Category: ‘Training’

September 7th, 2010

October Workshops: Designing for the Social Web and Paper Prototyping

I'm super excited to announce Perfetti Media will be offering two new workshops this October in Boston, Massachusetts. The feedback for our first workshop, the Usability Bootcamp, was excellent and we're pleased to be bringing these latest topics to you.

On October 25th, my good friend Joshua Porter, will be presenting the one-day workshop, Designing for the Social Web: How to Create Engaged and Passionate Users. Josh is an interface designer and co-founder of Performable, and the author of the wonderful book, Designing for the Social Web. In his workshop, Josh will go beyond what he covers in his book, discussing how to take advantage of social features to get your users engaged and passionate about your products.

On October 26th, I will be presenting the one-day workshop, Paper Prototyping: Sketching and Evaluating Your Design Concepts. In this hands-on workshop, you'll learn how to create a fully working paper mock-up of any proposed design, which you can use to collect early feedback through usability testing. You'll discover what aspects of your design work well, and what users have trouble with. Using paper mock-ups, you can make changes very quickly, even during a usability test!

Until September 10th, you can sign up for the workshops for only $695 per day. I hope you can join us for both days in October!

June 3rd, 2010

Announcing the Usability Bootcamp

We're pleased to announce Perfetti Media's new two-day workshop, the Usability Bootcamp. This August, we'll offer these interactive and hands-on events in Boston and San Francisco.

Christine Perfetti has helped dozens of companies and agencies improve their designs by bringing research into their process. In this workshop, Christine's put together a program designed to improve your user research, usability testing, and evaluation skills. You'll come away from these two days knowing how to:

  • Plan your user research, conduct user interviews, and analyze the data
  • Run your in-person and remote usability tests without any outside help
  • Conduct advanced usability tests, including 5 second tests and first click tests
  • Design a paper mockup and test the design with real users in only one hour
  • Develop personas or user profiles to communicate the users' needs throughout your organization

Plus, for our readers, we're offering a special discount. Sign up using promotion code PERF01 and you can attend the event for only $795 – a savings of $300 off the final registration price.

As a special gift, if you sign up by June 24th, we'll give you two complimentary UX books from our good friends from Rosenfeld Media: "Remote Research" and "Prototyping."  Find out more about this offer.