Product Description

Transform design theory into practical usage during this 2 day interactive seminar where you will learn how to define user goals and business needs and then apply proven design techniques to ensure highly usable and successful applications. These are the same techniques being used successfully on real projects for many of our Global 2000 clients and large government organizations. Implementing a successful design process can mean the difference between success and failure in the coming years. Learn from the experts who have been delivering success in this field for over a decade!

We will show you how to apply a proven process for identifying true user requirements, developing and validating conceptual models, and creating designs that are highly usable. We back up our design recommendations with solid research performed in our digital usability lab and will provide you actual video of users in action to bring home to your design teams to further reinforce the seminar material. We will show you how to adopt a user-centric perspective and learn how customer-centered design can transform your organization.

What You will Learn

This class for developers, end-users, interaction designers, and managers explains how to apply the concepts of human centered design to the paradigm of web development.

Attendees will learn how to:

Develop a detailed understanding of your users through task analysis, mental models, and user profiles
Determine the best information architecture for your users
Proper layout and design techniques
Learn new design modeling techniques
Create and implement in-house web standards
Plan and conduct and effective usability test
Implement net-database and e-commerce designs
Design more successful applications
Validate and defend important design decisions

Attendees will walk away with a complete set of templates for quickly implementing this process within their organization.

Benefits to Your Company

Our Designing for Usability course will benefit your organization in the following ways:

Increase end user productivity by developing usable web applications.
Increase developer efficiency by using agile development techniques.
Increase revenue by using a proven seven-step process for modeling complex web applications.
Reduce training and support costs.

Who Should Attend

This class is designed for corporate or commercial developers and analysts that are, or plan to be, involved in web projects. Anyone concerned with developing well-designed web sites, including individuals that will gather user requirements or end-users themselves, will benefit from attending. Attendees should have a basic understanding of web technologies and navigating in a web environment. GUI Design for Web Applications is useful for:

Project managers who are responsible for establishing or managing a web application project.
Project leaders who need to know proven steps for web-enabling existing client/server applications.
GUI designers who need to know how and when to use web controls when creating user interfaces.
Webmasters who are responsible for managing and implementing web technology.
Analysts and programmers who need to know the critical aspects and limitations of web design.
End users who need to understand the principles of good web design techniques.

User Experience Design -SF (1/13/15 – 1/13/15)