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User Experience at Google in NYC: Creating Apps for Mobile Devices

Tuesday, April 10, 2007 from 6:00 PM to 8:15 PM (ET)

New York, NY

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Presentation

 

User Experience at Google in NYC: Creating Apps for Mobile Devices

Description

 

Are you curious to know how Google makes its products & services so compelling and useful?

If so, come hear Leland Rechis, from Google’s user experience research practice in NYC, talk about how they put user feedback to work to create stellar user experiences. He'll talk about:

* How Google's designer/researcher partnership process works,

* How Google services, like Gmail, Google Search, and Google Maps, have been optimized for mobile phones

* How they design for global use, with a focus on localization challenges that have arisen during recent usability research in Germany and Japan.

Speaker

Leland Rechis, User Experience Designer, Google

Leland focuses primarily on Mobile Search, which has just launched a new user experience. Other Google products for which Leland has done design work include the releaunch of Blogger and launch of Google transit.

Prior to Google, Leland has designed for Yahoo! HotJobs, BarnesandNoble.com, Razorfish and Organic.

A born and bred New Yorker, Leland dealt with a complete lack of good bagels and lox while living in San Francisco for a number of years. 

Sponsorship:

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Thanks to Google for hosting this event and for providing food and refreshments. 

Date:

April 10th

Time:

Registration: 6:00pm to 6:30pm (refreshments served)
Presentation: 6:30pm to 8:00pm (includes Q&A)
Networking: 8:00pm to 8:30pm
Dinner: 8:30pm to whenever*
*Please note that dinner is an optional, post-event social activity located at a nearby restaurant and is not included in the event fee. It will be the responsibility of each individual who chooses to attend the dinner to pay for their own food, drink and any other expenses that may be associated with the dinner.

Location:

Note: No walk-in registration. Pre-purchasing online via event website is required for this event, sorry.

Google New York is located at 76 Ninth Avenue in Chelsea, Manhattan, on the corner of 16th Street and Ninth Avenue. A Google representative will be on hand to greet you, provide you with a building badge, and direct you to the 4th floor.

To get to Google NY, take the A/C/E or L subway to 14th Street, and exit near the intersection of W 14th Street and Eighth Avenue, head west on 14th Street towards Hudson Street, and make a right on Ninth Ave.  Alternatively, the 1/2/3 subway lines and M11, M14, and M20 buses service the surrounding area. If you are driving, the closest parking lot is located in the building, accessible from 15th or 16th Street.

Cost:

$10 pre-paid ticket OR

$20 cash at the door IF you pre-register (for free) for the wait list here

Note: you can also optionally purchase  a 1 year NYC UPA membership at the reduced price of $10 on this website.

Tickets are refundable, exchangable and transferable as follows:

Refund policy: Request a refund for any reason within 45 days of your ticket purchase by contacting rsvp@nycupa.org .

Exchange policy: Bring your receipt to another NYC UPA event for credit towards that event's cost. You must pre-register for that event. The event must be held within one year after the event you are exchanging the ticket for. (We typically have 9 events a year.)

Transfer policy: Notify us of the person’s name you are transferring your ticket to by noon on the day before the event at rsvp@nycupa.org (so we can leave their name with security). The person will need a copy of your receipt to show at the door.

Membership offer: This event is part of our spring membership drive. For this event only you can optionally purchase along with your ticket a one year membership to NYC UPA for $10, a discount off the usual $15 price. Everyone is eligible for the membership special: new members, lapsed members, current members. Current members will have their memberships extended by one year.

(Most of our events have a $10 discount for members, so membership would effectively pay for itself at the next event you attend.)


 

When & Where



Google NYC Offices
76 Ninth Avenue, 4th floor
New York, NY 10011

Tuesday, April 10, 2007 from 6:00 PM to 8:15 PM (ET)


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