A Professional Development Seminar
Date: Saturday, May 21, 2005
Time: 8:00am to 4:30pm
Location: Microsoft Technology Center, 1065 La Avenida, Mountain View,
CA
Overview
This tutorial is based on the presenter's book: Web
Bloopers: 60 Common Web Design Mistakes and How to Avoid Them (Morgan Kaufmann,
2003). The book explains how to avoid common Web design errors, illustrated
with examples from actual websites. The tutorial, like the book, organizes bloopers
into categories: Content, Task-Support, Navigation, Form, Search, Text &
Writing, Link Presentation, and Graphic and Layout. It includes class exercises
in which participants review actual websites looking for bloopers and discuss
how to improve them. The tutorial is intended for Web designers and developers,
mainly those who lack several years of experience designing and evaluating websites
and Web applications. Others who might benefit from this tutorial are web Q/A
engineers, usability testers, and web development managers. After completing
this full-day tutorial, participants will:
The Speaker
Jeff Johnson
is President and Principal Consultant at UI
Wizards, Inc., a product usability consulting firm that offers UI design,
usability reviews, usability testing, and training. 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). Among other consulting projects, he assisted in the design
and evaluation of a web-based system for reporting voting problems and irregularities.