by Mike Little
27/01/2009 in Resources, Usability
Here are the slides (in PDF) from Rob’s talk on interaction between usability professionals and software developers given on 20th January 2009.
interaction between usability professionals and software developers
Sorry for the delay (Rob did send them promptly)
by Paul Rouke
15/01/2009 in Design, Events, Usability
I’m posting on behalf of Rob Knight, our lead technical architect at PRWD.
Rob will be giving a talk at Tuesday 20th Jan’s meeting, on the subject of the interaction between usability professionals and software developers in delivering projects.
The talk will cover the common pitfalls that both sides can make in failing to understand the perspective of the other and how this can be addressed. It will also cover the interaction between common User-Centered Design processes and modern software development processes such as the various types of Agile development.
Rob is hoping to keep it fairly short (15 minutes or so) and cover a few practical points that should be useful to everyone. Hopefully it will be a topic which can stimulate some interesting debate too!
See some of you next Tuesday!
by Paul Rouke
Some people may be interested to know of a free usability event being run by Manchester Digital on the 28th January 2009. I will be speaking at the event along with Judith Garmen and Pete Bagnall.
It’s focused on helping business owners understand the importance of usability for both their internal and external facing websites and systems, with the aim of improving companies bottom line through the likes of improving staff efficiency and the conversion rates from marketing budgets.
A few details below:
Further details and a brief overview are below:
For the digital sector, usability and user experience are more than new fads.
These topics, and their perceived value to businesses, have been talked and written about many times, but lets get it straight: just exactly what is the use of usability to a company looking at improving their performance, ROI and staff efficiency?
In this FREE event Paul Rouke, User Experience Director at PRWD, and 2 guest speakers Judith Garman of AbilityNet and Pete Bagnall of SurfaceEffect, will be providing a range of real-life examples and industry insights which will help reveal some of the tangible benefits businesses can gain by embracing usability and user experience.
Through the course of the evening you will see why usability can play a significant role in the likes of e-commerce websites, B2B websites, lead generation sites, intranets, internal software systems and the development of bespoke web and software applications.
The event will be followed by drinks, some food and networking.
by Paul Rouke
06/01/2009 in Events
**UPDATED**
Unfortuntely for February we will need to meet in a local pub or another free meeting place, as MDDA can’t facilitate all the groups who want to use their meeting rooms on the 17th Feb 2009.
We can choose a suitable venue at January’s meeting on the 20th..
———————————————————————-
Following feedback on suitable dates, and the fact that Wednesday’s would be difficult for some of the regulars, the next 3 monthly meetings will be on Tuesday’s on the dates below:
Jon could you add these to Upcoming as offered when you get chance? Cheers
Update: These are now added to Upcoming. See the Upcoming Group. — Mike Little
|
| Subscribe to NUX Discussion List |
| Or to NUX Announcements |
