Training & Workshops

Whether you want to polish your deliverables, create better information architecture through concept modeling, or brush up on interpersonal communication in creative environments, EightShapes can help you level-up your design skills.

Public Workshops and Conferences

EightShapes holds sessions and workshops at conferences around the world and online. We’ve given workshops and sessions at:

• IA Summit 2010, 2009, 2008, 2007
• Interaction09, Interaction08
• IDEA 2009
• Web App Summit 2009
• School of Visual Arts, NYC

Our next stop: User Interface 15 in Boston, MA, November 8-10, 2010.

In-House Workshops

EightShapes provide training for internal teams. Design teams of every experience level will benefit from an afternoon with EightShapes’ designers. We offer courses introducing the basics of user experience design skills, from user testing and information architecture to more advanced topics like refining your wireframe annotations and creating pattern libraries. Our course catalog includes:

• Introduction to Information Architecture
• Introduction to User-Centered Design
• Introduction to Usability Evaluation Methods
• Patterns & Components
• Planning Web Sites: A Visual Approach
• Communicating Design: Improving UX Deliverables
• Software-specific training for creating Wireframes, Deliverables, and Component & Pattern Libraries

If you don’t see exactly what you need, drop us a line. We can customize a workshop to suit your team.