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World Usability Day 2007 Opens on November 8 With Live Webcast Plenary Session

November 5, 2007

Live Webcast Plenary Session — Download Required in Advance
Our opening plenary session, which will be webcast live on November 8th at 8:30 am United States Eastern Standard Time, will feature an address from World Usability Day’s founder and director, Elizabeth Rosenzweig, and a panel discussion with distinguished speakers supporting the 2007 theme - Healthcare!
The panel [...]

World Usability Day 2007

October 18, 2007

Where: Ruvane Auditorium @ GSK
When: November 8, 2007 — 6:00PM to 9:00PM
RSVP for World Usability Day!

Join UX professionals from around the Triangle area for an Interactionary (a live design competition), keynote speech, food, drink, and fun!
Keynote Speaker:
Anthony D. Hall, Ph.D.
IBM Global Web Strategy and Enablement
Interactionary
Simply put, the Interactionary is a live team-based design competition. Teams [...]

GSK Interactionary Team Profile #5 (alternate) - Gina Rumley

November 13, 2006

How did you get involved in user experience design?
Was a software trainer for many years & Tech Writer then was UAT (User Acceptance Testing) Analyst which was somewhat similar to this field- easy transition.
What’s your speciality and is that your favorite part of user experience design?
User research- but I enjoy working with wireframes and mockups.
What [...]

GSK Interactionary Team Profile #4 - Lori Hawkins

November 13, 2006

How did you get involved in user experience design?
I was working as a trainer / tech writer for an over-engineered (unnecessarily so) application. The team brought in a Usability expert who not only suggested a larger study, but also suggested our team learn about Usability. I became one of the first members of [...]

GSK Interactionary Team Profile #3 - Cheryl Moehlenbrock

November 13, 2006

How did you get involved in user experience design?
Mainly through my internship here at GSK.
What’s your speciality and is that your favorite part of user experience design?
I’m still learning but currently, my specialty is creating the visual design for web pages and applications.
What are some of the biggest challenges you’ve faced as a user [...]

GSK Interactionary Team Profile #2 - Jean Wright

November 13, 2006

How did you get involved in user experience design?
Working collaboratively with our multifunctional UCD team members here at GSK
What’s your speciality and is that your favorite part of user experience design?
Specialties and favorite parts - Contextual Inquiry, Usability Testing, Personas and Scenarios, High-level Navigation Design
What are some of the biggest challenges you’ve faced as a [...]

GSK Interactionary Team Profile #1 - Lora Fairbanks

November 13, 2006

How did you get involved in user experience design?
I went to college for Industrial Design and Graphic design. In the curriculum at NC State University’s College of Design, I gained a lot of exposure to Human Factors. Designing with specific people and needs in mind really interested me and I chose to explore this further [...]

IBM Interactionary Team Profile

November 13, 2006

Nicole S. Robbins is a User Experience Designer for IBM WebSphere. “I’m currently working on IBM WebSphere Portlet Factory. With all projects, I strive to simplify the user experience and consider the user, then the technology. I joined team IBM to rally around our common initiative and meet more designers in the field.”
David Kovach is [...]

UNC Interactionary Team Profile #4 — Noel Fiser

November 12, 2006

How did you become interested in user experience design?My family encouraged artistic and intellectual expression. Though my brother’s the certified artist in the family, I always enjoyed thecreativity involved–even if I never have time for it. Web site design gave me the opportunity to apply structure to creativity through HTML and later CSS. There’s so [...]

Interactionary Panel of Judges

November 10, 2006

We have a great panel of judges for this year’s interactionary! Register to attend, today!

Virginia Hill of IBM
Shimon Shmueli of Touch360
Ross Teague of Insight Product Development

Virginia Hill is an IBM interaction designer, committed to the use of a contextual inquiry approach to understand software users, their needs and behaviors, and to form the basis [...]