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Tablets and Smart Phones Playdate - Coworking June 7

Bring your favorite gadget and be ready to share your favorite games, productivity apps, and social media tips on your iPhone, Android, Blackberry, or tablet. Mobile Coach Michael Espinosa will be on hand to answer questions.

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Facebook Ads & Promoted Posts - Friday, May 3

Facebook wants you to pay to "promote" your posts. Twitter offers sponsored tweets. In this month's free lunch workshop, we'll review the options and talk about when it makes sense to pay to get your message out in Facebook, LinkedIn and Twitter.

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April Free Lunch Workshop: Inspiration and Opportunities

Our April coworking workshop will be an opportunity to get ignited and inspired and connected to the passions that drive you. Our guide is social entrepreneur Liza Wizner, who will share her career/life journey and shed light on the next steps of our own paths.

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Happy World Usability Day! PDF Print E-mail

Firecats love usability, and we observe World Usability Day #WUD. For fellow UX practitioners, check out the World Usability Day software bundle (Thursday, Nov. 10 only), which includes the Optimal Workshop tools we find so useful.


More about World Usability Day

Folks who care about web usability, tend care a LOT about it, and speak their minds passionately. For me, it's a matter of empowering people, who should be served by technology, and not the other way around. If you are a business owner with a website, you need to care about your site's usability.

See the World Usability Day website for more activities, including a crowdsourced usability test by the University of Texas's IX lab. You can participate in the test, listen to the results, and get a sense of how remote usability works.

I'm missing my friends at Travelocity, who actually have an internal World Usability Day fair. Have fun today!

What's included in the World Usability Day Bundle?

  • Optimal Sort - Online, remote card sorting tool.
  • Treejack - Online, remote IA validation tool.
  • Chalkmark - Online, remote clicktesting/heatmapping tool.
  • 4 webinars from the Usability Professionals Association International
  • A 12-month subscription to other UX tools: Loop11, OpenHallway, ConceptShare, Hotgloo and SnapEngage.
It's $1370 - less than a 12-month subscription to the Optimal Workshop tools alone. If you're interested in learning more about the tools and what we do with them - Firecat Studio is planning an upcoming Coworking & Brownbag to focus on Usability Testing and Tools. 

Take a moment to shout out a site that you find highly usable.