Michigan UXPA

Wednesday June 4, 2008

TechSmith, Okemos, MI

Joanna Markel and Serena Rosenhan, ProQuest

As members of the User Experience Design team at ProQuest, a company that produces information products for libraries, we wanted to know more about how our users approach research. While we routinely conduct usability tests and evaluations as part of our product development processes, we needed a new method to help us answer questions about the tasks and situations for which our products are designed. We turned to contextual inquiry and designed and conducted a series of field observations of college students doing library research. After conducting 13 rather time-consuming in-person observations, we modified our methods to remote online observations and quickly discovered that there were unexpected benefits to this approach in addition to time-savings.
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Thursday May 8, 2008

Farmington Hills, MI

Abstract

Stan Driskell presents Spider Controls, a new paradigm for the design of graphic user interfaces (GUIs) based on a universal graphic that displays menu, list/combo box, toolbar, palette, and dialog box options in a common format. This universal graphic makes it easy to embed any type of control, including list boxes, spin buttons, radio buttons, and check boxes.
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Monday, March 31st – Wednesday, April 2nd

Ann Arbor, MI

The Michigan Chapter of the Usability Professionals Association is collaborating with Washtenaw Community College’s Internet Professional Program, User Experience Network (UXnet), Refresh Detroit, and a growing list of others to sponsor the fourth annual Internet User Experience event – IUE2008 in Ann Arbor Michigan March 31-April 3, 2008.
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