Meeting Details for March 14, 2007

The March meeting of UsabilityNJ will be held on Wednesday, March 14, 2007 at Pershing Technologies in Edison, NJ (click for directions). Social hour starting at 6:30 PM. Presentation starting at 7:00 PM.

Topic: User Experience Benchmarking

Speaker: Scott Weiss

Please RSVP to rsvp [at] usabilitynj [dot] org if you plan to attend the meeting.

Talk Summary

User Experience Benchmarking is a quantitative way to compare user interfaces, either the same UI over time or UIs from competing products. Benchmarking allows one to rank product usability through user preferences, time-to-complete, and success rates. Usable Products Company has produced both commissioned (private) and syndicated user experience benchmarks for the past four years. Scott Weiss, Principal of Usable Products, will present user experience benchmarking's benefits, operations, tools, and outputs with examples, anecdotes, and video clips.

Speaker Bio

Scott Weiss
Usable Products Company
Scott is the Principal of Usable Products Company, an ease-of-use consultancy focused on mobile device usability and design. Usable Products' clients include Cisco, Google, Intel, LG, Microsoft, Nokia, Samsung, Sprint, Sun Microsystems, and Vodafone. Scott's work experience includes career positions at Apple, Microsoft, Sybase, and Autodesk. His design work spans contributions to Macintosh System 7.0, Microsoft Windows 95, and Microsoft Schedule+, the predecessor to Microsoft Outlook. He is the author of Handheld Usability (Wiley 2002), a pioneering text on mobile UI design, usability, and prototyping. He has lectured and/or taught at Parsons New School University, Stanford University, Carnegie Mellon, NYU, ACM's SIG-CHI, DIS, HFES, AMIA, UPA, MEX, and Mobile HCI.

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