October 11th - An Introduction to User Experience

Techcamp is conducting a workshop on Introduction to Usability and UX. The event will be conducted by Mr Anirudha Joshi from IIT Bombay.
The session is primarily targeted towards aspiring usability practitioners and keen software professionals involved in the process of building simple and efficient applications. The session will be replete with a hands-on exercise and one-on-one interaction with Mr. Joshi.

Topics Covered

• Understanding the layers of user experience (1 hour)
• User experience goals (1 hour)
• An exercise on setting user experience goals (Hands-on in groups) (30 min)
• Institutionalizing user experience design in your company (30 min)
• Q&A

Who should attend?

Aspiring Usability practitioners, Software engineers, Project managers, Tech Leads & Interface designers

Note: Usability Professionals may find this session elementary since its an introduction, but we believe it's always good to be reminded of the fundamentals

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About the speaker

Anirudha Joshi is a faculty member in the Industrial Design Centre, IIT Bombay. He teaches and does research in the field of Human-Computer Interaction (HCI) design. His area of research interest is interaction design for users in developing economies. He also works in the area overlapping between software engineering and HCI. Anirudha conducts workshops on HCI for IT professionals where he helps them to institutionalize HCI in their organizations. Anirudha undertakes consulting assignments in user studies, interaction design and usability evaluation. He has authored papers related to HCI in Indian and international conferences and journals. He was the co-chair of the programme committee of the first India HCI conference held in December, 2004 in Bangalore. Before entering academics, Anirudha worked in the field of interaction design for software, multimedia and the Internet. Anirudha has a BTech in Electrical Engineering from IIT Bombay, and an MDes in Visual Communication also from IIT Bombay.