GGDOttawa Talks Usability March 4 with Laura Wesley!
Posted in Events and tagged with ggdottawa, usability 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.
February 18th, 2010 at 10:46 am
I’ll get the ball rolling and say that I’m interested in learning about web design and online service delivery – and about performance measurment. What’s the best way to do the latter?
February 18th, 2010 at 11:30 am
I am interested in continuous improvement. It’s great to track stuff however what do you do with the analytics that you have. How do you go about making it better.
February 19th, 2010 at 2:33 pm
I’d love to be one of the 5 students! I’ve always wanted to attend one of these! Pick me! Pick me! hehe…
For the educational part: I’m at Ottawa U taking classes towards my PR degree, which was finally approved!
February 19th, 2010 at 2:41 pm
Hi! I’m a student and I want to attend because the last GGD was awesome – I met so many great people, and I’m really interested in usability.
February 19th, 2010 at 4:21 pm
Hey I am a student and would love to attend GGD. I think it is a great opportunity as I am helping organize an upcoming GGD.
February 24th, 2010 at 7:38 pm
Is everyone interested in *web* usability? Because usability can be applied to products and service design as well but I’ll focus on web if that’s where everyone’s interest is.
February 24th, 2010 at 10:20 pm
I am second-year student in public relations at Algonquin College. I am interested in learning about all aspects of social media and communications. I am looking to network with pr professionals in Ottawa and learn as much about the field as possible!
Thanks!
February 25th, 2010 at 2:45 pm
Is there a cap on how many free student passes one can get? I’m a second year U Of Ottawa MA Communication student researching government 2.0 in British Columbia.
February 27th, 2010 at 4:29 pm
I’m a second-year, MA (Communication) University of Ottawa student and a total GeekGirlDinnerOttawa groupie. I’m researching the impact of technology on newspapers and usability and its impact on real world adaptation and diffusion is of great interest to me.
March 4th, 2010 at 9:50 am
Hi Laura, to answer your question, I am interested in Web usability. I’m also interested in a) web design & online service delivery & c) continuous improvement of the options presented. Looking forward to dinner!