Usability Tips and Tricks for Beginners

Usability Engineering: Intro to usability, usability 101, usability best practices, usability tips and tricks

Usability Engineering Tips and Tricks for Beginners 
Usability is commonly thought of as the art and science of making things easy to use. What is behind the science of usability? How do we know when something is easy, easy to learn and satisfying? Why is usability so important for any product, website, software or web application (including Rich Internet Applications)? 

Topic:
Usability involves a methodology, an approach and a set of techniques. Products that harness the secrets of usability engineering are better positioned for success. Why is this? What happens when product management includes usability, and what happens when usability is brushed over?. 

Join us as we explore the topic of usability, explaining the fundamentals of what usability is, why it’s important and how you can benefit from it. In this seminar we will share proven tricks from Cognitive Science and tested tips from the “usability trenches” for making products easy to use.

We will look at case studies and hard data on usability and its role in product management and development culture.

If you don’t know or think you know what usability is or if you want a simple way to explain usability to your boss or team, this seminar is for you.

Agenda

1. What is usability and why is it so important?
2. What happens when you design websites, software and products that people love?; What happens when you don’t?
3. 5 proven design tricks from Cognitive Science
4. 5 tested tips for making products easy to use
5. Q & A

Who should attend: 
Introductory level; for people new to usability; designers or managers of products, websites or software applications.