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CHI Attendees:  If you are involved in designing or developing websites for your company or organization, please consider taking my course, which is scheduled for Wednesday Apr 22, 14:30 - 17:50.

See you in Seoul!
Jeff Johnson, Ph.D.
UI Wizards, Inc. & Wiser Usability, Inc.
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Conceptual Models: Core to Good Design

http://chi2015.acm.org/program/courses/#C23
Teaches the benefits of designing a conceptual model (CM) of apps before designing the UI, the components of CMs and how to create them, and provides experience designing a CM.
A crucial step in designing a UI for a software application is to design a coherent, task-focused conceptual model. With a CM, designers design better, developers develop better, and users learn and use better. Unfortunately, this step is often skipped in software design, resulting in incoherent, arbitrary, inconsistent, overly-complex applications that impede design, development, learning, understanding, and use. Based on the presenter's (coauthored) book: Conceptual Models: Core to Good Design. It covers:
• What CMs are.
• How they improve software design and development.
• Perils of skipping CMs.
• Object/operations analysis.
• Examples of CMs.
• A hands-on exercise designing a CM.

The course presentation consists of lecture, Q&A, and audience exercises. Most of the second segment consists of hands-on exercises and discussion.

The intended audience is designers and developers of all levels, as well as Q/A engineers, usability testers, and managers.

Instructor background: Jeff Johnson is Principal Consultant at UI Wizards, a product usability consultancy, and co-founder of Wiser Usability, a consultancy focusing on usability and accessibility for seniors. He has worked in HCI since 1978. After earning B.A. and Ph.D. degrees in cognitive psychology from Yale and Stanford, he worked at Cromemco, Xerox, US West, Hewlett-Packard, and Sun. Since 1996 he has been a consultant and author. He has taught at Stanford, Mills, and the University of Canterbury. He authored articles and chapters on HCI, as well as the books GUI Bloopers, Web Bloopers, GUI Bloopers 2.0, Designing with the Mind in Mind, and Conceptual Models (with Austin Henderson).

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