Overview
After attending this training course, you will be able to articulate the key principles behind usability and describe the organisational benefits of a usability focus.
"I now appreciate that usability is about more than screen design — it's critical to new product development."
Printable pdf course description for this seminar
This seminar is aimed at
- Senior managers
- Business analysts
- Project managers
- Marketing managers
You will learn how to
- Articulate why usability is the key to doing successful business online.
- Distinguish between good and bad web pages by applying usability principles.
- Avoid usability bloopers with your own site, especially in the areas of navigation, search, layout and design.
- Get the best out of your internal human factors team and external consultancies.
What delegates say about this course
- "This seminar helped me identify the pitfalls of traditional consumer research".
- "Good mixture of practical/best practice versus theory".
- "Fun and thought provoking, with great videos and real-life examples".
Duration
We adapt this seminar to the time available: from one hour to half-a-day.
About your trainer
This seminar is led by Dr. David Travis who has over 20 years experience in the field of user centred design.
Course Schedule
There are no scheduled dates for this course. If you want us to run this seminar as a public course, click on the button below. Once we get 8 like-minded individuals we'll organise a public course and let you know.
In-house training
We can bring this course to you and run it for a fixed fee no matter where you are. Prices from £150/delegate + VAT (assuming 12 delegates).
Usability immersion training
Usability design training
- Web accessibility for developers
- Forms usability
- How to write on-line documentation
- How to write an effective Style Guide
- How to use colour on the web
- Web site localisation
- Writing for the global web
- Usable mobile applications and IVRs
Usability research training
- Contextual inquiry
- Ethnography and field work
- A practical guide to usability testing
- Build your own usability lab
- Best practice in usability test moderation
- Morae for beginners
- Advanced usability testing with Morae
- A practical guide to card sorting
- How to carry out an expert review
- How to design web surveys
- The CIF for Usability Test Reports
- SPSS for beginners
- Advanced Statistics Using SPSS
Usability management training
- Usability briefing for senior managers
- Usability standards and legislation
- Web accessibility briefing
- Cost justifying usability
- How to set and track usability metrics
- Consultancy skills
- User experience as a strategic process