Development of a Usable Graphical User Interface Design Guide

Key Skills • Twenty years experience in software design/development, specializing in user interface design, prototyping, design, UI guidelines and usability testing of Web applications and Websites. • Usability heuristic reviews of prototypes and products, providing quick and inexpensive feedback on key application and Website interface design, interaction, navigation and content. • Prototyping and design of application and website user interface, interaction and navigation. • Usability testing of hardware, software user interfaces, and product documentation. • Author of two well-known books, " The Elements of User Interface Design " (John Wiley & Sons, 1997) and " The GUI-OOUI War: The Designer's Guide to Human-Computer Interfaces " (John Wiley & Sons, 1994). Author of magazine and journal articles on interface design and usability. • Conference and symposium keynote educator and speaker. • Education and training on software user interface design and usability. Founder and principal of consulting firm specializing in PC and Web software review, design, testing and development. Integrates iterative usability activities into corporate development processes. a medical software company, and served as the company's Chief Usability Officer (CUO) from 1999-2001. ReCare's innovative system created a paperless electronic medical record for the patient, while providing the physician with specialty-specific information, with the ability to cross reference pharmaceutical information and the documentation of patient specific orders. The system was designed for touch screen PC tablet devices. The ReCare solution was to conform to HIPAA (Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act). research, design, prototyping, testing, and publication of IBM's (CUA) software user interface architecture. Created prototypes, user interface guidelines and interface widgets/controls for Windows, OS/2, and OSF/Motif (Unix), software development tools, and key strategic products developed by IBM, vendors, and customers. Responsible for development, marketing, and delivery of user interface design, CUA, usability, and multimedia education and consulting for IBM, external customer and vendors. Worked with IBM-worldwide, key vendors and customers. Liaison and consultant to IBM strategic software business partners, including Lotus and Microsoft on software design, product reviews. Created and presented demonstrations and education on IBM's future direction in user interface architecture and design. IBM Performance: Received three "1" yearly evaluations (highest possible: "far exceeds in all areas") during 11-year IBM career. All other career evaluations were "2" ("consistently exceeds in all areas")