[User_Centered_Design] On-campus showing of UIE Seminar: "Galleries: The Hardest Working Pages on Your Site" next Wed., October 29th at noon

Hi everyone,

Thanks to the generous sponsorship of CIO Shel Waggener (who is
providing the seminar) & Educational Technology Services (who is
providing the room), the campus User-centered Design group will be
showing a new UIE seminar, "Galleries: The Hardest Working Pages on
Your Site" (http://www.uie.com/events/virtual_seminars/gallery/) next
Wednesday, October 29th at 12 noon in 127 Dwinelle. The seminars
themselves usually last about 75 minutes...bring your lunch and if
folks are interested, we'll have a short discussion session afterwards.

Here's an excerpt from the UIE website about what you will learn at
the seminar:

In this seminar, we take a detailed look at your site's most critical
page: the gallery. Galleries are the most used navigational element on
any web site and many sites have hundreds of them. And yet, they are
often the most difficult pages to design well.

Acting as the crossroads for your users path to their desired content,
a solid gallery page tells the user what they'll find and, just as
importantly, tells them which paths will take them away from their
goal. Ensuring these landmarks do their job is probably the hardest
part of designing a successful website.

In this presentation, Jared will share some of UIE’s most important
findings about gallery page design. You’ll learn:

     * How to utilize the Scent of Information to ensure the user’s
trigger words are present
     * How galleries help users make confident choices
     * The key elements that search result pages borrow from the
average gallery (and what makes them different)
     * Strategies for ordering links for easy findability. (Hint:
Alphabetical order isn’t one of them!)
     * When images help and when they get in the way
     * How dynamic Ajax elements can help or hinder a user finding
what to click on
     * How to take advantage of when users are scanning and when they
are reading

Jared will show you some of the latest design thinking from Netflix,
Best Buy, Bureau of Labor Statistics, SonyEricsson, and Citibank, to
name a few.

There are slides that accompany the seminar, which I'd recommend you
print out beforehand and bring along. They are available (along with
links to *all* the past seminars we've shown, plus their slides) at
the "UIE Seminars" site on bSpace (http://bspace.berkeley.edu/). If
you are not yet a member of this site, let me know and I'd be happy to
add you.

Additionally, feel free to ask me or other members of the campus user-
centered design group at the seminar for information about the group.
You can also subscribe to ucd@lists.berkeley.edu (to subscribe, go to: https://calmail.berkeley.edu/manage/list/listinfo/ucd@lists.berkeley.edu
  and follow the directions there) for news and announcements about
the group's activities, which are open to anyone on campus. We usually
meet the first Thursday of the month for everything from application
reviews to discussions about UCD to social meetings.

Cheers,
Judy Stern

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Received on Mon Oct 27 2008 - 09:07:31 PDT