I will be going to the next UK Usab­il­ity Pro­fes­sion­als Asso­ci­ation (UPA) North meet­ing at Cafe Muse at the Manchester Museum on Thursday 8^th Decem­ber. This time we are very priv­ileged to have Prof. Alistair Sutcliffe from Uni­ver­sity of Manchester to present the main event.

The Main Event — Alistair Sutcliffe on ‘Design­ing Attract­ive Web Sites’

“This talk will present recent research that attempts to unpack the cur­rent debate about user engage­ment and aes­thet­ics in web site design… The end point, I hope, will be to foster dis­cus­sion of con­cepts of engage­ment and aes­thet­ics in web design and when such con­cepts are really import­ant in deliv­er­ing effect­ive­ness and com­mer­cial success.”

If you are inter­ested in usab­il­ity, aes­thet­ics and e-commerce and how it all fits together, you really SHOULD NOT MISS THIS!

The B Fea­ture — Steve Potts on Web­site Access­ib­il­ity Eval­u­ation Techniques

Steve Potts will give a brief tour of the tech­niques and prag­matic per­spect­ive applied when eval­u­at­ing web­sites for access­ib­il­ity.
“In this present­a­tion we’ll invest­ig­ate how to address web­site access­ib­il­ity eval­u­ations from a tech­nical per­spect­ive, high­light­ing the dif­fi­culties imposed by the wide range of col­lect­ive tech­no­lo­gies access­ing the web, and the cri­teria by which we meas­ure the object­ives of an evaluation.”

Steve is a good friend of mine and someone I admire and respect. Steve’s present­a­tion is another reason you should not miss this event.

As ever, the meet­ing will provide an oppor­tun­ity to net­work, chat, have a drink and meet new people.

Venue and Date Details

• Venue: Cafe Muse, Manchester Museum, Oxford Road, Manchester,M13 7QQ Map at http://tinyurl.com/byj4u
• Date: Thursday 8^th Decem­ber 2005
• Start Time: 6.30pm for 7.00pm
• End Time: Around 9.00pm and then drinks at Cafe Muse and Kro Bar.
• Cost: Free

You do not need to be a mem­ber of the UPA to attend this meeting.

RSVP: It helps us if we know how many people are com­ing, so please email to book using northern.usability [AT] gmail [DOT] com.