For people in design teams who need to spot usability problems in prototypes and finished products, “How to carry out a usability expert review” is a 1-day seminar that teaches delegates cost-effective methods to evaluate designs. Unlike courses in usability testing, this seminar teaches delegates how to find and fix usability problems without involving end users.
After attending this course, you will be able to carry out a range of usability inspection methods, such as Nielsen's heuristic evaluation and a cognitive walkthrough. As well as a set of comprehensive notes, you will leave the seminar with detailed usability checklists, workbooks and step-by-step instructions to help you carry out the most valuable techniques. This seminar is led by Dr. David Travis who has over 20 years experience in the field of user centred design.
"The course clarified a major sticking point for me the difference between a heuristic evaluation and a cognitive walkthrough. I also found the information about different sets of heuristics to be very useful. It was good that the course focused on practical application and experience, rather than information that you could learn out of a textbook."
Emma Pickering, Ordnance Survey.
Our expert review training continues after you leave the seminar. People that attend "How to carry out a usability expert review" are eligible for free refresher training. After the seminar, we'll send you a series of follow up articles highlighting different aspects of the training, specifically written to help you apply what you learnt.
Usability expert reviews are a great way to identify "usability bloopers" with a product or website. They are quick, cost-effective and provide an immediate sanity check for the design. Expert reviews are also an ideal way to ensure that a product or website will meet usability standards.
But many people find it difficult to identify specific usability issues from generic usability heuristics. Beginners also find it hard to derive action-oriented recommendations that can be passed to the design team. This seminar reveals the practitioner secrets behind expert reviews and will teach you how to think like a usability expert. As well as a set of comprehensive notes, you will leave the seminar with detailed usability checklists, workbooks and step-by-step instructions to help you carry out the most valuable techniques.
Next public seminar in expert reviews:
£425/delegate + VAT. (You can pay by credit card or invoice).
This usability expert review seminar lasts one day.
...if you are looking for practical, cost-effective methods to evaluate designs. This is a hands-on course and is most effective for delegates who have day-to-day responsibility for ensuring product or web usability within their organisation. The course will also be valuable for designers who want to understand usability principles or who want to see examples of usability checklists.
We can customise our expert review training by using prototypes or screen designs from a system that you are developing and running the course on your company premises for 4-12 delegates. Prices from £150/delegate + VAT (assuming 12 delegates). Please contact us for more information.
On completion of a public seminar, if you don't think that the training will help you do your job better, we will refund your registration fee in full.