Perfetti Media Workshops
We've created the Perfetti Media Workshop Series to provide User Experience professionals with essential techniques for creating successful products. For these workshops, we've gathered some of the most renowned experts in the world of design and brought them right to you. We've carefully limited the numbers to only 25 attendees per workshop, so our expert speakers can offer interactive exercises and provide you with hands-on coaching.
The Usability Bootcamp: Getting Your Team Onboard
January 27-28th in Boston, MA
Expert usability professional, Christine Perfetti, created the
two-day Usability Bootcamp to share proven
techniques for understanding your users, gathering user feedback, and
evaluating your designs.
Christine has helped dozens of companies and agencies improve their designs by bringing research into their process. 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
Designing For the Social Web with Joshua Porter
October 25th in Boston, Massachusetts
Social web sites and applications are everywhere: Facebook, YouTube, Craigslist, and Digg are just a few of the web sites taking advantage of the power of the Social Web. Social web sites are the fastest growing properties on the web for good reason: they connect people, motivate, and engage them. As a result, they grow very quickly and successfully.
We hear all the time from clients who want to take advantage of social features to get people engaged and excited about their products and services. Unfortunately, most aren't sure where to begin. That's why we've turned to Joshua Porter, the author of the popular book, Designing for the Social Web, to present his popular one-day workshop on the topic. In this workshop, Josh will go beyond what he covers in his book to share the latest and greatest techniques for engaging your audience.
Josh will outline how to design for the Usage Lifecycle, the four main stages users traverse through with web sites and applications: 1) Interested, 2) First-time User, 3) Customer, and 4) Passionate Customer. When users visit most sites and applications, they encounter hurdles that prevent them from moving to the next stage of the engagement process.
In this workshop, you will learn how to help users jump the hurdles to user engagement. You'll see how to design your site or application to motivate users to sign up for your product and create engaged and passionate fans.
The Essentials of Paper Prototyping: Sketching and Evaluating Your Design Concepts
October 26th in Boston, Massachusetts
In this comprehensive seminar, you will examine the most successful
techniques for incorporating usability practices into your development
process. Perfetti Media's CEO, Christine Perfetti, will show how to
build a working prototype of your web site or software application in a
matter of hours.
The high point of this seminar is our interactive design exercise. Using everything you've learned, you'll build a fully working product in just a few hours. We assign each participant a different role to play as part of a five-person design team. Each team builds a working prototype in two hours. Then, real users test each design. Because it's a competition, you'll find yourself totally immersed, working at top speed.