User Experience Day

User Experience Day
Saturday, March 30, 2013 from 9:00 AM - 5:00 PM at SAY Media.
Whether you are a designer, developer or you have an amazing idea for a startup, you'll benefit by learning how to organize information, conduct product tests, prototype and build an easy-to-use product. Learn it all from Nick Myers (Cooper), Jennifer McCormick (500 Startups), Jonathan Smiley (Co-founder of Zurb), Megan ORorke (General Assembly) and Mary Lukanuski (Blurb.com).
UX Testing for Startups: Startups sign… Show more up to get usability tests and expert UX feedback on your mobile or web product (separate registration fee and 2 spaces left).
Schedule of Presentations
9:00 - 9:10
Introduction, Welcomes and Lots of Coffee.
9:10 - 10:00
Nick Myers, Managing Director of Vis Design and Branding at Cooper
10:10 - 11:00
Megan Ororke, UX Researcher and Teacher at General Assembly
11:10 - 12:00
Jonathan Smiley, Partner and Design Lead at Zurb
12:00 - 12:30
Lunch Break
12:30 - 1:10
Mary Lukanuski, Director of User Experience at Blurb.com
1:20 - 2:00
Jennifer Mccormick, UX Mentor at 500 Startups
UX Testing for Startups (Wow! Cool!) *Separate registration fee per startup, startup pass only is for one person and includes an all day admission pass.
2:00 - 3:00
Expert review of mobile or web products. Mentors work with startups to provide professional feedback on improving usability for the mobile or web product.
3:00 - 5:00
Usability testers will evaluate startup products and test it on 2 users and get feedback from professional UX/UI Designers. UX Testers sponsored by Gigwalk (Thank you!)
Learn About the Speakers
Jonathan Smiley, Partner and Design Lead at Zurb Jonathan Smiley is a partner and design lead at Zurb, an interactive design agency in the Silicon Valley. He is r esponsible for many aspects of client projects including strategy, prototyping, design and implementation.
Jonathan's developed Foundation, an open-source front-end framework. He spends his days working on application design and marketing web sites, focusing on all sides of design. A geek for life, when he's not working on the Web he's probably on his Xbox or hanging out with his wife and daughter.
Nick Myers, Managing Director of Visual Design & Branding at Cooper Nick Myers is managing director of visual design & branding at Cooper where he directs teams to design experiences across a variety of digital products and services. He helps companies craft interfaces and brands that are both unique and engaging, yet authentic and useful. He has lead the design of many digital visual systems and worked on the design of personalized health predication, mobile EMRs, tablet news reading, portfolio and wealth management, in-home patient care, 3D home redecoration, photo sharing, mobile outsourcing of tasks, virtualization, medical informatics, geological exploration, street parking and the smarter city, and even check fraud. He is an instructor for Cooper U and Rock Health and writes for the Cooper Journal. You can follow him on Twitter @nickmyer5 .
Jennifer McCormick, Mentor at 500 Startups, Founder and Principal Researcher of User Lens, Inc.
Jennifer McCormick is the Founder of User Lens, Inc., a San Francisco- based consultancy specializing in user experience research and consumer insights. She has over a decade of experience pioneering research and user-centered design methods at companies like Microsoft, Logitech, and Amazon, as well as various Silicon Valley startups.
Megan ORorke, Product Researcher, Senior UX Designer Designer in Resident at General Assembly
Megan ORorke leads product research, design and QA at a new mobile app startup in San Francisco and mentors future designers as Designer in Resident at General Assembly.
Megan has a degree in Human Computer Interaction (HCI) and scrappiness. From researching using computer vision to help doctors diagnose patients to product research since 2006 she’s used her knowledge of how people and technology work to help us connect and live better lives. In 2012 she worked for Sony where presidents, VPs and managers at Sony used the qualitative and quantitative research programs she ran to break profit records and increase product market fit for Sony's e-commerce website store.sony.com. Her expertise, research and UI designs fueled global projects that impacted Sony's mobile, video, web and physical products.
She helped organize several UX events in San Diego over the past few years including the UX Speakeasy Conference ( www.uxsconf.com ) and the local ACM CHI chapter. Her long term goals are to work on projects that change the world while living in the Bay Area, New York or abroad.
Mary Lukanuski, Director of User Experience at Blurb.com Mary Lukanuski is a product strategist, researcher and designer with extensive experienced in the design, development and delivery of web and cross device applications.
Skilled in project and product management Mary has managing cross functional and international teams from product concept to launch. She has an astute understanding of creative, social, commercial and technical challenges to address user needs and market demands.
Her skill set includes Cross Device consumer based applications, globalized web and mobile applications, enterprise web and mobile applications, agile UX development and lean UX development.
*Tickets are non-refundable but transferrable to a future event.

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