Usability Basics Training

At Stanford, students, faculty, and staff rely on numerous applications and systems to get their work done. The usability of those systems directly impacts the experience that people have, and how effectively and efficiently they can complete their work. In this training, you will learn a basic understanding of system usability, how to spot usability issues, and how to incorporate experience design methods into your software development life cycle. Addressing usability in your system/application/website can help to reduce development costs, increase user efficiency and productivity, reduce financial risk that could occur due to user errors, reduce support calls and help tickets, and can help to reduce the need for users to create shadow systems.

Format

This course is offered over Zoom and consists of 2.5 hours of instruction
Individuals or teams can participate
Interactive activities to practice spotting usability issues

Topics covered

What usability is and why it matters
The 18 usability principles and how to spot usability issues in an interface
How to integrate user experience design into a typical project, and resources to do this at Stanford

Who it’s for

This class can benefit people in many roles, including but not at all limited to:

Business owners, service managers/owners, product managers/owners of applications/systems - and their teams
Developers
Business Analysts
Project Managers
QA teams/individuals
Any individual interested in learning more about usability

Pre-requisites

None

How to sign up