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Program: "Transforming the Driver Experience with Augmenting Reality in Cars" with Victor Ng Thow Hing

7:00 pm Wednesday, June 5, 2013

The program will begin with a review of Honda’s user research and design research process while developing new applications for the company’s 3-D heads-up display prototype. It will be a fairly candid talk showing lessons learned and how the team changed focus mid-way on design direction after learning about new things while designing. This included focusing more on the driver’s primary task instead of secondary tasks to help create a more engaging (“kick-ass”) experience for the driver.

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Results from CHIFOO Institute of Design Interest Survey

The CHIFOO Institute of Design Research Committee was intended to gauge the interest in the local CHI/UX community’s interest in a formal continuing education program, potentially sponsored through the CHIFOO organization.

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CHIFOO Events: Tell us what you think!

As we mentioned recently, many of the articles on the CHIFOO web site are now open for comments. As of today, that also includes the articles about our Programs and other Events. So, we’d like to hear what you think.

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Reviews

Gamestorming - A Review by Gary Smith

If you are currently practicing design and are tired of using the same three or four techniques for the extraction, organization and presentation of material pertaining to your projects this book is worth having on your shelf. I know of one in our midst who has successfully used several of these techniques on a recent project. If you are looking for a higher-level approach to your design conundrum you won’t likely find it here.

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Gamestorming
A Playbook for Innovators, Rulebreakers, and Changemakers
by: Dave Gray, Sunni Brown, James Macanufo

Paperback: 288… READ MORE »

2013 CHIFOO Program Series

Quantifying Kick-Ass

We’ve heard it all before: “The next killer app.” “A technology game-changer.” “The future of computing: It’s here, and we built it!” In the field of User Experience, we’ve grown sadly accustomed to hyperbole, to the point where every product launch includes the promise that a company’s latest app, device, or operating system will revolutionize life as we know it.

But how many claims come anywhere even close to the truth? And, how would we know if they were true? How can we quantify “Kick-Ass?”

In its 2013 Speaker Series, CHIFOO explores this struggle: “Quantifying Kick-Ass.” The theme has two parts—the “kick-ass” part and…

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