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UPA 2002 Review Garrett Winn - NextPage September 18, 2002—NextPage |
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Meeting Summary
Garrett shared his insights from the conference and Larry presented his paper Web-based Card Sorting for Information Architecture.
Thanks to Garrett and Larry for presenting and NextPage for hosting.
Original meeting invitation:
UPA 2002 Review
7:00pm, Wednesday, September 18th, 2002
Garrett Winn - NextPage - Insights from the conference
Larry Wood - BYU - Card Sorting
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The Usability Professionals Association 2002 Conference - Humanizing Design - was held this past July in Florida. At this NUCHI meeting, Garrett Winn will share insights from the conference sessions he attended. Larry Wood will give his card-sorting presentation from the conference:
Card-sorting can be a useful tool for organizing information and features of a computer application, particularly the content of a web site. I will describe a web-based "card sort" application that we've developed for information architecture that enables designers to have users provide labels for features and services and to categorize them from remote locations.
Larry Wood Bio
Larry Wood has taught courses on Human-Computer Interaction and User-Centered design for 17 years
and has published articles and edited a book on interface design. He has also consulted with organizations
outside the university. For the last two years, he has had a 2/3 time appointment as a Usability
consultant to the Office of Information Technology at BYU, which produces all in-house software
and the university web site and intra-net.
Garrett Winn Bio
Garrett Winn received his BA degree in English from BYU, where he emphasized in technical communication
and design. Currently, he is working to complete his thesis so that he can graduate with a MA degree
in English from BYU. Although he started his career focusing on the aspects of writing as they
related to design, the more that Garrett delved into his thesis - a study of Tufte's principles
of information design as they apply to international web sites - the more he learned that writing
involves more than just words and how they are presented.
Garrett worked at IBM from 1998-2000 as a technical writer. However, because the company was converting
the piece of software he documented from a command line to a GUI interface, he had the opportunity
to design the interface's wizards and to help with the design of the rest of the application interface.
During this process, he had the opportunity to work closely with the usability engineers at the company.
As a result of these experiences, Garrett was able to get a job with a startup company in Utah that
needed a usability expert and a technical writer. Garrett has worked hard at integrating elements
of usability testing and interface design guidelines bit by bit into the development and design processes.
The UPA 2002 Conference
For more info on the conference and the Usability Professionals Association (UPA) visit the web site
at www.upassoc.org.
Additional perspectives on the conference can be found at www.boxesandarrows.com/archives/upa_2002_humanizing_design.php.