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Will Evans
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UX Intensive: Adaptive Path: Discount Available! at L'Enfant Plaza Hotel Washington DC
November 2, 2009 at 8am to November 5, 2009 at 7pm
This four-day workshop series is for experienced professionals wanting to take their practice to the next level. We examine the key elements that contribute to a successful interactive experience: Design Strategy, Design Research, Interaction Desi...
UX Intensive: Adaptive Path at L'Enfant Plaza Hotel Washington DC
November 2, 2009 at 8am to November 5, 2009 at 7pm
This four-day workshop series is for experienced professionals wanting to take their practice to the next level. We examine the key elements that contribute to a successful interactive experience: Design Strategy, Design Research, Interaction Desi...
September 12, 2009 from 8:30am to 5pm
S3xD
Social Software Strategy & Interaction Design
Website: http://s3xd.com/2009/Home
Overview
The Social Software Strategy & Interaction Design Conference is a day long event bringing together today's leading experts in the emerging field of s...
Okay - glad you guys didn't like it - I will send out a blast.
Not really sure how to send a message to all those that rsvp'd. Can someone send out a message in case folks aren't checking this page and let them know it's canceled?
sounds good. let's cancel. i certainly wasn't a fan of the book either. :)
although it did educate me more as a consumer and i'm even now more conscious about the products I buy... but how this applied to me in my professional life? Not really su...
Comment Wall (18 comments)
- At 8:17pm on June 17, 2009,
Michael Trythall said… - Thanks Will. Looking forward to talking with you more.
- At 7:04pm on June 17, 2009,
Cari Wolfson said… - Hi Will, I lived in DC for many years (or Annapolis, actually) and I still do a majority of my consulting in the Washington, D.C. area. So, it's always nice to re-connect with some local IAs in the area.
- At 8:41am on June 9, 2009,
Kent L. Norman said… - Would love to do it. My whole pitch is that we while we talk about the human as really important in HCI, in practice we spend more time designing the interface than understanding the human. Cyberpsychology is basically an intro psyc book for computer scientists who only took computer programming and no psyc.
- At 10:49am on May 18, 2009,
Tony Byrne said… - Thanks, Will. Looking forward to the June 10th event.
- At 12:55pm on May 8, 2009,
Emily Brewer said… - thanks! looking forward to your event tomorrow. Russ Unger and Dan Willis say great things about you.
- At 10:18am on April 23, 2009,
Violet said… - Yes! I'm taking Thom's class...Thanks...
- At 12:11pm on April 17, 2009,
Dan Willis said…
- I don't know if I ever mentioned this, but my middle name happens to be YOYOYOYO. Go figure.
- At 5:34pm on April 15, 2009,
Jami Haskell said… - It's true! We did dine in Memphis. Hope to see you tomorrow night at Science Club, too!
- At 12:35pm on April 7, 2009,
Michael Leis said… - And please, wash that perfume off. It smells of coriander, gin, and desperation. May also be related to rash getting weepy
- At 12:29pm on April 7, 2009,
Michael Leis said…
- Hoping your rash is cleared up by the time RedUX rolls around.
Profile Information
- Where do you currently work?
- Semantic Foundry
- What is your title?
- Director, Experience Design
- What do you want most out of the IxDA DC local chapter?
- Networking, throwing parties, "ideating," workshops, IxD Slams, lectures, special events, lunches, Redux's, lectures, presentations, book clubs and just about anything else I intend to do with this group.
- Tell us about yourself
- Will Evans is Director, User Experience Practice Lead for Twin Technologies with 14 years industry experience in presentation layer and user experience design. His experiences includes directing UX for AIR Worldwide, UX Architect for social media site gather.com, and UX Architect responsible for the interaction design of Kayak.com. He worked at Lotus/IBM where he was the senior information architect, and for Curl - a DARPA-funded MIT project when he was at the MIT Laboratory for Computer Science. Prior to Curl, Will was an interaction designer for Dataware designing various search and Knowledge Management related product suites including KM Suite II, Northern Light, QueryServer and BRS.
Will holds masters degrees in business administration, human-computer interaction and cognitive psychology. His interests and studies have focused on design, information architecture, human factors and information visualization. He earned his undergraduate degree in mathematics and philosophy.
Will's current activities include:
• Director, User Experience Practice at Twin Technologies
• Director, Information Architecture Institute (http://iainstitute.org/)
• Design Chair, IxDA's Interaction 10 Conference (http://interaction.ixda.org/)
• Founder, IxDA DC Local Group (ixdadc.ning.com)
• Contributing Editor, Johnny Holland (www.johnnyholland.org)
• Member: ACM SIGCHI, UPA, IAI, IxDA
Less Formal Summary:
Will Evans weighs more than 80.3 kg in the morning. He's American with thick dark brown wind swept hair (except when its held in place by various salon products). He nearly became an investment banker when he left school (Occidental College). For three reasons, he didn't.
* He found excitement in computers, art, and ideas;
* Investment Banking is just a fancy name for accounting;
* He hates accounting.
His favorite wine would be a bottle of Penfolds Grange Hermitage. Ideally a 1976, but let's not get too picky. The Grange Hermitage is red of course. His favorite other colour is black. He doesn't know why.
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OK, OK. For a creative that's a bit of a cliché. To say he is passionate about ideas is to say that Warren Buffett has a mild, fleeting interest in money. His first love may be for creative ideas but this preoccupation extends to ideas from and for every area of human and non-human activity that involves complex information systems. In other words, all-inclusive. Ideas are what make life worth living for him.
- Twitter Screen Name?
- semanticwill
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Design Advice from Stephen Colbert
@Armano tweeted this today, from kip/bot/blog
From a NY Times article about Jon Stewart’s status as one of the most trusted journalists in America, a nice quote from Stephen Colbert about the craft of satire. It can apply to so many things where you are looking at the difference between amusing and brilliant, mockery and satire, good and great:
“We often discuss satire — the sort of thing he does and to a certain extent I do — as distillery,” Mr. Col… Continue
From a NY Times article about Jon Stewart’s status as one of the most trusted journalists in America, a nice quote from Stephen Colbert about the craft of satire. It can apply to so many things where you are looking at the difference between amusing and brilliant, mockery and satire, good and great:
“We often discuss satire — the sort of thing he does and to a certain extent I do — as distillery,” Mr. Col… Continue
Posted on August 17, 2008 at 9:25pm —
The bad usability calendar
"It´s here; a new edition of the (in)famous Bad Usability Calendar. The past three calendars have all been successful in distributing examples of bad design around the world. Check out fresh examples of exaggerated use of fancy Web 2.0 design, cover flow, personalization, pull-down menus and more..."
I love the Web 2.0 design.
I love the Web 2.0 design.
Posted on August 17, 2008 at 9:46am — 1 Comment
Coffee Patterns.
[Note: I wrote this about writing, and influences, but it could just as easily be read in the context of our craft, which is interaction design. Replace books with designs, and authors with designers, and the sentiment and argument remain the same. I hope someone finds it interesting.]
Coffee Patterns.
I rub my finger along the half dissolved sugar clinging to the lip of my coffee cup. I look you in the eye; I give you the "I'm completely earnest" look that you never believe. I… Continue
Coffee Patterns.
I rub my finger along the half dissolved sugar clinging to the lip of my coffee cup. I look you in the eye; I give you the "I'm completely earnest" look that you never believe. I… Continue
Posted on August 13, 2008 at 4:42am —
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