http://dfw-upa.org Promoting Usability Concepts and Techniques Worldwide Tue, 02 Mar 2010 17:16:19 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en What? Designing a multimodal application is not just adding speech to a website or adding a GUI to an automated phone system. When creating a multimodal interaction, several multimodal-specific aspects of design need to be considered. These include user modality preference, conflicting mental models, variable usage environments, and technology limitations.  Julie Underdahl ... http://dfw-upa.org/2010/03/march-23rd-monthly-meeting-design-challenges-in-multimodal-interactions/ Last night’s meeting went off without a hitch!  Well, except for the fact that we packed room B-157 at Sabre Holdings to levels that reminded us of a standing room only rock concert.  Martin Fowler was an exceptional speaker who covered a range of topics including user centered design, economics ... http://dfw-upa.org/2010/02/dfw-upa-and-scrum-wrap-up/ **UPDATE** Registration has reached its limit.  Thank you for your interest.  Please check our calendar for future events. As you already know, Flash is an extremely powerful graphics tool.  You can create dynamic, interactive animated content for everything from basic animations to entire web sites.  Flash provides developers and designers with ... http://dfw-upa.org/2010/02/march-6th-flash-boot-camp/ **UPDATE** Registration has reached its limit. Thank you for your interest.  Please check our calendar for future events. What? An Evening with Martin Fowler DFW UPA and DFW Scrum team up to bring you Martin Fowler from ThoughtWorks. Martin is an accomplished writer on using agile software development methodology in enterprise software ... http://dfw-upa.org/2010/02/february-23-monthly-meeting-dfw-upa-joins-with-dfw-scrum/ The January event was a hit!  Everyone packed into the cozy upstairs meeting room at The Londoner for a glass of merriment and much socializing.  Ryan Plesko presented information on upcoming events for DFW UPA, Big (D)esign Conference 2010, and officer elections. Chair positions have been filled by the following people: President:  ... http://dfw-upa.org/2010/02/january-social-and-elections-wrap-up/ Let us ring in the New Year with a DFW UPA social!  The January meeting will be a two part recipe hosted at the Londoner.  The first portion is a meet and great where everyone can trade holiday stories accompanied with food and drink (appetizers and initial round of drink ... http://dfw-upa.org/2010/01/january-26th-january-social-and-officer-elections/ In December 2008, Brian Sullivan hosted a Usability Boot Camp at Sabre with Ketih Anderson.  They had a wonderful turnout with all of the money donated to a local boy's basketball team, which had just formed.  The basketball was on hand to serve pizza after their first ball game in ... http://dfw-upa.org/2010/01/december-2008-usability-boot-camp/ You probably already know that the single best thing you can do for your projects is to perform usability testing.  This full-day workshop gives you the nuts and bolts about how to be successful in your usability testing endeavors.  You will learn how to organize usability work into your projects ... http://dfw-upa.org/2009/11/dec-5th-usability-boot-camp-workshop/ Back in August we hosted a very successful workshop (Led by Brian Sullivan) that focused on User Experience sketching and collaboration. It was a great workshop and generated great ideas on how to illustrate the savings that could be had by changing your traditional filament light bulbs to LED light ... http://dfw-upa.org/2009/11/world-usability-day-giveaway/ For the fifth year, DFW-UPA will celebrate World Usability Day at Sabre.  This day will include: 9-10 AM: Keynote Speech from Nathan Shedroff (author of Making Meaning) 10AM-2PM: World Usability Day Trade Show (Room A1-157) with 22 interactive booths 10AM-2PM: Campu Tours by the eco-Team and Usability Lab Open House Prizes and giveaways will ... http://dfw-upa.org/2009/11/nov-12th-world-usability-day-at-sabre/