What: Night & Day, An Interaction and User Experience Design Professional Learning Series, which features a lecture on Friday night and workshop on Saturday from leading experts about enhancing mobile, online and other user experiences, sponsored by the University of North Texas’ College of Visual Arts and Design and the New College at Frisco.  

When: Coming Fall 2017.

Where: New College at Frisco, 2811 Internet Blvd., Suite 100, Frisco

Cost: $725 for the entire weekend; $15 for just the lecture

Registration: Register online.

What else: Soft drinks will be served on Friday. Breakfast and lunch will be provided on Saturday.

DENTON (UNT), Texas - Professionals can find new ways to enhance users’ experiences online or on their mobile apps and platforms – by using delight, storytelling and experience mapping – with a new lecture series sponsored by the University of North Texas.

Night & Day, An Interaction and User Experience Design Professional Learning Series will feature a lecture and a workshop. The event, sponsored by UNT’s New College at Frisco and the College of Visual Arts and Design, kicks off this fall. 

“We’re trying to teach people how to make the processes that guide interactive design better, less frustrating and more effective,” said Michael Gibson, professor of communication design. “That’s what these three speakers have earned international reputations doing.”

Gibson and Keith Owens, associate professor of communication design, established the series because Dallas-Fort Worth is one of the leading North American markets in interaction and user experience design. Major corporations rely on interaction and user experience design processes and management techniques to help them develop and sustain easy-to-use websites and apps, and the series could appeal to professionals who work in design, as well as marketing, business management and information technology and computer science.

“We want to establish UNT as a regional and national leader in the construction and dissemination of new knowledge in and around this exploding discipline,” Gibson said.