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Blog Workshop Huge Success

March 5, 2011

Eager workshop participants gave up a Saturday but gained a mountain of site development and blogging knowledge.  DFW-UPA’s Keith Anderson, mobile guru with Sprint instructed the workshop.  Students were able to create their own sites and in no time participants had a site dedicated to an unbeaten Karate Instructor, sites for a Web Design Group [...]

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February Meeting Minutes

February 24, 2011

Treasurer Josh Bright opened the meeting by welcoming members and guests. 2011 DFW-UPA Officers Josh announced the 2011 DFW UPA officers which are: Brian Sullivan – DFW-UPA President Seda Maurer – DFW-UPA Vice-President Lorie Whitaker – DFW-UPA Chair Rebecca Smith – DFW-UPA Secretary Joshua Bright – DFW-UPA Co-Treasurer Lara Becker – DFW-UPA Co-Treasurer Special thanks [...]

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February Monthly Meeting

February 21, 2011

Usability and Software Development: Where is it going? Join the DFW UPA for an exciting presentation about usability and software development. The concept of usability moved has become more and more important in the last ten to 15 years, as more and more companies moved to internet spaces. But, usability is not new, and many [...]

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January 25th Social and Officer Elections

January 5, 2011

Let us ring in the New Year with a DFW UPA social! The January meeting will be a two part recipe hosted at Improving Enterprises. The first portion is a meet and great where everyone can trade holiday stories accompanied with food and drink (appetizers and drinks will be provided courtesy of DFW UPA and [...]

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Dec 16th Holiday Mixer & Book Swap

December 10, 2010

There are holidays that have past and a few more to come.  Let’s get together and celebrate another wonderful year.  To play on the theme of togetherness, we have setup a holiday mixer with Lonestar STC and IxDA Dallas.  We look forward to seeing you at Cape Buffalo next Thursday.  To keep things interesting, will [...]

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Nov 11th World Usability Day

November 2, 2010

Hey folks, World Usability Day (WUD) is right around the corner (next Thursday to be precise). The theme this year is communication. DFW UPA has been designed as a partner event by WUD International. Thankfully, Sabre Holdings was kind enough to host us once again this year. We will have a trade show where there [...]

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Talk to the Hand Wrap Up

October 27, 2010

Participants in DFW-UPA’s October monthly meeting were treated to an update on interactive voice recognition (IVR) by Phillip Hunter, senior user experience designer at Microsoft. A lot of companies are now jumping on the speech and IVR bandwagon, such as Google, Microsoft, Apple, and others. Why speech? Not only is speech adaptable and faster, recent [...]

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Oct 19th – Monthly Meeting (Phillip Hunter and Speech Recognition)

October 13, 2010

Speech recognition is mostly known for use in desktop dictation and interactive voice response applications. While there’s been some exploration into other areas, such growth is still early-stage. Recently, though, multiple companies have begun looking at the mobile phone as an area of promise for apps that can make use of speech recognition. Of course, [...]

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Innovation Wrap Up

September 13, 2010

For our September 21st monthly meeting, DFW-UPA’s members and future members gathered at imc2’s offices in North Dallas to hear Adam Polansky discuss ideas and innovation. Adam is a usability delivery manager for Travelocity. One of the main points he made was that having good ideas are not good enough–an idea must not only be [...]

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Sep 21 – Monthly Meeting (Adam Polansky and Innovation)

September 13, 2010

We’ve all heard the saying “Good ideas can come from anywhere”.  Just about everyone has probably had at least one good idea in their life-time.  When you believe you’re on to something, it’s can be frustrating trying to gain traction in the face of obstacles that can be technical, political, financial or organizational. Adam Polansky [...]

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