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Notes From Past Meetings
When available, monthly meeting notes are posted on this site; however, the presentations themselves are posted on our Intranet to ensure availability to members only. (Go to Documents > Monthly Meeting Notes and Presentations)
2008 Meetings
January 16, 2008
Topic: "Yes, Virginia, there is a perfect Web page"
Speaker: Steve Krug, Advanced Common Sense
Location: Olin College, Needham MA
Resources:
- View Steve's Presentation
- Jim Spencer of JBS Partners summarizes this meeting in his blog article "Steve Krug Shares Usability Best Practices Focusing on Page Titles and 'You Are Here' Indicators"
- Watch a video of the meeting (each segment is approximately 30 minutes). Please right-click the link and select "Save Link/Target As" - Part 1 (94 MB), Part 2 (99 MB), Part 3 (41 MB)
February 21, 2008
Topic: "Short Talks About Design and Usability"
Speaker: Chauncey Wilson and The Autodesk® Revit® Product Design
Team
Location: Autodesk, Waltham MA
Resources:
- View the Meeting Notes
March 19, 2008
Topic: "Mobile Usability & Teens: Going Mobile and Agile"
Speakers: Hilary Coolidge, Molecular
Location: The MathWorks, Natick MA
Resources:
- View Hilary's Presentation
- View the Meeting Notes
April 23, 2008
Topic: "Usability Test Facilitation: Lessons from the Trenches"
Speaker: Carolyn Snyder
Location: Oracle, Burlington MA
- View the Meeting Notes
- View Carolyn's Presentation
- View the "Usability Test Situations" Handout
May 2008
No monthly meeting - Usability and
User Experience 2008 on May 28th!
June 12, 2008
Topic: "Touch me, Tag me, Brand me...MITRE presents:
- Controlling Robots Through Multi-touch Technology
- Social Bookmarking in the Enterprise
- Want a Lime With That? Design in Open Source"
Location: MITRE, Bedford MA
- View the Meeting Notes
- View the Controlling Robots Presentation
- View the Social Bookmarking
- View the Design in Open Source
July 15, 2008
Topic: "Getting the Tool Right
Or Getting the Right Tool? Tool
Choice and Tool Switching in Complex Software"
Speaker: Will Schroeder, The MathWorks
Location: Iron Mountain Digital, Southborough MA
- View the Meeting Notes
- View the Tool Choice and Tool Switching in Complex Software
October 2008
Topic: 10 Minute Talks
Speakers: Chancey Wilson, Staples
Location: Staples, Framingham, MA
- View the Meeting Notes
November 2008
No monthly meeting. Instead, join us at World Usability
Day 2008
December 2008
No monthly meeting - Happy Holidays!
Join us for a pan-UX New Year's party in January!
2007 Meetings
October 16, MIT
Topic: "10 Minute Talks"
Speakers: Pauric OCallaghan, Meng Yang, Michael Dutton, Cay Lodine, Todd Follansbee, Donna Cooper / Rachel Cobleigh
Presentation: Boston UPA 10 Minute Talks (PDF)
September 26, Staples
Topic: "Client Side Story: Making Ajax, RIAs, and Browser-side Intelligence Usable"
Speaker: Jared Spool
Presentation: Client Side Story (PDF)
August 16, Fidelity Investments
Topic: "Lessons Learned From Eye-tracking"
Speaker: Tom Tullis and the User Experience Team at Fidelity
Presentation: N/A
July 12, Oracle Corporation
Topic: "Ethnographic Research Techniques: So, How Do You Do That?"
Speaker: Kazuyo Masuda
Presentation: Available on Intranet
June 20, Iron Mountain Digital
Topic: "Workflow Rehearsals: Using Interactive Walkthroughs to Uncover Process Gaps"
Speakers: Ali Mischke and Chris Thurrott
Presentation: Available on Intranet
March 28, iRobot
Topic: "Interface design challenges at iRobot, including discussions about the Roomba and PackBot Explorer and EOD, military hardened robots"
Speakers: Aaron Powers and Mike Robbins
February 28, The Mathworks
Topic: "Using Quantitative/Qualitative Customer Research to Improve Web Site Effectiveness"
Speaker: Carol Farnsworth of Keynote Systems
Presentation: Available on Intranet
January 20, Vinny Testas
World Usability Day Celebration
2006 Meetings
October 19, MIT
Topic: "User Interface Design for Software Developers - Why Developers Get it Wrong and How to Help Get it Right"
Speaker: Gregory Raiz
Presentation: Available on Intranet
September 21, Staples, Inc.
10-Minute Talks
Presentations: Available on Intranet
August 23, Molecular
Topic: "We are Not Alone"
Speaker: Jared Spool of User Interface Engineering
Presentation: Available on Intranet
July 19, Museum of Science
Speaker: Christine Reich
June 27, Fidelity Investments
Speakers: Laura Richterich, Pedro Branco, Donna Tedesco, Michelle
McNulty, Ellen Mangan, Ann Chadwick-Dias, Marguerite Bergel, and Tom Tullis.
May 18th, MITRE
Topics:"Multi-Modal Interfaces" and "Pen-Based interfaces in the field"
Speakers: Courtney E. Aquilina, Nikhil Kalghatgi, Katie Minardo, and Janet Perron
April 11, Monster
Speakers:The Monster Usability Team: Kristina, Mary Kate, Paul and Cay