Usable Products Principal Scott Weiss is teaching one-day training courses on User Experience Benchmarking in April in New York City and in May in San Francisco. IxDA members are entitled to a $75 discount by using promo code IXDA at http:///training

User Experience Benchmarking is an effective, efficient way to quantitatively compare the usability of different products, be they different versions of the same UI or from competitors. Usable Products Company has produced benchmarks on web sites, desktop software, and mobile telephones. This one-day training is based on four years of hands-on experience designing, conducting, analyzing, and reporting findings from benchmark usability studies. This course will include video clips demonstrating moderating style, unique visualizations for usability data, and tips and tricks for how to plan, execute, and report usability findings from user experience benchmarks.

This one-day training course will be held in New York on 12 April 2007 and in San Francisco on 8 May 2007. Save an additional $200 off the course fee by registering before March 20, 2007.

This training is limited to 40 delegates who understand the value of qualitative usability testing and who may have already conducted their own sessions.

Topics:
* Benefits of Benchmarking
* Operations Overview
* Tools Discussion
* Recruiting Strategies
* Task Design for Benchmarking
* Quantitative Interviewing Techniques
* Logging Strategies
* Analyzing Data
* Data Visualization
* Video Production
* Results Presentation
* Continuing Benchmarks

Instructor: Scott Weiss, CEO of Usable Products Company, will teach this course in its entirety. Mr. Weiss is a 18-year veteran of usability research and design, spanning desktop software, the web, and mobile platforms. His book, Handheld Usability, is the pioneering textbook on mobile design.

Venue: In New York, UE Benchmarking will be held at the Digital Sandbox, a state of the art conference facility in the heart of New York’s Silicon Alley, also home to the financial district. In San Francisco, the course will be taught at the Sir Francis Drake Hotel in Union Square.

Use the following discount code to save an additional $75: IXDA
Register before March 20th to save an additional $200 off the course fee.