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[Walter Vannini]

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When:      Wednesday, January 10, 2007
Topic:     Web Bloopers: Avoiding Common Design Mistakes
Speaker:   Jeff Johnson
Time:      7:00pm
Where:     eBay Town Hall (next to PayPal/eBay)
                 2161 North First St
                 San Jose, CA 95131
Map:       <http://tinyurl.com/cdg5u/>
Cost:      Free
More Info: <http://www.accu-usa.org>

This talk is based on the presenter's book: Web Bloopers: 60
Common Web Design Mistakes and How to Avoid Them (Morgan
Kaufmann).  The book explains how to avoid common Web design
errors, illustrated with examples from actual websites.  The
talk asserts that the Web is not commercial product quality,
largely due to poor usability.  It describes a few bloopers
in each category, and explains how to avoid them. The talk
is illustrated with many examples of bloopers in
commercially-available websites.

Jeff Johnson is President and Principal Consultant at UI
Wizards, Inc., a product usability consulting firm that
offers UI design, usability reviews, usability testing, and
training. Its url is <http://www.uiwizards.com/>

He is the author of GUI Bloopers: Don'ts and Dos for
Software Developers and Web Designers (2000), and Web
Bloopers: 60 Common Design Mistakes and How to Avoid Them
(2003). Among other consulting projects, he assisted in the
design and evaluation of a web-based system for reporting
voting problems and irregularities, which was used in the
2004 and 2005 U.S. elections.

He has worked in the field of Human-Computer Interaction
since 1978. After earning B.A. and Ph.D. degrees from Yale
and Stanford Universities, he worked as a user-interface
designer and implementer, engineer manager, usability
tester, and researcher at Cromemco, Xerox, US West,
Hewlett-Packard Labs, and Sun Microsystems. He has published
numerous articles and book chapters on a variety of topics
in Human-Computer Interaction and the impact of technology
on society. He frequently gives talks and tutorials at
conferences and companies on usability and user-interface
design.

--- Upcoming ACCU talks ---

February 7, 2007
Alex Martelli
"Technical Management of Software Developers"

March 21, 2007
Kevlin Henney
"Four (More) Patterns You Should Know"

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The ACCU meets monthly. To suggest topics and speakers
please email Walter Vannini via walterv at gbbservices.com

Walter Vannini
<http://www.accu-usa.org/>
<http://www.gbbservices.com/>