Author: michiganuxpa

Digital Experience Architecture: An Evening with Practitioners

Thursday, February 19, 2015
6:00 PM to 8:00 PM

Join Detroit User Experience for Digital Experience Architecture: An Evening with Practitioners, an exciting warm-up to World Information Architecture Day to be celebrated in cities around the world (including Ann Arbor) on Feb. 21!

They will feature four fabulous experience/information architecture practitioners from the local area delivering three presentations total.  Each presentation will be approximately 20 min. long and chock-full of great insights and tips that you can use in your own work. Food and beverages will also be available.

WHO IS THIS EVENT FOR?
Their event is for anyone involved in the creation of digital experiences: user experience professionals, information architects, designers, developers, programmers, content strategists, digital marketers, project managers, social media experts and more!

For more information, go to the Detroit User Experience Meetup page.

Holiday Mixer

Michigan CHI, Southeastern Michigan STC, and Michigan UPA invite you a casual Holiday Mixer.

When: Tuesday, December 2, anytime between 5–8pm

Where: Conor O’Neill’s Irish Pub
318 South Main St.
Ann Arbor, MI 48104
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To make this fun and interesting, consider:

  • Wearing a UX or Tec-Doc or conference shirt
  • Bringing a Great Success and a Horrible Failure story that happened to you this year…relevant to your profession

We will not have a reserved room or purchased food.
We will just meet in the bar, take over tables as needed, and buy our own (and if you like) each other’s food and drink.

Spread the word, bring your colleagues, and let’s fill this joint!

World Usability Day 2014 Events in Southern Michigan

All events are November 13, 2014

Michigan World Usability Day Conference

8:00am
Michigan State University Union Building
49 Abbott Road
Ballroom (Second Floor)
East Lansing, MI 48824

  • Designing and Building the User Experience, Scott Wilthew, Jackson National Life
  • Mobile Accessibility, Gian Wild, AccessibilityOz (Australia)
  • Mobile First Government, Jim Taylor, CTO, Oakland County, and Kurt Opel and Matt Dempsey, eGovernment Consultants at Oakland County
  • Engaging Mobile Automotive Shoppers, Jodi Bollaert, MRM/McCann
  • Levering Human Behavior to Drive Engagement, Erik Wesslen, TechSmith

Michigan World Usability Day in Detroit

8:30am
AIREA Studio
Compuware Building
1048 Woodward Avenue
Detroit, MI 48226

Topics

  • User Experience (UX) Across Industries
  • UX Beyond the Lab
  • UX and the Auto Industry
  • The Demand for Simplicity in Design
  • The Future of UX: A Common Language Across Brand and Products

Presenters

  • Gino Fiore, Co-Founder, UX Strategy, Traceable Change, Inc.
  • Martin Ho, Co-Founder, UX Strategy, Traceable Change, Inc.
  • Whitney McKedy, Co-Founder, UX Strategy, Traceable Change, Inc.
  • Dave Mitropoulos-Rundus, Senior Human Factors Engineer, Multimedia Systems, Hyundai American Technical Center; Principal, Clear Usability, LLC; Officer, Michigan CHI

Michigan World Usability Day in Grand Rapids

5:30pm
Mutually Human
401 Hall St. SW
Suite 430
Grand Rapids, MI 49503

Topics

  • User Experience (UX) Across Industries
  • UX Beyond the Lab
  • The Demand for Simplicity in Design
  • The Future of UX: A Common Language Across Brand and Products

Presenters

  • Gino Fiore, Co-Founder, UX Strategy, Traceable Change, Inc.
  • Martin Ho, Co-Founder, UX Strategy, Traceable Change, Inc.
  • Whitney McKedy, Co-Founder, UX Strategy, Traceable Change, Inc.
  • Dave Mitropoulos-Rundus, Senior Human Factors Engineer, Multimedia Systems, Hyundai American Technical Center; Principal, Clear Usability, LLC; Officer, Michigan CHI

World Usability Day—Detroit

6:30pm
Grand Circus
1570 Woodward Ave.
Detroit, MI 48226

  • Engaging Children—Getting Them Excited About Potty Training, Cora Cowles, Senior Experience Architect, Organic
  • Stop Broadcasting! What Detroit is Doing to Pay Attention Online, Dave Lingholm, Director of Digital Media and Community Engagement, City of Detroit

UX Thursday Detroit 2014

Thursday, June 26, 9:00am–4:15pm

The Gem Theater, 333 Madison Avenue, Detroit, MI

Jared Spool will kick off the day discussing the Kano Model, which helps you gauge your users’ expectations, followed by six compelling case studies from real UXers from around the Detroit area. We’ll wrap up the day with a special keynote presentation. You don’t want to miss this local show focused entirely on user experience!

Speakers

  • Jared Spool, CEO & Founding Principal, User Interface Engineering
  • Stephanie Rosenbaum, CEO, TecEd
  • Ivo Gasparotto, Designer and UX Lead, GE Capital
  • Amy Montgomery, UX/QA Shared Services Team, Department of Technology, Management and Budget agency
  • Dan Klyn, Co-founder, The Understanding Group
  • Lauren Colton, Information Architect & Business Development Strategist, Gravity Works Design & Development
  • Keith Instone, Strategic User Experience Consultant
  • Dana Chisnell, Principal Researcher, UsabilityWorks

Cost is $129. Register and get more informantion.

Detroit’s Global Accessibility Awareness Day Event

Thursday, May 15, 6:00pm

Team Detroit, 550 Town Center Dr., Dearborn, MI

Detroit User Experience is proud to host the first Global Accessibility Awareness Day, Detroit at Team Detroit. We’re thrilled to have three speakers for the event including:

  • Mike Elledge from Ford Motor Company, talking about the needs and benefits of accessible web design
  • Josie Scott from GE Capital, talking on plain language
  • Dylan Barrell from Deque, speaking on importance of accessibility thinking early in the development process for websites, applications, and services

Cost is $5, and preregistration is required. More information about the event is available on the Detroit User Experience Meetup site.