Date: Wednesday, 19 September 2007, 6:30 PM
Location: Hewlett Packard (see directions),
Pruneridge and Wolfe, Cupertino, Bldg. 48, Oak Room.
Cost: Free and open to all who wish to attend, but membership is
only $10/year.
Topic
Michael Arent, Jonathan Arnowitz and Nevin Berger will give a talk and demonstration on how to manage for effective prototyping. How can you tell whether a prototype is a success or failure? How do you avoid prototypes that make too many decisions too early in the process? What are the right prototyping tools? Answers to these questions and more follow in an overview of strategic and tactical issues in prototyping during software creation. The talk will end with a demonstration of some prototyping tools that will surprise you with their speed and effectiveness.
About the Speakers
Jonathan Arnowitz is a principal user experience designer at SAP Labs and is the co-editor-in-chief of Interactions Magazine. Most recently Jonathan was a senior user experience designer at Peoplesoft. He is a member of the SIGCHI executive committee, and was a founder of DUX, the first ever joint conference of ACM SIGCHI, ACM SIGGRAPH, AIGA Experience Design Group, and STC.
Michael Arent is the manager of user experience design at SAP Labs, and has previously held positions at Peoplesoft, Inc, Adobe Systems, Inc, Sun Microsystems, and Apple Computer, Inc. He holds several U.S. patents.
Nevin Berger is design director at Ziff Davis Media. Previously he was a senior interaction designer at Oracle Corporation and Peoplesoft, Inc., and has held creative director positions at ZDNet, World Savings, and OFOTO, Inc.