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Upcoming design lecture at the Université de Montréal

If the lack of recent IGDA meetings has left you yearning for some learning, a local lecture might be able to help you fill that void...

The École de design industriel is hosting a session called "Sketching user experiences: Getting the design right and the right design". The speaker will be Bill Buxton, a principal researcher at Microsoft and associate professor at the University of Toronto.

When: Tuesday, March 25th at 6pm
Where: Amphithéâtre Hydro-Québec, Pavillon de la Faculté de l'aménagement, Université de Québec, 2940 Côte-Sainte-Catherine Road

From the flyer (after the break):

Designing for the class of objects such as mobile phones or personal digital assistants, whose character, design and experience is as much a matter of software as hardware, poses a real challenge. How does one design the holistic experience? How does this relate to industrial design?

Bill Buxton is a designer and researcher obsessed with human aspects of technology. He is particularly interested in technologies supporting creative activities such as design, film making and music. His research focuses on technologies, techniques and theories of input to computers, mediated human-human collaboration, and ubiquitous computing.

Now principal researcher at Microsoft and associate professor at the University of Toronto, Bill Buxton has been a regular consulting research scientist at Xerxc Parc and chief scientist at Alias/Wavefront and SGI. Through his career he has professed and put into action the belief that designs ignoring the social and cultural experiences that the engender are not worthy of that name.

Posted by RaynaAnderson on March 11, 2008 11:08 AM