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Thursday, November 10, 1994
Joint Baltimore - Washington, DC Chapter Meeting. Topic: "Analyzing Users and Their Tasks: Honing Your Skills"
About the Event
This meeting is a joint meeting of the STC Washington DC and Baltimore chapters. Janice C. Redish will discuss how to hone your skills for analyzing users and user tasks.
Don't forget your business cards for networking! We collect a business card from each attendee for a chance to win the registration fee for the Annual conference. The drawing takes place at the February meeting. The more meetings you attend, the more chances to win.
About the Speaker
Janice (Ginny) C. Redish, Redish & Associates, is a member of our STC chapter and a nationally-known usability specialist. Since 1992, Ginny has been working with private companies and government agencies as a consultant in usability and documentation. She helps clients by reviewing documents and interfaces and by working with teams to create more usable documents and interfaces. She also does pre-design user and task analysis and conducts usability evaluations, often mentoring people in the client company as they incorporate usability into their design and development processes.
In 1979, Ginny founded the Document Design Center at the American Institutes for Research in Washington, DC, which she directed for 13 years. There, she and her colleagues studied the problems that people have with workplace documents and helped major companies develop model print and online documentation. In 1985, Ginny set up one of the first independent usability test laboratories, where she and her colleagues had users come to try out interfaces and documentation for companies like Hewlett-Packard, IBM, SAP, and Sony. Ginny is co-author of A Practical Guide to Usability Testing. Ginny is a graduate of Bryn Mawr College and has a Ph.D. in Linguistics from Harvard.
Schedule
6:30 p.m. - 7:00 p.m. Registration, desserts, coffee, tea
7:00 p.m. - 8:30 p.m. Presentation
Food
Desserts, coffee, and tea
Fees
$3.00 in advance; $5.00 at the door
Directions
Johns Hopkins University / Applied Physics Laboratory
11100 Johns Hopkins Road
Laurel, MD 20723
Phone: 240-228-7580 or 240-228-5000 (from DC area)
From Baltimore area: 443-778-5000
Map and directions to Johns Hopkins University/Applied Physics Laboratory in Laurel, MD.
