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Update: CEDF-IT (http://cedfit.org/) is a 1 story building with blue sign in the corner of the street across from Aegis bldg and Skyrise building 2.
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What: An Overview of Website User Experience (UX) Principles
A talk by San Francisco-based Sunny Yang, Senior Designer at ENGAGEspark.com.
When: Wednesday, October 9, 2013, 6pm to 9pm
Where: CEDF-IT Training Room (http://cedfit.org/)
Asiatown IT Park, corner of Geonson and Villa Streets, across from new Aegis People Support Building, Cebu. Thanks to Lenddo.com (http://lenddo.com/) for sponsoring our venue.
Registration: P100 (snacks) *pay at the door
Who: For those who are interested in creative website design and enhancing the user's experience in using web/mobile apps. Tech or Design background not required. All are invited.
Agenda
600-630: Registration
630-650: Introductions - All
650-750: Talk by Sunny Yang, Senior Designer at EngageSPARK.com
-- Basic UX Design Principles for web and/or mobile
-- UX Usability Testing Methods
-- What is UX? what is UI?
-- Latest trends
750-830: Q and A
830-900: Networking
9pm: Event Ends
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Sunny Yang specializes on Web and Mobile interaction design. She is the current Lead Designer of engageSPARK which is responsible for all aspects of UI design process including user research, design strategy, information architecture, design and user testing for mobile and web. Sunny used to work for TripIt (http://www.linkedin.com/search?search=&company=TripIt&sortCriteria=R&keepFacets=true&trk=prof-exp-company-name), Motorola (http://www.linkedin.com/search?search=&company=Motorola&sortCriteria=R&keepFacets=true&trk=prof-exp-company-name), Samsung Design Europe (http://www.linkedin.com/search?search=&company=Samsung+Design+Europe&sortCriteria=R&keepFacets=true&trk=prof-exp-company-name), British Telecom (http://www.linkedin.com/search?search=&company=British+Telecom&sortCriteria=R&keepFacets=true&trk=prof-exp-company-name), Yahoo (http://www.linkedin.com/search?search=&company=Yahoo&sortCriteria=R&keepFacets=true&trk=prof-exp-company-name), IBM (http://www.linkedin.com/search?search=&company=IBM&sortCriteria=R&keepFacets=true&trk=prof-exp-company-name) and Merrill Lynch (http://www.linkedin.com/search?search=&company=Merrill+Lynch&sortCriteria=R&keepFacets=true&trk=prof-exp-company-name).
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What is UX?
"User experience (abbreviated as UX) is how a person feels when interfacing with a system. The system could be a website, a web application or desktop software and, in modern contexts, is generally denoted by some form of human-computer interaction (HCI).
Those who work on UX (called UX designers) study and evaluate how users feel about a system, looking at such things as ease of use, perception of the value of the system, utility, efficiency in performing tasks and so forth. "
"User Experience or "UX" is any aspect of a person's interaction with a given IT system, including the interface, graphics, industrial design, physical interaction, and the manual. In most cases, User Experience Design (UXD or UED) fully encompasses traditional Human-Computer Interaction (HCI) design, and extends it by addressing all aspects of a product or service as perceived by users.
Source: Wikipedia
What is a UX Designer? "We are the people working feverishly behind the scenes to make sure you don't want to throw your computer across the room. When we do our work right, software seems easy, effortless, even magical.We go by many names -- interaction designers, user experience designers, human-computer interaction specialists -- but our work is the same. We use the principles of computer science to work through a problem, use cognitive and experimental psychology to figure out how real people will respond to that problem, and design an aesthetically pleasing solution to the problem. Some designers also go as far as implementing that design, and sometimes programmers take up that part of the process.
A user experience designer is a jack of all trades, master of few. We are the missing link between programmers and the people who use their software. And though our work can be invisible, it's a magical thing to sit in on a usability study and see people enjoying your product instead of just tolerating it. By designing software with human beings in mind, we empower everyone to be their best selves, and be a little happier in the process."
Source: Cheryl Platz, Senior User Experience Designer, Microsoft http://www.huffingtonpost.com/cheryl-platz/what-is-ux-design_b_2831908.html
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