Presentation on Tuesday...

NYC Usability Professionals Association presents:
Wayfinding: a real world signage system & its implications for online design


Think it's important to know how to get around a website? How about a hospital? Find out how Sylvia Harris, a leading Information Design Strategist, was able to create a new vision for visitor information delivery at the New York area's largest hospital. Sylvia will share her information design system and wayfinding masterplan to improve patient experience at Columbia Presbyterian Hospital.

For more information on Sylvia's work, please visit her website at sylviaharris.com.

Speaker: Sylvia Harris
Date: Tuesday, Feb 26, 2008
Registration: 6:00pm (refreshments served)

Please arrive by 6 to allow time to get through security.
Photo ID required by security to enter building.
It must match the name on the registration list.

Presentation: 6:30pm to 8:00pm (includes Q&A)
Networking: 8:00pm to 8:30pm

Dinner at a nearby restaurant: 8:30pm to whenever
(participants pay for their own dinner)

Location: JPMorgan Chase,
277 Park Avenue (between 47th & 48th),
Room 1701 (17th floor)

Cost: NYC-UPA members: $10
Non-members: $20

Non-members with 1 year membership: $25
Full-time students: $5 (students please provide valid ID)

RSVP: NO EMAIL RSVPs ACCEPTED FOR THIS EVENT.

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Please note ticket office will be closed by 5 p.m. Monday, February 25, 2008 (day before the event).

Tickets are refundable until noon, Wednesday, February 28, 2008 (2nd day after the event) by sending a request to RSVP@nycupa.org.

Tickets are transferable on or before noon Monday, February 25, 2008 (day before the event) by sending a request to RSVP@nycupa.org. You must notify us, and get a confirmation, of this transfer or it will not be valid.

Members of our parent organization, the UPA (the Usability Professionals' Association), must join the NYC chapter to qualify for member rates. We encourage everyone to join our parent organization, though you do not need to do so to become a member of our chapter. You can learn more about our NYC organization or learn about our parent organization.

Seats are limited and reservations are first come, first served. We advise you to register early as previous events have sold out and we had to turn people away.

About the presentation:
Think it's important to know how to get around a website? How about a hospital? Find out how Sylvia Harris, a leading Information Design Strategist, was able to create a new vision for visitor information delivery at the New York area's largest hospital. Sylvia will share her information design system and wayfinding masterplan to improve patient experience at Columbia Presbyterian Hospital.

For more information on Sylvia's work, please visit her website at sylviaharris.com.

For more information, visit Web site: http://nycupa20080226.eventbrite.com

About the speaker:
Sylvia Harris is New York City's "Public Designer". She has devoted twenty-five years to the design and management of public-interest communications.

A leading advisor to New York City's largest institutions, Sylvia conducts assessments and formulates communication strategies for branding and public information campaigns. She was the lead design strategist for the redesign of the 2000 National Census and recently developed information master plans for New York Presbyterian Hospital, the American Civil Liberties Union and Columbia University.

She is currently a member of the U.S. Postal Service Citizens' Stamp Advisory Committee and is on the advisory committees of WNYC's Studio 360, the Design Trust for Public Spaces and the AIGA's Design for Democracy. She has also lectured around the world and written numerous articles on culture, design and diversity.

From 1990 through 2000 Sylvia was a design critic at the Yale University School of Art. She received her M.F.A. from Yale in 1980 and a B.F.A. from Virginia Commonwealth University in 1975.