May 2005
May 27, 2005
TCANZ - Introduction to Usability for Technical Communicators
This workshop will cover the following topics:
- Overview of Usability and its cousins Usefulness and Desirability
- Defining the System
- Situating the human within the product's use
- Goal-driven design
- Me-Centered design and the personification of products
- Overview of the Customer Relationship Lifecycle
- How to assess a product's understandability, learnability, and operability
- Conducting Out-of-the-Box (OOBE, pron. 'oobie')
- Evaluations
- Usability Heuristics for software and documentation
Website: TCANZ May Workshop
May 31, 2005
UPA Auckland - Medley Night
Meddley night - Six 8-Minute Talks
Who else is attending UPA? What do they do? How did they get involved in usability?
We invite YOU to speak about:
- Your job
- A topic of interest to UPA
- How your work incorporates or relates to usability, user centred design
- Ask the audience a question - Got a burning question? you can stand up and ask us all to answer it.
Interested in talking? Got an idea for a future UPA topic? Please contact miriamwalker[at]acm[dot]org