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Alan at Agile 2008

Alan Cooper will deliver the closing keynote at the Agile 2008 conference in Toronto, August 4-8. See www.agile2008.org for details.

Kim Goodwin to teach encore seminar at UI13

Kim Goodwin teaches an encore of her popular full-day seminar on The Essentials of Interaction Design at User Interface 13 in Boston October 13, along with a short talk on visual design with personas and goals on October 14.

2008

June

On June 12th, David Fore delivered a strategy keynote about the evolution of user-centered design methods to ecology-centered design as way to consider the global impact of product design. More information is available at the Business to Buttons Web site.

David Fore lead a new one-day seminar, "Defining Design Requirements with Personas and Scenarios," in Malmo, Sweden.

May

Steve Calde of Cooper and Liz Bacon of Devise, former colleagues at Cooper, discussed using personas as a tool to develop product features and behaviors. They explored pitfalls, misconceptions, and misuse, as well as helpful persona creation and application techniques to inform interaction design solutions. More information at chifoo.org.

Lane Halley discussed Personas and Goal-Directed Design with National Restaurant Association conference attendees in Chicago.

Dave Cronin's article "Into the Groove: Lessons from the Desktop Music Revolution" was published in the May/June issue of Interactions. In it, Dave discusses what musical interaces can teach us about designing for fluency. You can find the article online at the interactions Web site.

March

Kim Goodwin teaches an encore of her popular full-day seminar on The Essentials of Interaction Design at the Web App Summit in San Diego, CA.

February

Alan Cooper delivered the opening keynote and Dave Cronin gave a talk at the Interaction08 conference in Savannah, Georgia. Both presentations can be viewed online: Alan on "The Insurgency of Quality" and Dave on "Designing for Flow".

Cooper is a proud platinum sponsor of Interaction08, the inaugural conference of the IxDA.

January

David Fore on interaction design as the perfect occupation in Fast Company.

Smashing Magazine names About Face 3 as #1 in their list of ten "excellent books about usability and interaction design."

Cooper interaction designers Dana Smith, Doug LeMoine, and Nick Myers speak at the first annual VizThink conference on January 29, 2008 in San Francisco.

2007

November

Chris Noessel spoke at DUX 2007 on November 7th as part of the final session "Ten Minutes from Now" with Steven Johnson and Joy Mountford. He previewed content from a forthcoming book about science fiction and design in a presentation titled "Make it So!: How the Near Future Shapes the Big Picture."

Kim Goodwin taught a full-day seminar on "The Essentials of Interaction Design" at User Interface 12 conference on November 7 in Cambridge, MA.

Principal Consultant Lane Halley delivered a keynote and one-day course at the Customer Experience 2007 conference in Copenhagen, November 14-15.

Cooper-designed Goldmail service gets rave reviews from C|Net.
What's the easiest way to send a narrated slideshow? According to C|Net's Rafe Needleman, it's Goldmail: "I've seen other multimedia presentation products, but never one as drop-dead easy as this...It's a more natural authoring environment than any other I have used." Read the article or visit www.goldmail.com.

October

Dave Cronin speaks at San Francisco IxDA event about the Cooper's approach to integrating industrial design, interaction design and visual design.

Kim Goodwin speaks about "Integrating Design into Your Organization" at the MX (Managing Experience) conference in Philadelphia.

September

Kim Goodwin & Nate Fortin present "Where Usability Meets Desirability: Visual Design with Personas and Goals" at a joint BayCHI/IxDA event.

Alan Cooper is interviewed on UX Pioneers Web site.

August

Doug Lemoine speaks about Pattern-based Design Communication Techniques at User Experience Week 2007. More information about Doug's talk, including slides, can be found on the UX Week Web site.

July

DePuy announces launch of new software for computer-assisted hip surgery based on Cooper designs.

June

AGFA newsletter discusses Cooper designs for IMPAX 6 radiology system.

Kim Goodwin speaks at Business to Buttons conference in Malmo, Sweden.

May

About Face 3 released More information Order on Amazon

April

Kim Goodwin and Nate Fortin led a CHI workshop for usability and design practitioners about Cooper's rigorous approach to visual design decisions.

Cooper is a proud Champion sponsor for the CHI 2007 Conference

2006

October