August 2009
August 5, 2009
Auckland Pecha Kucha
The next Auckland Pecha Kucha will be held at Galatos, on Wednesday 5th August.
August 6, 2009
Auckland UX Book Club
The next Auckland UX Book Club is tentatively scheduled for Thursday 6th August. We will be discussing Design is the Problem – The Future of Design must be Sustainable by Nathan Shedroff. Sign up on the Auckland UX Book Club wiki so that you can receive confirmation of the date and other updates.
August 18, 2009
Webstock Workshop – Entrepreneurial Design
As part of the Webstock Master Class series of workshops, Bek Hodgson will be presenting a workshop on 'Entrepreneurial Design' in Wellington on Tuesday 18 August.
August 19, 2009
Stalking Your Users: How to Conduct User Research in the Real World
As part of the Webstock Master Class series of workshops, Alex Wright will be presenting a workshop on 'Stalking Your Users: How to Conduct User Research in the Real World' on Wednesday 19 August.
August 27, 2009
Innovation & Control - Thomas Sutton - Frog Design
Managing Director of Frog Design in Milan, Thomas Sutton is currently in New Zealand and we thought it would be a great opportunity to get him to talk about his design career in the EU. Tom graduated from Victoria University in the mid 90's and after a brief stint at Te Papa during the building he emigrated to Italy to try his luck in the EU.
He worked at Design Continuum before moving on to Flextronics establishing their industrial design department in Milan. After Flex bought Frog Tom started the Frog Design office in Milan. He has built this into a team of more than 20 designers over the last four years.
Throughout Tom’s career he has worked on numerous Medical R&D projects and is the chair of Frogs Medical Devices group globally. Tom will be talking about his fascinating whitepaper "Innovation and Control" which navigates the complexities of designing in the high regulated medical domain.
More information at http://www.locusresearch.com/events.html#14Aug09
August 29, 2009
NZ Open Government Data BarCamp
The New Zealand Open Government Data BarCamp is an "unconference" for people who are interested in making government-held data more freely available for others to re-use. An "unconference" is an alternative participant-driven event, that avoids aspects of a conventional conference, such as high fees and sponsored presentations.
Web 2.0 developments have shown the potential of combining data from different sources made freely available on the Internet. The government holds a huge range of non-personal data which could form the basis of innovative services and applications by others on the Internet.
You should come if you are interested in government information policy, explore ways to provide data, making entrepreneurial use of the Internet, or building working applications during a weekend.
And, as has been pointed out, " It would be great to have some UX people there, for the hackfest too (we could do some user research, wireframe things, do usability bits & pieces on apps which are created on the day, dream up apps...)”
To find out more, subscribe, sign up etc: http://groups.google.co.nz/group/nzopengovtbarcamp