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UIE Virtual Seminar Presentation

Don't Panic: Design and Usability Under Impossible Pressure

Here is your opportunity to learn the design, information architecture, and usability insights used by today’s most successful web sites. UIE's monthly Virtual Seminars will give you the chance to hear the latest perspectives in the world of design from the field's premier experts.

Instead of traveling to a training course, you and your colleagues can hear the latest insights on the most important design topics right from your office for only $129. You'll watch the presentation on your PC screen. We encourage attendees to gather as many people from their organization to watch together.

Seminar Description

Are you facing an aggressive deadline for your web site or product launch? Do you see the need for user research but lack the time to implement it? It’s hard enough creating usable designs when there is ample time and plenty of resources, but what do you do when that's just not an option for your design team?

One of the most common reasons designs fail users is because the design team didn't have the time or resources to focus on user research. To help designers and usability professionals deliver usable sites and applications despite the obstacles, we turned to Larry Constantine, author of the landmark book, Software for Use, to share his proven techniques on how to conduct design and usability efforts quickly and efficiently, even when there is barely time to do anything at all.

In this 90-minute seminar, Larry will share a wide range of field-proven tricks and techniques for conquering design and usability problems while in crunch mode. You will learn:

• How to leverage Sample-of-One Testing to maximize the amount of valuable information you collect from just one user
• How to improve your time-boxed project management techniques to conduct design activities faster and push your design team to the limits of agility and ingenuity
• How to take advantage of the decision triage. Larry will show you how your success depends on your team's ability to identify your design's most important features and focus the majority of time and resources in only those areas
• How to pare down your field research efforts while still learning everything you need to create a successful design
• How to use tactical modeling techniques, such as simplified schematics for quickly capturing insights about users and their needs
• What key information you really need to know about your users and methods not to waste time on unproductive design activities

This seminar is for any designer, developer, usability professional, or project manager who wants to learn how to improve their design team's productivity with simple and proven techniques.

Instructor Biography

Larry Constantine, IDSA, is an award-winning designer specializing in interaction design and techniques for enhancing user performance in complex performance-critical applications. A persistent innovator with a string of patents in human-machine interaction to his credit, he is an internationally recognized leader in design methodology and product usability.

With Lucy Lockwood, he developed usage-centered design, the widely practiced model-driven process based on essential use cases. He has published more than 150 articles and papers and 17 books in both the human sciences and computer sciences, including, with Lucy Lockwood, Software for Use, winner of the Jolt Award as best book of 1999. His papers have been widely reprinted and his books have been translated into nine languages.

Highly regarded as a presenter and teacher, he has taught in 20 countries and keynoted numerous international conferences. His clients have included leading technology companies around the world. He is Chief Scientist with Constantine & Lockwood, Ltd., the design, training, and consulting firm he co-founded, and director of LabUSE, the Laboratory for Usage-centered Software Engineering, a research and development group based at the University of Madeira, Funchal, Portugal.

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