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Ever wondered why so many usability professionals have studied psychology?
Dr Vanessa Lim from the University of Auckland’s Psychology Department is going to provide you with a psychology 101 level toolkit of knowledge about human memory, cognition and attention. During her talk we’re going to discuss how human vision, attention and memory work and how this knowledge can be applied to design of software and websites. Vanessa will also talk about experimental methods briefly, while recognising that few people in our industries conduct rigorous, tightly controlled experiments.
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UPANZ Wellington branch - May usability meeting
Three 20-minute presentations about government websites with a wide range of users. This event will be of interest to all web professionals – from developers and designers, to information architects, content managers and communicators.
After a slow start to the year, the Wellington UPA group has an exciting series of events planned for 2007!
Thanks to some new members on the organizing group we are glad to announce regular monthly meetings for the rest of the year with a topic presenter/s at each meeting. We will have each UPA meeting on the first Tuesday of each month.
To kick things off, our next meeting is Tuesday April 3rd and will be about prototyping tools for web design.
After the success of our Interactionary last session (thanks Peter) here is another session where you get to be part of the fun and learning.
We’re going to be testing a New Zealand e-commerce website and YOU (our lovely attendees) get to define tasks, watch the testing and identify usability issues.
Miriam Walker and Stephanie Creasy are going to be running the evening. Miriam is a usability consultant with Shift www.shift.co.nz and Steph http://www.lychee.co.nz/ is a very talented designer whose returning to the NZ job market after leading a team of designers in London and freelancing in New Zealand.
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The first UPA Auckland event this year is going to be an Interactionary on March 6th.
Interactionary session
Imagine a cross between Theatre Sports and NZ Idol meets User Centred Design.
Want to play?
Form a team of 3-4 people before the night and RSVP your team name, team captain’s contact details and team members’ names to auckland@upa.org.nz before February 28th. Take the challenge of solving a design problem revealed on the night and design a solution in front of your peers in just ten minutes and scored by 3 guest judges.
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