Register at http://2012uxpamovie-eorg.eventbrite.com/ Join us for Movie Night UXPA Boston invites the Boston design and interaction community to a special summer screening of the movie “Exit Through the Gift Shop” on Wednesday, August 29 at the Regent Theatre, Arlington MA....
Conference schedule | Conference Booklet (PDF) | Conference/Session Feedback (PDF) #EpicFail! A/B Test Results vs. UX Best Practices Susan Rice/Kirk Doggett If you design a flow, you’re going to include a progress indicator, right? If you have a button, you’re going to specify where...
This year’s Usability and User Experience conference will take place on Monday, May 7th, 2012 at Sheraton Boston Hotel, 39 Dalton Street, Boston, MA 02199. Attendee Information Registration Conference Schedule | Conference Booklet (PDF) | Conference/Session Feedback (PDF) Session Descriptions Location/Getting There Parking – $39/day...
Responsive Design and Prototyping – an Agency Model Digitas is pleased to host the April 2012 UPA Boston meeting. We’ll be looking at some of the latest trends we’ve seen in Experience Design. We will discuss how we at...
UPA Boston is excited to invite you to an interactive session about the Education Initiative and its efforts to develop materials to help educate non-practitioners about usability. We hope to see you there! Eventbrite RSVP When: Thursday, April 5 6...
A half-day interactive workshop for researchers, designers, and anyone who practices UX research. Eventbrite Registration One of the biggest challenges and top frustration causes for UX research and usability practitioners lies in getting buy-in for research from stakeholders. People have trouble...
UPA Boston’s last monthly meeting took place on February 1st at One-to-one Interactive in Charlestown, MA. Slides from the presentation are now available on Slideshare. A multidisciplinary panel from next generation digital marketing agency One to One discusses current...
The annual Boston Interactions Party, co-sponsored by UPA Boston, Boston CHI, and other local usability organizations will take place on Tuesday, January 24, at the Asgard in Central Square, Cambridge. Stay tuned for details.
Monday, December 12, 2011 Usability Testing Student Presentations UPA Boston December Meeting will feature short, interactive presentations from the “Usability and User Experience Research” class, Graduate School of Library and Information Science, Simmons College. Students in class have worked...
UPA Boston is pleased to invite you to a talk about Decision Architecture, hosted by Bank of America. Decision Architecture and UX Todd is browsing your website, contemplating the products and services you offer. Do you know how your...
UPA Boston is pleased to invite you to an evening of Ten-Minute Talks at Raytheon Billerica. Join the excitement as speakers try to beat the clock to present all of their material! We hope to see you there! The Talks –...
The world is abuzz with agile. Companies are adopting new ways of working that threaten the traditional role of user experience. Has your team started having daily stand-ups? Working from a backlog? Splitting work into sprints? Integrating successful UX...
Join us for Movie Night UPA Boston invites the Boston design and interaction community to a special summer screening of the movie “Objectified” on Tues, August 30 at the Regent Theatre, Arlington MA. Basic Info (details below) • Networking...
UPA Boston invites you to join us for a night of accessibility at the MIT Stata Center in Cambridge. The night will feature three talks from experts in accessibility: Usability and Accessibility, do they make sense together? Members of...
UPA Boston invites you to it’s June monthly meeting! Join us at EnerNOC on June 15th for Kath Straub’s presentation: “Information, design, and the psychology of behavioral change“. Kath will present remotely, but we hope you’ll join us in person...
Tenth Annual Usability and User Experience 2011 conference took place on Wednesday, May 25, 2011 the Cambridge Hyatt and attracted over 600 attendees. The conference had four simultaneous tracks, giving attendees a choice of over 30 presentations. Eventbrite Attendee List http://2011bostonupa.eventbrite.com/...
UPA Boston invites you to its “February” monthly meeting on Thursday, March 3rd. Join us at Onward Search in Boston for a night of UX discussion, mingling, and fun. We’ll be staging a mini ‘Idea Market’ like those offered at UPA International conferences. Four ‘idea...
UPA Boston invites you to its January monthly meeting. Join us Tuesday, January 25th at The MITRE Center in Bedford, MA where Jill Drury and Todd Reily will present: New Technology Applications for Emergency Management Applying Gestural Interfaces to Command-and-Control **RSVP...
You are invited to our fourth annual cross group event, bringing members of all of the premier Boston-area Interaction organizations together for one big night of food and fun. Please join us on Tuesday evening, January 18th, in a private...
Celebrate World Usability Day Boston 2010 Join us for UX Trivia Night – aka “The Smackdown” – and celebrate the 6th annual World Usability Day. Sponsored by: Whether you’re a UX novice, expert practitioner, or anywhere inbetween, this is chance to have...
UPA Boston is pleased to invite you to its October meeting. Join us at The Boston Globe, Thursday, October 28th for an evening of Ten-Minute Talks. Six speakers will try to beat the clock to present all of their material....
UPA Boston invites you to its September monthly meeting. Join us Tuesday, September 28th for Christine Perfetti’s talk: “Adventurous Usability Techniques: Novel Approaches for Gaining User Insights”. The event will take place at The Creative Group’s offices in downtown Boston. Details...
Stories are an effective way to collect, analyze and share qualitative information from user research, spark design imagination and help us create usable products. We all tell stories all the time, but to craft a story for a particular...
Join us for Movie Night UPA Boston invites the Boston design and interaction community to a special summer screening of the movie “Temple Grandin” on Tues, August 31 at the Regent Theatre, Arlington MA. Basic Info (details below) • Networking at...
Greetings, UPA Boston and BostonCHI are pleased to invite you to the second annual Summer Pot Luck Picnic. The picnic is on Tuesday evening, July 27th, from 6pm to dusk. Please feel free to bring significant others, children, and pets, and of...
Greetings, UPA Boston and Boston-IA are pleased to invite you to a joint July meeting. Join us at Staples, Wednesday July 21st, for an evening of Ten-Minute Talks. Six speakers will try to beat the clock to present all of their material....
Tom is looking at a website that sells computers. He’s wondering whether he should splurge for the laptop with all the bells and whistles, or opt for something cheaper. As the Designer of the site, you’ve done the usability...
Ninth Annual Usability and User Experience conference took place on Wednesday, June 9, 2010 at Bentley University. The conference had four simultaneous tracks, giving attendees a choice of over 30 presentations, relevant to thought-leaders, designers, developers, usability professionals, usability novices, and others....
UPA Boston is pleased to invite you to its May monthly meeting. Join us on Tuesday, May 18th at Fidelity Investments where Bill Albert, Tom Tullis, and Donna Tedesco will present: “Squeezing 1,000 users into the usability lab, or how...
UPA Boston is pleased to invite you to its April monthly meeting. Join us at MathWorks, where their Usability team will present on a range of topics including (details below): 1. Migrating a Corporate Intranet to Microsoft SharePoint 2....
Join us, Tuesday, March 30th , for an interactive discussion entitled: “Agile UX, Yes We Can!”. Alla Zollers will share her experiences with integrating UX into the agile process for the 1st hour. Then, we’ll open it up for larger group discussion and Q&A. Come...
UPA Boston workshops present How to be a Usability Star – The UX Public Speaking Toolkit When it comes to advancing your career, public speaking might just be the #1 skill that can help you get noticed. And yet...
You are invited to UPA Boston’s first state of the union address! *RSVP to reserve your spot* WHEN: Thursday, March 4th 6:00-7:30pm – networking & munchies (Smith’s 1st floor, “Open Area”) 7:30-9:00pm – presentation, Q&A, open discussion (Smith’s 2nd...
Greetings, UPA Boston invites you to its February monthly meeting. Join us on Tuesday, February 23rd at MITRE’s facitilities in Bedford where Dr. Jill Drury, Lester Holtzblatt, Laurie E. Damianos, and Daniel Weiss will present their research on these 2...
UPA Boston invites you to our January monthly meeting on Wednesday, January 27th at Fidelity‘s offices in downtown Boston. Colleen Roller, Fidelity Senior Usability Specialist, will present: “Beyond Usability: Designing for Persuasion” **RSVP by reserving your spot below:** We hope you will join us!...
The Usability and Interaction groups of Boston in association with our sponsors invite you to join us for a holiday party! BostonCHI, UPA Boston, IxDA Boston, Boston-IA, NEC HFES, UPA NH, NEASIS&T , STC Boston, Web Innovators Group, UX Boston along with our sponsors: Mad*Pow, User Interface Engineering and Vision and Logic Invite you to...
Fidelity Investments presents: UPA Boston invites you to celebrate World Usability Day @ MIT! Join us for the 5th annual World Usability Day this Thursday, November 12th, 2009. World Usability Day is a global, public event to raise awareness of...
UPA Boston invites you to its November monthly meeting on Tuesday, October 27 at Monster Worldwide’s facilities in Maynard, MA. Members of Monster’s User Experience Research team will present: “A Monster of a task: How UX research can drive a unified approach to user-centered...
UPA Boston invites you to its September monthly meeting on Wed, September 30th at EnerNOC’s Headquarters in downtown Boston. Michael Ledoux, EnerNOC User Interface Lead, will present“Designing Dashboards”. He will also give tours of EnerNOC’s command center where dashboards play a critical role in reducing...
UPA Boston invites the Boston design and interaction community to a special summer screening of the documentary Helvetica on Tues, August 11 at the Regent Theatre, Arlington MA. Networking at 6:00-7:00, movie starts at 7:15. Seating limited to 500....
Visual Design for Web Sites and Web Apps Now that your screen flows, site maps, wireframes, and sketches are done, you’re ready to dig into the visual design of your Web site or Web application. In this half-day workshop,...
UPA Boston invites you to its June monthly meeting next Wed, June 24th at TripAdvisor. Members of TripAdvisor’s user experience design team will present: “From Me to We to Web 2.0: Building a Community – and Company – with Help from the Masses”. Details below. Please...
The 8th Annual Usability & User Experience conference took place at Bentley University on Tuesday, May 26, 2009. Presentation Abstracts and Biographies Building Robust Personas in 30 Days or Less Presenter: Jared Spool Summary: When design teams take advantage...
Speaker: Sarah Bloomer This one day workshop explores user experience strategy and vision. A user experience vision can target an online experience alone, or it can extend to the whole organization, enabling a company to create a single, consistent...
The Usability and Interaction groups of Boston in association with our sponsors invite you to join us for a holiday party! BostonCHI, UXPA Boston, IxDA Boston, Boston-IA, NEC HFES, UPA NH, NEASIS&T , STC Boston, Web Innovators Group, UX Boston along with our sponsors: Mad*Pow, User Interface Engineering and Microsoft Startup Labs Invite you to...
The 7th Annual Usability & User Experience conference took place at Bentley College on Wednesday, May 28, 2008. Presentation Abstracts and Biographies Web Apps: The Collision of Design and Business Presenter: Jared Spool Summary: Who has the best practices...
The 6th Annual Usability & User Experience conference took place at Bentley College on Wednesday, May 23, 2007. Presentation Abstracts and Biographies The Brave New World: Usability Challenges of Web 2.0 Presenter: Jared Spool Summary: Once again, everything is...