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Hot Topics in User Experience
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A full-day event combining a new tutorial on usable design with Ajax and our very popular half-day card-sorting workshop.
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Ajax - Usability & Design
- What is Ajax?
- How does it work?
- How does it differ from other web technologies?
- What are its strengths and weaknesses for usability?
- How do I apply Ajax effectively in design?
If you are losing sleep on any of these questions this session will cure your insomnia. It is a highly interactive tutorial that looks at the application of Ajax from both theoretical and practical standpoints. Previous experience of Ajax is not essential.
Agenda
9:00 Introduction
9:20 About Ajax
- Ajax in context
- How Ajax works
- How Ajax is different
- How Ajax is similar
9:50 Computer-Human Interaction
- Change blindness
- Attentional gambling
- Flow
10:30 Coffee break
11:00 Computer-Human Interaction continued
11:30 Design and usability guidelines
11:50 Case study
- Graceful degradation/progressive enhancement
12:20 Questions
12:30 Lunch break
Old Cards, New Tricks:
Innovative Solutions for Card Sorting
- Is card sorting as difficult as it sounds?
- What do those dendograms mean?
- How can I get the most from the results?
- How is card sorting done in practice?
- Is there an quick and easy way to collect the data?
Card sorting can be very effective in navigation design but traditional approaches make it a daunting task, especially for the uninitiated. This workshop gives participants hands-on experience of several new techniques in the conduct and analysis of card sorting, in particular using bar codes for data capture and several innovative methods of analysis. (For further information see interactions magazine September+October 2005 or visit http://www.syntagm.co.uk/design/cardsort.shtml)
Agenda
2:00 Introduction
- Cluster analysis and dendograms
- New and extended analysis techniques
- Navigational alignment
2:45 Card sorting in practice
- Preparation
- Qualitative and quantitative analyses
3:00 Activity - analyze results from an existing web site
3:45 Coffee break
4:00 Activity - prepare and conduct card sort
4:30 Activity - capture card sort data with bar code readers
5:00 Activity - produce analyses and interpret results
5:20 Q & A
5:30 Finish
Biography
William Hudson consults, writes and teaches in the fields of user-centred design and usability. He has over 30 years experience in the development of interactive systems, initially with a background in software engineering. William was the product and user interface designer for the Emmy-award-winning "boujou"; now an indispensable tool in many film studios. He has specialized in interaction design and human-computer interaction since the late 1980's. William has written and taught courses which have been presented to hundreds of software and web developers, designers and managers in the UK, North America and Europe. He is the founder and principal consultant of Syntagm, a consultancy specializing in the design of interactive systems established in 1985.
William has written numerous articles for the ACM's SIGCHI Bulletin and interactions magazine, some of which will be discussed during the event.
