UPA summer event
Monday 16th August 2004
Open debate: The future of usability... plus drinks and social!
- Where is usability going? Is it making the impact it should?
- What changes will we see over the next few years?
- Will the mainstream status of usability turn our expertise into a cheap commodity?
- What opportunities and challenges will new technologies and techniques present?
- Will the increasingly standard user interfaces lead to stagnation?
We'll have an audience including academics, consultants, client-side people and agency heads who'll be discussing the future of the usability industry in a 'Kilroy' style debate where industry figures and members of the audience put their views.
After the debate, you'll be able to mix with your colleagues over *free* wine, beer and juice.
Come along, learn what issues are important to your colleagues and let them
hear your point of view.
Date: Monday 16th August 2004
Venue: Microsoft, Microsoft House, Great Pulteney Street, London W1
Start time: Arrive 6:30pm for a 6:45pm start.
Finish: Around 8:15pm, with drinks until 9:00
Then moving on to Bar Digress on Beak Street (directions at the end of this
mail).
****** Cost *****
Free to UK UPA members
Non-members: £10, £5 for students (payable at door)
***** RSVP *****
If you are intending to come, please email: Martin/Leslie/Phil at events@ukupa.org.uk to get on the list for the security desk. Please indicate your name, organisation or affiliation and whether you are either: (i) a UPA member, (ii) a non-member or (iii) a student non-member.
Book early as priority will be given to UPA members.
Acknowledgement:
The UK UPA is grateful to Microsoft London and for hosting this meeting and again to the local organiser, Jarnail Chudge, for facilitating it.
***** How to get there *****
The meeting will be held at:
Microsoft London
MSN, Microsoft House
10 Great Pulteney Street
London W1R 3DG
Tel: 0870 60 10 100
Nearest tubes are:
Tottenham Court Road: Central and Northern Lines Piccadilly Circus: Piccadilly and Bakerloo Lines Oxford Circus: Bakerloo, Central and Victoria Lines
A map and directions are available from:
http://www.microsoft.com/uk/about/map-london.mspx
***** How to get to Bar Digress *****
- Turn right, as you come out of Microsoft. You're on Great Pulteney Street.
- Walk to the end of the street where it forms a T-junction with Beak Street.
- Turn left. You'll pass three smaller streets on your left. The fourth is Warwick Street.
- Bar Digress is right there on the corner.
***** Upcoming UPA events *****
Monday 20th September: Website Accessibility
Monday 18th October: Working effectively with designers and technologists
Thursday 18th November: Website design and evaluation
Thursday 16th December: Pervasive computing and Christmas party