World Usability Day at The Ohio State University

Overview
OSU Digital Union and the Columbus, Ohio Usability Professionals’ Association will host a World Usability Day event on November 13, 2008 in Room 060, Science and Engineering Library at Ohio State. This year’s event will include: 

- Professional Networking for Campus and Columbus Area Professionals
- Panel Discussion with Local Experts: “Making Transportation Easy” is the theme.
- Featured Speaker Topic is “Today’s Mobile Workforce - Working Collaboratively with Virtual Teams”  

Schedule
4:30 pm    OSU Transportation Panel Discussion – “Making Transportation Easy: What is being done to make transportation easier?”
5:30 pm    Professional Networking/Reception sponsored by Columbus, Ohio Columbus, Ohio Usability Professionals’ Association (COUPA) Chapter
6:15 pm    Keith Tatum, Senior User Experience Strategist and Principal of Slingthought, “Today’s Mobile Workforce - Working Collaboratively with Virtual Teams”
7:00 pm    Meeting - Columbus Ohio Usability Professionals Association
8:00 pm    Wrap Up 

Featured Speaker Bio
Keith Tatum, a Web veteran who has worked in the interactive marketing space since the mid-nineties, is founder of Slingthought, a user experience strategy consultancy that operates out of Columbus, Ohio.  He brings together information architecture, visual design, usability, and interactive marketing principles to create diagrams, illustrations and rapid prototypes that translate strategies and concepts into actionable blueprints for collaborative Web projects. Keith’s constantly evolving skill set and pursuit of technology has enabled him to work for interactive agencies, corporate marketing teams, start-ups, and consult for a wide range of powerhouse brands. He is a lifelong artist who loves to sketch and earned his BFA from the Columbus College of Art and Design, where he majored in illustration and minored in advertising design.  

To RSVP, please contact:

Bob Hale

Email: rhale@resource.com