SandCHI Sept 2011: UX for New Tech - a Start-Up Model in a Big Company

Whether you work at a big company or a start up you need to find ways to provide your users with an excellent user experience to thrive.

For September SandCHI Bennett King of Qualcomm's Advanced Technologies Group will share with us methods this group uses to get the data they need to craft excellent user experiences for tech solutions on the bleeding edge.

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Whether you work at a big company or a start up you need to find ways to provide your users with an excellent user experience to thrive.

For September SandCHI Bennett King of Qualcomm's Advanced Technologies Group will share with us methods this group uses to get the data they need to craft excellent user experiences for tech solutions on the bleeding edge.

Every company structures and does UX a bit differently so Benett will share an overview of the UX Advance Technologies team's role at Qualcomm and how Qualcomm applies UX techniques to in a start-up model at a big company before diving into some methodologies they apply.

Some examples of topics, vote for which ones you want him to expand on in the meeting by leaving a comment below:

1) Early Stage UX Research
a) Ethnographic research – blogs, IDIs, and Shadowing
b) Testing Mockups and Wireframes
c) Creative Culture/Brainstorming – examining from all angles
2) Mid Stage Research
a) User Acceptance
b) Ergonomic/Psychophysical Testing
c) Small-scale usability

Join us in the meeting room to the right of the entrance at Websense Inc. Only 2 more meetings left in 2011 until we break for the holidays.

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