William Hudson, Syntagm Ltd
This one-day workshop and tutorial on web design for usability explains how users interact with technology; how to discover, and design, for users’ needs; and how to apply simple, but effective user-centered techniques such as goal mapping, paper prototyping and card-sorting.
The day is a balanced combination of tutorials, group exercises and discussions, ensuring that participants can gain a rich understanding of the problems presented by technology-focused design and how they can be addressed to improve usability.
The course has been presented to public and corporate audiences in the UK. It premiered to a CHI audience in 2006
On completion of this tutorial you will be able to:
Web and intranet designers, developers and managers. Usability and HCI professionals interested in the practical aspects of usable design. No specialist skills or knowledge are required.
The course is approximately 60% tutorials and 40% activities or group discussions.
William Hudson has over 30 years experience in the development of interactive systems. He has contributed material on user-centered design and user interface design to the Rational Unified Process and to Addison- Wesley’s Object Modeling and User Interface Design (van Harmelen, 2001). He is the director of user experience for the Intranet Benchmarking Forum and has written regularly for the ACM’s interactions magazine and SIGCHI Bulletin.
WEB SITE: Further information about the instructor and this course can be found at http://www.designforusability.com