"Web Bloopers: Avoiding Common Design Mistakes"

Speaker:

Jeff Johnson

Date: Thursday, June 9, 2005
Time: 3:30 - 5:00 PM
Location: Orange Conference Room, Bldg 40
Goodies: Tea and Cookies Provided

Speaker's Summary:

This talk is based on the presenter's new 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.

About the Speaker:

Jeff Johnson is Principal Consultant at UI Wizards, Inc., a product usability consulting firm. He has worked in Human-Computer Interaction since 1978. After earning B.A. and Ph.D. degrees from Yale and Stanford, he worked as a UI designer and implementer, engineer manager, usability tester, and researcher at Cromemco, Xerox, US West, Hewlett-Packard Labs, and Sun. He has published numerous articles and book chapters on HCI and the impact of technology on society. His previous book is GUI Bloopers: Don’ts and Dos for Software Developers and Web Designers (Morgan Kaufmann, 2000).