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User Experience Architect Here’s what you doBe passionate about users.  Work with customers, product management, sales, and other functions to understand their work and domains.Generate and articulate amazing ideas for workflow, layout, interaction, visualization, and style.Communicate concepts, designs, and standards beautifully and effectively to customers, executives, product management, and developers.Design a superbly functional and elegant user experience. Visualize complex datasets to…See More

Graphic design and sequential art share a common ancestry. As two disciplines that share the integration of typography and images, there are many problems that both designers and comickers have had to solve. In this fun talk, Ross Nover will be reviewing the comics medium and various points of inspiration that designers can learn from their long-lost cousins, the comic artists.See More

Are you creating websites that provide a good experience, no matter what device they’re viewed on? Learn how to think beyond the desktop and create websites that anticipate and respond to your users’ needs.Joe Giuffrida from Systems Alliance will share how to develop responsive websites with media queries.John Mohr from Mercy Medical Center will discuss how to adapt your content for responsive websites.Brian Harder from Johns Hopkins Medicine will share highlights from launching a responsive…See More

Let's get together for a happy hour! Meet local UX/IA/IxD/[insert acronym here] types over some libations, make new connections, see old friends, or celebrate day 30 of your New Year's resolution.See More

The IA Summit is the premiere, community-curated, and volunteer-run gathering on the ever-evolving disciplines of information architecture and experience design. It provides students, practitioners, and anyone interested with great tactical skills, amazing inspiring ideas, and an opportunity to collaborate and celebrate the great things happening in our communities of practice. And that's just the beginning.See More

Hi folks,I made my presentation, including the notes, available on my blog and slideshare. Thanks for coming out and your enthusiastic response.My book, Nonzwakazi: One Woman's Story in South Africa, by Ali Michael and Nonzwakazi Gertrude Sgwentu, went on sale on the iTunes store yesterday. I'd appreciate your interest and…See More

Jim Jarrett discusses his hands on experience of preparing and publishing an iBook on the iTunes bookstore. Tools, trials, and tribulations. Share your ideas and experiences with self-publishing. See More

I posted some notes about last night's Gamification session on my site. Enjoy!See More

Neal McDonald presents:"Gamification" is jargon being thrown about; what are the real discoveries behind the hype? I've been teaching a "Game Studies" class for 5 years, and I'll present content from this new field relevant to UX designers. For instance: games and play are very different things. One of them is intrusive, and the other, you do continuously-- if you're lucky.Neal McDonald is Assistant Professor of Animation & Interactive Media, Dept Visual Arts at UMBC.See More