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SUMMARY:Ideate\, Create\, Iterate: A Design Jam for Student Success
DESCRIPTION:Rebecca Blakiston and Darcy Van Patten co-present a workshop as part of the University of Arizona’s IT Summit. \nTo develop the most relevant and impactful solutions\, we need to understand our users and keep their goals\, motivations\, and challenges in mind. \nJoin us for this user experience design jam\, where you’ll rapidly tackle a design challenge using a structured\, team-based approach that puts users at the forefront. We’ll begin by practicing empathy for the end users of our tools\, systems\, and technology. Then\, embracing wild\, divergent thinking and imperfection\, we’ll ideate\, prototype\, test\, and iterate on solutions to some of our students’ biggest challenges. \nYou’ll get hands-on experience working on a diverse team to solve a problem\, and you’ll leave with ideas on how to incorporate design thinking into your work\, no matter your job title.
URL:https://rebeccablakiston.info/event/design-jam/
LOCATION:Student Union\, University of Arizona\, 1303 E University Blvd\, Tucson\, AZ\, 85719\, United States
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SUMMARY:UX@UA: A Community for UX Enthusiasts
DESCRIPTION:Rebecca Blakiston presents for 20 minutes as part of the University of Arizona’s IT Summit. \nA well-designed user experience (UX) is a critical component to any digital product or service. UX is a broad-reaching concept and involves user research\, usability testing\, content strategy\, information architecture\, and more. UX@UA is an informal learning community created at the University of Arizona (UA) in 2017 that seeks to bring together UX enthusiasts to learn from one another. We now have over 130 members including students\, staff\, and faculty across the university\, as well as some community members who want to partner with the UA. We invite web developers\, web designers\, programmers\, project managers\, marketers\, and writers to join us.  Participants will learn: \n\nWhat UX@UA is\nHow to get involved in UX@UA\nThe impact of UX@UA one year in\n\nInterested in getting involved? Visit our UX@UA website\, join us on Slack (use your UA email address) or join UX@UA on Meetup.
URL:https://rebeccablakiston.info/event/it-summit-2018-uxua/
LOCATION:Student Union\, University of Arizona\, 1303 E University Blvd\, Tucson\, AZ\, 85719\, United States
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SUMMARY:Challenges\, Highlights\, and Pivotal Moments: Understanding the Graduate Student Experience
DESCRIPTION:Rebecca Blakiston and Gardie Lueders co-present as part of the AzLA Annual Conference. \nLibraries provide a lot of valuable services to graduate students\, but how can we make these services more useful and impactful? Learn how the University of Arizona Libraries is studying the graduate student experience to better serve this user group. We will discuss how we gathered data through experience mapping\, user interviews\, and environmental scanning. We’ll also discuss how the user experience (UX) team collaborated with research and learning librarians and the marketing manager to uncover insights and generate solutions.
URL:https://rebeccablakiston.info/event/challenges-highlights-and-pivotal-moments-understanding-the-graduate-student-experience/
LOCATION:Mesa Convention Center\, 263 N Center St\, Mesa\, AZ\, 85201\, United States
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SUMMARY:Creating Content for Everyone
DESCRIPTION:Rebecca Blakiston\, Annissa Corsi\, and Dawn Hunziker present as part of the Inclusive and Accessible Design Series. \nAccessibility of content is important and something to consider in the designing stages of your message. This matters whether you are creating content for a website\, presentation\, email message\, course\, or newsletter. In fact\, this matters for any digital content you plan to create and share on campus and beyond. \nJoin us at the University of Arizona for a presentation from Dawn Hunziker\, IT accessibility consultant\, Annissa Corsi\, alternative media coordinator\, and Rebecca Blakiston\, user experience librarian. These experts from Disability Resources and the University Libraries will share tips and tools for creating content that is accessible to all.
URL:https://rebeccablakiston.info/event/creating-content-for-everyone/
LOCATION:Main Library\, University of Arizona\, 1510 E University Blvd\, Tucson\, AZ\, 85721\, United States
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SUMMARY:Do No Harm: Making Better Forms for People
DESCRIPTION:Rebecca Blakiston and Ann Shivers-McNair co-present at the edUi conference in Virginia. \nIn higher education\, forms are everywhere. Students use them to register for classes\, staff use them to get technical help\, and faculty use them to request classroom spaces and technology. But too often\, we don’t give these forms the care and nurturing they deserve. In this session\, attendees will learn how to empathize with users in order to design and write forms that are better for the people who have to use them. Attendees will learn how to ensure their forms are inclusive\, approachable\, and human-centered. We will cover a range of considerations from format\, plain language\, and structure to details like confirmation messages\, button placement\, and field labels. By the end of this session\, attendees will be able to create forms that have users saying\, “that’s nice!” and not\, “this sucks!” \nWhat You’ll Learn\n\nHow to write useful field labels\, error messages\, and confirmation messages\nHow to simplify form content\, including only what is absolutely necessary
URL:https://rebeccablakiston.info/event/do-no-harm-making-better-forms-for-people/
LOCATION:Charlottesville\, VA\, Charlottesville\, VA\, United States
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SUMMARY:Innovative Interfaces Hot Topics: User Experience Strategy
DESCRIPTION:Rebecca Blakiston presents online. \nIn today’s competitive digital market\, users demand a positive experience. Ensuring that library users have the best experience possible when using the library’s products is a process in which we’re all involved. That process starts with a strategy that includes an understanding of your users’ current experience\, their behaviors\, motivations and goals. \nHow do you develop a long-term plan? How do you get the detailed vision necessary to create that product or service that will provide your users with an ideal experience during their interaction with all library touchpoints so that they return? \nJoin user experience librarian and user experience strategist\, Rebecca Blakiston from The University of Arizona Libraries\, and Innovative Library Consultants for a conversation that answers these questions and more about the design thinking\, user research\, content strategy that drive a successful design strategy. Rebecca will share real world examples of techniques which you can easily adapt for your library’s user experience design. Leave these sessions with a deeper understanding of user experience (UX) design and the development of a successful strategy to use in your library.
URL:https://rebeccablakiston.info/event/innovative-interfaces-hot-topics-user-experience-strategy/
LOCATION:Online
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SUMMARY:UX@UA Meetup: Speed Networking
DESCRIPTION:Meetup co-organized by Rebecca Blakiston and Christina Kalel. \nEveryone interested in user experience (UX) is welcome to participate! We’re a mix of UA students\, faculty\, and staff as well as members of the broader community. Newcomers\, including those new to UX\, are welcome. \nIn this meetup\, we’ll get to know one another! Meet and mingle with other students\, staff\, faculty\, and members of the community interested in user experience work. Newbies and professionals of all backgrounds are welcome. We’ll have a structured activity to start by 4:45 and end by 5:30\, with the rest of the time to socialize. Feel free to bring a friend and business cards! \nRSVP at: https://www.meetup.com/UX-UA-Meetup/events/253386165/. \nJoin us on Slack at: https://join.slack.com/t/uxuagroup/signup.
URL:https://rebeccablakiston.info/event/uxua-meetup-speed-networking/
LOCATION:Aloft\, 1900 E Speedway Blvd\, Tucson\, AZ\, 85719\, United States
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SUMMARY:Writing for Your Library Website: Tips for Improving Your Content
DESCRIPTION:Rebecca Blakiston presents online for ALA eLearning. Register for this workshop. \nIndividuals visit our library websites for content\, so it’s important to ensure our content is clear\, concise\, and created with our users’ needs in mind. Our content should help users quickly and easily complete tasks and get the answers to their questions on the first try. \nYou’ll learn how to focus on key messages\, use active and authentic voice\, remove unnecessary words\, write meaningful titles and headings\, use parallelism\, format text for readability\, and more.
URL:https://rebeccablakiston.info/event/writing-for-your-library-website-tips-for-improving-your-content/
LOCATION:Online
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SUMMARY:UX@UA Meetup: Fails\, Triumphs\, & Therapy
DESCRIPTION:Meetup co-organized by Rebecca Blakiston\,  Ann Shivers-McNair\, and Gianna Biocca. \nEveryone interested in user experience (UX) is welcome to participate! We’re a mix of UA students\, faculty\, and staff as well as members of the broader community. Newcomers\, including those new to UX\, are welcome. \nThis meetup is focused on UX fails and therapy – sharing things that failed and talking about what we learned or getting advice/insight from others. \nWe’ll also talk about our triumphs and inspire one another to keep on fighting the good UX fight! \nRSVP at: https://www.meetup.com/UX-UA-Meetup/events/251481346/ \nJoin us on Slack at: https://join.slack.com/t/uxuagroup/signup.
URL:https://rebeccablakiston.info/event/uxua-meetup-fails-triumphs-therapy/
LOCATION:Frog & Firkin\, 874 E. University Blvd.\, Tucson\, AZ\, 85719\, United States
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