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SUMMARY:Practical UX Design in October at Philly CHI
DESCRIPTION: Practical UX at Philly CHI\nfor all you Philly, Bucks Co
 unty and Jersey people !\non Thursday October 9thfrom 6 PM - 9 PMat Le
 adnomics downtown\nDuring every design project, everyone involved love
 s to talk about users--what users want, their particular needs, exactl
 y how they will use the product, and so on. But how often are users ac
 tually involved in the design process? In this presentation, we will l
 ook at practical steps for involving users in the design process wheth
 er it be a website, mobile app, or multichannel service. We will discu
 ss how to employ tried and true user-centric techniques to inform and 
 evaluate our designs ensuring that what we build we be useful, usable,
  and enjoyable.This presentation will be particularly helpful to stude
 nts, junior user experience practitioners, and designers, developers, 
 project managers, and other interested individuals who wish to introdu
 ce information architecture and user research practices into their org
 anizations.Dave Cooksey is a user experience consultant based in Phila
 delphia. For the past 10 years, he has worked both independently and w
 ith digital agencies providing information architecture and taxonomy s
 ervices to clients in the e-commerce, media, and healthcare industries
 . He is passionate about informing and evaluating design through user 
 research and the power of structured data to drive experiences. He is 
 an active member of the UX community in Philadelphia and has served as
  Chair of PhillyCHI multiple times. He is a member of the Information 
 Architecture Institute and volunteers in organizing the IA Summit. Whe
 n not working, you’ll find him at Phillies baseball games, drinking 
 craft beers, or traveling internationally.\nThe host Leadnomics is a P
 hiladelphia-based online marketing company founded in 2007. Dynamic an
 d analytical leaders focused on thoughtful domination, their aim is to
  make the world of lead gen—and the City of Philadelphia—as awesom
 e as possible.About that PhillyCHI user group: is the Philadelphia reg
 ional  chapter of the ACM SIGCHI, an interdisciplinary academic and p
 rofessional group interested in Human-Computer Interaction, User Exper
 ience, Usability, and other related disciplines. PhillyCHI holds month
 ly meetings and socials to network and discuss current topics in HCI.\
 nhttp://www.phillychi.org\n \n\nFor more information visit http://www
 .agilephilly.com/events/practical-ux-design-in-october-at-philly-chi
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CATEGORIES:philly, chi, ux, design
LOCATION:Downtown at Leadnomics
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ORGANIZER;CN="John Voris, Lead Coordinator":http://www.agilephilly.com
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