Usability Seminars

New Web Seminars

Stay tuned for our upcoming seminars for September 2008:

• Introduction to User Centered Design
• Personas Demystified (5 part series)
• Landing page conversion usability secrets
• 15 Lessons from Emotion Design

Previously-Recorded Web Seminars

Usability Testing Skills Refresher

Paid usability web seminar You’re new to usability testing or you are familiar through informal learning. Perhaps you missed a few crucial distinctions that can improve your facilitation skills and the quality of your tests. It’s time for a refresher! Email us at  seminars@experiencedynamics.com for access to this archived series.

Personas Demystified: Part 1

Free usability web seminar What are personas and should you be using them to improve your website usability? This 5-part web seminar series explores the topic of personas and goes beyond the hype to help you understand what personas are and how you can best use them in your organization. Part 1, complimentary.

Personas Demystified: Complete Series

Paid usability web seminar What are personas and should you be using them to improve your website usability? This 5-part web seminar series explores the topic of personas and goes beyond the hype to help you understand what personas are and how you can best use them in your organization. Email us at seminars@experiencedynamics.com for access to this archived series.

Personas Live! Interview with Pruitt and Adlin

Free usability web seminar Frank Spillers, Experience Dynamics, interviews ‘The Persona Lifecycle’ book editors, Pruitt and Adlin about the persona lifecycle model and the impetus for pulling together this landmark book…

User-Centered Design 101

Free usability web seminar Is User Centered Design a buzzword, a technique, or a methodology? Why does “UCD” get so much attention? How has it changed how teams approach web application usability efforts? Is UCD right for you?

Content Usability

Free usability web seminar What is the best presentation and display of content, images and copy on a website? How do you display content (the #1 driver on the Internet) so that it is easy to find, easy to understand and that helps improve credibility.

User Contributed Content

Free usability web seminar This seminar looks at the important relationship of Community, Participation and Trust with regard to Customer Retention. Moreover, we will explore simple and practical ways you can harness the power that can be gained from supporting User Contributed Content on your site.

Field Studies

Free usability web seminar What does a user want? Beyond focus groups and user testing, field studies dive into the behavioral data of your customers. Learn how ethnography, task analysis and “cognitive archeology” are changing the competitive landscape.

ROI of User Centered Design

Free usability web seminar What is the business case for usability? How can usability be cost-justified? What are typical results from a usability effort? How can you measure a user-centered design return on investment?

Content Management System Usability

Free usability web seminar What should you know about retaining usability when transferring to a new Content Management System? What are some issues with content management systems? What are common mistakes for large organizations implementing a new CMS with regard to your user experience?

Content Segmentation - Have You Taken It Too Far?

Free usability web seminar How do you segment your user pathways with your content and design? Are you aware of the usability risks of segmenting content? How can you segment on the web and still retain a high degree of usability and an optimum user experience?

Designing Usable Web Applications: Part 1

Free usability web seminar Are you translating these software mistakes into your web application? How well do users manage web applications and what confuses them most?