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What the best usability specialists are made of

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Chauncey WilsonAuthors Info & Claims

CHI EA '02: CHI '02 Extended Abstracts on Human Factors in Computing Systems

Pages 706 - 707

https://doi.org/10.1145/506443.506556

Published: 20 April 2002 Publication History

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Many usability specialists practicing today have not had the benefit of formal education in the field, instead bringing unique value from their various backgrounds. This panel will address how (if at all) individuals' backgrounds contribute to their approach to usability. The panel will also investigate potential career paths and connections between a usability practitioner's background and his or her self-defined successes in usability groups positioned in different organizational structures.

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Gray CToombs AGross SBegole BKim JInkpen KWoo W(2015)Flow of Competence in UX Design PracticeProceedings of the 33rd Annual ACM Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems10.1145/2702123.2702579(3285-3294)Online publication date: 18-Apr-2015
https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/2702123.2702579
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https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/2556288.2557264

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CHI EA '02: CHI '02 Extended Abstracts on Human Factors in Computing Systems

April 2002

488 pages

ISBN:1581134541

DOI:10.1145/506443

Conference Chairs:
Loren Terveen
AT&T Labs and University of Minnesota
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Dennis Wixon
Microsoft

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Gray CToombs AGross SBegole BKim JInkpen KWoo W(2015)Flow of Competence in UX Design PracticeProceedings of the 33rd Annual ACM Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems10.1145/2702123.2702579(3285-3294)Online publication date: 18-Apr-2015
https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/2702123.2702579
Gray CJones MPalanque PSchmidt AGrossman T(2014)Evolution of design competence in UX practiceProceedings of the SIGCHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems10.1145/2556288.2557264(1645-1654)Online publication date: 26-Apr-2014
https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/2556288.2557264

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