Spend two days with Adaptive Path and learn the same strategies we’ve successfully practiced for a wide range of companies, including Fortune 500s, startups, and not-for-profits.
In this workshop, Adaptive Path founders Janice Fraser and Peter Merholz will teach you how to incorporate user goals, business needs, and organizational awareness into your design process. Your will develop a project plan, learn methods for research and design, and get advice on creating clear documentation.
You’ll leave the workshop inspired and equipped with design techniques and a library of documentation templates that you can use right away — so that your Web site will satisfy your users, your management, and you!
This two-day presentation covers the process of user experience design from gathering initial business requirements through developing functional specifications. Along the way we'll explain how to:
- Develop a detailed understanding of your users through task analysis, mental models, personas, and scenarios
- Improve the user experience by actively managing stakeholders and company politics
- Create a user-centered information architecture that meets business needs
- Design more successful interactive tools and user interfaces
- Manage your own usability tests
- Validate and defend important design decisions
| Schedule: July 19 | |||
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| Time | Activity | ||
| 9:00 am | Introduction | ||
| 9:45 am | Internal Discovery | ||
| 10:30 am | Break | ||
| 10:45 am | Understanding Your Users User Research Personas and Scenarios Task Analysis |
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| 12:30 pm | Lunch | ||
| 1:30 pm | Mental Models | ||
| 3:00 pm | Break | ||
| 3:15 pm | Content Inventory | ||
| 4:30 pm | Q&A and Wrap-up | ||
| 5:00 pm | Workshop End | ||
| 6:30 pm | Adaptive Path Cocktails | ||
| Schedule: July 20 | |||
| Time | Activity | ||
| 9:00 am | Recap | ||
| 9:15 am | Information Architecture Current State Analysis Content Slotting/Gap Analysis Facets and Content Maps |
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| 10:30 am | Break | ||
| 10:45 am | Interaction Design | ||
| 11:45 am | Prototyping and Patterns | ||
| 12:30 pm | Lunch | ||
| 1:30 pm | User Testing | ||
| 3:00 pm | Break | ||
| 3:15 pm | Process Review Roles and Responsibilities Where User Experience Fits |
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| 4:30 pm | Q&A and Wrap-up | ||
| 5:00 pm | Workshop End | ||