Rocky Mountain Chapter of STC January Meeting

STC Member Price:	$20
Price for program and dinner for STC members (except students).
Nonmember Price:	$25
Price for program and dinner for those without STC membership.
Student Price:	$15
Reduced rate for program and dinner for students, both STC members and nonmembers (please provide your student ID at the meeting check-in desk).
Program Only Price:	$7
This covers the cost of the program only and does not include a meal. A beverage is included.
An additional $5 will be assessed for attendees who want dinner, but who register late or show up at the door. Reservations are required through Acteva. Visit http://www.acteva.com/booking.cfm?bevaid=90068 to make your reservations.

Agenda:

6:00 - 7:00 pm Networking

7:00 - 9:00 pm Announcements and program

Directions, Transportation, and Parking:

A map and driving instructions are available at this website: http://www.tivoli.org/tivoli/map.html.

Details:

Looking for ways to improve the usability of your web site, software or documentation? Learn how to use these portraits of users to create more realistic scenarios, review a prototype or draft, and set up usability tests. This meeting will be interactive, so come ready to try out some new ideas.

Whitney Quesenbery

About the Speaker: Whitney Quesenbery is President of UPA (Usability Professionals' Association) and the principal consultant for Whitney Interactive Design. She is a user interface designer and usability specialist with a passion for clear communication. She helps develop new concepts for product designs and has worked on award winning multimedia products, web sites, and web & software applications.

Whitney teaches, presents and writes at many user experience events. She is the President of UPA (Usability Professionals' Association), and an STC Associate Fellow. As a director Design for Democracy (a strategic initiative of AIGA and UPA) and a member of a US federal advisory committee, she works to ensure the usability of voting systems.

Before she was seduced by a little beige computer into the world of usability, Whitney was a theatrical lighting designer. The lessons she learned about the power of stories now get put to use in her work with personas.

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