IxDA Silicon Valley

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IxDA Silicon Valley has been in existence since 2004, serving the entire San Francisco Bay Area by organizing free events for the interaction design community. Throughout our history, Yahoo!, Google, and Nokia have hosted our events, providing meeting space and refreshments. Thanks to our sponsors!

Note: We require no RSVP or registration for our events.

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pabini
2004

Conceptual Models: Core to Good Design

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May 22, 2013 - 9:00pm - 11:30pm
Sunnyvale, 94089
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United States
IxDA Silicon Valley
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The most important step in designing a user interface for a desktop or Web-based application is to design a coherent, task-focused conceptual model. Unfortunately, this step is often skipped in software development. The result is incoherent, arbitrary, overly complex applications that expose irrelevant concepts to users. This talk explains what conceptual models are, why they are valuable, and how to create them. It is based on the presenters' recent book: Conceptual Models: Core to Good Design (Morgan & Claypool, 2011).

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2004

IxDA Silicon Valley Event at Yahoo! :: Jan 23 2013 :: Steven Hoober on Designing for Ecosystems Instead of Screens and Pages

Too often, we design systems for boxes—whether big, metal boxes that it would take a forklift to move or little plastic boxes that we carry around in our pockets—rather than thinking about how they are connected and how people can share and use them to do work. When it’s all about the computer or device, we design systems, tasks, and content that fit into those little boxes. We create flowcharts that progress in predictable, linear ways within a computing system and present information as little boxes of content, on glowing screens.