For Managers
Usability Week Courses
Usability Week offers courses about a broad range of web and application design topics. Most courses are also available as in-house training.
Top usability principles based on thousands of usability studies conducted worldwide
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Look closely at how people react to different websites and design elements
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Understand the principles that will help you prioritize your efforts and spend resources more effectively
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Get empirical research data from Nielsen Norman Group to support your design decisions and recommendations
Principles, processes, and techniques of Human-Computer Interaction (HCI)
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Get the confidence gained from having a solid foundation in every aspect of HCI whether you’re just arriving from graphic design, psychology, or another entry discipline, or started picking up HCI some time ago along the way.
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Achieve a deep understanding of the entire life-cycle of design by actually experiencing it through five workshops
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Practice the methodology Tog helped develop at Apple, still in use there today, that results in products that are smooth, exciting, and just simply work.
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Get the knowledge you need of information theory, human psychology, physiology and other aspects of HCI science, you’ll be prepared to make intelligent, informed, and effective design decisions
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Learn the trick to “selling” your designs with a minimal amount of stress and effort so you can spend your time doing the work you love. (Managers: This means your designer will be a lot more productive.)
Build and leverage a corporate UX team
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Learn the business relevance of user experience
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Understand essential user experience methods, including design, content and research strategy
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Review people, organizational and career issues that impact user experience effectiveness
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Develop a personal plan that is tailored for your particular situation, based on these concepts.
Apply psychology principles to predict and explain how your customers think and act
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Go beyond following usability guidelines to understanding their underlying reasoning
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Apply findings from well-known psychology research studies to explain behavior observed in usability testing and anticipate the impact of future designs
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Design better interfaces from inception by knowing human limitations and easing the load on the user
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