Free Educational Workshop for Software Development Leaders

Stout Systems, a leader in both the software engineering consulting and technical staffing sectors, is pleased to announce the next in a series of free educational workshops geared towards Software Development Managers and those responsible for managing software projects.
 
This workshop is currently open for registration:  
 
Workshop Topic:
User-Centered Design for Software Development Leaders
 
Overview:
User-centered design is a broad discipline. 

• How can you introduce it into your software development practice?
• Where should you start?
• Are there any best practices that you can leverage?
• What in the heck is user-centered design in the first place?

• Define what User-Centered Design is, and what it is NOT.  
• Discuss the many different disciplines involved in proper User-Centered Design (i.e., User Interface Design, Information Architecture, Information Design (IxD), Human-Computer Interaction, Human Factors/Ergonomics, etc.) and the work that is involved in each discipline.  
• Discuss how you introduce User-Centered Design into existing projects (hint:  it is highly dependent on the maturity of the project and where it is currently at in its’ product lifecycle).  
• Wrap-up by discussing Best Practices, Worst Practices, and the errors that are most commonly made in implementing User-Centered Design. 

• An understanding of the various approaches that professionals can utilize when designing or fixing a user interface. 
• A good sense of which issues they would benefit from hiring a professional to help resolve.