User Centered Design Workshop
October 21, 2008
8:00 am to 5:00 pm
4001 Nakoosa Trail Suite 201
Madison, Wisconsin
User Centered Design can reduce user errors, increase customer satisfaction and improve productivity. The User Centered design process uses best practices and proven methods to create an interface that is intuitive, simple and effective.
This workshop will help
you increase
your productivity and customer satisfaction!
Attend our one day
workshop on the principles of usability geared specifically for
user interface design. Designed and presented by an instructor
with 13 years of usability design and research, you’ll
learn what works – and what doesn’t! This
workshop will give you new insight, help you improve your applications,
and enhance your users’ experience. We’ll help you:
• reduce
the product development cycle time
• reduce the amount of rework in the development stage
• increase user satisfaction
• avoid common design mistakes
You’ll come away from the workshop with valuable skills you’ll be able to use immediately, as well as with a take-home reference book.
Please see below for a full workshop outline or call us to talk more about how this workshop can benefit you or your employees.
Who should attend?
• Developers looking for design standards based on tested
research.
• Analysts who want to make sure that their users have an
intuitive and easy to use interface.
• Project or program managers who want to have a better understanding
of how to evaluate an effective application design.
• Marketing managers who are interested in finding out how
their product stacks up against the competition and how it is perceived
by their customers.
Enrollment Fee – Only $495 per person ... includes refreshments, workshop materials and the take-away reference book!
Enroll more than one attendee from your organization at the same time and you’ll save 10 percent off each additional enrollment fee!
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Outline
The general outline for the workshop includes:
- Usability Basics
a. What is usability and what is it not?
b. Usability Concepts – find out what the basic concepts of usability are and how these concepts are used to design and build products that are usable. - Usability
Process
a. User Research – find out how to better understand what it is your customers need and how they currently get their work done.
b. Design – discover how to move from the product specification to detailed a drawing while taking in the full breadth of design ideas available.
c. Implement – learn how a usability overview of the implementation process is critical to gaining the time savings that user research and user centered design offer.
d. Test – detect before release if there are any critical issues that may prove disastrous should the product be released. See how testing the product with your customers before release provides you with insights for the next version and provides you with a go/no go status for your product. - Application Design
a. Building a team – understand how the best designs are sometimes lost in the typical process for product development (and how to remedy the situation).
b. Design tips – good ideas and processes are great but what is their relation to the real world? In this section we will be getting down to the details of how to incorporate usability into your design.
The reference book
we’ll send home with you is GUI Bloopers
2.0 by Jeff Johnson. This book retails for $49.95 and is included
in your enrollment fee!
If you have questions about this workshop or how Smart Solutions can meet your business needs, please give us a call.