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Last Chance: dConstruct 2010 Ticket Competition

Laptop stickers by Phil Hawksworth

Update: dConstruct has already sold out. This is your last chance to get your hands on tickets!

Roll up, roll up, the chance to win 2 tickets to dConstruct 2010. The sea-side plus some brain-enhancing design-related sessions. Sound good?

dConstruct 2010The competition closes today (Fri, 16th July) so get your skates on, and you could score yourself tickets to this year's event (1-3rd Sept) in Brighton. It couldn't be easier to enter, just fill out this simple form.

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paidContent Mobile: Leveraging the Smartphone Boom

At paidContent Mobile: Leveraging the Smartphone Boom, we’ll turn to a distinguished group of cross-industry experts to address a host of issues such as how to determine which platforms to put your content on, how to set your pricing, where investors are placing their bets, the latest in mobile-content R&D—and much more.

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Date: 20 July 2010
Location: Columbia University Faculty House, US

Old Spice Man's Mad Social Skillz

Old Spice Man Youtube Screenshot

I can already picture a new shelf being added to the awards cabinet at Wieden + Kennedy, following the Old Spice campaign. Let's take in some numbers:

In 48 hours, the team led by Brit, Iain Tait, produced 200 videos and wracked up 6,839,830 YouTube views (at time of writing ~72hrs from launch). The media coverage has been almost universally positive, even daring to engage with the notorious troublemakers at 4chan.

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GameHorizon 2010 Review

GameHorizon by Sarbjit Bakhshi

Phew! What an event! I had intended to live blog through the show, but with all the interesting panel sessions, excellent networking opportunities and after conference activities there was simply no time to put anything up during the conference.

The two days’ conference was an amazing opportunity for networking with senior executives from the Games industry. I have been to other major industry events all around the world, but none other has had industry stars attending and networking in such an open way (perhaps this is due to being held in the Newcastle - the friendliest place in the world?).

This is certainly an event to attend next year and with GameHorizon recently announcing that they are open up their services to all UK companies (not just those based in the North East) other companies should make a beeline for advanced registration.

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User Centred Design: Techniques to Improve the User Experience

Learn user centred design techniques help you systematically understand your users better and design effective, efficient and satisfying products and systems.

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Date: 21 October 2010
Location: System Concepts Ltd, UK

Simplicity Day

minimoko, the design and innovation studio that loves simplicity, invites you to celebrate Simplicity Day with us! Simplicity Day is the event to discuss how simplicity affects our daily lives and how we can innovate by simplifying.

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Date: 12 July 2010
Location: THECUBE, UK

UX Brighton 2010

A one day conference with an emphasis on designing for behaviour. We'll be learning how behavioral economics, cognitive psychology and linguistics can provide a clearer understanding of what goes on inside our customers' heads and inform better design. Get your ticket now: http://2010.uxbrighton.org.uk

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Date: 13 September 2010
Location: Sallis Benney Theatre, UK

dConstruct 2010

Now in its sixth year, dConstruct 2010 brings together leading industry figures to explore the power of design thinking and show how we can all become just a little bit more creative.

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Date: 1 September 2010
Location: Brighton Dome, UK

Competition: Win dConstruct 2010 Tickets

dConstruct stickers by Jeremy Keith

dConstruct, in its sixth year, is a fixture on every designer's calendar. And what better excuse to immerse yourself in design thinking by the sea-side with some of the top names in the industry?

As the dConstruct team put it,

"dConstruct 2010 brings together leading industry figures to explore the power of design thinking and show how we can all become just a little bit more creative."

dConstruct 2010

We're dead chuffed to have teamed up with organisers, Clearleft, to offer a competition for two tickets to this year's event (1-3rd Sept).

Heck, you can't even but a ticket yet, but the early-bird tranche of tickets will be available from the dConstruct site from 6th July. They'll go quick, so don't hang around.

Entering couldn't be easier, just pop your details in the form below. We'll be making the draw for the lucky winners on Fri, 16th July.

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UX Fundamentals workshop

UX Fundamentals workshop with James Box and Cennydd Bowles.

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Date: 16 July 2010
Location: Lighthouse, UK

UK UPA meets Pecha Kucha Night

We are back for our July event, hosted at Sapient Nitro on Thursday 15th July 2010. This time round we are bringing you the amazingly inspirational Pecha Kucha 20x20 Night and opening the floor for an entertaining multi-presenter night.

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Date: 15 July 2010
Location: Sapient Nitro, UK

SuperGoogleAnalyticsExpialidocious

We aim to show how applications like Google Analytics can be used to both formulate and answer questions. We’ll also show how these quantitative techniques can be combined with qualitative methods such as traditional user testing.

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Date: 13 July 2010
Location: iCrossing, UK

MiniBar workshop: Effective Software Development Management

The workshop will cover different management methods such as ‘agile software management’ and what processes to use to arrive at a web development plan that translates business goals into achievable and workable web implementation.

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Date: 7 July 2010
Location: Young Foundation, UK

UK UPA Careers Event - Tuesday 22nd June 2010

It's quite busy on the job market at the moment so this is an opportunity to meet face-2-face with potential employers and candiates to make your perfect match. Entry-level, experienced, high-flying, career change or freelancer, our combo of recruiters and UX companies would like to meet you. See you there!

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Date: 22 June 2010
Location: Thomson Reuters, UK

Online Marketing Show

Innovations to transform your online performance… Even the most proactive marketers can find it tough to keep up with the latest effective online tools and innovations to enhance or drive campaigns.

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Date: 29 June 2010
Location: Grand Hall, Olympia, UK