Event Type: Training/Workshop
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 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.
July 19, 2007
Information Architecture Workshop - Theory & Practice
This full day workshop [by Donna Maurer] will provide you with a thorough overview and understanding of information architecture theory & practice. It will cover a wide range of information architecture issues, including an understanding of how it fits into a project, fundamental skills & knowledge required for information architecture work and current information architecture issues. It will be theoretical and practical and allow you to immediately apply ideas to your projects.
May 8, 2007
GOVIS 2007 - Pre-Conference Workshop: Power to the People
Workshop presenters: Zef Fugaz and Bob Medcalf - Provoke and Elyssa Timmer - Boulder Services
Full day workshop: Tuesday 8 May 2007, 9:00 am - 5:00 pm, includes morning tea, lunch and afternoon tea.
Our one-day intensive workshop teaches you how to incorporate user goals and agency needs into the web design process. You'll develop a detailed understanding of users through user research, usage scenarios and conceptual models. You'll help create a user-centric government website that meets both agency and user needs. You'll learn how to conduct simple in-house usability tests. You'll learn about the impact on your design decisions in context of government web standards, the search experience and 'web 2.0' concepts. Be prepared to be engaged while gaining practical, actionable knowledge! This workshop is for website managers, business analysts, interaction designers, information
architects and anyone interested in the user experience.
Power to the People! workshop fees:
GOVIS member early bird $395.00
GOVIS member standard $495.00
Non-member early bird $495.00
Non-member standard $595.00
Full Conference Details: http://www.govis.org.nz/conference2007/
Register online: https://www.secureregistrations.com/GOVIS07/
December 6, 2006
Webstock Mini
The Webstock team presents a day of edification and an evening of entertainment for your web-related pleasure and education.
Mark Wednesday 6 December in your diaries for Russ Weakley presenting an all-day CSS workshop and Natasha Hall, Russell Brown and Nat Torkington speaking on a range of wonderous topics. Registrations are now open.
October 26, 2006
IVR Usability Workshops
Learn how to compose successful touch-tone and speech IVR applications in these workshops brought to you by Optimal Usability. Participants can expect to not only learn the fundamentals of IVR analysis and design but also the usability skills needed to create world-class customer experiences.
More information and registration at the Optimal Usability website.
The Auckland 2-day workshop is on Thursday the 26th and Friday the 27th of October.
The Wellington 1-day workshop is on Wednesday the 1st of November.
August 31, 2006
Information Architecture Workshop
Optimal Usability has invited Donna Maurer over from Australia to present a full-day workshop on Information Architecture.
"This full day workshop will provide you with a thorough overview and understanding of information architecture theory & practice. It will cover a wide range of information architecture issues, including an understanding of how it fits into a project, fundamental skills & knowledge required for information architecture work and current information architecture issues. It will be theoretical and practical and allow you to immediately apply ideas to your projects.
This workshop will cover:
* What information architecture is and how it relates to other user experience disciplines
* Core IA techniques - analysing content, conducting user research, card sorting and more
* Core IA theories - classification, categorisation, metadata & labelling
* IA structures - hierarchies, database and other structures
* Designing navigation & page layouts
* Putting it together in an IA project
* Current issues in IA
The workshop will be at the level of an ‘advanced intro’, covering the basics and also allowing exploration of key challenges and issues. The format will be a combination of short lectures, group discussion and hands-on activities. Resources will also be provided for further personal exploration."
Visit site: Information Architecture - Theory and Practice : Optimal Usability
February 28, 2006
Enterprise IA Seminar (Sydney)
About the event:
Developing a unified web site or intranet for a large, decentralised organisation is the Holy Grail for many of today's Internet professionals. This daylong seminar is for managers and web professionals who desperately want to tie together content in a rational, user-centered way, regardless of content ownership issues, cultural hurdles, and turf battles.
Key benefits to attend:
This advanced information architecture seminar combines lecture, demonstration, practical exercises, discussion, and handouts to address a topic that bewilders every large organisation: Designing unified information architectures for large enterprises. By attending this unique seminar, you will learn how to:
* Develop main pages and other upper-level "portal" components that convey a single cohesive organisation, not a collection of warring business units
* Use metadata and contextual navigation to help users move from one content rich page to another, regardless of which business unit manages that content.
* Design search interfaces for improved access to content stored in organisational "silos"
* Manage implementation, governance, strategy, and maintenance of an enterprise-wide information architecture
About Lou Rosenfeld:
Louis Rosenfeld is an independent information architecture consultant who has helped numerous Fortune 500s and a host of large, messy, political enterprises address their information architecture headaches. He is co-author of Information Architecture for the World Wide Web, regarded as the Bible of information architecture.
Website and registration: Enterprise IA Seminar - Key Forums
May 27, 2005
TCANZ - Introduction to Usability for Technical Communicators
This workshop will cover the following topics:
- Overview of Usability and its cousins Usefulness and Desirability
- Defining the System
- Situating the human within the product's use
- Goal-driven design
- Me-Centered design and the personification of products
- Overview of the Customer Relationship Lifecycle
- How to assess a product's understandability, learnability, and operability
- Conducting Out-of-the-Box (OOBE, pron. 'oobie')
- Evaluations
- Usability Heuristics for software and documentation
Website: TCANZ May Workshop