Refresh Boston in October: Sex and Design Axioms October 6, 2009

Sex and Design Axioms describes the minimal rule set for designing interfaces: the foundational concepts that are required knowledge for designers and engineers to create usable and elegant interfaces.

A production stratification has evolved into stove-piped disciplines from information architecture to user experience to interaction design to usability to graphic design much to the detriment of designers. Emerging is the Renaissance interface designer: a technically savvy artist that’s fluent in typography, color theory, composition, layout, usability, interaction design, and code.

About Our Speaker

Juhan Sonin is the Creative Director of Involution Studios Boston, and has been the creative leader of four different organizations, producing work recognized by the BBC, the New York Times, Ars Electronica, National Public Radio and Billboard Magazine. Prior to joining Involution, Juhan spent time at Apple, the National Center for Supercomputing Applications (NCSA), a few startups, and MITRE. He is also a lecturer on design and rapid prototyping at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT).

About Our Sponsors

A special thanks goes out to Slim Kiwi, Boston Web Studio & ::play:: for sponsoring this month's event. We'd also like to
thank Microsoft for hosting us once again, as these events would not be as successful without them.

Slim Kiwi (http://slimkiwi.com) is a small design and development firm with high standards, always on the lookout for additions to its roster of great clients and freelancers.

Boston Web Studio (http://bostonwebstudio.com) specializes in designing and developing attractive, modern, accessible websites that appeal to the visitors your business needs to reach.

::play:: (http://www.projectplay.com) is a media & technology studio focused on simple, measurable solutions that drive
business. They're serious about pushing the limits of their versatile toolbox and they're always looking for agile clients and freelancers.

For more on our sponsors, or to support an upcoming Refresh Boston event, checkout the Support page on our website:

http://refreshboston.org/support/

After the Meeting

Since the Boston Drupal group is meeting on the same night, we'll be joining them at the Muddy Charles Pub at MIT's Walker Memorial building after Juhan's presentation to continue the discussion and to do the usual networking. More information about the pub can be found on the website:

http://web.mit.edu/muddy/

Official Website: http://refreshboston.org