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Design Expo Raleigh 2006 will be a two week celebration of the incredible designers who call the Triangle home and all the innovative work being created here. The theme for this year's inaugural event is "Hidden Gems: Great Design in Our Own Backyard." We have a powerful and wonderful design community - it's time for the rest of the world to know about it. The purpose of Design Expo Raleigh is to present great design to the public and to give designers, both professionals and students, a forum to display and discuss their work. A unique showcase of applied arts coming together as a whole, Design Expo Raleigh promotes broader awareness of many different design disciplines and creates an opportunity for local designers to network with each other, students, and the public. Among the diverse applied arts to be represented at Design Expo Raleigh '06 are Animation, Architecture, Graphic Design, Industrial Design, Interior Design, Landscape Architecture, and Textile/Fashion Design. When: October 20 - November 4 Where: Heilig-Levine Building 137 S. Wilmington Street Raleigh, NC 27601 The main exhibition will be at the Heilig Levine Building. Other events will take place in other locations around Raleigh and the Triangle. Please see the calendar of events for information about specific events. Who will attend: Events are open to the public. We encourage professionals and all students (university, college, high school, middle school, etc.) and all of those interested in design to participate.

Shimon Shmueli points us to "Using Product Design to Drive Brand Power," ...a talk I am going to give together with our partner from Taiwan. We gave this talk last night at the Austin Technology Council in Austin, and the response was very good. Although the approach will be mostly related to tangible products, I think it may be valuable to some of the UX audience. Hope to see some folks there!

Collection of resources and links, form Anita Crescenzi at UNC Health Sciences Library.

Anita Crescenzi has provided this helpful summary of wireframing/Visio resources [note: Word document].

The Health Sciences Library at UNC is proud to present "Organizing the World's Information: Google's Vision for the 21st Century" - a discussion with Craig Silverstein, Technology Director at Google.

The event is scheduled for Thursday, October 26th from 4-5:30pm in the Medical Biomolecular Research Building on the UNC campus and is open to the public. Register for your free tickets before they're all gone.

A one-day local conference with an interesting program:
CED's Tech 2006 will explore the future of emerging and converging technologies that are reshaping today's hottest industries. Now in its 16th year, Tech 2006 will focus on the latest cutting-edge markets and global opportunities in a variety of technology sectors.

Using a range of session formats - from nationally respected keynotes to smaller, interactive conversations - Tech 2006 will incite conversations about technologies and products that will change the way we live, communicate, and think. Tech 2006 will showcase innovative technologies from entrepreneurial companies, university groups, corporations and research institutions; and unite the creators of exciting, novel technologies with the industry's top business influencers and creators.

Hot on the heels of our tonight's TriUPA wireframe panel, a timely piece from Boxes and Arrows: Real Wireframes Get Real Results.
Fortunately, there are a few simple steps that will make wireframes be understood by anyone. They don't even have to be much more work. It's simply a matter of choosing to "get real" from the start.

CREATIVITY & COGNITION 2007
Seeding Creativity: Tools, Media, and Environments

June 13-15, 2007, Washington DC, USA
http://www.cs.umd.edu/hcil/CC2007/

The Creativity & Cognition Conference series began in 1993 and has evolved into a lively multidisciplinary event combining research and practice. Rigorous research is expanding as theoretic foundations are emerging and goals become more well-defined. Successful practice manifests itself in a growing array of creativity support tools for discovery and composition by software and other engineers, diverse scientists, product and graphic designers, architects, new media artists, musicians, educators, students, and many others.

Conference Theme
The focus of CC2007 is on cultivating and sustaining creativity: understanding how to design and evaluate computational support tools, digital media, and sociotechnical environments that not only empower our creative processes and abilities, but that also encourage and nurture creative mindsets and lifestyles.
Topics appropriate for submissions include, but are not limited to:

* Principles for interface, interaction & software design
* Empirical evaluations by quantitative and qualitative methods
* In-depth case studies and ethnographic analyses
* Reflective accounts of individual and collaborative practice
* Educational and training methods to encourage creativity with novel interfaces
* Social mechanisms in support of creative communities and collaboratories
* Emerging technologies, media, and approaches in the arts and creative practices
* Transdisciplinary methods and collaboration models

Join us for a panel and discussion about wireframing and wireframing
tools. We will be exploring a variety of tools and techniques used in
developing interface designs for desktop applications, mobile
applications and web applications.

Presenters:

• Ryan West (SAS)
• David Charboneau (IBM)
• Jackson Fox (Lulu.com)
• TBA (Motricity)

WHEN: Tuesday, September 19th, 2006, 6:00pm

WHERE: Lulu.com (see directions below)

Sponsored by TriUPA (http://www.triupa.org)

Where is Lulu?

Lulu.com
860 Aviation Pkwy Suite 300
Morrisville, NC 27560

From Durham, Chapel Hill and western NC

• Take I-40 east towards Raleigh
• Exit at Aviation Parkway (exit 285)
• Turn right at the top of the exit ramp onto Aviation Parkway
• Go south on Aviation Parkway approximately 1.3 miles to Southport Dr
• Turn left on Southport Dr
• Turn left into the second driveway on the left

From Raleigh and eastern NC

• Take I-40 west towards Durham and Chapel Hill
• Exit at Aviation Parkway (exit 285)
• Turn left at the top of the exit ramp onto Aviation Parkway
• Go south on Aviation Parkway approximately 1.5 miles to Southport Dr
• Turn left on Southport Dr
• Turn left into the second driveway on the left

Upcoming TriUPA Events

• Coming in October: So how does UX design work in the Real World?
• Coming in November: World Usability Day 2006!

What it is: "A conference on designing complex information
spaces of all kinds."

When it is: October 23-24, 2006 (Discount ends August 27th! Apply NOW)

Where it is: 'nuff said.

Why you care: "...this is not airy-fairy theoretical stuff. These presenters are practitioners, people actually doing this cross-channel, cross-media work with complex information. A primary goal of this conference is to give you the confidence to cross boundaries and engage with a wide range of problems." Check out the list of said practitioners.

How do I...: Start here.