I have been keeping busy these days with the User Centered Analysis and Practical Usability Testing workshops at Human Factors International (HFI). The course is very extensive and I hardly get time to spend at home these days. But I am happy that I have found something which I can pursue with great passion. These training sessions are enabling me to better understand the needs and the strategies that are currently being employed to design GUIs.
The User Centric Design course is an extensive one which deals with forming design strategies. These strategies are based upon some studies and surveys which the stakeholder (owner) undertakes before he embarks upon making a full fledged website. The study of design goals and other such criteria enables to better understand the tasks and thus design a better user experience. The Practical Usability Training course deals more with formative prototype testing and interviewing the affected user groups to understand their mental models when they view specific websites. Of course, this is a very shallow explanation that I have given here for both the courses but you can visit the website for more details on training and certification.
We have a large audience this time attending both the courses from all across the country and especially from the bigger Indian IT companies. This accentuates the fact that more and more organizations have started to look at usability as a very important factor for designing web and software applications.
hey..bhushan…hoipe u recognised me..anands9
well so did u landed in HFI course from human Factor..whats ur oppinion on the quality?
I am also thinking if its worth of doing..also came to know about SU..its was bad..anyway..hope re4st is fine from ur end..
good luck.
Hi Anand. Glad to see you here. The course is very comprehensive and perhaps the only one of its kind offered in India. You can check out their website for more details. Yes, whatever happened with SU was very unfortunate.