Events with Kevin Brooks and Whitney Quesenbery
Upcoming Appearances and Presentations
- Tuesdays, 7pm - 9:30pm Kevin hosts Forever Blue, weekly storytelling gatherings in Cambridge, MA, Out of the Blue Gallery, 106 Prospect St., Cambridge, MA
- March 20, 2010 Look for Kevin as an Olio performer at 2009 Sharing the Fire, Northeast Storytelling Conference, Warwick, RI, USA
- March 21, 2010 Kevin will host a Boston area StorySlam for MassMouth - competitive fast-paced stories on a common theme. Ryles, 212 Hampshire St. (Inman Sq.), Cambridge, MA
- March 26-27, 2010 Whitney will teach workshops on usability and plain language with Ginny Redish at the Election Verification Network conference
- May 3-5, 2010 Whitney will lead a session on Using Stories for More Effective Usability at STC 2010 in Dallas
- May 10-11, 2010 Whitney is one of the organizers of the Usability Track at Knowbility's Access U, Austin.
- May 24-28, 2010 Kevin and Whitney will run a Monday evening workshop and a regular session on stories in user experience design at UPA 2010 in Munich
Recent Appearances and Presentation Links
- Whitney ran a workshop on designing for search at User Friendly 2009 (Shanghai, China)
- Whitney spoke on usabiity and user experience at Informatics for Consumer Health (Potomac, Maryland, USA)
- Kevin and Whitney ran a workshop on stories at Involution Studios (Boston)
- "Human interfaces: design for accessible ICTs" - Whitney chaired a panel at the G3ICT/ITU Joint Forum on the Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities (Geneva, Switzerland).
- "The Power of Storytelling: The Most Usable Tool on the Planet" - Kevin spoke at the New Jersey Chapter of Usability Professionals' Association (Morristown, NJ, USA)
- "Researching Search" - Whitney at the Enterprise Search Summit (New York, New York, USA).
- "User Research, Design, and Evaluation" - Whitney led a workshop at STC 2008 (Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA).
- "Designing for Cognitive Disabilities" - Whitney (with Kate Walser) at UPA 2008 (Baltimore, Maryland, USA).
- "Search is Normal. Now What?" - Whitney (with Caroline Jarrett;) at UPA 2008 (Baltimore, Maryland, USA).
- Weekend Storytelling Camp at Pyramid Lake, Kevin Brooks with Marni Gillard, Laura Packer, and Nancy Payne. Open to anyone yearning to tell or listen to tales, who likes the idea of the Adirondack woods, a clear mountain lakeside (free of motors), and making friends through story. Ages 10 to 110 are welcome. http://www.pyramidlife.org (Paradox, NY, USA)
- UX Week Kevin's four hour workshop on storytelling and its applicability to design - a workshop where participants will learned how to tell and practice telling the stories that matter to them. http://www.uxweek.com (San Francisco, CA, USA)