BayCHI (Jan 9) - Design: The Neglected Child of Human Interface? / Annette Wagner
Richard I. Anderson
the San Francisco Bay Area ACM SIGCHI
(Special Interest Group on Computer-Human Interaction),
announces its January meeting:
Tuesday, January 9, 1996
7:30 - 9:30 pm
Design: The Neglected Child of Human Interface?
OR
Whipped Cream on Road Kill Still Tastes Bad
Annette Wagner, SunSoft
Xerox PARC Auditorium
3333 Coyote Hill Road
Palo Alto, CA 94304
<BayCHI meeting attendance is free & open to the public>
Abstract:
What does it take to be successful at designing human interfaces for
product development? An understanding of the design process is the place
to start. Unfortunately, many human interface professionals are not
trained to design; they are trained to analyze and evaluate.
While evaluation is a necessary part of the design process, you cannot
design a great human interface by running multiple user tests; you must
start by designing the interface.
Design is a verb; designing is a creative proactive process in which the
designer weaves many threads together into a product. The designer acts
as the nexus point for these threads through the roles of facilitator,
idea generator, and historian. A designer is someone who has been
trained to see the difference
between a good design and a bad design; to know when a design "works".
Ms. Wagner will describe the design process she uses. The discussion
will include pointers on how to articulate your own design process. The
design process will be illustrated with examples from real projects and
with methods anyone can use to make design an integral part of the
product development life
cycle. These methods include brainstorming, being the team visualizer,
and writing user stories.
The presentation will include a description of the now-defunct Designers
Anonymous group and why the group was formed originally.
Biography:
Annette Wagner describes herself as a human interface designer and
artist. She began her career at Apple 14 years ago working on the Lisa
personal computer. She worked on several versions of the Macintosh
Finder and other Macintosh products. Ms. Wagner is currently a senior
member of the Human Computer Interaction group at SunSoft Inc., where she
is working hard at bringing ease
of use to end user applications running on Unix. When she is not doing
that, she is the art director for The Sphere Information Services, a web
page service provider.
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NOTES OF SPONSORSHIP & THANKS
BayCHI thanks Jock MacKinlay and Stu Card of Xerox PARC for sponsoring
our use of the Xerox PARC auditorium for BayCHI monthly meetings.
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BayCHI's February meeting: February 13
likely topics: the world of HI prototyping
and tips on travel through cyberspace
location: Xerox PARC Auditorium, Palo Alto
(see next month for detailed and updated info)
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About BayCHI
BayCHI, the San Francisco Bay Area chapter of ACM's Special Interest
Group on Computer-Human Interaction, brings together systems designers,
human factors engineers, computer scientists, psychologists, social
scientists, users, software engineers, product managers, ... from
throughout the Bay Area to hear and to exchange ideas about
computer-human interaction and about the design and evaluation of user
interfaces.
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Additional information about BayCHI is available at BayCHI's evolving
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For program updates and to leave messages, call 408-235-9244.
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DIRECTIONS TO XEROX PARC
>From Highway 280, take the Page Mill Road exit. Go east one mile to Coyote
Hill Road (no light) and turn right. Go 1/2 mile and PARC will be on your
left. Follow the signs to the auditorium.
>From 101, take the Oregon Expressway exit west 2 miles to El Camino Real.
Oregon Expressway becomes Page Mill Road at El Camino Real. Follow Page
Mill Road 1.7 miles to Coyote Hill Road (no light) and turn left. Coyote
Hill Road is just past the intersection with Foothill Expressway. Go 1/2
mile and PARC will be on your left. Follow the signs to the auditorium.
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