Usability Company's Catriona Campbell named as One of the Great

Catriona Campbell, chief executive of The Usability Company has been named as one of Internet Magazine's 50 most influential people in the UK internet industry.

The magazine organises an event at which its nominated Top 50 influential people can meet each other and other guests. Photos from this year's meeting will appear on the cover accompanying a feature in the June issue of Internet Magazine.

Nominees are mostly business people in charge of a Web service or a design company. Usability has never been celebrated as specifically before.

Campbell was delighted by her inclusion, using the time spent amongst so many of the industry's key people to evangelise: 'Usability and HCI was discussed by me as much as possible to everyone I met. To be able to discuss usability with the CEOs and MDs leading the UK internet industry was fabulous!'

Andrew Pinder, the UK Government's E-envoy, attended as guest of honour this year. He commented that the past 12 months have been tough for the UK internet industry and 'this year, more than ever, it is vital to highlight these British success stories'.

This year's women included Katherine Everett, New Media Controller at BBCi; Karen Thomson of AOL; Fiona Coughlan, CEO of Europe Macromedia; Kate Drewett, MD of Moonfish and Martha Lane Fox, MD of Last Minute.com as well as Campbell.

Campbell is co-founder of The Usability Company, set up in the last couple of years after several years working in the corporate sector and pushing user centred design. She is also a founding member of the Usability Professionals Association, UK and a practitioner rep to the British HCI Group. She is one of two usability experts assisting the E-Envoy’s office produce the new Government web standards for the UK and sits on a review committee amending the ISO 18529 International Standard for Human Centred design for UK government.

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