[Sigia-l] UK UPA Meeting - Monday, 30 September

[Whitney Quesenbery]

Note: This is a change from the previously announced date because of a 
scheduled tube strike. If any of you are in London, I'd love to see you there.

Full details are available at www.ukupa.org.uk

Where and when
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Wed 2nd October, Cap Gemini Offices, 130 Shaftesbury Avenue, London
Time 7:00 pm for a 7:15 pm start. Talk and questions toill about 8.30pm
Non-members are invited, but space is limited, so please contact: 
m.c.maguire at lboro.ac.uk to reserve a place.


Talk summary and biography
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"What Does Usability Mean - Five Dimensions of User Experience"
Definitions of usability often seem either too narrow to be useful in 
guiding practical decisions, or so broad that they lack focus. In a search 
for a definition of usability, I identified five dimensions of usability, 
based on some of existing lists of attributes: effective, efficient, 
engaging, error tolerant, and easy to learn. These "5Es" can be used to 
help a team understand user requirements, make appropriate design 
decisions, and plan usability evaluations. The evening's presentation will 
look at how to use the 5Es to understand the balance needed a specific 
project and to drive the design to match these user requirements.

Whitney Quesenbery designs interfaces for projects from web sites to 
applications and helps companies implement a user experience capability to 
improve the usability of their products. As a principal at Cognetics, her 
projects ranged from the original HP LaserJet 4 Travel Guide to hospital 
management software, web applications and corporate information tools. She 
is on the board of directors of the UPA and is the web-master for the 
popular STC Usability SIG web site. She can be reached at 
whitneyq at WQusability.com





Whitney Quesenbery
Whitney Interactive Design, LLC
w. www.WQusability.com
e. whitneyq at WQusability.com
p. 908-638-5467

Usability Professionals' Association - www.upassoc.org
STC Usability SIG - www.stcsig.org/usability/

Upcoming Presentations:
What Does Usability Mean - Five Dimensions of User Experience
UK UPA - 30 September 2002  (New date, due to tube strike)
http://www.ukupa.org.uk

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October 27-30, 2002, San Francisco
http://www.iirusa.com/webbasedsurveys/