Thursday, August 9th, 2007

Design and usability considerations for GPS products @Zuhrah Shrine Center

 

Have you ever wondered what the design considerations are for car navigation products? Or how usability inspections are conducted in a drive-testing environment? Have you ever considered creating custom design heuristics? If so, please come along to this upcoming UPA talk, Design and Usability Considerations for Mobile Consumer GPS Products.

We will discuss the human activity of wayfinding and the decisions driver-navigators make in getting from A to B. We'll also discuss how personas, oobies, and other UCD artifacts and techniques are used to improve the User Experience in important and tangible ways.

Hope to see you on the August 9!

 

Meeting Details:

Date/Time:
August 9th 2007, 6:00 p.m.
Place:
Zuhrah Shrine Center
Address:
2540 Park Avenue South
Minneapolis, MN 55404
Phone: 612-871-3555
Directions

Host:
Suzanne Currie, Medtronic
Speakers:
Suzanne Currie, Medtronic
Topic:
Design and usability considerations for mobile GPS products: improving UX along several dimensions

Agenda:

About Our Speakers and The Topic

Suzanne Currie

Suzanne Currie is an anthropologist by training, and practices design research including ethnographic fieldwork to identify product concepts that offer a good match to real-world human activities. Suzanne is a design researcher and interaction designer. She designed GPS consumer products for boats and cars for three years in New Zealand prior to moving to Minneapolis to join Medtronic. Prior to living in New Zealand, Suzanne worked for The Hiser Group in Melbourne, Australia..

 

Event Cost & Registration

 

If you or someone you know would like to attend, please register by emailing rsvp@upamn.org that you will attend.

 

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Last update: July 31, 2007