Early Registration Special (Two-for-One!)
NEO STC members may invite any guest and split the cost of one registration. Register by May 2, 2009 to qualify for special. Please notify programs@neostc.org of names and e-mail addresses of all attendees. If you do not have a guest, send your name to Denise Kadilak. She can pair you with another member.
ALSO: We’ve reduced student pricing – it’s now $20 instead of $45.
In our end-user manuals, web pages, portable digital devices, and interface designs, our pictures always seem to play a subordinate role to our words. We find them too hard to illustrate; we encounter too many resolution and incompatibility issues, and we can never seem to make them attractive enough, meaningful enough, and usable enough.
In this workshop, we will get very graphic (ha ha) with these challenges. We will spend a fun-filled day sharing common problems, evaluating your existing design challenges, visualising different types of information, and working on some innovative hands-on exercises. In the end, the workshop's goal is to help both information developers and usability professionals evaluate and boost the visual appeal and usability of the information that they produce, and to empower them with simple tips and tricks to become visually and graphically savvy.
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This workshop has received praise from the LoneStar, Los Angeles, San Diego, TransAlpine, UK, and Israel chapters, and the International STC Conference as well!
How to visualize as you write—with navigational cues, conceptual diagrams, technical illustrations, flowcharts, or screenshots
How to make your visuals consistent and professional—applying simple “templating” techniques and attributes to all your visuals
How to repurpose and “transport” your visuals to other media and formats and overcome resolution and incompatibility problems
How to improve the visual appeal and usability of the information that you produce
How to use a toolkit of tips and tricks to become visually and graphically savvy
Intended Audience: In the past, this workshop has attracted more technical communicators than illustrators and graphic designers, because it reveals that the former group is clearly vital to the development of usable visual information, and offers solutions that benefit both ‘textual’ designers and ‘visual’ designers alike.
Date
Saturday, May 16, 2009
Time
9:00am – 5:00pm
Place
Joseph-Beth Booksellers
Legacy Village
24519 Cedar Road
Lyndhurst, OH 44124
(216) 691-7000
Food
Breakfast and Lunch will be provided
Cost
$75 for members
$100 for nonmembers
$20 for students
Cost includes breakfast and lunch
To prepay through PayPal, choose one of the following payment options, and then press Pay Now.
Register
By May 12, to Programs or by phone: 216-251-0716. Include the individual names and e-mail addresses of all attendees in your group.
Payment Options
Online: Prepay by PayPal (above).
(Note: PayPal payment is nonrefundable.)
Please register with individual names and e-mail addresses of all attendees.
Cancellation Policy
All cancellations and refund requests must be made by e-mail or phone by May 12, 2009. Contact Amy Vogt (440-717-9749) or Denise Kadilak (216-251-0716) to cancel. A $15.00 cancellation fee will apply.
Absolutely NO REFUNDS will be made after midnight, May 12, 2009. No-shows will NOT be refunded.
Presenter Bio: From his start as a technical writer and illustrator in 1993 to traveling the world as a visual information specialist and interaction designer, Patrick Hofmann has been coined the "man of few words". For over fifteen years, this vibrant Canadian has helped clients like FedEx, HP, Logitech, Motorola, NetGear, Nokia, Philips, and RIM overcome the anxiety and stress involved in globalization and translation--often by eliminating the text in their online, hardcopy, and interface information.
Along with an extensive background in both international usability research and iconography, Patrick's award-winning work and passion for visualization have landed him at Google in Sydney, Australia, where he has been working since 2007 as a User Experience Designer on their many famous products. He also aims to complete his first book on visual communication in the coming year.
In 2009, Patrick received the honor of Associate Fellow in the Society for Technical Communication. You may also recognize his work in the new STC logo!
