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Webcast: Best Practices for Creating "People-Ready" Solutions

World Usability Day 2007

Country: US Local start: Event is Over
City (& state): WA Local finish: Event is Over
Event location: Register here to attend remotely from your desk via , Office Live Meeting (broadcast via the web), WA

Event Details

This is the webcast registration for the event taking place at Microsoft in Redmond, WA. To attend, you must install the Microsoft Office Live Meeting software. Download full instructions (.doc) for accessing this webcast. Do you play a part in creating tools and technology for other people to use?

Hear from key professionals at Microsoft, sharing techniques that have worked best in bringing to fruition our People-Ready mission, and how you, we and others across the software industry together affect the users experience.

Event details

9:30-10:15AM Dennis Wixon (Research Manager, MS Games) and August de los Reyes (Sr. UX Designer)

Making Emotions Work for You: Revolutionizing the theory and practice of Emotional Design.

10:30-11:15AM Donna Flynn (Research Manager, MS Mobile and Embedded Devices)Impactful Ethnography: Integrating deep insights across company divisions.
11:30-12:15PM Monty Hammontree (UX Director, MS Developer Division)Data Modeling and Conceptual Sketching in the Development Process.
1:00-1:45PM Everett McKay (Sr. Program Manager, MS Windows)New interaction guidelines for Windows applications-the Windows Vista User Experience Guidelines.
2:00-2:45PM

Cynthia Shelly (Sr. Program Manager, MS Windows), Annuska Perkins (Sr. Accessibility Strategist, MS Windows), and Tira Cohene (User Researcher, MS Windows)Creating usable interfaces for people with disabilities (including us all as we age and lose visual and aural acuity and dexterity!)

3:00-3:45PM Andrew Kirby (Director, National Health Service Common UI Project, UK), Mike Gordon (Program Manager, Health Solutions Group)

Learnings from the Healthcare Industry: Trends, challenges and directions for best principles across this frontier.

4:00-4:45PM

Arnie Lund (UX Director, MS IT) and Mary Czerwinski (Research Area Manager, MS Research)Beyond functionality: What we know about human attention and retention capabilities--some ways we can design better for what we know stresses these human limitations.

To contact the organizers:

Candace Soderston and Lada Gorlenko
Email:
csoders@microsoft.com' ladag@microsoft.com
Phone: 425-707-1217; 421-6136

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