About the Awards

The Communicator Awards is the leading international awards program honoring creative excellence for Communications Professionals. Founded by communication professionals over a decade ago, The Communicator Awards receives over 9,000 entries from companies and agencies of all sizes, making it one of the largest awards of its kind in the world.

The Communicator Awards is sanctioned and judged by the International Academy of the Visual Arts, an invitation-only body consisting of top-tier professionals from a “Who’s Who” of acclaimed media, communications, advertising, creative and marketing firms. IAVA members include executives from organizations such as Alloy, Brandweek, Coach, Disney, The Ellen Degeneres Show, Estee Lauder, Fry Hammond Barr, HBO, Monster.com, MTV, Polo Ralph Lauren, Sotheby’s Institute of Art, Victoria’s Secret, Wired, and Yahoo!

About the Awards
The Webby Awards is the leading international award honoring excellence in web design, creativity, usability and functionality. Established in 1996 during the web’s infancy, the Webbys are presented by The International Academy of Digital Arts and Sciences, a 500-member body of leading web experts, business figures, luminaries, visionaries and creative celebrities.

The Human Interface (or: Products are People, Too!)

More and more, users are interacting with web sites and software on a conversational, physical, and emotional level—just like we’ve always interacted with other people. UX designers, then, must stop thinking about interfaces as dumb control panels and begin imagining them (literally!) as human beings. This talk will discuss past, present, and future ways of humanizing the user experience.

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The Information Architecture Summit is the premier gathering place for information architects and other user experience professionals. It’s grown from a special interest group’s efforts to define an emerging field, to a rich and expanding community of practice, shaping and informing multiple disciplines.

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Re-Inventing the Wheel: Sketching your own IA Process
It’s the start of a new project. You’ve got requirements, guidelines, data, research. Now what? Like an artist staring at a blank canvas, information architects often don’t know where to begin. Instead of following a rigid methodology or waiting for the perfect idea to appear out of the blue, learn to continually invent new tools and techniques to foster real user experience innovation.

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SXSW Interactive Festival offers five days of captivating keynote presentations, panel sessions, book readings, Salons and Core Conversations that provide hands-on training as well as big-picture analysis.

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The Human Interface (or: Products are People, Too!)
More and more, users are interacting with web sites and software on a conversational, physical, and emotional level—just like we’ve always interacted with other people. UX designers, then, must stop thinking about interfaces as dumb control panels and begin imagining them (literally!) as human beings. This talk will discuss past, present, and future ways of humanizing the user experience.

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Interaction10 is the third annual conference hosted by the Interaction Design Association (IxDA). Each year, IxDA aims to gather the interaction design community to connect, educate and inspire each other.

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The Human Interface (or: Products are People, Too!)
More and more, users are interacting with web sites and software on a conversational, physical, and emotional level—just like we’ve always interacted with other people. UX designers, then, must stop thinking about interfaces as dumb control panels and begin imagining them (literally!) as human beings. This talk will discuss past, present, and future ways of humanizing the user experience.

Event Details
Wednesday, November 18
9:00AM
Jacob K. Javits Convention Center
655 West 34th Street
New York, NY 10001

About the OMMA Awards
Web Site Excellence Awards go to Web publishers and/or Web developers whose outstanding content, visual design and user interface create recurring value for users.

About the Web Marketing Association’s WebAward
Since 1997, the Web Marketing Association’s annual WebAward Competition has been setting the standard of excellence for Website development. Independent expert judges from around the world review sites in 96 industries. The best are recognized with a WebAward which helps interactive professionals promote themselves, their companies, and their best work to the outside world. The WebAward Competition is the premier award recognition program for Web developers and marketers worldwide.

We are proud to announce that we have won four Horizon Interactive Awards!

HBO’s John Adams—One Silver for Flash Design, One Bronze for Entertainment Web Site

About the project:
“Behavior Design launched the online companion to HBO’s epic 7-part miniseries event, John Adams.

We created an immersive interactive experience layered with rich content, including exclusive behind-the-scenes interviews with the series creators…” Read More.

National Geographic Channel—One Silver for Entertainment Web Site

About the project:

“Behavior was retained by National Geographic Channel (NGC), a popular television channel featuring non-fiction programming, to redesign and reimagine an online companion for their highly-acclaimed original shows.

Behavior drove the project with two core objectives: first, motivate viewer “tune-in” and second, cultivate fan enthusiasm…” Read More.

MoMA: Kirchner & The Berlin Street—One Silver for Flash Design

About the Project:

“Kirchner and the Berlin Street is the third major project Behavior Design has undertaken for MoMA, contributing the interactive exhibitions for both, Georges Seurat: The Drawings and Beyond the Visible, The Art of Odilon Redon. For this initiative the Behavior team, in close collaboration with MoMA, designed and executed the online companion website and interactive touch screen kiosk for the Kirchner exhibition…” Read More.

We are so proud to have won these awards!

Hailed as the “Internet’s highest honor” by the New York Times, The Webby Awards is the leading international award honoring excellence on the Internet.

John Adams is the online component to HBO’s epic 7-part miniseries event. Based on David McCullough’s Pulitzer Prize-winning biography of the same name, John Adams explores American history through one of its greatest founding fathers.

Behavior created an immersive interactive experience layered with rich content, including behind-the-scenes features with the film’s creators, exclusive interviews with Paul Giamatti who plays John Adams, David McCullough, author, and Tom Hooper, the film’s director, among others. [Read the full case study.]

“Nominees like John Adams are setting the standard for innovation and creativity on the Internet,” said David-Michel Davies, executive director of the Webby Awards. “It is an incredible achievement to be selected among the best from the nearly 10,000 entries we received this year.”

As a nominee, John Adams is also eligible to win a Webby People’s Voice Award, which is voted online by the global Web community. From now until April 30th, John Adams fans can cast their votes in The Webby People’s Voice Awards at http://pv.webbyawards.com.

Winners will be announced on May 5th, 2009 and honored at a star-studded ceremony in New York City on June 8th hosted by Seth Meyers. Winners will be able to share one of the Webby’s famous five-word speeches with the world. Past Webby Award winners – and their speeches – include Al Gore (“Please don’t recount this vote.”), Beastie Boys (“Can anyone fix my computer?”), and Stephen Colbert (“Me. Me. Me. Me. Me.”).

The Webby Awards is presented by the International Academy of Digital Arts and Sciences, a 650-person judging academy whose members include Internet co-inventor Vinton Cerf, R/GA’s Chief Bob Greenberg, “Simpson’s” creator Matt Groening, Arianna Huffington, and Harvey Weinstein.