Event
HUGE, Brooklyn

UX Design: The Science of Collaboration October 29, 2014 in Brooklyn

Burgess COMMENTARY

Peter Burgess

UX Design: The Science of Collaboration Print ticket Export Tell a friend Share Wednesday, October 29, 2014 7:00 PM Huge Brooklyn 45 Main St Fl. 2, Brooklyn, NY (map) Take the elevator to the 2nd Floor. Look for the big glass doors. In celebration of Huge partnering up with NY TECH UX to bring the leading UX minds together in Brooklyn, this season's launch session is all about collaboration in UX. We'll highlight new research behind the science of collaboration and then kick it up a meta notch by bringing in the UX brains behind the best new collaboration tools in the industry. Successful collaboration relies on leveraging the talent and knowledge of a group. We're interested in finding out how the UX teams from the new generation of collaboration breakthroughs -- Honey, Layervault, and Prysm -- are solving and amplifying collaboration through digital. In conversation with NY TECH UX's Charles Mauro, Honey, LayerVault and Prysm's directors will explore the principles of collaboration and bring the conversation back around to how UX designers can infuse their work with their learnings. Drinks & Mingling: 7PM Conversation: 7:30PM Event is free. Sign up here: https://www.nytech.org/events/ux-design-science-collaboration

ABOUT THE SPEAKERS:

Charles L. Mauro is President of MauroNewMedia, a New York-based consulting firm founded in 1975 specializing in usability engineering, user interface design, and usability testing. Clients of MauroNewMedia include: Apple, Nike, Amazon, Citibank, Goldman Sachs, GE, HP, Motorola, Knoll, Herman Miller, Sony, Samsung, MTV, NASA, NYSE, Department of Defense, Leukemia & Lymphoma Society and many other leading corporations, non-profits and startups. Charles has been retained as an expert witness in over 75 major cases representing leading high technology companies covering UX and product design patent litigation. He has received awards and citations from the Human Factors and Ergonomics Society, Association of Computing Machines, AIGA, IDSA and NASA. Charles holds a Masters Degree in human factors engineering from NYU.

Jason Tiernan is founder and Design Director of Honey, a Huge Labs startup designed around improving communication in the workplace. Jason is also a Product Design Lead at Huge with over 10 years of digital experience. He has designed experiences for some of Huge's largest clients including Comcast and American Express. Prior to Huge, Jason worked at Bandujo Advertising where he worked on a variety of clients including Marriott, Condé Nast, and NYC Department of Health. He received his BFA in Photography from the University of Delaware with an emphasis in digital printmaking.

Brandon Fischer has 15 years of experience developing interactive multimedia applications and designing custom e-business software solutions for companies of all sizes and industries. In 2005, Brandon founded Anacore, Inc. with the mission of providing custom, enterprise-class, software solutions to small and medium-size businesses. Today, the world’s largest corporations depend on the software platforms Anacore, a Prysm company, develops to support their collaboration, visualization, and dynamic content needs.

Matthew Achariam runs Designer News, a community of several hundred thousand designers. Launched on Dec 31, 2012 by LayerVault as a place to discuss and share interesting things in our industry. Prior to joining LayerVault he ran his own design consultancy working with clients on product and web design. Matt studied Mandarin and Computer Science at College of The Holy Cross.

Peter Burgess
I have been following the trajectory of technology for more than 50 years, and I have concluded that in the main we now use all of this most amazing technology for unbelievably trivial things while not addressing a HUGE amount of very important stuff. What is wrong with this picture?