IxDA NYC is pleased to present...

Interaction '10, the New York City Redux

Every year, the interaction design community gathers to stretch our minds, sharpen our skills and inspire each other. Every year numerous people are unable to attend and partake in this incredible opportunity – so we’re bringing the conference to you, in New York City!

Join us on March 6th for “Interaction ‘10, the New York City Redux” and listen to a group of the conference speakers. We’ll have breakfast, lunch and an after-party, you do NOT want to miss this.

SPEAKERS

Chris Avore
MJ Broadbent
Cindy Chastain
Allan Chochinov
Liz Danzico
Will Evans
Chris Fahey
Alexis Lloyd
Greg Vasallo
Todd Zaki Warfel

(See more information about the speakers below)

WHEN
Saturday, March 6, 2010

Schedule

9:30am - 10:15pm -- Breakfast sponsored by Infragistics

10:15am - 12:45pm -- Morning sessions

12:45pm - 1:45pm -- Lunch sponsored by Roundarch

1:45pm - 5:30pm -- Afternoon sessions

5:30pm – 5:45pm -- Raffle sponsored by Rosenfeld Media

5:45pm – 8:00pm -- Afterparty sponsored by Lab49

WHERE
School of Visual Arts
131-133 W 21st Street
New York, NY 10011
Map: http://bit.ly/aJnR03

SPONSORS

LAB49

Roundarch

Infragistics

Rosenfield Media

Infinity Plus One Consulting

Konigi

Cancellations: Please email us (nyc.ixda@gmail.com) as soon as you know you cannot use your ticket. We'll release your seat for one of your fellow practitioners and generate good IxD karma for all involved!

ABOUT OUR SPEAKERS

Chris Avore
Visual (Drawing) Skills Meets IxD Show and Tell
Chris Avore is an interaction designer in the Washington DC area, specializing in usable interface design and information architecture.

After years of working independently, he grew tired of asking his bulldog for persona advice and began pestering other user experience designers for feedback, and thus UX Show & Tell was, well, you get the idea.

MJ Broadbent
Visual (Drawing) Skills Meets IxD Show and Tell
MJ (Mary Jane) Broadbent has been designing elegant solutions to complex information problems for over 20 years. With a traditional graphic design education, MJ began interaction design work in 1996 with Silicon Alley pioneer Tom Nicholson. Throughout her career, she has improved communications for clients such as the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, Bookspan (now DirectGroup Bertelsmann), Empire BlueCrossBlueShield, H&R Block, The McGraw-Hill Companies (including Standard & Poor's), Pfizer, Sony Electronics, The United Nations, and Xerox. In her current role as a lead experience designer at Liquidnet, the global institutional equity marketplace, MJ stays busy envisioning streamlined enterprise service systems. She is an active member of numerous design-related organizations and communities; however, IxDA tops the list.

MJ co-authored and taught the seminal online course “Information Design” at Sessions.edu, and has guest-lectured on information architecture at Columbia University's School of Continuing Education, New York University's ITP, and the School of Visual Arts. MJ has been passionate about encouraging creative expression ever since reading “The Little Engine That Could” at age 6.

Cindy Chastain
Thinking Like a Storyteller
Cindy has been exploring ways to engage an audience through storytelling, teaching, writing and design for over twelve years. Just recently she took on the role of Creative Director, Experience Architecture at Rapp, a global, full-service agency based in NYC. She's led projects for clients ranging from BBC Worldwide to Showtime, Fuse, Madison Square Garden, Coca-Cola and Unilever.Cindy earned an MFA in screenwriting from Columbia University in New York and a BS in Radio, TV, Film from Northwestern University. In addition to moonlighting as a filmmaker and screenwriter, she is in the process of researching a book that explores how the elements of story can be used as a framework for design. She also coordinates UX Bookclub NYC.

Allan Chochinov
Girls and Women: Object Lessons in the Primacy of Interaction
Allan Chochinov is a partner of Core77, a New York-based design network serving a global community of designers and design enthusiasts. He is the editor-in-chief of Core77.com, the widely read design website, Coroflot.com design job and portfolio site, and DesignDirectory.com design firm database. He has been named on numerous design and utility patents, and has received awards from I.D. Magazine, Communication Arts, The Art Directors Club and The One Club. He teaches in the graduate departments of Pratt Institute and the School of Visual Arts in New York City.

Liz Danzico
Frames: Notes on Interaction and Design
Liz Danzico is equal parts designer, educator, and editor. She has organized information across a variety of industries, including retail, publishing, media and entertainment, nonprofit, and financial services. She co-founded (with Steven Heller) and is Chair of the MFA in Interaction Design Program at the School of Visual Arts. She is an independent consultant in New York and user experience consultant for Happy Cog, on the editorial board for Rosenfeld Media, and columnist for Interactions Magazine.

Liz has taught design at the New School University, the Fashion Institute of Technology, and Columbia University. She's been editor-in-chief for A Brief Message, editor-in-chief for Boxes and Arrows, and an advisory board member of the Information Architecture Institute. In the past, Liz directed experience strategy for AIGA, where she was responsible for the national web presence and all online and New Riders publications. Before that, she directed the information architecture teams at Barnes & Noble.com and Razorfish New York.

Will Evans
Right way to wireframe
Will Evans is founder and Principal User Experience Architect for Semantic Foundry with 14 years industry experience in information architecture and user experience design. His experiences includes directing user experience design and information architecture for AIR Worldwide, UX Architect for web 2.0 social networking site Gather.com; and UX Architect responsible for information architecture and interaction design for Kayak.com. Before Kayak, he was the senior information architect at IBM working on their enterprise learning management platform. Before IBM, he worked at Curl – a DARPA-funded MIT project when he was at the MIT Laboratory for Computer Science. Most recently Will has lead design projects for Pillsbury, General Mills, HiveFire and CrowdSprout.

A distinguished speaker, Will provides lectures and seminars on such topics as user experience, strategic design, social interaction design, and findability. Will's work has been featured in numerous publications including Business Week, The Economist, Fortune, MSNBC and the Wall Street Journal.

Chris Fahey
The Human Interface (or: Why Products are People, Too)
Christopher Fahey is a founding partner and user experience director at Behavior, an award-winning New York web design consultancy focused on building compelling and elegant user experiences for business and culture.

At Behavior, Chris has led the IA and UXD strategies for clients and projects in many industries, including BusinessWeek, The National Geographic Channel, UNICEF, HBO, The Smithsonian Institution, McGraw-Hill, JPMorgan Chase, XM Satellite Radio, AARP, the AIGA, and The Onion. In his 14+ years as a professional interaction designer and manager, Chris's projects have covered everything from business- critical web applications to sci-fi adventure games and artificial intelligence chatbots.

Chris is an active speaker on user experience design, with recent events including SXSW, An Event Apart, the ASIS&T IA Summit, Euro IA, The Society for Technical Communications Summit, and the O'Reilly Web 2.0 Expo NYC.

He teaches at the School of Visual Arts' new interaction design MFA program in 2009, and has also taught at FIT, Brooklyn College, and the City College of New York. His internet artwork has been featured in the Whitney and the New Museum. Chris also blogs about design, technology, culture, and whatever else he's interested in at http://www.graphpaper.com.

Alexis Lloyd
New Interactions With News
Alexis Lloyd is a Creative Technologist for the Research and Development group at The New York Times Company. She is responsible for researching technology trends and prototyping future interfaces for content consumption across multiple platforms and devices.

In addition to her work at the Times, Ms. Lloyd has over 12 years experience as a multimedia and interaction designer, and has designed award-winning projects for clients such as FOX, Columbia University, American Express, The New York Historical Society, PBS, and others. In addition, her new media art and design work has been shown internationally, in such venues as SIGGRAPH, the Chelsea Art Museum, Artgadgets (Netherlands), MAD Emergent Arts Center (Netherlands), the Melvin Art Gallery, and Symphony Space. Ms. Lloyd holds an MFA in Design and Technology from Parsons The New School for Design.

Greg Vasallo
10 Things I Learned About Being a Design Consultant While Living in the Hospital For a Year
Greg Vassallo is a Senior Associate in the User Experience Design group at Moment, an independent interaction design firm in New York. Greg holds a Bachelor's degree in photography from the Newhouse School at Syracuse University, and a Master's degree in Human-Computer Interaction from Carnegie Mellon University.

Greg's work focuses on generative research, design strategy, information architecture, and interaction design for web-based and mobile applications. He's passionate about user experience design and how it can change the world. He also has a slightly unhealthy fetish for wireframes and design documentation.

Todd Zaki Warfel
Right way to wireframe
Todd Zaki Warfel, founder and principal designer at Messagefirst, has been designing products and services for over 15 years. Todd’s clients have included AT&T Wireless, Bankrate, Citibank, and Comcast, Numara and NYU just to name a few.

An internationally recognized thought leader on research and design, and author of the prototyping course for the Web Standards Project Education Task Force, he has spoken at conferences and taught workshops around the globe.

His new book, "Prototyping: a practitioner’s guide":http://bit.ly/probk/ discusses how prototypes are more than just a design tool and shows you how to use prototyping to create a common language, market a product, gain internal buy-in, and test feasibility with your development team.

Todd currently lives in Philadelphia, blogs at zakiwarfel.com, and twitters at @zakiwarfel.

ABOUT OUR HOST

The new MFA in Interaction Design at the SVA is an inventive two-year program that trains students to intimately understand how design can affect human behavior, and to think more holistically about the products and services they’re creating. The program explores the strategic role of interaction design in shaping everyday life, and intends to increase the relevancy of design to business and society so designers can make a difference.

See you there!
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