MaineUX July Event

Event: MaineUX Presents… Kyle Soucy on Trends in Usability Testing

When: mingle cocktails: 5:30-6:30 | program 6:30-8 | dinner at local venue 8+ ?

Locale: St Lawrence Arts & Community Center
76 Congress St.
Portland, ME
directions/parking<http://www.stlawrencearts.org/directions.html>
RSVP:  maineux@gmail.com

*About Kyle’s Presentation*
Over the years, there have been many exciting developments in how usability tests are facilitated. During this session, Kyle will take us on a tour of the trends in the tools and techniques used in usability testing and discuss the benefits and drawbacks of each. Kyle’s presentation is spangled with videos and live demos– and from what they’re saying after Kyle’s talk at PhillyCHI,  this is an exciting, entertaining hands-on learning experience!

Some of the topics that will be covered include:

• Current Think Aloud (CTA) vs. Retrospective Think Aloud (RTA) Technique

• How to moderate using RTA
• When to use RTA

• Remote Testing

• Pros and Cons
• Tips for proper facilitation
• Testing paper and low-fidelity prototypes remotely
• Overview of different remote testing tools

• Automated Testing (unmoderated remote testing)

• What you can and can’t learn
• When it should be used
• Overview of different automated testing tools

• Interview-based Tasks vs. Pre-defined Tasks

• Tips for proper facilitation

• Observer Debriefing

• Tips for proper facilitation
• Overview of different debriefing techniques

*About Kyle*
Kyle Soucy is the founding principal of Usable Interface (www.usableinterface.com), an independent consulting company specializing in
product usability and user-centered design. Her clients have ranged in industries from pharmaceutical giants like Pfizer to publishing powerhouses like McGraw-Hill. She has created intuitive interfaces for a variety of different products, everything from web sites to touch screen devices. Kyle is the Founder and Past President of the New Hampshire Chapter of the Usability Professionals’ Association (NH UPA), she has served as the Chair of PhillyCHI, and she is the local UXnet Ambassador for New Hampshire. She is very passionate about the continued growth of the usability and user experience design community.

*About MaineUX*
It’s been described as “People doing cool things on the web…in Maine.” That totally nails the essence, but in fact, MaineUX is even broader and
more inclusive than that. MaineUX is an interdisciplinary, multi-practice multi-purpose statewide professional community interested in UX—meaning human-centric design, user experience, usability, information architecture, *design *of many stripes: visual, interaction, social, web, games, software, graphic, industrial—and stretched across the fronties of social and new media, collaborative tech, web 2.0/3.0, human-centric IT, information design, content creation and strategy, SEO/SEM, search, findability, agile and nimble programming, and more.
MaineUX holds occasional meetings and socials to network, explore current topics, and hear from the best in the country on emerging innovative design thinking. Learn more at http://groups.google.com/group/maineux

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