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SUMMARY:User Experience at Research In Motion (RIM)
LOCATION:Bahen Centre for IT - Room 1240 (main floor)
DESCRIPTION:https://torchi.org/event-205424\n\nTime: Refreshments/Registration starts 6:45pm\; presentation starts at 7:00pm\nLocation: Bahen Room 1240 (main floor)\n         40 St. George Street\nCost: Free for ToRCHI members & students\, $5 guests\, $20/one year membership.  Join now.\n\nABSTRACT:  Joey Benedek\, RIM's Director of UX Research\, will discuss how RIM  approaches designing the Blackberry user experience. Joey will discuss  the importance of the UX to the Blackberry development process\, basic  outline of the process and the key disciplines that play a role. Come  hear how the UX process was applied to the development of Blackberry6  with specific examples from the recent release.\n\nBIO: Joey  joined Research in Motion as Director if UX Research in the summer of  2009\, just in time to kick off the Blackberry6 development effort. Prior  to RIM\, Joey spent 9 years at Microsoft spending most of his time in  the User Experience organization for Windows finishing his career there  as the UX Research manager for Windows 7. Originally from Canada\, RIM  has provided a homecoming for Joey who completed his graduate work at  Carleton's HCI lab.
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