Refresh the Triangle

Friday, October 31, 2008

World Usability Day Celebration 2008

When: 6pm - 9pm — Thursday, November 13th 2008
Where: Ruvane Auditorium at GSK
Cost: Free to all!  Food and drink will be served!  Please sign up so we have an idea of how big the crowd will be.
How: Register at http://triupa.org/2008WorldUsability (if you’re a TriUPA member, be sure to click “Login to Register” once you get to the RSVP page)

About the event:
TriUPA will celebrate World Usability Day this year on Thursday, November 13th, at GSK. We have created a program that centers around UPA’s theme of transportation. We are fortunate to have three speakers who have worked in the transportation field and can enlighten us about the usablity challenges in products and services in that area. We have organized a Design Challenge, in which three teams are applying user-centered design to transportation problems. The teams will be presenting their results at WUD. You cannot afford to miss this year’s WUD, so please sign up now!

6 pm - 6:45 pm: Dinner and socializing
Make sure to check out our UX trading card game. Everyone who builds a complete set of cards will be eligible for a raffle!

6:45 pm - 7:45 pm: Transportation and Usability

* Talk by Graham James, Professional Transportation Planner
* Talk by Beth Mcgough, Human Factors Engineer, JCI, Michigan
* Talk by Alex Hussain, Design Engineer, HumanCentric

7:45 pm - 8 pm: Break and dessert

8 pm - 9 pm: Presentations by teams competing in the Design Challenge

* Modular design system for bus stops
* Wayfinding and information displays for bus travel
* And one more… (topic TBD)

Presentation of prizes for UX Card game winner and Design Challenge winners.

Thanks to TriUPA’s sponsors for making our World Usability Day celebration possible:

* Lulu
* GSK
* BlueCross BlueShield
* Insight
* Lenovo
* Hesketh.com
* Capstrat
* User-View
* SAS

Monday, September 08, 2008

TriUPA Training Series #2: Dr. Deborah Mayhew presents “Designing for Efficiency”

We are excited to announced the second event in TriUPA’s new training series!  These events will provide cutting-edge, industrial-strength, knock-your-socks-off UX training in TriUPA’s four focus areas: usability testing, user research, interaction design, and information architecture. This 1-day course is aimed at anyone (developers, user interface designers, usability engineers, information architects, graphic designers, software end-users and end-user managers, marketers, trainers, etc.) who has an interest in helping their organization achieve end user productivity (i.e., efficiency) through the design of software tools. Find out more.

Thursday, July 17, 2008

Todd Warfel’s full-day workshop on effective prototyping

Durham, NC — Mon, Sept 15, 2008, 9:00AM-5:00PM

Are you interested in making prototyping a key part of your design process?  Or do you currently practice prototyping and need some fresh ideas?

This highly detailed, practical, and hands on workshop will provide a framework for creating and testing prototypes. We’ll discuss what prototyping is, when to use it, when to use other methods, and what to expect.

This is the first event in TriUPA’s new training series.

Tuesday, November 20, 2007

SocialCarolina.org Launched

Events about technology of some kind happening in the Raleigh, Durham, Chapel Hill area of North Carolina. Check it out at socialcarolina.org.

Friday, October 26, 2007

Refresh 002 — Fortified Web Projects: Fundamentals for Security

Durham, NC — Thurs, Dec 6, 2007, 6:30-8:00PM

Clinton Nixon will share a high level view of common security risks and suggest some very practical approaches for protection. Clinton is a enthusiast for test-driven development, esoteric computer languages, and kittens. He serves humbly as a senior web developer at Viget Labs.

Location:

Shoeboxed
Brightleaf Square, 23D
905 West Main Street
Durham, NC 27701

Thursday, October 18, 2007

World Usability Day 2007

Durham, NC — Nov 8, 2007, 6:00-9:00pm
Join UX professionals from around the Triangle area for an Interactionary (a live design competition), keynote speech, food, drink, and fun! More at www.triupa.org.

Monday, October 15, 2007

RubyConf 2007

Charlotte, NC—Nov 2-4, 2007
We hope you’re as excited as we are by the schedule for RubyConf 2007. This year’s event will be even bigger than last year’s, and for the first time in the history of RubyConf we’ve made some changes to the event format. More at http://www.rubyconf.org.

Friday, October 12, 2007

Chapel Hill Startup Weekend

Chapel Hill, NC—Nov 2-4, 2007
Startup Weekend is an idea, an experiment, a chance gather the tech community and create a company over one jam packed weekend. More at http://chapelhill.startupweekend.com/.

Wednesday, October 10, 2007

Raleigh.rb October Meetup

Raleigh, NC—Oct 16, 2007, 7:00pm
Clinton Nixon will be sharing some Rails goodness with us this month: Building Applications as Plugins. More at http://ruby.meetup.com/3/calendar/6385025/.

Monday, September 24, 2007

Raleigh-Durham Web Design & Mark-Up Group

Raleigh, NC—Oct 9, 2007, 7:30pm
Check out the topic and location for this month: http://webdesign.meetup.com/36/calendar/6340480/
This group appears to be pretty active and has a reliable monthly meeting. I’m hoping to make it this month for the first time. Is anyone else a member of this group or planning to attend this month’s meeting?

Monday, August 20, 2007

Raleigh-Durham Web Design & Mark-Up Group

This Meet-Up group includes Freelancers, Entrepreneurs, “Back-end” Developers, Web & Graphic Designers, IT professionals, your average person who wants to create a Web site. We like to network, give presentations about our specialized areas, and enjoy ourselves!

This month’s meeting topic: August Design Heuristic: Bitmaps - Image Editing, Basic Photo Tips, Tools, Resources. Check it out at http://webdesign.meetup.com/36/calendar/6181844/

Wednesday, August 15, 2007

Converge South

Greensboro, NC—October 19-20, 2007
ConvergeSouth is a dynamic, interactive and truly unique conference. Through a hands-on leader-led approach, this year’s ConvergeSouth focuses on dialogue and participation. The people formerly known as the audience become discussion leaders. Everyone joins in, as panelists and leaders encourage an exchange of ideas, tools and best practices. The conference promotes ongoing conversation online and in real-life.

ConvergeSouth is simply the most affordable conference of its kind (it’s free!). Attend this exciting forum if you want to:

• explore new company strategies
• spend time with movers and shakers of new media models
• interact with thought leaders, influencers and entrepreneurs

You can’t afford to miss ConvergeSouth!

Tuesday, August 14, 2007

Rails Rumble

September 8-9, 2007
The concept is simple: you and your team get 48 hours to design, develop, and deploy a web application from scratch. After those 48 hours are up, you’ll be judged by the community through a peer-ranking system in a variety of categories.

After about a week of controlled mayhem, judging wraps up and the dust settles. Winners are then declared, and awarded some cool prizes. Visit the official Rails Rumble site for details.

Monday, July 30, 2007

User Experience Week 2007

Washington, DC—August 13-16, 2007
Under the guidance of experienced practitioners from Adaptive Path and other top companies, this four-day conference introduces user experience practitioners to new rich internet application design approaches, practical prototyping techniques, effective cross-organization communications strategies and more.

Who should attend?
Information architects, visual designers, interaction designers, user experience practitioners, or anyone whose current (or desired) job involves creating a user experience will benefit from the four full-days of inspirational crosspollination and education that UX Week offers.

http://adaptivepath.com/events/2007/aug/

Thursday, July 26, 2007

Refresh 001 — Building User-Centered Web Apps in a Crunch

Durham, NC — Thurs, Oct 25, 2007, 6:30-8:00PM

Jackson Fox is a User Experience Engineer at Lulu.com, and a graduate student in Information & Library Science at UNC Chapel Hill. He is responsible for the community and marketplace functionality on Lulu.com, and is currently learning why MySpace is definitely not a “platform.” He and his wife live in Durham.

Location:

Viget Labs
The Brightleaf District
908 West Main Street
Durham, NC 27701