Usability Seminars
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New Web Seminars
What are personas and should you be using them to improve your website usability? This web seminar series explores personas from a historical view to a more practical, how to create, and use personas effectively. We will explore the issues of content segmentation, improper use of personas and a case study of personas in action. This seminar series will take you beyond the hype. And Part 1 is Free!
Personas Demystified: Complete Series (Parts 1-5)
Parts 2-5 of the five part series gives you rare insights into persona best practices. In these sessions, we will show you how to create and troubleshoot your own personas. We will also cover a central issue of organizational effectiveness of your personas and how to ensure they have a long “shelf life” in your organization.
Stay tuned for more upcoming seminars for September 2008:
- Introduction to User Centered Design
- Landing page conversion usability secrets
- 15 Lessons from Emotion Design
Previously-Recorded Web Seminars
Usability Testing Skills Refresher
Paid usability web seminar You’re new to usability testing or you are familiar through informal learning. Perhaps you missed a few crucial distinctions that can improve your facilitation skills and the quality of your tests. It’s time for a refresher! Email us at seminars@experiencedynamics.com for access to this archived series.
Personas Demystified: Part 1
Free usability web seminar What are personas and should you be using them to improve your website usability? This 5-part web seminar series explores the topic of personas and goes beyond the hype to help you understand what personas are and how you can best use them in your organization. Part 1, complimentary.
Personas Demystified: Complete Series
Paid usability web seminar What are personas and should you be using them to improve your website usability? This 5-part web seminar series explores the topic of personas and goes beyond the hype to help you understand what personas are and how you can best use them in your organization. Email us at seminars@experiencedynamics.com for access to this archived series.
Personas Live! Interview with Pruitt and Adlin
Free usability web seminar Frank Spillers, Experience Dynamics, interviews ‘The Persona Lifecycle’ book editors, Pruitt and Adlin about the persona lifecycle model and the impetus for pulling together this landmark book…
User-Centered Design 101
Free usability web seminar Is User Centered Design a buzzword, a technique, or a methodology? Why does “UCD” get so much attention? How has it changed how teams approach web application usability efforts? Is UCD right for you?
Content Usability
Free usability web seminar What is the best presentation and display of content, images and copy on a website? How do you display content (the #1 driver on the Internet) so that it is easy to find, easy to understand and that helps improve credibility.
User Contributed Content
Free usability web seminar This seminar looks at the important relationship of Community, Participation and Trust with regard to Customer Retention. Moreover, we will explore simple and practical ways you can harness the power that can be gained from supporting User Contributed Content on your site.
Field Studies
Free usability web seminar What does a user want? Beyond focus groups and user testing, field studies dive into the behavioral data of your customers. Learn how ethnography, task analysis and “cognitive archeology” are changing the competitive landscape.
ROI of User Centered Design
Free usability web seminar What is the business case for usability? How can usability be cost-justified? What are typical results from a usability effort? How can you measure a user-centered design return on investment?
Content Management System Usability
Free usability web seminar What should you know about retaining usability when transferring to a new Content Management System? What are some issues with content management systems? What are common mistakes for large organizations implementing a new CMS with regard to your user experience?
Content Segmentation - Have You Taken It Too Far?
Free usability web seminar How do you segment your user pathways with your content and design? Are you aware of the usability risks of segmenting content? How can you segment on the web and still retain a high degree of usability and an optimum user experience?
Designing Usable Web Applications: Part 1
Free usability web seminar Are you translating these software mistakes into your web application? How well do users manage web applications and what confuses them most?
About Experience Dynamics web seminars:
Experience Dynamics offers a recurring set of usability web seminars on hot usability topics. The web seminars provide an overview and quick review of key issues and opportunities related to best practices in usability research. The seminars are presented by Frank Spillers, MS, a recognized expert in the field of usability engineering and user experience design. Experience Dynamics seminars are complimentary and are attended by companies including Intel, Citigroup, KeyBank, The Hartford, Fujitsu, Intuit, EMC Corp, Geico, Chase, US Bank, Business Objects, Mentor Graphics, GM, Toyota and others.
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