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Transform design theory into practical usage during this 2 day interactive seminar where you will learn how to define user goals and business needs and then apply proven design techniques to ensure highly usable and successful applications.  These are the same techniques being used successfully on real projects for many of our Global 2000 clients and large government organizations.   Implementing a successful design process can mean the difference between success and failure in the coming years.  Learn from the experts who have been delivering success in this field for over a decade!

We will show you how to apply a proven process for identifying true user requirements, developing and validating conceptual models, and creating designs that are highly usable. We back up our design recommendations with solid research performed in our digital usability lab and will provide you actual video of users in action to bring home to your design teams to further reinforce the seminar material.  We will show you how to adopt a user-centric perspective and learn how customer-centered design can transform your organization.
What You will Learn

This class for developers, end-users, interaction designers, and managers explains how to apply the concepts of human centered design to the paradigm of web development.

Attendees will learn how to:

  • Develop a detailed understanding of your users through task analysis, mental models, and user profiles
  • Determine the best information architecture for your users
  • Proper layout and design techniques
  • Learn new design modeling techniques
  • Create and implement in-house web standards
  • Plan and conduct and effective usability test
  • Implement net-database and e-commerce designs
  • Design more successful applications
  • Validate and defend important design decisions
  Attendees will walk away with a complete set of templates for quickly implementing this process within their organization.


Benefits to Your Company

Our Designing for Usability course will benefit your organization in the following ways:

  • Increase end user productivity by developing usable web applications.
  • Increase developer efficiency by using agile development techniques.
  • Increase revenue by using a proven seven-step process for modeling complex web applications.
  • Reduce training and support costs.

Who Should Attend

This class is designed for corporate or commercial developers and analysts that are, or plan to be, involved in web projects. Anyone concerned with developing well-designed web sites, including individuals that will gather user requirements or end-users themselves, will benefit from attending. Attendees should have a basic understanding of web technologies and navigating in a web environment. GUI Design for Web Applications is useful for:

  • Project managers who are responsible for establishing or managing a web application project.
  • Project leaders who need to know proven steps for web-enabling existing client/server applications.
  • GUI designers who need to know how and when to use web controls when creating user interfaces.
  • Webmasters who are responsible for managing and implementing web technology.
  • Analysts and programmers who need to know the critical aspects and limitations of web design.
  • End users who need to understand the principles of good web design techniques.
Seminar Outline
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3-Day Expanded Course   Course Information & Outline
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How is the seminar priced?
Designing for Usability 2-Day Course (U.S.)   $1095.00
Designing for Usability 3-Day Expanded Course (U.S.)   $1495.00
Designing for Usability 2-Day Course and Advanced User Interface Design (U.S.)   $1795.00
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Designing for Usability (European)   Registration through TTI
Designing for Usability and Advanced User Interface Design Seminars (European)   Registration through TTI
When is the Seminar coming to my area?
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Apr 18-19, 2006 San Francisco (Venue) Designing for Usability (2-day)
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May 16-17, 2006 Minneapolis (Venue) Designing for Usability (2-day)
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Jun 12-14, 2005 Rome, Italy (Venue) Designing for Usability Register Now
Sep 05-06, 2006 San Francisco (Venue) Designing for Usability
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Oct 10-11, 2006 Boston, MA (Venue) Designing for Usability
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Nov 14-15, 2006 Orlando, FL (Venue) Designing for Usability (2-day)
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Prefer to to take the seminar on-line?

We offer a computer-based training course that teaches the design and implementation of interfaces for web applications. Check out Web CBT to learn more.

Prefer to have seminars on-site?

Let us come to you! If you have 10 or more employees who wish to attend a seminar, CSS will offer the training on-site. For more information about on-site seminars contact sales@classicsys.com

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"Your design assistance and training have saved us months of development time in many of our mission critical development projects..."

Jeff Janis
Manager of User Interface Design
Progressive Insurance

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Weiland Financial Group, Inc.

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Alltel Information Systems

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