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[Workshop] UX Tune-Up with Carol Barnum

When
18 Jul 2012
8:30 AM - 5:00 PM
Location
Railinc, 3rd Floor Training Room, 7001 Weston Parkway, Cary, NC 27513
Spaces left
25

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Member Registration – $95.00
Non-Member Registration – $125.00
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UX Tune-Up

Carol Barnum
Director and Co-Founder, Usability Center at Southern Polytechnic State University

Time for a tune-up? Maybe your skills are rusty or maybe you are self-taught “by the book.” This workshop will focus on some new ways of thinking and doing UX research.

Starting with a quick review of the basics of the two most often used in your UX toolkit, heuristic evaluation and usability testing, we’ll explore new approaches and techniques to increase the value of what you learn and how you report it to others. You’ll take away fresh ideas to try in your next UX project... or in your first.

Morning Focus: Heuristic evaluation/expert review, traditional to today

Popular pick in the UX toolkit
But why so popular?
What do you get with an expert review?
Nielsen gives us the 10 most popular guidelines
How do you do an expert review?
Let’s do one, then talk about it.
How do you report your findings?
Is there a better way?
Let’s explore this.

Afternoon focus: Small, diagnostic usability tests with a twist

Popular pick in the UX toolkit
What are small studies good for?
How can you do them fast, and cheap?
- First Fridays
- RITE Method
- 5-second tests
Let’s plan and conduct a test, then talk about it.
What happens in a typical day of testing?
How do you get at the elusive quality of satisfaction?
Deal the cards: Microsoft’s Product Reaction Cards
- How do they work?
- What results can you get
- How can you report them?
- Let’s explore this.

Conclusion: the 1-2 punch
- Put these two tools together for maximum benefit
- What each one gives you
- If you had to choose just one...

About Carol

For nearly two decades, Carol has been helping clients understand their users’ experience. Client projects have run the gamut from software, to Web sites, Web applications, documentation, training, elearning, mobile devices, and interactive voice response systems (IVRs). As Director and Co-founder, in 1994, of the Usability Center and Director of graduate studies in Information Design and Communication at Southern Polytechnic near Atlanta, Carol lives comfortably and happily in the two worlds of academe and business. An award-winning author and speaker, Carol has published six books. Her newest book is Usability Testing Essentials: Ready, Set … Test! She has been an invited speaker at conferences around the world. Carol is a founding editorial board member of JUS (Journal of Usability Studies), an STC Fellow, a Rainey Award recipient for Excellence in Research, and a Gould Award recipient for Excellence in Teaching Technical Communication.

This bio is from UXmatters.

Location

Railinc: 3rd Floor Training Room

7001 Weston Pkwy

Cary, NC 27513

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