Usability Central—Best Practices™
Knowledge Module

Curriculum and course materials to educate staff and colleagues on the basics of usability.

The Challenge

Having knowledgeable usability practitioners on your development team is key to generating usable sites and applications. But many organizations lack the resources or expertise to develop qualified usability professionals internally.

HFI's Solution

HFI has developed a set of seminars that you can teach in-house to educate other staff and colleagues on the basics of user-centered design. Our Essentials of Usability package (download brochure) is available exclusively through HFI's Usability Central—Best Practices Knowledge module. It offers six seminars that are taught in either a lecture or workshop format (1-3 hours each). Slide decks, student exercises & manuals, and instructor handbooks and videos are all included in electronic format.

The six seminars are:

1. Basics of usability
2. User-centered analysis
3. Information architecture & navigation design
4. Writing online content
5. Detailed page design
6. Usability testing

The Essentials of Usability materials are a natural complement to HFI's training and certification program for usability practitioners.

A complete usability training plan can be found in Eric Schaffer's book Institutionalization of Usability: A Step-by-Step Guide.

Usability Central knowledge module:

HFI's Usability Central—Best Practices' Knowledge module is your exclusive channel to obtain Essentials of Usability. In addition, you'll also receive reviews of current usability research and its practical implications for your work (drawn from HFI's Putting Research into Practice course). These summaries include relevant research on cognition, data gathering, interface design, specific domains and user populations.