Saturday, August 12

Multi-faceted design principles

Tektronix, Inc.
Building 38, Calgary/Atlanta Room
14200 SW Karl Braun Drive
Beaverton, OR 97077
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8:00AM – 1:00PM

Member discount applies to members of CHIFOO and partner organizations.

This half-day tutorial will provide students with design principles that they can put to use in their work as user experience designers and evaluators. We will look at principles used by graphic designers, web designers, and dynamic display designers. A multitude of real-world examples will be used to illustrate the principles, both positive and negative, until participants are able to identify and work with the concepts presented.

These design principles can be used to explain to clients why design choices were made or how to improve on current designs. There is no "silver bullet" when it comes to design, so the more principles from varied disciplines we investigate, the more tools we'll have at our disposal for that next design or evaluation.

This tutorial is perfect for:

• People who wish to add to their knowledge of design principles
• People interested in looking at design principles outside of their discipline.

About the speaker

Susan Palmiter has 10 years of experience consulting with start-up firms to Fortune 100 corporations in the areas of user interface design, customer requirements definition, product planning, usability walkthroughs and testing, and process improvement. Her latest interests include the use of scenarios and design rationale to both inform and communicate the customer-informed design throughout the product lifecycle. Susan is a founder of Design Technologies, Inc, and an Adjunct Professor in the Computer Science Department at Portland State University where she teaches a graduate course titled Introduction to Human-Computer Interaction. She holds a BS in Computer Science from Ohio State University and an MS and PhD in Human Factors Engineering from The University of Michigan.

Susan is a contributing member to the ACM's SIGCHI (Special Interest Group on Computer-Human Interaction) and the local CHIFOO (Computer-Human Interaction Forum of Oregon). She has numerous publications related to Human Computer Interaction.

Prior to the founding of Design Technologies, she worked in the Customer-Centered Research & Design Group in Tektronix Laboratories. While there, Susan was awarded the 1993 Tektronix President's Award for the customer-centered methods she developed and championed to inform product designs that are successful in the marketplace.

Susan was a key contributor to a team that developed an early multimedia intranet in 1993. This intranet served as a repository for customer centered research and as a means of disseminating research results to a broad audience. She continues to be actively involved in web site design and evaluation.