RSVP http://tinyurl.com/ixdanyc-april22 (DEADLINE: Midnight, Tuesday, April 21)
Sad you weren't able to attend the Interaction 09 conference in Vancouver this past February? Join IxDA NYC in welcoming visiting keynote speaker KIM GOODWIN for a special New York presentation: "Designing a Unified Experience: Bringing Interaction, Visual, and Industrial Design Together" Interaction design, visual design, and industrial design are distinct disciplines for good reason: Each excels in different ways. Interaction designers must be good at imagining structure and flow, which requires strong analytical skills and a high degree of rigor, especially for complex systems. Visual designers and industrial designers are masters of visual and physical usability but are also masters of emotion: They know how to evoke caution, attract attention, and instill desire for a product at first glance. Users have just one experience of a product, though. All three aspects of the design must work in concert, or the product will fail to satisfy. Integration of the three disciplines is a central theme of Kim’s new book, Designing for the Digital Age. DATE and TIME Wednesday evening, April 22, 2009 6:30 - 7:00 Refreshments and networking 7:00 - 8:00 Presentation 8:00 - 8:30 Open discussion The event is free of charge and open to all interested parties! LOCATION Liquidnet 498 Seventh Avenue - 15th floor (between 36th and 37th Streets) New York, NY 10018 Map: http://tinyurl.com/9ryhe4 Subway: 1/2/3, A/C/E, NJ Transit to Penn Station; N/R/W, B/D/F/V, and PATH to Herald Square ABOUT OUR SPEAKER Kim Goodwin is vice-president, design and general manager at Cooper, where she both leads an integrated practice of interaction, visual, and industrial designers and has led the development of the acclaimed Cooper U design curriculum. Kim knows the design world from multiple angles; she started as an in-house and freelance designer and spent several years as an in-house creative director before joining Cooper eleven years ago. Kim has led projects involving a tremendous range of design problems, including web sites, complex analytical and enterprise applications, phones, medical devices, services, and even organizations. Her clients and employers have included everything from one-man startups to the world’s largest companies, as well as universities and government agencies. This range of experience and a passion for teaching have led to Kim’s popularity as an author and as a speaker at conferences and companies around the world. RSVP http://tinyurl.com/ixdanyc-april22 (DEADLINE: Midnight, Tuesday, April 21) ________________________________________________________________ Welcome to the Interaction Design Association (IxDA)! To post to this list ....... disc...@ixda.org Unsubscribe ................ http://www.ixda.org/unsubscribe List Guidelines ............ http://www.ixda.org/guidelines List Help .................. http://www.ixda.org/help
