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March 23rd: Monthly Meeting – Design Challenges in Multimodal Interactions

March 7, 2010

What? Designing a multimodal application is not just adding speech to a website or adding a GUI to an automated phone system. When creating a multimodal interaction, several multimodal-specific aspects of design need to be considered. These include user modality preference, conflicting mental models, variable usage environments, and technology limitations.  Julie Underdahl and Catherine Zhu will [...]

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DFW UPA and Scrum Wrap Up

February 24, 2010

Last night’s meeting went off without a hitch!  Well, except for the fact that we packed room B-157 at Sabre Holdings to levels that reminded us of a standing room only rock concert.  Martin Fowler was an exceptional speaker who covered a range of topics including user centered design, economics of modularized software development, and [...]

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March 6th: Flash Boot Camp

February 22, 2010

**UPDATE** Registration has reached its limit.  Thank you for your interest.  Please check our calendar for future events. As you already know, Flash is an extremely powerful graphics tool.  You can create dynamic, interactive animated content for everything from basic animations to entire web sites.  Flash provides developers and designers with greater control over the [...]

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February 23rd: Monthly Meeting – DFW UPA Joins with DFW Scrum

February 4, 2010

**UPDATE** Registration has reached its limit. Thank you for your interest.  Please check our calendar for future events. What? An Evening with Martin Fowler DFW UPA and DFW Scrum team up to bring you Martin Fowler from ThoughtWorks. Martin is an accomplished writer on using agile software development methodology in enterprise software development. Level 10 [...]

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January Social and Elections Wrap Up

February 3, 2010

The January event was a hit!  Everyone packed into the cozy upstairs meeting room at The Londoner for a glass of merriment and much socializing.  Ryan Plesko presented information on upcoming events for DFW UPA, Big (D)esign Conference 2010, and officer elections. Chair positions have been filled by the following people: President:  Brian Sullivan Vice [...]

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January 26th: January Social and Officer Elections

January 12, 2010

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

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December 2008: Usability Boot Camp Presentation

January 12, 2010

In December 2008, Brian Sullivan hosted a Usability Boot Camp at Sabre with Ketih Anderson.  They had a wonderful turnout with all of the money donated to a local boy’s basketball team, which had just formed.  The basketball was on hand to serve pizza after their first ball game in their new uniforms (paid for [...]

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Dec 5th: Usability Boot Camp Workshop

November 18, 2009

You probably already know that the single best thing you can do for your projects is to perform usability testing.  This full-day workshop gives you the nuts and bolts about how to be successful in your usability testing endeavors.  You will learn how to organize usability work into your projects in the Usability Boot Camp, [...]

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DFW-UPA Celebrates World Usability Day!!!

November 13, 2009

On November 13th, DFW-UPA participated in World Usability Day at events at Sabre, iMC2, and online via webcasts.  Brian Sullivan, DFW-UPA President, gave an online Sustainable Transportation presentation from the World Usability Day website. At Sabre, 23 interactive booths were setup on various topics including: Top 20 Green Hotels Design of Everyday Things Understanding What a User [...]

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Nov 12th: World Usability Day at Sabre

November 9, 2009

For the fifth year, DFW-UPA will celebrate World Usability Day at Sabre.  This day will include: 9-10 AM: Keynote Speech from Nathan Shedroff (author of Making Meaning) 10AM-2PM: World Usability Day Trade Show (Room A1-157) with 22 interactive booths 10AM-2PM: Campu Tours by the eco-Team and Usability Lab Open House Prizes and giveaways will be [...]

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