"I love the educational atmosphere. It's great to learn from folks who are eager to learn themselves. Their ability to relate their experiences to the course material was really effective."
— Jason Goldman, Google

Confirmed Speakers for UX Week 2010

We’re delighted to announce our first confirmed speakers for UX Week 2010:

Kristina Halvorson, friend of Adaptive Path, author of Content Strategy for the Web and founder and president of Brain Traffic, returns to UX Week to preach the gospel of content strategy! She’ll lead a workshop and give a talk. We’re excited to have her back.

Dave Gray, Founder and Chairman of XPLANE and co-author of the forthcoming book, Knowledge Games: The Visual Thinking Playbook, will also rock our world with a workshop that shows us how to apply game thinking to our design challenges.

Jeffrey Veen, one of Adaptive Path’s founding fathers and most recently, co-founder of the very cool Typekit, a subscription-based service for linking to high-quality Open Type fonts from some of the worlds best type foundries, will give a talk on something awesome, because that’s how he rolls.

Nicole Lazzaro, Founder and President of XEODesign, Inc., is the world renowned expert on emotions and the fun of games and how to apply game design techniques to create more engaging products, services and games. She’ll lead a workshop for anyone who wants to understand how to use fun and emotion in the design of experience.

Leah Buley and Julia Houck-Whitacker, both of Adaptive Path will be leading returning workshops, Good Design Faster and  Design is Made of People, respectively.

Watch here for more updates as we fill out the line up.



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Location

Mission Bay Conference Center at UCSF
1675 Owens Street
San Francisco, CA 94105
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