Rocky Mountain Chapter of STC April 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:	$10
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.

Alternately, if you wish to pay at the door, you can send an email to reservations@stcrmc.org and indicate the number of individuals in your party, whether you are a member, non-member, or student, if you are attending the program only, or if you require a vegetarian meal.

Agenda:

6:00 - 7:00 pm Networking

7:00 - 9:00 pm Announcements and program

Directions, Transportation, and Parking:

Located near the Tivoli Center and the King Center near the intersection of 9th and Lawrence streets, St. Cajetan's does not have a parking lot directly connected to it. The surface lot shared by the Tivoli and the King Center is close by. The parking garage next to the Tivoli is a little longer walk, but is well-lit and you can go through the Tivoli (or skirt the front of the Tivoli) to get to St. Cajetan's.

This map shows details of the campus, buildings, and parking lots.

No longer a church, St. Cajetan's is recognizable by its Spanish Colonial architecture. Other nearby landmarks include Golda Meir's former Denver home (relocated to the campus) which is next door to the church building.

Exits from I-25 serving the Auraria Campus include Auraria Parkway, Colfax Avenue, and Speer Boulevard.

Details:

Learn how to do persona-based, scenario-based, heuristic evaluation--a technique you can use with documentation, stand-alone documents, web sites, and even software or hardware interfaces in this interactive session with Ginny Redish.

You can use this method to get a good sense of your product's usability. Hear Ginny's stories of "channeling" older adults to test web sites and changing developers' views of their own products.

Ginny Redish

We'll try out this technique with three examples of different types of content. We'll create mini-personas for each situation, describe relevant scenarios, and critique the content by being the personas and doing the scenarios.

We'll then consider the heuristics (guidelines) we used and consider how they match the sets of heuristics and how much we can generalize from what we've done.

Come have fun and take home new ideas you can immediately apply to your work.

About the Speaker: Ginny Redish has been helping colleagues and clients communicate clearly for more than 25 years. Ginny was the founder and first director of the Document Design Center at the American Institutes for Research. Since 1992, Ginny has been an independent consultant focusing on usability of documents, software, and web sites. She works with organizations and companies such as AARP, American Airlines, AT&T, Boeing, DuPont, Hewlett-Packard, Marriott, NCR, Nokia, Xerox, and many government agencies.

Ginny is a Fellow of STC, a former member of the STC Board of Directors, and co-founder of the STC Usability and User Experience Community.

Ginny is co-author of two of the major books on usability:

A Practical Guide to Usability Testing (with Joseph Dumas)
User and Task Analysis for Interface Design (with JoAnn Hackos)

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