Training
Workshops, usability seminars and custom usability trainings
Upcoming Events
Stay tuned for more upcoming seminars for Fall 2008:
- Introduction to User Centered Design
- Landing page conversion usability secrets
- 15 Lessons from Emotion Design
Archived Events
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!
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.
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?
AJAX Usability
Paid usability web seminar New applications of web technology are allowing for more dynamic,robust and interactive experiences… what should you know about the new AJAX UI?
Corporate Custom Training
We provide corporate in-house (internationally) and online usability training. The benefits of usability training include:- Unify team skill sets and different levels of understanding and expertise
- Gain a common vocabulary for usability issues and concerns
- Explore your specific usability questions either business unit or organization
>>Download the Usability training schedule 2008 (Experience Dynamics) PDF 293 KB
In-house usability training: (usability practitioner skills training)
Usability testing Methods
- Planning your test
- Setting usability metrics
- Preparing a test plan
- Moderating user tests
- Developing questionnaires
- Reporting on test data
- Analyzing results
- Communicating results
- And much more…
Ethnography Methods
- Ethnography techniques pros and cons
- Contextual inquiry
- Identifying users and tasks
- Persona best known methods
- Preparing your field study
- Conducting user interviews
- Analyzing qualitative data
- And much more…
User Interface Design Methods
- Websites vs. Web applications
- Identifying users and tasks
- Design principles
- Designing navigation systems
- Interaction Design techniques
- Choosing design widgets
- Web 2.0 and AJAX design
- Applying best practices
- Proofing your designs
- And much more…
Download the Usability training schedule 2008 (Experience Dynamics) PDF 293 KB
Inquire about a custom in-house training Contact Us
What to expect from our usability trainings:
- Hands-on learning
- Real world examples and case studies
- Custom training fit to your team issues
- High quality material from trainer with 10 years corporate experience delivering trainings to Fortune 500 companies
- Learning that is interesting, engaging and enjoyable
- Lots of exercises
- Unrivaled learning material
Pricing:
- Full day training $750.00 per person
- Advanced Methods Training: $1,250.00 per person (pricing based on 15 people minimum)
- Team discounts available
Contact us for a custom training quote or to discuss your options. Wed be happy to speak with you, no obligation.
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, Chase, US Bank, Business Objects, Mentor Graphics, GM, Toyota and others.
About Experience Dynamics
Experience Dynamics is a design research consultancy. The company’s User-Centered Design solution services are used by Fortune 500 companies in enterprise, institutional and consumer facing software and web environments. Since 2001, Experience Dynamics has delivered professional usability testing and design research solutions to corporate marketing and development teams globally including: Microsoft, Intel, IBM, HP, BankOne, KeyBank, Daimler-Chrysler and Whitepages.com. Experience Dynamics delivers research-based strategic design recommendations. More information about Experience Dynamics is available at www.experiencedynamics.com or at the blog: www.usabilitydiary.com.
