Please join us Thursday, April 10 when Dean T. Barker, Executive Director for Human Factors International, speaks on integrating user- centered design into various software processes.
Dean will explain why software projects fail and how user-centered design (UCD) can be used to improve and optimize your product development methodology. He will present a structured approach to tailoring and integrating UCD into the software development process. In this presentation you will also learn about the critical gaps in your software development methodology, how to unify design and development, how to express UCD in the "language" of your methodology, how to promote usability activities within development, and how to make UCD a routine part of your software processes regardless of whether you're using waterfall, agile methods, the Rational Unified Process (RUP), or other methodologies.
Send RSVP by April 4 : rsvp@upamn.org
Dean Barker
Dean T. Barker is currently Executive Director for Human Factors International. He is a Technical Expert for the International Organization for Standardization (ISO) committee responsible for developing standards for Software and Systems Engineering and is a co- editor of the ISO standard for usability test reports. He is also co- author of the book Designing Effective Speech User Interfaces and author of numerous articles. He has fifteen years of experience in usability and international software product development. Mr. Barker holds a B.A. in Business Management and Communication and a M.S. in Software Engineering from the University of Minnesota.
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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