Rosenfeld Media UX Workshops Spring 2012 Tour

Mountain View, California

• Adaptable Information Architecture

  with Louis Rosenfeld · March 5, 2012 · registerdescription

  Lou Rosenfeld, co-author of Information Architecture for the World Wide Web, will teach you practical skills and show you design approaches that will help you tune and tweak your site’s information architecture, improve your users’ experiences with your site, all while costing your employer less than just about any redesign initiative.

• Web Form Design

  with Luke Wroblewski · March 6, 2012 · registerdescription

  In this day-long participatory workshop, Luke Wroblewski, author of Web Form Design: Filling in the Blanks, will walk you through the considerations and best practices of Web form design culled from international usability testing, eye-tracking studies, and over ten years of designing Web applications. Attendees will learn about how different types of forms, input fields, input labels, validation, feedback, calls to action, and surrounding visual elements can support or impair different aspects of user behavior, you'll never look at your Web forms the same way again.

• Do It Yourself Usability Testing

  with Steve Krug · March 7, 2012 · registerdescription

  Usability testing is the single most valuable thing you can do to improve a Web site, a Web application, or a piece of software. In this workshop, Steve Krug, author of Don’t Make Me Think, will teach you how to do your own low-cost/no-cost testing that’s simple enough to make it a routine part of your design process.

Washington, DC

• Using Personas and Storytelling Effectively

  with Whitney Quesenbery · May 7, 2012 · registerdescription

  In this intensive workshop, you’ll learn ways to use personas and stories throughout a UX process. You’ll practice ways to create and share snapshots of users that cut across the complexity of context, attitudes and behavior, and how to use them with your team to design with a better view of users in mind.

• Designing With Agile

  with Anders Ramsay · May 8, 2012 · registerdescription

  Agile represents a huge shift from waterfall and other traditional approaches to software development, and UX practitioners have realized they need to adapt their traditional methods accordingly. Anders Ramsay will show you how to be a successful UX practitioner within an Agile team, and how to improve your own UX methodology (even if you're not in an Agile environment) through Agile practices.

• Doing the Right Thing: Web Governance for your Organization

  with Lisa Welchman · May 9, 2012 · registerdescription

  In this day-long workshop, noted governance expert Lisa Welchman will explain how to create a web governance framework for your organization. She'll offer practical steps for creating a complete set of Web policies and standards. Participants will leave with a detailed understanding of how to begin the process for creating Web governance frameworks for their own organizations.

New York, New York

• Adaptable Information Architecture

  with Louis Rosenfeld · May 23, 2012 · registerdescription

  Lou Rosenfeld, co-author of Information Architecture for the World Wide Web, will teach you practical skills and show you design approaches that will help you tune and tweak your site’s information architecture, improve your users’ experiences with your site, all while costing your employer less than just about any redesign initiative.

• Mobile Prototyping Essentials

  with Rachel Hinman · May 24, 2012 · registerdescription

  This workshop will outline why prototyping is an essential part of the emerging world of tablet and mobile experience design. Rachel Hinman, author of the forthcoming book The Mobile Frontier, will teach you the design principles and the essential skills you'll need to turn your ideas into high-fidelity on-device prototypes with speed and confidence.

• Do It Yourself Usability Testing

  with Steve Krug · May 25, 2012 · registerdescription

  Usability testing is the single most valuable thing you can do to improve a Web site, a Web application, or a piece of software. In this workshop, Steve Krug, author of Don’t Make Me Think, will teach you how to do your own low-cost/no-cost testing that’s simple enough to make it a routine part of your design process.