Scott Weiss: UPA Event - Thursday 25th October 2007
Slides from Scott's talk can be found here
Scott Weiss on Mobile Widgets and Mobile Search: UX Findings from New York.
Scott Weiss leads Usable Products Company, a usability agency in New York focused on two things: quantitative usability benchmarks and the design of mobile phone user interfaces. The two become delightfully intertwined in most of Usable Products' work, which includes the Vodafone Simply (available in Spain), and the Samsung YP-K5 and K3 players, sold world-wide.
Scott has been called to London this week for business and would like to share his team's latest findings at a special meeting of the UPA about mobile widgets and search, based on insights from quantitative user experience benchmarks for each.
Scott will show video excerpts from the study, as well as demonstrations of each of the six products he studied this Spring and Summer. A brief subset of the presentation will be available via the web following Scott's talk.
Location, Time and registration:
Meeting date: Thursday 25th October 2007
Time: 6.30pm for 6.45pm.
Venue: LBi, 1 Naoroji Street, London WC1X 0JD
To register for the UPA event, please email: Claudia Foster c.m.foster@lboro.ac.uk and myself, Martin Maguire m.c.maguire@lboro.ac.uk. Give your name and affiliation and state whether you are a UPA member or not.
There is no charge for UPA members. For non-members the cost is £10, payable at the door, and £5 student non-members.
Directions to LBi:
From Angel tube station (about 15 minutes on foot). On emerging from Angel station, turn immediately left, and walk to the crossroads. Take a right turn at the crossroads down Pentonville Road. Continue along Pentonville Road, and take the second turn on the left into Claremont Square (be careful, the first and second turns on the left are called Claremont Square - you should take the second one.) Continue straight on as the road becomes Amwell Street, and continue down the hill, past three right turns, until you reach a fourth right turn called Margery Street. (If you come to a t-junction with Rosebery Avenue, you've gone too far.) Turn right, and Naoroji Street is immediately on your right. The building is the large cream one on the left.
From Kings Cross tube and rail stations (about 15 minutes on foot). Follow the signs to the Thameslink station on Pentonville Road. With the Thameslink station behind you, turn right along Pentonville Road, and follow the right hand fork in the road (Kings Cross Road). Keep going along Kings Cross Road, until you reach the Thistle Hotel on your left. Cross the road to the left hand side and keep following Kings Cross road. Soon you will reach Margery Street which has a brown cafe on the corner and a Holiday Inn on the opposite side of Kings Cross road. Continue up Margery Street and Naoroji Street is the second left. The building is the large cream one on the left.
From Farringdon tube and rail stations (about 20 minutes on foot). On leaving the station, turn right along Cowcross Street and then right again onto Farringdon Road. Continue along Farringdon Road, crossing over Clerkenwell Road at the first set of traffic lights (Yo Sushi is on the corner of this set), until you reach a crossroads with Rosebery Avenue. Mount Pleasant Post Office is on this crossroads. Turn right onto Rosebery Avenue, continue past the traffic lights, and take a left turn into Amwell Street. The second left off Amwell Street is Margery Street, and from there Naoroji Street is the first turning on the right. The building is the large cream one on the left.