Sydney Usability & Design Workshop 2005
Category: events | Date: 12/10/2004
Wednesday, 16th March 2005 - 9am to 5pm, Green Room, Wesley Conference Centre, 220 Pitt Street, Sydney
Presented by Accessible Information Solutions in partnership with the Performance Technologies Group (PTG)
Please download and complete the registration form
Registration form (RTF file 43kb) - 16 March 2005
Return the form by mail or fax to:
Usability & Design Workshop
Accessible Information Solutions
National Information & Library Service
454 Glenferrie Rd, Kooyong 3144
Fax: 03 9864 9370
Cost
- $475 per participant plus GST
($522.50 incl GSTof $47.50) - Handouts will be supplied
- Lunch will be provided
If you wish to arrange for a group booking, please email us directly (andrew.arch@nils.org.au) to discuss your request.
Outline
Introduction
The Performance Technologies Group (PTG) is one of the largest usability firms in Australia, consulting across all industry sectors and product types. PTG has worked closely with Accessibility Information Solutions at NILS on many projects reflecting the continuum between usability and accessibility.
This program is intended to give participants an understanding of usability research, design and testing. It provides an introduction to Performance Centred Design methodologies that can be used to ensure the end product aligns with your organisation’s needs while ensuring usability and a positive user experience.
Usability Approach
Specialist consultants will draw on recent usability projects for examples to illustrate how the key processes work in practice. Discover how to undertake:
- Expert Reviews - selected websites will be used to explore usability heuristic principles and workflow modeling principles.
- Requirements Gathering Workshops and how these inform the information architecture and workflow development.
- Competitive Reviews to show how to uncover the guiding business intent of the technology being developed.
- Usability Testing to validate design and development to ensure that what is being developed is usable by the target demographics.
What you will learn
At the end of the program participants will be able to:
- Understand key usability concepts and their application in assessing products. Remember, good usability is good for accessibility,
- Identify the relevant methodologies for usability research, design and testing,
- Successfully analyse basic usability issues with web sites and other channels and suggest improvements,
- Understand how to assess the viability and usability of a product in comparison with competitors,
- Understand the use of task identification and workflow as they apply in design of successful user interfaces,
- Design the basic steps of a usability test process, and
- Identify appropriate research design and test methodologies for your organisation’s usability needs.
- Accessible & interoperable design.
- Needs of rural and remote Australians - addressing technology and bandwidth issues.
- Using adaptive technology, including screen readers for people with visual impairments, mouseless navigation, and alternative browsers.
- Major accessibility problems with current websites.
Conditions
- After NILS receives your registration, you will receive an email confirmation of registration and workshop time and location
- All cancellations must be made in writing
- You have the benefit of transferring or cancelling your booking without charge, provided seven (7) working days notice has been given.
- In the event that you need to cancel or transfer your booking and are unable to provide seven (7) working days notice the full fee will apply. NILS is committed to meeting certain costs, which are non-refundable. Therefore, we know you will understand that with late cancellations/transfers the full fee will be automatically invoiced to all our clients
- Each "No-Show" will be billed for the full cost of the course
- NILS reserves the right to cancel a class, without penalty, for reasons beyond our control
For further information, please contact Andrew Arch at 03 9864 9282, andrew.arch@nils.org.au or James Breeze at 02 9299 9200 jamesb@ptg-global.com
