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Adaptive Path invites you to come celebrate the completion of Rachel Hinman's 90 Mobiles in 90 Days blog project.

WHEN: Wednesday, September 17, 2008 from 6:30pm - 8:30pm

DESCRIPTION: Our resident mobile design strategist, Rachel Hinman, took on the challenge of exploring a new idea for the mobile user experience every day for 90 days. September 17th marks the completion of her project and to celebrate Adaptive Path will be hosting a party that will include a discussion with Rachel about her experience. Come and celebrate!

Read about the project on the AP blog here: http://www.adaptivepath.com/blog/2008/06/20/creative-recovery-90-mobiles-in-90-days/

Check out the project site here: http://90mobilesin90days.com/index/

Party info here: http://upcoming.yahoo.com/event/1077637/

Champagne and nibbles will be provided.
Talk will start promptly at 7:15

Thanks, and we look forward to seeing you there!

WHERE: Adaptive Path
363 Brannan Street
San Francisco, California 94107

We've just announced the last date for the UX Intensive workshop series this year. We'll be in Austin, Texas from December 8-11, 2008.

This intermediate-to-advanced workshop series examines the four key elements that contribute to a successful interactive experience: Design Strategy, Design Research, Interaction Design and Information Architecture.

The information architecture day is a deep dive into the wonders of bottom-up IA. We'll look at metadata, controlled vocabularies, how to create vocabularies and apply them. And then how to use all that structure to build innovative interfaces and improve systems such as site search.

As always, use the code FOCF to save 15% off the registration price. Early bird pricing is good through August 31 (which is in addition to my discount code).

It's not to late to sign up for Adaptive Path's UX Intensive workshop series June 16-19 in Minneapolis, MN. We're taking a break over the summer and then will be in Copenhagen, Denmark in October and back in the States in Austin in December (dates for both of those are still being finalized).

UX Intensive is an awesome 4-day workshop series. You can come to any combination of days that suit your interests. Each day is jam packed with lessons, stories from the field, tips, tricks, and methods that you can take back to work and put into practice. The topics include:

• Design Strategy with Brandon Schauer


• Design Research with Todd Wilkens


• Information Architecture with yours truly and Leah Buley


• Interaction Design with Dan Saffer and Kim Lenox

It's going to be a great week. You can still save on your registration by using the code FOCF. Get's you 15% off the registration price. Hope to see you there!

Adaptive Path is hosting an IA Summit After Party Sunday night! We'll be at the Hyatt hotel bar from 10-midnight. Come on by and we'll buy you a drink!

We are always coming up with new names for things. It's what we do at Adaptive Path. You get smart, geeky, creative people together and wordplay is bound to happen.

A couple years ago now, Dan started advocating for "topless" meetings. All too often our meetings were blogged down by folks staring at a screen and typing instead of participating in the conversations around them. Todd took up the call in a blog post against crackberries last November that caused some stir.

Well, it seems that other folks have really started to take notice. Yesterday, the LA Times published a front page story about topless meetings. Next thing we knew, film crews from ABC, CBS, and NBC were in the office. They interviewed Dan and shot some background images of the office.

The footage aired last night and is already up on the web:

On ABC nightly news. You can see me turn around in the background of one shot.

On the local CBS news.  I'm in a lot of shots of this one.

On the local NBC station. I'm just out of frame on this one, but you get to see a lot of good shots of the office and my coworkers.

Tonight is Adaptive Path's 7th Anniversary party!

Come join us at 111 Minna Gallery, 111 Minna Street in San Francisco. We'll have beer, wine and -- of course -- the Taco Truck. This year we're moving the party to 111 Minna, instead of having it at the office. All are welcome to come, but you'll need to RSVP on Upcoming for a wrist tag if you want to drink and eat those delicious tacos on our dime.

The taco truck opens at 7 PM sharp. Hope to see you there!

Okay, I know I don't post here enough. And when I do it's often event announcements. But that's because I'm so busy with these events and they are so freakin' cool!

Upcoming we have:

Adaptive Path's MX: Managing Experience. MX is going to be in San Francisco again this year, on April 20-22. Brandon and Henning have put together an amazing line up of speakers. There are folks from IDEO, Virgin USA, Google, Stanford University, Joie de Vivre Hospitality, Cisco and more. The early bird pricing is in effect until March 31. Use the code FOCF to save an extra 15% off that price!

August may sound a long ways off, but sign up now and save. Our annual UX Week Conference also has early bird pricing until March 31. The same code, FOCF will save you 15% off that price too. It's a whole week of user experience goodness right here in San Francisco. August 12-15.

Last, but certainly not least, is UX Intensive. We'll be in Minneapolis June 16-19. This is our four day long workshop series. We focus on design strategy, design research, information architecture and interaction design. Dan Saffer redid his whole day on interaction design for the IX Intensive in San Francisco last month and it was a big hit! We all do lots of hands-on exercises and group activities and discussions. Using FOCF will save you 15% off the early bird price here too, if you sign up by March 31.

In the fall we'll be taking UX Intensive on the road to Europe and Australia. Stay tuned!

It's not too late to join Adaptive Path in Vancouver next week for our User Experience Intensive workshop series.

Brandon will be kicking it off with the day on Business Strategy. The Todd will lead us through Design Research and what you need to do to get the most out of talking with users. Dan will dazzle everyone with his inspiring Interaction Design day on Wednesday. And the the week cleans up with vocabularies, taxonomies and metadata in my Information Architecture day.

There's still room if you want to join us for any or all days. Be use to use the FOCF promotional code and save an extra 15% of the registration price. Find more details and register on the Adaptive Path UXI site.

It's Adaptive Path's Sixth Anniversary!

It's that time of year again. Join us for our annual fiesta (yes, the taco truck will be back) on Friday, March 2. Bigger and better every year, the party will start at about 6:30 PM and wrap-up much, much later.

Mark March 2nd on your calendar and come and visit us at our San Francisco headquarters.

All are welcome. Please let us know you're planning on attending by RSVP-ing at Upcoming.

Map: http://maps.google.com/maps?oi=map&q=363+Brannan+Street,+San+Francisco,+CA
Us: http://adaptivepath.com