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Introduction to Usability

We can give you the tools you need to create your own user-oriented designs and systems. We'll teach your people how the user's experience is affected by technology, why people have trouble with certain tasks, and how user experience design will benefit you.

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Introduction
Course Overview: What You Will Learn?
Exercise 1: Experiences with the Unfriendly

Attitude
Why people resist machines

Key Human Factors
What we've forgotten about people
Exercise 2: Speaking Human

Benefits
How usability will pay for itself

Remember It Is A Business
Integrating your overall strategy with user goals

We Have to Run It On Something
Standards, guidelines, style guides

Who Is Going To Use This?
Developing Personas and Profiles
Exercise 3: Branding for Information

Why Would Anyone Want To Use This?
How to know what your user needs.
Streamlining the process.

Gathering Data About The Key Influencers
How these affect your UI design.
How to manage the process.

Creating A Blueprint For Success
High-level user-interface architectures

Task Design
Mapping the flow with wire-frames.
Explaining the system with storyboards.
I repeat - iterate!