[Sigia-l] Washington D.C. Events This Week

[Peter Merholz]

Hey all--

Adaptive Path is in town, and we've got some stuff going on that is open to
all. We hope to see you!

+ Wednesday Cocktail Hour in D.C.: OPEN TO ALL

We're having a cocktail party and everyone is invited. It's all very
1999. Our good friends at Interactive Applications Group < www.iapps.com
> have offered to host us in their beautiful studio space. Please stop
by, say hello, and meet folks in the D.C. area who enjoy both
user-centered design and a good beer.

Wednesday, August 20, 2003
6 p.m.- 8 p.m.

Interactive Applications Group
2639 Connecticut Ave., NW
Suite 210
Washington, D.C. 20008
Tel 202.265.3700  

If you're planning to come, please rsvp to Bryan Mason at:
<bryan at adaptivepath.com>
For questions about directions, please write to Sara Louise Todd at:
<sara at iapps.com>
 
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+ Lunch-Time Roundtables at the Watergate: OPEN TO ALL

These Roundtables are open to everyone. Whether you're attending this
year's workshop or not, you're invited. All Roundtables will be in Mount
Vernon Suite at the Watergate Hotel. Directions are her
<http://www.thewatergatehotel.com/default.asp?pID=dire>. Please write to
bryan at adaptivepath.com, if you have any questions.


Tuesday, August 19, noon to 1 p.m.
"Good Work with No Budget"
Lane Becker and Jeffrey Veen

Through our experience with several not-for-profit organizations (NPR,
PBS, Electronic Frontier Foundation, Creative Commons, and so on),
Adaptive Path has helped Web teams consider effective, yet affordable
tactics for user research, testing, personas, and scenarios. This
roundtable will be an open discussion of how we, and you, have found
creative ways to innovate in spite of limited budgets. OPEN TO ALL


Wednesday, August 20, noon to 1 p.m.
"Redesigning the Design Process"
Workshop Alumni and AP Partners

As a learning exercise for us and for you, we'll invite workshop Alum to
stop by and talk through the challenges, successes, and future hurdles
of implementing a user-centered design strategy. We've invited our
friends from PBS, NPR, The Washington Post, Ingenium, CTB-McGraw Hill,
and others to talk about what they learned in 2002 and what it looks
like in 2003. OPEN TO ALL


Thursday, August 21, noon to 1 p.m.
"Ideas and Deliverables"
Dan Brown and Peter Merholz

Short of selling their service, the greatest challenge faced by user
experience practitioners is communicating their ideas to customers. In
the early stages, a user experience is nothing more than a collection of
abstract concepts. In later stages, it can still be difficult to
visualize how everything works. In this roundtable discussion, we'll
explore various ways of communicating user experience concepts to
customers. OPEN TO ALL

Dan Brown is a frequent contributor to Boxes and Arrows and leads the
Information Design and Content Management group within the office of
e-Government for the Transportation Security Administration.