28th of February. First conference in Belarus “Usability and interface design”

February 28 (Saturday), from 11.00 to 15.00 in Minsk at the University of Culture will be held a free mini-conference "Usability and interface design" organized by the portal IT-JOB.BY



The program includes 4 specialists:



1. Genadiy Dragun , Lead Information Architect, EPAM : “Methods of designing a user interface”



What does successful software product development depend on? How to get better results with less time and effort?

It will be told about the decision-making methods in the design, the criteria for choosing the most effective tools for each of the design stages, depending on the specifics of the project:

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- Researching;

- Analysis and modeling;

- Design and design;

- Verification of analysis and design results



2. Pavel Konoplitsky , usability specialist and UX, Amazing Development blog author, usability.by community organizer: “Usability: Do it yourself!” [ Presentation ]



Improving user qualities of software and sites in the face of total cost reduction



- The current state of affairs. Problems of organizing quality improvement activities in companies.

- Review of existing prototyping tools : paper, board, Axure, Visio, Indesign and Fireworks, Holy Grail (Dreamweaver)

- Using Usability Guidelines

- Creation of project groups, organization of activities

- Usability Testing

- Belarus Usability Community - www.usability.by



3. Elena Polyakova , Interface Designer, HumanoIT Group : “Web 2.0 for Online Stores”



- Web 2.0 Technology Overview

- RIA-interface, on the example of online stores

- How to improve the directory structure

- How to optimize the search and product comparison in the catalog

- Optimization of the process of choosing, ordering and purchasing goods: assistance in choosing goods, shopping basket of the user, comparison of offers

- Review of RIA applications for online stores: calculators, expense logs, gliders, etc.

- Summing up: the role and capabilities of WEB 2.0 technologies for online stores



4. Alexander Sergeev , CEO, HumanoIT Group : “Usability as a growth hormone of a social network”



- Definitions: usability, interaction experience, social network

- Tasks solved by social networks

- From the idea of ​​the site to the image of the project

- Typology of social networks in terms of functionality

- Attracting new users to the site

- Establishing user relationships with each other

- Generation of content by users

- Increased number of social contacts



Details and registration on the portal IT-JOB.BY