Cooper | News & Events

March

Cooper consultant Lane Halley presented a talk "UE and Agile: Two Great Tastes that Taste Great Together" at the XP West Michigan monthly meeting. Additionally, Lane presented a one-day workshop titled "User Experience Design Techniques for Agile Teams," also hosted by XP West Michigan.

Kim Goodwin gave an encore presentation of her popular IxDA 09 keynote, along with 1/2 day of other session recaps at the Interaction09 Redux on Saturday, March 14th.

Kim Goodwin spoke at BayCHI on Designing a Unified Experience: Bringing Interaction, Visual, and Industrial Design Together.

February

Kim Goodwin presented at the IxDA interaction 09 conference at Simon Fraser University in Vancouver, B.C..

August

Alan Cooper delivered the closing keynote at the Agile 2008 conference in Toronto on August 8. Alan's slides and speaker's notes can be found in the Cooper Journal.

Dave Cronin and Chris Noessel presented at VizFarm, the July edition of the IxDA-SF monthly event, focused on information visualization in design practice. For more about this event, check out the Cooper Journal.

June

On June 12th, David Fore delivered a strategy keynote about the evolution of user-centered design methods to ecology-centered design as way to consider the global impact of product design. More information is available at the Business to Buttons Web site.

David Fore led a new one-day seminar, "Defining Design Requirements with Personas and Scenarios," in Malmo, Sweden.

May

Steve Calde of Cooper and Liz Bacon of Devise, former colleagues at Cooper, discussed using personas as a tool to develop product features and behaviors. They explored pitfalls, misconceptions, and misuse, as well as helpful persona creation and application techniques to inform interaction design solutions. More information at chifoo.org.

Lane Halley discussed Personas and Goal-Directed Design with National Restaurant Association conference attendees in Chicago.

Kim Goodwin taught an encore of her popular full-day seminar on The Essentials of Interaction Design at User Interface 13 in Boston October 13, along with a short talk on visual design with personas and goals on October 14.

Dave Cronin's article "Into the Groove: Lessons from the Desktop Music Revolution" was published in the May/June issue of Interactions. In it, Dave discusses what musical interaces can teach us about designing for fluency. You can find the article online at the interactions Web site.

March

Kim Goodwin teaches an encore of her popular full-day seminar on The Essentials of Interaction Design at the Web App Summit in San Diego, CA.

February

Alan Cooper delivered the opening keynote and Dave Cronin gave a talk at the Interaction08 conference in Savannah, Georgia. Both presentations can be viewed online: Alan on "The Insurgency of Quality" and Dave on "Designing for Flow".

Cooper is a proud platinum sponsor of Interaction08, the inaugural conference of the IxDA.

January

David Fore on interaction design as the perfect occupation in Fast Company.

Smashing Magazine names About Face 3 as #1 in their list of ten "excellent books about usability and interaction design."

Cooper interaction designers Dana Smith, Doug LeMoine, and Nick Myers speak at the first annual VizThink conference on January 29, 2008 in San Francisco.

November

Chris Noessel spoke at DUX 2007 on November 7th as part of the final session "Ten Minutes from Now" with Steven Johnson and Joy Mountford. He previewed content from a forthcoming book about science fiction and design in a presentation titled "Make it So!: How the Near Future Shapes the Big Picture."

Kim Goodwin taught a full-day seminar on "The Essentials of Interaction Design" at User Interface 12 conference on November 7 in Cambridge, MA.

Principal Consultant Lane Halley delivered a keynote and one-day course at the Customer Experience 2007 conference in Copenhagen, November 14-15.

Cooper-designed Goldmail service gets rave reviews from C|Net.
What's the easiest way to send a narrated slideshow? According to C|Net's Rafe Needleman, it's Goldmail: "I've seen other multimedia presentation products, but never one as drop-dead easy as this...It's a more natural authoring environment than any other I have used." Read the article or visit www.goldmail.com.

October

Dave Cronin speaks at San Francisco IxDA event about the Cooper's approach to integrating industrial design, interaction design and visual design.

Kim Goodwin speaks about "Integrating Design into Your Organization" at the MX (Managing Experience) conference in Philadelphia.

September

Kim Goodwin & Nate Fortin present "Where Usability Meets Desirability: Visual Design with Personas and Goals" at a joint BayCHI/IxDA event.

Alan Cooper is interviewed on UX Pioneers Web site.

August

Doug Lemoine speaks about Pattern-based Design Communication Techniques at User Experience Week 2007. More information about Doug's talk, including slides, can be found on the UX Week Web site.

July

DePuy announces launch of new software for computer-assisted hip surgery based on Cooper designs.

June

AGFA newsletter discusses Cooper designs for IMPAX 6 radiology system.

Kim Goodwin speaks at Business to Buttons conference in Malmo, Sweden.

May

About Face 3 released More information Order on Amazon

April

Kim Goodwin and Nate Fortin led a CHI workshop for usability and design practitioners about Cooper's rigorous approach to visual design decisions.

Cooper is a proud Champion sponsor for the CHI 2007 Conference

October

Dave Cronin presents at the IA Institute's IDEA 2006