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Training Workshops
: Overview
: Accessibility Technical Training
: Creating Usable Websites
: Developing an Effective Strategy for Online Crisis Communications
: Enhance Your Website With Better eRelations
: Essentials of eGovernment Usability
: Improving Web Usability
: Learn the Art and Science of Usability Testing
: Mobile Usability Training
: Power writing for the Web
: Taxonomy and Knowledge Organization
: Usable Web Design
: Human & Computer Interaction
: Human-Centric Product Design
 
Trainers
: Lin Qiu
: Suzanne EL-Moursi
: Rosemary Seva
: Dr. Alvin Yeo
Workshop Schedule
Training Delivery Style
 
Workshop Objectives

> Demonstrate the user-centered design process

"A very practical workshop."
Samuel Neo
SPRING Singapore

"It helps as my company is going through a facelift. Learning how to critique the flaws in a website really helps. With this information, I can advise our company web designer"
Suzlina Rahman
NTUC Income (Big trumpet.com)

"I found the section on Conceptual Modeling i.e mapping, affordance, most useful"
Hendrick Ho
Health Promotion Board

Group usability exercise
Group usability exercise conducted during the workshop.
  To help participants maximize the effectiveness of their web designs.
> Demonstrate how to gather user requirements more effectively
 

By using ground-breaking techniques such as contextual inquiry and how to convert requirements into design specifications while writing tenders, project plans, etc.

> Provide in-depth, conceptual understanding of various web design elements
 

Including site structure, navigation, graphics, text, animation as well as system-user dialogues; so that participants can design and evaluate these elements objectively

> Empower participants with techniques to create a highly compelling user experience
 

Through case studies, tutorials and a hands-on project assignment, participants have a chance to practically apply all that they have learnt so that they can effectively blend creativity and functionality in their next web projects.

Who Should Attend

You don't need to be a technology-savvy person with an IT background to benefit from this workshop. It is designed for anybody involved in the planning, development and interface designing for interactive products like websites, intranets, and web-based software applications, especially:

> Web Site Owners
> Project Managers
> Graphic Designers and Multimedia Artists
> Copywriters
> Information Architects
> GUI / Front-end Programmers

Why You Should Attend

> In-depth understanding of users helps designers align their products better
  This workshop will teach you techniques to profile your target audience precisely.
   
> Successful web design is a combination of aesthetics and functionality
 

You will learn to create designs that enthrall your users and work efficiently too.

   
> Managing complexity and clutter is a key concern for today's websites
 

You will learn cutting-edge information architecture techniques to manage large amount of data and help the user find what they want easily and speedily.

   
> Dynamic technologies like Flash are used optimally with usability guidelines
 

Macromedia strongly advocates usability for best use of Flash, and you will learn why.

Workshop Overview

Day 1: Web Usability Theory

  • Principles of User Centered Design
  • Usability Engineering Life Cycle (UELC)
  • Website strategy, Branding and Positioning
  • Goal-directed design methodology
  • Contextual Inquiry and Task Analysis
  • User Profiling, Personas and Scenario building
  • Principles of Information Architecture
  • Navigation Design
  • Website Heuristics
  • Project Assignment - Initiation

Day 2: Web Usability Practice

  • Rapid Prototyping
  • Home page usability
  • Fitt's Law
  • Hyper-links
  • Colours
  • Fonts
  • Menus
  • Icons
  • Text and writing style
  • Data entry forms
  • Errors and Recovery
  • Messages & Dialogues
  • Animation & Sound
  • Project Assignment - Completion and Evaluation

Workshop Methodology

The workshop is a mixture of lectures, assignments and project work. It also includes games and puzzles to make the sessions more interactive and to help participants retain the concepts. Participants learn the concepts behind the design of user interfaces and to apply these concepts in the product development and evaluation process.

A FREE, take-home CD-ROM kit for every participant

You will get a free CD-ROM kit that includes comprehensive notes on all the techniques learnt, exercises as well as pointers to advanced knowledge on the subject of web usability.

Duration

2 days (9 am to 5 pm)

To find out more

  1. Call us at 65-63271545
  2. Email us at training@microusability.com


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