IDCC 380: Web Design II Spring 2010

Bill Albert, Director, DUC 04/22/09

Check this out: Director of the Design and Usability Center (DUC), Dr. Bill Albert, speaks to the class, Friday, April 24, 2009.

Here is a portion of Bill's bio from the DUC site:

"Bill Albert is Director of the Design and Usability Center at Bentley University. Bill brings more than 15 years of experience in human factors, usability, and user research to his role leading the center. Bill has expertise in user interface design, information architecture, qualitative and quantitative research techniques, and user experience strategy. Prior to joining Bentley, Bill was Director of User Experience at Fidelity Investments, Senior User Interface Researcher at Lycos, and Post-Doctoral Research Scientist at Cambridge Basic Research. Bill is also a regular instructor at the International Usability Professional?s Association Annual Conference and at Bentley University.

Bill has published and presented his research at more than thirty national and international conferences. He recently co-authored (with Tom Tullis) the first ever book on usability metrics, Measuring the User Experience, published by Elsevier/Morgan Kauffman in March, 2008. He is currently working on his second book (with Tom Tullis and Donna Tedesco), focusing on automated usability testing (to be published by Elsevier/Morgan Kauffman in January 2010). He has been on the International Usability Professional?s Association Annual Conference (UPA) Committee since 2003, and the International Usability Professional?s Association Global Advisory Committee since 2007."

Class will meet in the DUC testing suite after first convening in Smith 210 at 11:20. Feel free to bring a friend or acquaintance who might be interested in learning more about usability and the facilities at Bentley.

If you have questions, just e-mail me at wbuchholz@bentley.edu. Feel free to comment on this announcement, or if you want to e-mail it, click on the little mail icon directly below.

Labels: Bill Albert, Design and Usability Center, DUC, Tom Tullis, usability, usability test, User experience

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IDCC is the Place for Usability and User Experience Careers 01/24/08

Check this out:

I want to share a few links relative to usability and user experience careers, for those of you still thinking creatively about your profession.

US News reports that the Usability/User Experience Specialist is one of the best careers in America (2008), making its list of 31 careers with a bright future: http://www.usnews.com/features/business/best-careers
/best-careers-2008.html

Their executive summary of the Usability/User Experience Specialist offers a brief overview with interesting links: http://www.usnews.com/articles/business/best-
careers/2007/12/19/usabilityuser-experience-
specialist-executive-summary.html

Here is a list of schools offering graduate degrees in software ergonomics. As you can see, Bentley tops this list of exceptional universities?nothing like alpha order?.: http://www.humanfactors.com/downloads/degrees.asp

You should also check out our world famous Design and Usability Center (DUC) right here at Bentley: http://www.bentley.edu/usability/

If you have questions, just e-mail me at wbuchholz@bentley.edu. Feel free to comment on this announcement, or if you want to e-mail it, click on the little mail icon directly below.

Labels: careers, Design and Usability Center, DUC, usability, User experience

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