UIE Seminar showing: "Conducting Usability Tests in the Wild, " this Thursday 11:30am-1pm in 127 Dwinelle

Hi folks,

Thanks to the generous sponsorship of CIO Shel Waggener & Educational
Technology Services, the campus User-centered Design group will be
showing a new UIE seminar, "The Quick, the Cheap, and the Insightful:
Conducting Usability Tests in the Wild" (http://www.uie.com/events/virtual_seminars/wild/
) this Thursday, December 4th at 11:30am in 127 Dwinelle Hall. The
seminars themselves usually last about 75 minutes...bring your lunch
and if folks are interested, we'll have a short discussion session
afterwards.

Since December is such a busy month, this seminar will replace our
normal 'first Thursday of the month' December UCD group meeting --
there will *not* be a meeting Thursday 12/4 at 4:30pm.

Here's an excerpt from the UIE website about what you will learn at
the seminar:

Useful insights can come just by having the chance to talk with and
observe participants in the most informal of settings, such as cafés,
trade shows, and the company cafeteria. You can get value from a quick
test, even if you only have 2 days to pull it off, or don’t have a
working design yet. Traditional by-the-book testing has its merits,
but you can still get valid, useful results by cutting out the time-
consuming and budget-busting expenses.

There are slides that accompany the seminar, which I'd recommend you
print out beforehand and bring along. They are available (along with
links to *all* the past seminars we've shown, along with their slides)
at the "UIE Seminars" site on bSpace (http://bspace.berkeley.edu/). If
you are not yet a member of this site, let me know and I'd be happy to
add you.

Additionally, feel free to ask me or other members of the campus User-
centered Design group at the seminar for information about the group.
You can also subscribe to ucd@lists.berkeley.edu (to subscribe, go to: https://calmail.berkeley.edu/manage/list/listinfo/ucd@lists.berkeley.edu
  and follow the directions there) for news and announcements about
the group's activities, which are open to anyone on campus. We usually
meet the first Thursday of the month for everything from application
reviews to discussions about UCD to social meetings.

Hope to see you Thursday!

Allison Bloodworth
Senior User Interaction Designer
Educational Technology Services
University of California, Berkeley
(415) 377-8243
abloodworth_at_berkeley.edu

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Received on Mon Dec 01 2008 - 18:37:33 PST