendously successful boxee NYC meetup at Webster Hall. According to venue staff, more than 600 people were in attendance. It’s a huge space and the entire downstairs was packed, with many people also up in the balcony. I was thrilled to see such a [...]

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I’m Speaking at Pittsburgh Web Design Day

March 13th, 2009 · 3 Comments · Career, Conferences, Pleasure

When I went to Pittsburgh in October for Carnegie Mellon Homecoming to see the reunion of my friend Joanna‘s band, I had the pleasure of finally meeting my Twitter pal G. Jason Head. Jason is a front-end web developer and runs Refresh Pittsburgh. He’s also putting together the first-ever Pittsburgh Web Design Day — “a [...]

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