Uzanto Consulting » News http://www.uzanto.com Uzanto Consulting Website Thu, 05 Oct 2006 09:22:49 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.5 en Ethnio + MindCanvas go to Philadelphia CHI http://www.uzanto.com/2006/08/15/ethnio-mindcanvas-go-to-philadelphia-chi/ http://www.uzanto.com/2006/08/15/ethnio-mindcanvas-go-to-philadelphia-chi/#comments Mon, 14 Aug 2006 22:13:12 +0000 Administrator http://www.uzanto.com/?p=79 The second presentation Rashmi from Uzanto and Nate from Ethnio will make this week is at Phi Chi (it sounds like a Greek organization, but its really the Philadelphia CHI chapter!).

Below are the event details. You can learn more here on the PhiChi site.

What: PHICHI August Meeting - Remote UX Tools

When: Friday, August 18th; 6-6:30 Networking & Refreshments; 6:30-8ish Meeting

Where: UPenn Campus, Levine Hall 101 (Wu & Chen Auditorium)

Summary: Come to this exciting meeting to learn about two of the newest remote tools available to user experience professionals, Ethnio and MindCanvas!

Nate Bolt, Co-Founder and CEO of Bolt|Peters, will be presenting his companys remote usability tool, Ethnio. With Ethnio you can recruit users live from your website, securely observe a users desktop as they interact with any website or application, and automatically record video and audio of your session.

Rashmi Sinha, Founding Principal of Uzanto, will be presenting her companys remote user research tool, MindCanvas. With Mindcanvas you can remotely gather insights about your customers thoughts & feelings without requiring your users to complete boring HTML forms. MindCanvas uses Game-like Elicitation Methods (GEMs) to let online users participate in answering complex questions that you face in designing a product or service. MindCanvas is particularly useful for Information Architecture or Product Research.

Come and join other local UXers to network and try out these two great tools!

]]> http://www.uzanto.com/2006/08/15/ethnio-mindcanvas-go-to-philadelphia-chi/feed/ Playing games and cursing: MindCanvas and Ethnio at User Experience week http://www.uzanto.com/2006/08/15/playing-games-and-cursing-mindcanvas-and-ethnio-at-user-experience-week/ http://www.uzanto.com/2006/08/15/playing-games-and-cursing-mindcanvas-and-ethnio-at-user-experience-week/#comments Mon, 14 Aug 2006 22:07:37 +0000 Administrator http://www.uzanto.com/2006/08/15/playing-games-and-cursing-mindcanvas-and-ethnio-at-user-experience-week/ Nate (from Ethnio) and Rashmi (from Uzanto) will be presenting at Adaptive Path’s User Experience week on the 16th. Below is the description of the session.

Playing Games and Cursing: The Truth About Remote User Research

In which Rashmi and Nate will share how their life has been changed by remote methods, and do a joint demo of MindCanvas and Ethnio, their respective products. MindCanvas is a gamelike platform for user research, while Ethnio is the first moderated remote usability application. Both are completely web-based. Both can be used independently, or you could use Ethnio to watch and record people play MindCanvas games and never leave your desk. Ever.

]]> http://www.uzanto.com/2006/08/15/playing-games-and-cursing-mindcanvas-and-ethnio-at-user-experience-week/feed/ “Designing for Social Sharing” at the Webvisions conference http://www.uzanto.com/2006/07/19/designing-for-social-sharing-at-the-webvisions-conference/ http://www.uzanto.com/2006/07/19/designing-for-social-sharing-at-the-webvisions-conference/#comments Tue, 18 Jul 2006 20:41:55 +0000 Administrator http://www.uzanto.com/2006/07/19/designing-for-social-sharing-at-the-webvisions-conference/ Rashmi is giving a talk on Designing for Social Sharing at the upcoming Webvisions conference in Portland, Oregon.

]]> http://www.uzanto.com/2006/07/19/designing-for-social-sharing-at-the-webvisions-conference/feed/ At the Information Architecture Summit http://www.uzanto.com/2006/02/02/at-the-information-architecture-summit/ http://www.uzanto.com/2006/02/02/at-the-information-architecture-summit/#comments Wed, 01 Feb 2006 21:01:40 +0000 Administrator http://www.uzanto.com/?p=70 Rashmi is participating in a panel on tagging and giving a talk on “Sorting in an age of tagging” at the Information Archtiecture Summit at Vancouver, March 24th-27th.

]]> http://www.uzanto.com/2006/02/02/at-the-information-architecture-summit/feed/ Rashmi giving a talk on “Tagging” at World Wide Web conference 06 http://www.uzanto.com/2005/12/13/news-item-2/ http://www.uzanto.com/2005/12/13/news-item-2/#comments Tue, 13 Dec 2005 07:03:46 +0000 Administrator http://www.uzanto.com/dev/?p=6 Rashmi will be speaking at the world wide web conference in Edinburgh. The workshop she’ll be speaking at is on Collaborative Web Tagging, a topic she has written about extensively.

The raw sugar blog and the www6 site have more details. From the www6 site:

Collaborative tagging seems to address a real need on the Web as demonstrated by the growing popularity of tagging and annotation sites (see del.icio.us, flickr, technorati, RawSugar, Shadows, etc.). The most popular sites already have a combined user base of several millions. The philosophy of what is called Web 2.0, the social Web or also the two-way Web is that users can and should be content creators as well as consumers and it suggests that there is a great deal of untapped potential for tagging to improve how web content is organized, navigated and experienced. Yet it is not yet clear how it will evolve and how it will scale, when, if at all, its usage base will go beyond early adopters. The goal of this workshop is to bring researchers and practitioners together in order to explore both the social and technical issues and challenges involved in Web tagging. We plan to address not only the current state of collaborative tagging, and understand its attractiveness to early adopters but also discuss its future.

]]> http://www.uzanto.com/2005/12/13/news-item-2/feed/ Rashmi hosting a BayCHI talk by Jensen Harris (Microsoft) http://www.uzanto.com/2005/12/12/rashmi-will-be-hosting-jensen-harris-from-microsoft-at-the-next-baychi-meeting-the-topic-is-beyond-menus-and-toolbars-in-microsoft-office/ http://www.uzanto.com/2005/12/12/rashmi-will-be-hosting-jensen-harris-from-microsoft-at-the-next-baychi-meeting-the-topic-is-beyond-menus-and-toolbars-in-microsoft-office/#comments Mon, 12 Dec 2005 03:21:36 +0000 Administrator http://www.uzanto.com/dev/?p=62 Meeting announcement here.

Farewell, menus and toolbars. More than 20 years after the introduction of the Macintosh, software has outgrown the basic building blocks of today’s standard user interface. The upcoming version of Microsoft Office does away with the top-level menus and toolbars in favor of a new task-oriented, contextual user interface.

This talk will provide a historical perspective on the evolution of the Office user interface and the battle against the mounting complexity of the product. You’ll get a behind-the-scenes look at the different design iterations, and an in-depth look at the new Office UI constructs, including the Ribbon, galleries, contextual tabs, and the MiniBar. You’ll also learn the ideas behind “results-oriented design,” which Jakob Nielsen wrote, “might well be the way to empower users in the future.”

With 400 million Office users potentially making this transition, would embracing these concepts solve problems in your own products? A question and answer session will follow the talk.

Jensen Harris is a Lead Program Manager on the Microsoft Office User Experience team and is one of the key designers behind the new user interface being introduced in Microsoft Office. Jensen joined Microsoft in 1998 and has contributed to a number of products for Windows and the Macintosh, including leading the redesign of the Outlook 2003 user interface. He has focused on the overall UI model for Microsoft Office since 2003.

Prior to working at Microsoft, Jensen graduated with degrees in music composition from Yale University and Interlochen Arts Academy. He is the author of widely used software, including the cross-platform, caller ID system YAC. He publishes his thoughts daily in An Office User Interface Blog.

]]> http://www.uzanto.com/2005/12/12/rashmi-will-be-hosting-jensen-harris-from-microsoft-at-the-next-baychi-meeting-the-topic-is-beyond-menus-and-toolbars-in-microsoft-office/feed/ Jon to speak at AJAX summit http://www.uzanto.com/2005/05/08/jon-to-speak-at-ajax-summit/ http://www.uzanto.com/2005/05/08/jon-to-speak-at-ajax-summit/#comments Sun, 08 May 2005 03:15:02 +0000 jon http://www.uzanto.com/dev/?p=61 Jon will be speaking tomorrow at the AJAX summit (sponsered by Oreilly and Adaptive Path). The topic of his talk will be “Making Magic Happen: Predicting User Behavior in AJAX applications”.

[update: summary of talk is now available. Also, jon’s writeup of the summit was published in SiliconValleyWatcher]

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