| Design and Usability Training |
| Classic System Solutions offers a variety of training that will enable employees to leverage usability principles on your IT projects |
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| Public Seminars |
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Public Seminar Schedule
Classic System Solutions has exciting seminars coming to a location near you. Take a look at the list of our public seminars scheduled for 2009. |
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Designing for Usability
Learn how to define user goals and business needs while applying proven design techniques to ensure highly usable and successful applications. We will show you how to adopt a user-centric perspective, apply a proven process for identifying true user requirements, developing and validating conceptual models, and creating designs that are highly usable. |
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Advanced User Interface Design for GUI and Web 2.0 Applications
The convergence of Windows and the Web is upon us. Learn the techniques that Google Maps, Gmail, Flickr and a variety of new AJAX and Rich Internet applications have used to legitimize moving beyond HTML to deliver interactive applications that deliver a best of the web and best of the
desktop user experience. In this workshop, you'll learn how to develop complex GUIs for mixed user profiles, effectively use multimedia and use new help techniques to reduce training and support costs. |
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Effective Software Prototyping
Learn how to build effective prototypes to quickly communicate business requirements and set realistic user expectations. You will learn a proven process for planning, creating and communicating digital prototypes to validate design decisions and gain consensus on the proposed software design. |
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| Webinars (Virtual Seminars) |
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| Improving Form Usability With AJAX |
| Learn the latest tips and techniques for creating friendlier forms using AJAX and other Rich Internet Application Design techniques. See key findings from research in our Usability Lab and new Design Patterns for increased usability. |
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| Rapid Prototyping to Drive Requirements (Archive) |
| Rapid Prototyping can dramatically shorten the time required to capture and agree upon the requirements for a project. Discover how kicking off your requirements sessions with facilitated Rapid Prototyping will get you to the goal faster and more successfully. Learn and from the experts who have been helping companies develop world-class solutions for over a decade. We will demonstrate how you can use Whiteboards and Rapid Prototyping tools to allow visualization of the requirements. |
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| Designing Usable Portals and Mashups |
| Successful Portals are now using advanced UI designs, RSS feeds, Mash-ups and highly interactive collaboration. Users expect their new portals solutions to work like Google with ease of use, excellent search and integrated collaboration. Despite, this many portal efforts get mired in the politics of the company while everyone else is providing you their opinion on the user interface. Learn techniques on how to make efficient task-based portal designs that allow increased user productivity while meeting the needs of the business. Learn and from the experts who have been helping companies develop world-class solutions for over a decade. We'll teach you our techniques for success and provide real-world case study examples of success in the field. |
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| Designing For Handheld Usability |
| The world is going mobile! The mobile user experience has evolved into a highly visual rather than audible experience. Learn new techniques to create a seamless user interface between classic phone interactions and the new visual interactions made possible on the latest mobile phone and PDA platforms. This class will explore new task interaction models and evaluate the latest findings with AUI's (Attention User Interfaces). The Webinar will also cover how to successfully deploy existing business applications on a mobile platform. |
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| On-Site Training - At your location |
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Designing for Usability
Learn how to define user goals and business needs while applying proven design techniques to ensure highly usable and successful applications. We will show you how to adopt a user-centric perspective, apply a proven process for identifying true user requirements, developing and validating conceptual models, and creating designs that are highly usable. |
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Advanced User Interface Design for GUI and Web 2.0 Applications
The convergence of Windows and the Web is upon us. Learn the techniques that Google Maps, Gmail, Flickr and a variety of new AJAX and Rich Internet applications have used to legitimize moving beyond HTML to deliver interactive applications that deliver a best of the web and best of the
desktop user experience. In this workshop, you'll learn how to develop complex GUIs for mixed user profiles, effectively use multimedia and use new help techniques to reduce training and support costs.
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GUI Design Workshop
In this workshop, you'll create successful interfaces from user requirements, use new modeling techniques for designing complex interfaces, create and implement in-house GUI standards, and much more. |
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Request an On-site Seminar
Let us come to you! If you have 10 or more employees who wish to attend a seminar, CSS will offer you training on-site. We also provide on-site customized courses that are tailored to meet the specific issues of your organization.
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| On-Demand Web-based Training |
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| GUI Design Fundamentals |
| Computer-based training course that teaches the principles of effective GUI design for Windows applications. Sample topics include GUI controls, window design principles, and usability. |
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| Web Design Fundamentals |
| Computer-based training course that teaches the design and implementation of interfaces for web applications. Sample topics include web page design and layout, web technologies, and navigation. |
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