[MNASIS-L] Usability Workshops

[Janet M. Arth]

Anyone know anything about the presenters of these two workshops that will 
be held locally in early April?  Are they worth the money?  From an 
academic perspective a title like "Don't Make Me Think" raises my eyebrows, 
if college and research isn't supposed to make one think, what is?

fyi, Janet

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Web Usability Workshop - 'Don't Make Me Think' with Steve Krug

Learn how to think like a usability expert in eight hours or less with Steve
Krug, author of best-selling web usability book, Don't Make Me Think.

Expanding on the topics in his best selling Web usability book, Steve's
workshop will teach you how to recognize and solve the usability problems in
your own site, and how to make low-cost/no-cost testing an everyday part of
your company's design process. The day includes a live usability test and
expert reviews of a number of Web sites using URLs submitted by
attendees-perhaps even your own. Useful for designers, programmers, writers,
business developers, sole proprietors, VPs-anyone who works on, manages, or
signs the checks for Web sites.

Workshop Dates and Locations: April 2 in St. Paul, MN; April 27 in Dublin,
Ireland; May 8 in Washington D.C.; and May 28 in Seattle, WA

Cost: $795 ($695 on or before February 27). Group discounts, plus special
package price when registering for both Steve and Lou's workshops.

Contact Information: Visit: http://www.sensible.com/workshops.html or send
email to workshops at sensible.com

AND

Enterprise Information Architecture with Lou Rosenfeld

A day-long seminar on Enterprise Information Architecture with Lou
Rosenfeld, co-author of the best-selling Information Architecture for the
World Wide Web, aka the 'polar bear' book.

Many large organizations' websites and intranets are really just a
disjointed conglomeration of hundreds of smaller sites, all controlled by
different departmental fiefdoms. Lou's workshop tackles the frustrating
challenge of getting a large, politically-charged, multi-departmental web
environment to behave like a single, unified, user-centric web site. This
seminar includes a balance of lecture, discussion, exercises, handouts, and
the O'Reilly 'polar bear' book, and concludes with a lively happy hour.

Workshop Dates and Locations: April 1 in St. Paul, MN; May 7 in Washington
D.C.; and, May 27 in Seattle, WA.

Cost: $795 ($695 on or before February 27). Group discounts, plus special
package price when registering for both Steve and Lou's workshops.

Contact Information: Visit:
http://www.louisrosenfeld.com/presentations/seminars/eia or send email to:
seminars at louisrosenfeld.com


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