GGDOttawa Talks Usability March 4 with Laura Wesley!
Posted in Events on 02/18/2010 10:26 am by melgallantFor our next Girl Geek Dinner (GGD), we are pleased to have Laura Wesley, a Business Analyst specializing in performance measurement, lead a discussion on usability and why it’s important to your website, products and bottom line.
Laura will discuss:
- What is usability
- Why it’s important and why we should all be aware of it
- Usability methods
- Resources & takeaways
The event details!
Join us Thursday, March 4 at 6 p.m. at the Heart and Crown on Preston Street! Register now.
Heart & Crown
353 B Preston Street (at Aberdeen Street)
Tell us what you want to know about usability
To help Laura frame her discussion on usability, use the comments section to tell us what you’re most interested in learning more about. Usability in the context of:
a) web design & online service delivery
b) the real world
c) continuous improvement
d) performance measurement
e) other?
A bit about Laura
Laura is part of a growing movement of professionals using Results-based Management and User-Centred Design principles to foster a results-focused culture in the Federal Public Service. Cynical idealist and overachieving public servant, this Girl Geek spends her free time Inter-webbing, snowshoeing, learning & knitting.
Laura is @resultsjunkie on Twitter and blogs at http://usability4government.wordpress.com
See you March 4th!
*UPDATE* Student spots available!
Once again, thanks to a gracious sponsorship by Thornley Fallis Communications, we’re offering five student spots for this event.
What this means, is if you’re a full-time student, and one of the first five students to comment on this post, you’ll get free admission to the event *and* your meal paid for (up to $25).
So if you’re a student and want to take advantage, leave a comment and let us know what you are taking in school and why you want to attend.
If there are already five comments, please go ahead and leave one anyway in case someone can’t make it or more spots become available.
Ottawa Girl Geek Dinners are an offshoot of the London Girl Geek Dinners, started by Sarah Blow. The goal of these get-togethers is to make technology accessible and interesting to all age groups and all people, particularly women.
