[Web4lib] Workshop/Library Website Design and Usability/Phoenix

[Christine Peterson/Amigos]

Library Website Design and Usability Workshop

PHOENIX PUBLIC LIBRARY
Wednesday, September 6, 2006

Early Bird Registration Deadline: 8/15/2006
Amigos member early bird fee: $275
Non-member early bird fee: $415

This will be a practical and hands-on workshop designed to teach
participants to apply key website design and usability testing principles
to library website design. Participants will complete exercises in creating
usability test plans and scripts, running a usability test, and performing
website design reviews.


Outline:
      Why usability is important
      Understanding your users: the key to success
      Planning your usability test
      Running your usability test
      Key principles of library website design


Instructor:
Chris Jasek, User Centered Design Manager, Elsevier
Chris Jasek has Masters Degree in Human Factors Engineering and a BS in
Computer Science from the University of Illinois. He has worked for 10
years in the field of user-centered design for LexisNexis and Elsevier. In
his present position as User Centered Design Manager he helped form the
Elsevier User Centered Design Group and integrate the UCD process into the
organization. He has researched user needs and worked on the user interface
design for many products, such as nexis.com, ScienceDirect, Scopus,
Meridian and ENCompass.

For registration information, go to
http://www.amigos.org/learning/catalog/shopping/product_details.php?id=202.


For the most up-to-date Amigos training schedule, a complete list of
courses, descriptions, and a convenient online registration form, visit
http://www.amigos.org/learning/calendar/ or contact Chris Brown,
brown at amigos.org or 1-800-843-8482, ext. 2829.


Christine Peterson
Continuing Education Librarian, Technology
Amigos Library Services, Inc.
14400 Midway Road, Dallas, TX 75244-3509
1-800-843-8482 ext: 2891
512-671-1580 (direct)
512-671-1580 (fax)
www.amigos.org
peterson at amigos.org