Our guests tonight: Wednesday October 24th
Thom Haller
Tonight we will spend 30 minutes on "What Sticks" and then hear from our guests Lisa Battle and Janice James who work with Design for Context. (http://www.designforcontext.com/) They will present until break and we'll return to class to work through our card sorting exercise.
I'm looking forward to it!
THOM
Lisa Battle, Principal, Design for Context
Lisa Battle has over 15 years of experience in the design of applications, web sites and information resources. Her work with project teams includes clarifying user needs and business goals, and designing user interface solutions that improve user experience and productivity. Lisa has led the design of many interactive applications supporting business functions such as accounts payable, claims processing, learning management, and project management, and has consulted on the design of large-scale informational web sites and intranets. She is also an expert on accessibility, which makes products and services easier to use for people with disabilities.Lisa is a frequent speaker at conferences, and has presented on topics including accessibility, usability, requirements engineering, strategic design, and integrating accessibility and usability into the software development lifecycle. She was the president of the DC Metro Chapter of the Usability Professionals’ Association (formerly UPA, now UXPA) for four years. She created the annual User Focus conference in Washington, DC, and was its conference chair for four years. She is also a member of the international committee defining the UXPA’s Usability Body of Knowledge (www.usabilitybok.org). She has developed and taught courses on usability best practices, defined standards and guidelines for clients, and mentored project teams on usability methods. Lisa has a master’s degree in Cognitive Psychology/Human Factors, which focuses on how people think, make decisions, and interact with information and tools.
Janice James
Janice has more than 24 years of experience in the field of user research, user-centered design and information architecture for software and web applications, websites, and intranets. She is dedicated to helping clients fully understand their users’ needs and expectations and to design solutions that are easy to use, efficient and satisfying. Her expertise spans across travel, financial services, education, utilities, healthcare and ecommerce industries. Throughout various points of her career, Janice has been a manager/director, practitioner, and principal of her own consulting firm.
One of Janice’s proudest accomplishments is founding the Usability Professionals’ Association (formerly UPA, now UXPA) in 1991 after recognizing the need for a practical-oriented organization dedicated to enhancing usability professionals’ skills and success. She served as President and on the Board of Directors through 1999. Janice also co-founded, with Ginny Redish, the STC Professional Interest Committee on Usability. Janice holds a M.S. in Technical Communications, has completed graduate work in Human Computer Interaction and is a frequent speaker at numerous professional conferences. Janice is co-author, with Carol Righi, of User-Centered Design Stories: Real-World UCD Case Studies (Morgan Kaufmann, 2007).