Presenter:         



Chris Hass, Senior VP User Experience; Mad*Pow
Title:

Inside the Usability Studio: An Open Interview with Ginny Redish
Day/Date: Thursday, July 11, 2013
Time: 6:00 pm - 7:00 pm
Location:  Columbia 5-8
Session Type: Evening Entertainment
Description:
Dr. Janice “Ginny” Redish is a world-renowned specialist in UX research and design, plain language, and writing for the Web. Ginny has authored or co-authored some of the most seminal UX books in the field: A Practical Guide to Usability Testing, User and Task Analysis for Interface Design, and most recently: Letting Go of the Words. Her career has spanned several technological revolutions and the rise of usability as a vital component of product and service design. She is a consummate thinker, usability legend, beloved colleague, and a great hug. And for one roller-coaster hour: she’s all yours. Advisory board member Chris Hass will shamelessly appropriate the “Inside the (Usability) Studio” format to ask Ginny to questions about her background, career, and her views of an ever-evolving field. The last portion of the hour will consist of an Audience Q&A. Bring your questions, bring your stories, meet one of the living reasons you have an industry to call your own. Come help us celebrate a woman who has helped advance the cause of user experience through a lifetime of thought-leadership, mentoring and good humor!
Audience: General
Track: 
Biography: Chris Hass is a Senior Vice President of Experience Design at Mad*Pow (madpow.com). Chris handles business development and directs the UX research team in conducting user interface design and accessibility activities for the development of innovative user experience products. Chris has unique expertise conducting human factors research with persons who have physical and cognitive disabilities, and designing information architecture and interaction designs for consumer, medical, professional and human service products. Chris is the former President of the User Experience Professionals’ Association (UXPA) Boston Chapter, and the Director of Chapters for UXPA International. Prior to joining Mad*Pow, Chris was a usability consultant and Interim Director of the Bentley Design and Usability Center, a senior research scientist at the American Institutes for Research, and a WWW Specialist at Harvard Medical School. Chris has published numerous papers on usability including Optimizing Research Design for Diverse Target Populations, presented to the MIT Humans and Technology Symposium, and PHIN for all: Implementing Research Based Accessibility Practices into Web-based Applications, presented at the CDC Public Health Information Network Annual Conference.