User Centred Design Training - London

Learn techniques to help you understand your users and design effective, efficient and satisfying products in this intensive, 2 day, hands-on workshop. By integrating usability into the design process you can:
- improve sales
- improve customer satisfaction
- reduce development time and cost.

WHO SHOULD ATTEND?
If you are involved in specifying how a system or product will look and function this course will make it easier for you to do your job effectively. Project managers, engineers, designers, developers and analysts from IT, commercial or marketing functions can all benefit from learning about the user centred design process.

COURSE CONTENT
During the course you will learn how to:
- Apply User Centred Design to your business
- Get the business benefits of a User Centred Design approach
- Use Guidelines and Standards
- Know your target users and capture their requirements
- Translate requirements to conceptual design and release criteria
- Apply prototyping techniques
- Measure and test usability

WHERE AND WHEN
This public course will be held at our offices in the Strand, London WC2R 0EZ on 25th and 26th September 2008.

PRICE
The two day course costs £675 + VAT per person, including lunch and comprehensive training manuals.

MORE INFORMATION
For more information or to book a place, please contact Leslie Fountain on 020 7240 3388, email: leslie@system-concepts.com.


WHAT DID PREVIOUS PARTICIPANTS SAY?
"Leslie was extremely flexible (ie If more time was needed, more time was taken). Her presentation (slides and orally) was engaging and ensured that interest was kept. The pace of the course was excellent."

"Leslie was friendly, knowledgeable and provided clear instructions. I am starting at the front end of a new project next week and will find this an excellent grounding to get the project going."

"Enthusiastic, made the course interesting. Useful handouts/workbooks which can be used for reference on future projects."


"Very enthusiastic, very practical in showing how it can be used in work."

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