Upcoming UX Events May and June 2012 By Julia Salem May 15, 2012 Internet Week New York Time: May 14-21 Location: NYC Get Tickets Here: https://www.internetweekny.com/ The Design Choices You Make for Information with Brian Suda Time: May 17, 1:30PM ET Location: Virtual Details: Designers creating data visualizations typically either prioritize data over graphics, [...]
Upcoming UX Events May and June 2012
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MiniDates.com Has Launched!
MiniDates.com Has Launched! May 4, 2012 Sign up to join our private beta now and be a part of the exclusive New Yorkers that get to try the service first and for free! MiniDates is a project created by Oxford Technology Ventures, LLC. This is a new matchmaking service that proposes real in-person dates based [...]
Beverly May Presenting on Agile Development Methods May 8
Beverly May Presenting on Agile Development Methods May 8 Oxford Technology Ventures, LLC President and MiniDates.com founder, Beverly May, will be discussing MiniDates and the Agile Development methods she used to create and release MiniDates. This will take place on May 8 in front of 500 people at Time Inc. for their quarterly division meeting. [...]
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#LeanUX: Lean UX Roundtable Event
#LeanUX: Lean UX Roundtable Event By Julia Salem April 14, 2012 Updated: April 27, 2012 NYC-CHI and OgilvyOne Worldwide hosted a packed event on April 11, with the help of Oxford Technology Ventures, LLC. There were presentations from Jonathan Berger, John Jarosz, Dan Kawasaki, Anders Ramsay, and Josh Seiden. During these presentations, these panelists answered [...]
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Visual.ly: Infographics for Everyone
Visual.ly: Infographics for Everyone By Julia Salem April 8, 2012 Now available to everyone, Visual.ly is a new tool for creating infographics without being a graphic designer. Visual.ly currently allows users to create infographics using data from Twitter and Facebook pages with more to come. Read the rest of the article from TechCrunch here. Will [...]
Opinion: Google Changing UX for the Worse
Opinion: Google Changing UX for the Worse By Julia Salem March 29, 2012 Kevin Fox, a former Google senior user experience design lead, has written an excellent analysis of Google’s new approach to UX design. To him, it seems like Google’s approach is changing for the worse for numerous reasons. Some of the changes he [...]
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Udemy Course with Eric Ries
Udemy Course with Eric Ries By Julia Salem March 27, 2012 Eric Ries, author of The Lean Startup, has created an online course on Udemy. The course discusses the Lean principles and how to implement them. Eric has brought together all of the leaders in the Lean Startup movement to lecture about what lean startup [...]
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Usabilla Discover, Pinterest for UX
Usabilla Discover, Pinterest for UX By Julia Salem March 23, 2012 A new social site for UX and Web professionals has been released by Usabilla—Usabilla Discover. This site allows user to collect and curate user interface elements. In addition, users can build and share a UI library with HTML snippets gathered on the web and [...]
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New Trick for Remote Usability Testing on Mobile
New Trick for Remote Usability Testing on Mobile By Julia Salem March 17, 2012 MailChimp has discovered a new way to test on mobile devices remotely, during their usability testing efforts. It’s simple, but no one seems to have thought of it before. Why not just have people hold the device up to their computer [...]
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End the Pain of Illegible Captchas
End the Pain of Illegible Captchas By Julia Salem May 5, 2012 Everyone knows Captcha codes are often anti-user-friendly, even though they are necessary to prove you are human when accessing a website. A Detroit-based startup, Are You a Human, has come ups with a more user friendly and fun way to do this—play mini-games [...]