When
Wednesday November 24, 2010 at 5:30 PMto
Wednesday November 24, 2010 at 7:00 PM
Where
The Accelerator Centre West Entrance295 Hagey Blvd (West Entrance)
Kitchen Area
Waterloo N2L 6R5
This uxWaterloo special session is being brought to you by IxDA, supported by Communitech
Join us at this exciting where Joey Benedek, RIM's Director of UX Research, will discuss how RIM approaches designing the Blackberry user experience. Joey will discuss the importance of the UX to the Blackberry development process, basic outline of the process and the key disciplines that play a role. Come hear how the UX process was applied to the development of Blackberry6 with specific examples from the recent release.
Joey joined Research in Motion as Director if UX Research in the summer of 2009, just in time to kick off the Blackberry6 development effort. Prior to RIM, Joey spent 9 years at Microsoft spending most of his time in the User Experience organization for Windows finishing his career there as the UX Research manager for Windows 7. Originally from Canada, RIM has provided a homecoming for Joey who completed his graduate work at Carleton's HCI lab.
IxDA representatives:
Robert Barlow-Busch, Primal Fusion Twitter @becubed
Mark Connolly, Twitter @primalmark
Communitech representative:
Thom Ryan, Director of Marketing
These respresentatives also organize a monthly Communitech UX Designers Peer 2 Peer group (limited partnership with the IxDA). If you are interested in receiving communication about monthly sessions, please sign up here.
