[Sigia-l] NYC-CHI: Wed 21 May: Three IA Case Studies

[Scott Weiss]

(cross-posted)

NYC CHI's NEXT MEETING: 
Wednesday, 21 May, 6-8PM; program starts at 6:30PM
Three IA Case Studies
Location: TechSpace, 41 East 11th Street between University Place and
Broadway 
-FREE- 
NO RSVP required. Please arrive early to get a seat. (after 6 but BEFORE
6:30PM) 

Topic: 
IA Case Studies
Three different IA environments: wireless, advertising, and agriculture.
Our Q&A will be focused on the commonalities and themes we can  identify
in each practice.

Speakers: 
Maria Moratis, Information Architect (and NYC-CHI Vice Chair): Designing
the user interface of a cell phone application for the first time:
Applying IA principles in a new environment

Sasha Kurtz, Interactive Creative Director at Kirshenbaum Bond +
Partners: The pain of trying to do cool interactive work in the
hard-sell  world of advertising and marketing

Steve Ellis, Partner, Change Sciences Group: Cows chickens and pigs! How
we brought together the whole barnyard (using collaborative IA)  at the
USDA.

Biographies:
Maria Moratis, Information Architect
Maria Moratis is a User Experience consultant in New York, focusing on
the creation of useful, usable and engaging online experiences. Her
clients include the College Board, Oxygen Media and Novartis
Pharmaceuticals. Prior to working independently, Maria was a Senior
Information  Architect at Scient. She has been involved with online
media since 1995 and she is a graduate of New York University's
Interactive  Telecommunications Program (ITP). Maria is also NYC-CHI's
Vice Chair.

Sasha Kurtz, Dotglu
As Interactive Creative Director at Dotglu (the interactive arm of
advertising's Kirshenbaum Bond + Partners) Sasha brings a boundless
passion for all things digital. Her extensive interactive experience and
love of design play a critical role in helping to fulfill the company
vision  of combining cutting edge creativity with superior business
strategy. Prior to joining Dotglu, Sasha worked for more than five years
at R/GA  Digital Studios, where she rose from designer to creative
director and gained recognition as one of the pioneers of interactive
design. Her  work has been featured in countless publications and has
received more than thirty international design and advertising awards
for clients  such as Levi Strauss, IBM, The Discovery Channel and the
Brooklyn Academy of Music. Sasha is a graduate of the Rhode Island
School of  Design and teaches interactive design at Parsons in
Manhattan.

Steve Ellis, Change Sciences Group
Before co-founding Change Sciences in 2000, Steve worked on Web projects
for companies such as Becton Dickinson and OfficeSupplies.com.  Prior to
this work Steve was on the faculty at the Pennsylvania State University
in its Research Libraries. Steve did an MLS at Rutgers  University and
Classics at NYU. He has published on topics related to the sociology of
technology and occasionally teaches at the New  School University.
Change Sciences' clients include Citigroup, AIG, Scholastic, GE,
TIAA-CREF and GE. 

Moderated by Scott Weiss, Principal of Usable Products Company and NYC
CHI Chair

See http://groups.yahoo.com/group/nycchi for additional details!  

Many thanks to TechSpace for hosting this event.  

NYC CHI Officers:  
Scott Weiss - Chair  
Maria Moratis - Vice Chair
Fleur Levitz - Information Chair 
Don Bialer - Program Chair 
Shan Chun - Secretary   

Please check our website for more information and mailing list signups:
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/nycchi  

NO RSVP required. Please arrive early to get a seat. (after 6 but BEFORE
6:30PM) 

Scott Weiss
Principal, Usable Products Company: usableproducts.com (212.929.8599)
Author, "Handheld Usability": handheldusability.info