Fw: Beyond Ease of Use
"Michael Arnold Mages" <[email protected]>
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Thought some of you might be interested, if you're in Denver or nearby... -----Original Message----- From: AIGA Colorado User Experience [mailto:[email protected]] Sent: Tue 9/20/2005 4:01 PM To: Michael Arnold Mages Subject: AIGA - Usability: Beyond Ease of Use AIGA Colorado Experience Design presents Usability: Beyond Ease of Use with Whitney Quesenbery Wednesday, Sept. 28 Tivoli Student Union: Room 320 Auraria Campus 900 Auraria Parkway, Denver. 6:30 - 7:00 Check in, mingle, visit sponsor tables 7:00 - 8:30 presentation & Q&A 8:30 - 9:00 mingle/chat The definition of usability is sometimes reduced to "easy to use," but this over-simplifies the problem and provides little guidance for the user interface designer. A more precise definition can be used to understand user requirements, formulate usability goals and decide on the best techniques for usability evaluations. An understanding of the five characteristics of usability -- effective, efficient, engaging, error tolerant, easy to learn -- helps guide the user-centered design tasks to the goal of usable products. Whitney Quesenbery will discuss the 5 E's of usability and how they can help guide a design project from setting initial usability goals through design choices and evaluation techniques. About the speaker Whitney Quesenbery is President of UPA (Usability Professionals' Association) and the principal consultant for Whitney Interactive Design. She is a user interface designer and usability specialist with a passion for clear communication. Whitney is a frequent presenter at industry conferences including UPA, ACM SIGCHI and STC. In 2005 she was given the STC President's Award. She is the Director of the UPA Voting and Usability Project and has been appointed to the US Elections Assistance Commission's guidelines development committee, where she works to ensure the usability of voting systems. [Non-text portions of this message have been removed] ------------------------ Yahoo! Groups Sponsor --------------------~--> Get fast access to your favorite Yahoo! Groups. Make Yahoo! your home page http://us.click.yahoo.com/dpRU5A/wUILAA/yQLSAA/ru9rlB/TM --------------------------------------------------------------------~-> - - - - A I G A E X P I E R I E N C E D E S I G N - - - - PURPOSE OF THE LIST: The objective of AIGA Experience Design is to build an interdisciplinary community of professionals who design for a world in which experiences are increasingly digital and connected. This list has been established as a forum for the exchange of information among community members. TO VIEW ARCHIVED MESSAGES: visit http://groups.yahoo.com/group/AIGAExperienceDesign ETIQUETTE: We ask that participants observe common principles of civility and e-mail etiquette in their postings. Specifically, it is more appropriate to challenge ideas than individuals, and the list should *not* be used for personal communications, self-promotion, commercial solicitations or job postings. JOB POSTINGS: Please post job listings on AIGA Design Jobs http://www.aiga.org/designjobs TO UNSUBSCRIBE: Send e-mail to [email protected] MORE INFORMATION: http://experiencedesign.aiga.org Yahoo! Groups Links <*> To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/AIGAExperienceDesign/ <*> To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [email protected] <*> Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/