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From May 24th to May 28th, the 2010 Usability Professionals' Association International Conference is being held in Munich, Germany. This event brings together more than 700 usability professionals from all over the world. To give you an impression of the diverse range of speakers and topics, the UPA provides an audio podcast accompanying the conference. Herein you will find interviews with various conference attendants and organizers, some of them recorded during the event, others before and after it.
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2010-06-07 | Rolf Molich, co-inventor of the heuristic evaluation method (with Nielsen), has some strong opinions on the quality of the work of usability professionals. He talks about some popular usability myths, what he can back up with clear data. He tells Jens ... | |
2010-06-04 | Arne Kittler, Fork Unstable Media, talked with Jens Jacobsen about the Amazonisation of e-commerce. Arne describes why designers choose just to copy Amazon and other successful brands - and what the drawbacks of this method are. | |
2010-06-01 | Angela Colter talked with Jens Jacobsen about readability and usability. Too often we focus on usability and forget that a web page also must be readable and understandable. She points out which automatic tools can help assessing this, and where their ... | |
2010-05-31 | Thomas Geis, CEO of ProContext Consulting, talked with Jens Jacobsen about CIF—the Common Industry Format for usability-related information. He explains what the CIF is, who uses it, and what benefit an international standard from ISO for usability pro... |
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2010-05-28 | Martijn Klompenhouwer works as user experience consultant for the company User Intelligence in Amsterdam. He told Jens Jacobsen in this interview how web analytics can help preparing and validating usability tests. More on his presentation he held with... | |
2010-05-28 | Jason Huang is founder and president of Tang Consulting (Shanghai). He is also president of UPA China. Jens Jacobsen talked with Jason about the expectations of users when they visit a website, with special focus on the language offered. They also spok... |
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2010-05-27 |
Interview with Sarah Weise, Senior Consultant, Booz Allen Hamilton Sarah Weise is an associate with Booz Allen Hamilton Inc. Jens Jacobsen talked with her about Express Usability and what you can expect when all you've got are 40 hours. She developed a menu of usability engineering dishes from which you can choose to ... |
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2010-05-27 |
Interview with Aaron Cheang, Lead User Experience Researcher, Google Aaron Cheang is Lead User Experience Researcher on the Google Wave team. He talked with Jens Jacobsen about Disruptive Innovation and what this term means exactly—and where the problems are when you are designing a product that falls into this category... |
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2010-05-26 | Jakob Biesterfeldt serves as co-chair of this year's event. As part of the organizing team, Jakob talks to Jens Jacobsen about some of the special activities within the program and about the organizers' focus on providing many networking possibilities ... |
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2010-05-25 |
Interview with Trent Mankelow, Director of Marketing& Communications, UPA Before the conference, Robert Skrobe spoke to Trent Mankelow via Skype. Trent serves as the UPA's Director of Marketing and Communications. In the interview, Trent talks about what conference attendees can expect from their stay in Munich in addition t... |
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