CN24: Ajax – Design and Usability

Thursday, 9 April 2009, 9:00

2 units

Instructors

William Hudson, Syntagm Ltd

Benefits

This half-day interactive course breaks new ground in relating Ajax technology to key principals of Computer-Human Interaction.

Origins

This course was first presented at a PHICHI event in September, 2006. It was highly-rated at CHI 2007 and was part of the conference program for HCI 2007.

Features

On completion of this tutorial you will be able to:

Audience

Web and intranet designers, information architects, usability and HCI professionals. No specialist skills or knowledge are required.

Presentation

The course is approximately 70% tutorials and 30% group discussions and interaction.

Instructors' background

William Hudson has over 30 years experience in the development of interactive systems. He has contributed material on user-centered design and user interface design to the Rational Unified Process and to Addison- Wesley’s Object Modeling and User Interface Design (van Harmelen, 2001). He is the Director of User Experience for the Intranet Benchmarking Forum and has written regularly for the ACM’s interactions magazine and SIGCHI Bulletin. William's background in software engineering makes him well-qualified to discuss the principles of Ajax.

Web Site: Further information about the instructor and this course can be found at http://www.designforusability.com