Follow The UX Leader

Workshops on Advanced Web Practices

October 22nd, 23rd, 25th, & 26th, 2012

Vancouver Workshops

Vancouver your feedback was astounding! You asked and we listened. Follow The UX Leader training courses are coming back to Vancouver, Canada this fall with more best practices in User Experience, Information Architecture, Content Strategy and Writing for the Web with our same signature playful style and hands-on approach. Spend the day — or 3 or 4! — learning and interacting with others in the ultra-modern space of Cibo Trattoria at the Moda Hotel in the heart of downtown Vancouver.

Workshops run from 8:30 a.m. – 4:30 p.m. and include continental breakfast, snack breaks and a hot plated 3-course lunch.

Deadline to register: October 15, 2012

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User Experience Design

User Experience, Usability, UX – regardless of what you call it, it is the critical foundation that ensures a website’s success. In People Before Pixels User Experience training you’ll learn how to create engaging online experiences for desktop and mobile that focus on the most important part of digital interaction – the people who engage with your product or service!

Download the course overview for User Experience Training (PDF)

What You’ll Learn:

  • Creating and Using Personas
  • Paper Prototyping for Web and Mobile
  • Designing for a Global Audience
  • Wireframing
  • Remote and Moderated User Testing

Monday October 22nd, 2012
$650 CAD per participant

Also Offered In: Calgary, Ottawa

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Information Architecture

Information Architecture – the art and science of structuring websites – ensures that site visitors can find the information they want quickly and easily. Using every day objects easily found at your local office supply store, Stop Searching. Start Finding. Information Architecture training will teach you the fundamentals of IA for both web and mobile.

Download the course overview for Information Architecture Training (PDF)

What You’ll Learn:

  • Open Versus Closed Card Sorting
  • Developing a Sustainable Website Structure for Web and Mobile
  • Creating and Using Personas
  • Getting Buy In From Inter-Disciplinary Teams
  • Architecting Taxonomies and Building Faceted Classification

Tuesday October 23rd, 2012
$650 CAD per participant

Also Offered In: Calgary, Ottawa

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Writing For The Web

Writing for the Web is much more than bullet point lists and plain language. How do you create meaningful experiences for users who only spend 7-10 seconds on any given web page? Chock full of in-class writing exercises, movies and group discussion, Creating Web Content That Clicks is definitely not your standard Writing for the Web training course!

Download the course overview for Writing for the Web Training (PDF)

What You’ll Learn:

  • Writing Web Content That “Speaks” To Your Readers
  • Working with Style, Tone, and Punctuation
  • Writing for Social Media & Mobile
  • Creating Persuasive Content for Online Engagement
  • Search Engine Optimization

Thursday October 25th, 2012
$650 CAD per participant

Also Offered In: Calgary, Ottawa

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Content Strategy

Now that you know Writing for the Web, how do you manage your organization’s content across channels? With Social Media and Mobile added to the mix, developing an effective Content Strategy is paramount. Managing Web Content That Connects Content Strategy training brings “strategy” back to content enabling you to make smarter business decisions on when, where and how to publish content online.

Download the course overview for Content Strategy Training (PDF)

What You’ll Learn:

  • Planning For Content Using Analysis, Audits and Site Search Analytics
  • Delivering Content Across Social Media & Mobile Channels
  • Creating and Using an Editorial Calendar
  • Content Curation, Archiving and Tagging

Friday October 26th, 2012
$650 CAD per participant

Also Offered In: Calgary, Ottawa

Learn more, save more – save on registration when you sign up for more than 1 course! 2 courses, save 10% …3 courses, save 15% …4 courses, save 20%!

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Past Participants

Leaders

Jeff Parks

Jeff Parks

Leading: Information Architecture / User Experience Design

Jeff Parks is president of I.A. Consultants, an information architecture and user experience consultancy in Ottawa and is a member of the Board of Directors for the Information Architecture Institute. Jeff has lead conversations with thought leaders in design from around the world in the fields of Information Architecture, User Experience, Interaction Design, and Human Factors for Boxes and Arrows and Johnny Holland. In addition, he has been the lead designer for projects in the fields of health care, web, and mobile.

Kristina Mausser

Kristina Mausser

Leading: Writing For The Web / Content Strategy

Kristina Mausser is a 1.0 veteran with over 10 years of web content experience in the areas of content strategy and writing. As owner of Digitalword, Kristina has worked with organizations ranging from Sephora and Microsoft to the Government of Canada in creating content that incorporates best practices in social media, content marketing, and user experience. Kristina is founder of Content Ottawa, and a contributor for UX Matters.