We are inviting 5 experts to provide insight to their usage of wireframes and answer your questions.

When: 6 pm, Tues., November 3, 2009
Where: Omniture, Inc., 550 East Timpanogos Circle, Orem, UT Map
Full Details: IxDA Utah

Panel:

• Refreshments will be served at 6 pm, the panel will begin at 7 pm.
• Each panelist will be given 5 minutes to speak to their topic.
• Discussion:
  • What tools do you use to develop wireframes?
  • What types of wireframes do you typically utilize?
  • At what point in the process do you utilize wireframes?
  • Why are wireframes important to your process?
• The remainder of the discussion will be open to Q&A.

Confirmed Panelists:

• Archana Thiagarajan, Sr. UX Designer at Omniture
• Ryan Cobourn, Interaction Designer at Backcountry
• Steve Ballard, Director of UX at @Task
• Amitava Ray, User Experience Designer formerly with Next Page

Location Details:
Panel will be held in the Jerry conference room located on the 2nd floor of Omniture.

This conference room can be accessed through the South facing doors that are located farthest west on the main Omniture building.

More info on eye tracking research can be found here: http://www.useit.com/eyetracking/

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Here is the info from NUCHI:

What is NUCHI?
The Northern Utah chapter of the Association of Computing Machinery’s (ACM) Special Interest Group on Computer-Human Interaction (SIGCHI). *Yes, it’s a mouthful!*

Time & Location
7:00pm Thursday, June 26, 2008 at NextPage, 13997 S. Minuteman Drive, Draper. (map)

Topic
See a demonstration of a TOBII eye tracking system used in software usability analysis. Join in a discussion of what this technology can find that other methods can’t.

Also, see a new application of the Microsoft Ribbon technology and how it is being applied to navigate complex clinical software. This software is being developed with Microsoft Expressions Blend and Windows Presentation Foundation (WPF). This process is intended to let designers build the software interface and interaction and pass it directly to developers.

Carl Bechtold is an Intermountain Healthcare Human Factors Engineer on loan to the GE/Intermountain partnership. That partnership is developing an Enterprise Clinical Information System (ECIS) for Intermountain and commercial deployment through GE Healhtcare.

http://ixdautah.collectivex.com/main/summary

“The IxDA is all about bringing interaction designers together. The life a designer is a busy one and we may not all be able to meet face to face as often as we’d like. This group site will help local IxDA members communicate, share ideas, inspire each other and hopefully help facilitate friendships around our passion for great design.”

MP3′s & Presentations
Podcasts

I highly recommend listening to:

• Kathy Sierra of Creating Passionate Users (not quite up yet, but keep your eyes out)
• Cal Henderson of Flickr
• Kevin Marks of Google
• Leah Culver of Pownce
• Emily Boyd of Remember the Milk
• Gary Vaynerchuk of Wine Library

Social networking is definitely the popular topic of the moment. It’s going to be interesting to see where it takes us – especially if we can get all of the social networking sites to work together. Speaking of social networking, who is on Twitter? My Twitter name is kittygutz – feel free to follow me.

After it ends, I’ll post some of the interesting tid bits I walked away with. In the meantime, one of the things I love about these conferences are the slew of new websites I learn about. Here are some that have caught my eye.

My Mile Marker
Bountii – Search Low Prices
Rescue Time
Anywhere.fm
Thinkature
Buxfer – Track Your Money
YouOS
Xobni

nuchi.acm.org