Four Days Packed With Incredible Tutorials
Join the Adaptive Path partners in our nation's capitol for a full week of valuable training, fantastic after-hours events, real-world case studies, and guest speakers.
You can take either workshop, Beyond Usability or The Business of User Experience, or you can take both of them and save a bunch. And it's all happening at the fabulous Watergate Hotel (yup, that Watergate), just minutes from the monuments and museums.
Days One and Two: Beyond Usability
This two-day presentation covers the process of user experience design from gathering initial business requirements to developing functional specifications. Along the way we'll explain how to:
- Develop a detailed understanding of your users through task analysis, mental models, personas, and scenarios
- Improve the user experience by actively managing stakeholders and company politics
- Create a user-centered information architecture that meets business needs
- Design more successful interactive tools and user interfaces
- Manage your own usability tests
- Validate and defend important design decisions
Days Three and Four: The Business of User Experience
What is the value of your user experience design? How do you develop smart design practices that satisfy specific business objectives? How do you measure your success within your organization? This two-day workshop will help you connect your design and business strategies, to build measurably successful Web sites.
- The Elements of User Experience Join Jesse James Garrett as he uncovers the strategic foundations of user-centered design.
- Managing Design Politics Learn proven techniques for overcoming political obstacles, breaking organizational gridlock, and getting consensus.
- Make Your CMS Work for You Whether you've implemented a Content Management System or are just thinking about it, our eight steps will help your company with what could be your biggest investment in technology.
- Tying User Experience to Business Success Discover concrete methods for measuring and demonstrating the effectiveness of your user experience.