Usability and User Experience 2008 (Boston, MA, USA)
Tuesday, February 26th, 2008 by Conference Editor| May 28, 2008 |
UPA Boston’s Seventh Annual Mini UPA Conference will be at Bentley College in Waltham, MA. Hear and discuss critical topics in usability and user-centered design with practitioners, students, and experts in the field. Whether a newcomer, a seasoned usability professional, or member of a product team interested in usability, this conference offers unique content and learning opportunities.
As usability professionals we face challenges that are unique to our field. We are often asked to perform detailed analysis with little time or resources. To be successful, each of us has to work creatively with what we are given. This conference is an opportunity to share your insights, successes, challenges, techniques, or findings with industry colleagues. We invite you to submit a presentation proposal. We encourage you to design a presentation that is as hands-on as possible and that uses creative techniques for involving your audience.
The Boston Chapter of the UPA is looking for presentations, panels, tutorials, workshops, and out-of-the box sessions in the following areas:
- Case studies and success stories
- Presentation skills
- Usability “disasters” and how to prevent them
- Getting noticed as a usability professional
- Starting up a usability program
- Getting started and setting up measures of ROI
- Tools, tips and techniques for consultants
- Research topics and advancements in methods
- Method validation
- Agile and extreme usability techniques
- Reasons usability fails (timetable, budget, personality, utility)
- Fitting usability into the product lifecycle
- “Out of the box” presentations
- How to hire a usability specialist: what do they do?
- Difficulties in working with UI professionals
- Client perspective of usability-related issues
- How usability relates to other disciplines
- ROI - Getting your money’s worth from a usability professional
