"Web Bloopers: Avoiding Common Design Mistakes."

Jeff Johnson, of UI Wizards, Inc.

Date: Wednesday, 19 May, 2004
Time: 6:30pm Refreshments; 7:00pm Meeting
Location: Hewlett Packard (see directions)
Free and open to all who wish to attend, but membership is only $10/year.

About the talk:
This talk is based on the presenter's new book: Web Bloopers: 60 Common Web Design Mistakes and How to Avoid Them (Morgan Kaufmann). Johnson asserts that the Web is not commercial product quality, largely due to poor usability. It describes a few design bloopers in each category, and explains how to avoid them. The talk is illustrated with many examples of bloopers in commercially-available websites.

About the speaker:
Jeff Johnson is President and Principal Consultant of UI Wizards, Inc., a product usability consulting firm. He has worked in the field of Human-Computer Interaction since 1978. After earning B.A. and Ph.D. degrees from Yale and Stanford Universities, he worked as a user-interface designer and implementer, engineer manager, usability tester, and researcher at Cromemco, Xerox, US West, Hewlett-Packard Labs, and Sun Microsystems. He has published numerous articles and book chapters on a variety of topics in Human-Computer Interaction and the impact of technology on society. He frequently gives talks and tutorials at conferences and companies on usability and user-interface design. He is the author of GUI Bloopers: Don'ts and Dos for Software Developers and Web Designers (2000), and Web Bloopers: 60 Common Design Mistakes and How to Avoid Them (2003).