Distracting user experiences

Giles Colborne of cxpartners gave a great presentation to the UXPA Scotland this week. He talked about the implications of being distracted, and how designers need to be responsible and concious of context of use.

Edinburgh UX event - 2 October 2012

There's a really interesting sounding session happening next week in Edinburgh - Driven to distraction: a presentation by Giles Colborne from cxpartners. It's the latest event put on by UXPA Scotland (was the Scottish UPA).

Edinburgh UPA July event - Persuasion, Emotion and Trust in Customer Journeys

This month's Scottish Usability Professionals Association event is titled: "The Role of Persuasion, Emotion and Trust in Customer Journeys" and is happening on 26 July 2012 at 6.30.

Accessibility guidelines - SUPA Edinburgh session

The next session run by the Scottish Usability Professionals Association will be on developing web accessibility guidelines and a web accessibility culture.

Scottish UPA HTML5 session

This month's Scottish Usability Professionals Association (SUPA) session is on HTML5 and its impact on accessibility. It's being held in central Edinburgh on Tuesday 25 October.

Intro to prototyping presentation - SUPA

I presented an introduction to prototyping at a meeting of the Scottish Usability Professionals Association in Edinburgh last night. Went pretty well I thought, with some good discussion and experience sharing afterwards as hoped. Here are the slides, with lots of links to resources I've blogged about in the past.

Prototyping session - Edinbugh 22 June

This month's session at the Scottish Usability Professionals Association is "An introduction to prototyping" presented by... me!

UPA accessibility session 24th May

The next Scottish Usability Professionals Association (SUPA) event is 24 May. The session, led by David Sloan from the University of Dundee focuses on the challenge of engaging industry and the public sector in accessible, inclusive design.

Students & smart phones session in Edinburgh

This month's Scottish Usability Professionals Association session is "Student attitudes towards mobile library services for Smartphones" on Tuesday 15 March in Edinburgh.

Usability & analytics session in Edinburgh - 19 October

This month's session at the Scottish Usability Professionals Association is titled: "Web Analytics + Usability = A Sum Greater Than Its Parts". Open to everyone, it's £10 for non-members.

Agile development & usability session in Edinburgh

This month's Scottish Usability Professionals Association session is on integrating user experience design into the agile development methodology.

Search usability presentation at Scottish UPA

This month's session on Wednesday 19 May is a virtual presentation - "Leveraging Search & Discovery Patterns For Great Online Experiences" by Peter Morville and Mark Burrell.

I've seen a few virtual seminars from UIE.com and they've been pretty good. And Peter Morville is a well-respected search specialist, best known for co-authoring an industry-standard book - Information Architecture for the World Wide Web (also known as the polar bear book).

It's at the Scottish Enterprise building in Edinbugh. Free for UPA members, £10 for non members.

Scottish Usability Professionals Association May 2010 event - Full details and booking form

Persona presentation in Edinburgh

This month's Scottish Usability Professional's Association session on Tuesday 30 March is titled "Designing for personas" and will be presented by Andy Bright, a Glasgow-based experience architect.

Designing for personas - full details and booking form for Scottish UPA session

Mobile usability session at Scottish UPA

This month's session looks at the pitfalls of the mobile web and introduces design guidelines that can be applied to create a usable mobile site.

The event outline promises to show examples of good and bad designs and the differences between the 'desktop' and 'mobile' web.

Sounds good.

Tuesday 1st December, 7pm at Scottish Enterprise on Haymarket Terrace.

Mobile Usability & iPhone App session at the Scottish Usability Professionals Association

Usability of ballot papers: Caroline Jarrett at SUPA in Edinburgh - 20 October

This month's talk isn't web-related, but it is co-presented by Caroline Jarrett who is an expert in web form usability. She co-wrote an excellent book - Forms that work.

This month's session is about election ballot usability - a case study of usability work conducted following complaints about the 2007 Scottish Parliament elections.

Scottish UPA events

Forms that Work - free online resources and book promotion

Follow up - free report download
The talk was excellent, with many similarities to experiences of online usability testing. The scary thing is that bad usability is affecting our democratic right to vote. The number of ways participants were able to invalidate their vote was amazing.

The report is free to download from the Electoral Commission.

Usability of ballot papers - report by Effortmark and Uservision for the Electoral Commission

Market research seminar in Edinburgh - 15 September

This month's session at the Scottish Usability Professionals Association sounds interesting, although it's not really usability this time.

A market research focus this month:

Online Qualitative Research – New ways to find out what consumers really think

It's being held at the Microsoft offices on George Street. Cost: £10/£5/free .

Edinburgh usability community

Businesses operating in Edinburgh:

• Uservision
• Bunnyfoot
• Usability Lab

Monthly meetings of the Scottish Usability Professionals Association (SUPA) are often worth a look. Usability businesses and a range of people with an active interest in usability get together for presentations, seminars and ale:

Scottish Usability Professionals Association