http://www.vanue.com The Vancouver User Experience Group Wed, 24 Feb 2010 19:52:36 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Tuesday, March 16, 2010 Networking: 5:30pm to 6pm | Seminar: 6pm to 7:30pm The doors will be locked after 6pm! RSVP for this free event On Facebook Session abstract In early 2009, Kara Pecknold, then a student at Emily Carr University of Art and Design, took an internship with a women’s cooperative in Rwanda. Her ... http://www.vanue.com/2010/02/24/designing-in-a-cross-cultural-context-lessons-learned/ For our January VanUE event we decided that we wanted to get out of the theatre and go and visit an organization that is known for delivering an exceptional user experience (or more appropriately customer experience). As such, we will be visiting the Four Seasons Hotel in Vancouver. It is ... http://www.vanue.com/2009/12/15/four-seasons-tour-%e2%80%94-january-event/ Tuesday, November 17, 2009 Networking: 5:30pm to 6pm | Seminar: 6pm to 7:30pm The doors will be locked after 6pm! RSVP for this free event On Facebook Session abstract November 12th will be the 5th anniversary of the phenomenon known as World Usability Day: an event founded to ensure that the services and products important ... http://www.vanue.com/2009/11/03/world-usability-day-presentation/ Tuesday, May 26, 2009 Networking: 5:30pm to 6pm | Seminar: 6pm to 7:30pm The doors will be locked after 6pm! RSVP for this free event On Facebook On Upcoming Session abstract As the popularity of social networks on the web has risen dramatically over the last few years, many designers and developers have found themselves ... http://www.vanue.com/2009/04/25/designing-for-the-community-experience/ Tuesday, April 21, 2009 Networking: 5:30pm to 6pm Seminar: 6pm to 7:30pm The doors will be locked after 6pm! RSVP You don't need to RSVP - Just show up! Price Free Session abstract Designing mobile optimized websites is hard. The last two years has seen tremendous growth in mobile internet usage in the Canadian and global marketplace. ... http://www.vanue.com/2009/04/15/selective-transcoding-%e2%80%94-designing-better-mobile-sites/ Tuesday, March 24, 2009 Networking: 5:30pm to 6pm Seminar: 6pm to 7:30pm The doors will be locked after 6pm! RSVP Positive RSVPs only please: rsvp@vanue.com Session abstract Software developers end up directly involved in the design of the products they make, but they don’t use a process that design professionals would recognize as design. This increases ... http://www.vanue.com/2009/02/24/creating-usable-software-without-designers-it-is-possible/ Tuesday, February 17th, 2009 Networking: 5:30pm to 6pm Seminar: 6pm to 7:30pm The doors will be locked after 6pm! RSVP Positive RSVPs only please: rsvp@vanue.com Session abstract The sun is quickly setting on the day of single-use content. Content creators are being asked to green their content by reducing, re-using, and recycling. It's not just a ... http://www.vanue.com/2009/02/08/if-content-is-king-how-well-do-we-treat-it-designing-the-ux-for-a-world-of-converging-and-diverging-content/ Tuesday, January 20th, 2009 Networking: 5:30pm to 6pm Seminar: 6pm to 7:30pm The doors will be locked after 6pm! RSVP Positive RSVPs only please: rsvp@vanue.com Session abstract The importance of a great user experience has never been as important as it is today. Users expect to be able to just pick up the newest gadget or ... http://www.vanue.com/2009/01/11/user-experience-is-dead-long-live-the-user-experience/ Tuesday, November 18th, 2008 Networking and snacks: 5:30pm to 6pm Seminar: 6pm to 7:30pm The doors will be locked after 6pm! RSVP Positive RSVPs only please: rsvp@vanue.com Session abstract Founded in 1991, IDEO is an innovation and design firm that uses a human-centered, design-based approach to help organizations in the business, government, education, healthcare, and social ... http://www.vanue.com/2008/11/03/knowledge-sharing-ideo/ Tuesday, October 28th, 2008 — 6:00 to 7:30pm There will be networking from 5:30 to 6:00pm. We will now start at 6pm sharp which should allow more people to attend the events! RSVP Positive RSVPs only please: rsvp@vanue.com Session abstract The advance of the mobile Internet in recent years has resulted in many ... http://www.vanue.com/2008/10/21/designing-mobile-services/