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Eric Hughes Awarded Manager's Volunteer of the Year Award

Usability and User Experience held its first Web seminar last March. Deciding to do a seminar was easy. Making it happen? Not so much. Without the hard work of Eric Hughes, it is doubtless we would have been able to do it.

Eric researched various Web conferencing options, including how to register people and collect their money, conducted live evaluations of the top three options, and once a vendor was selected, conducted numerous rehearsals, training sessions, and other efforts to make sure things would run smoothly during the actual seminar.

With everything in place, Eric then moderated our first Web seminar (a presentation by Mary Deaton on planning for documentation usability research). Fifty-two folks attended the seminar and more folks have listened to the recording.

Thanks, Eric, for your enthusiasm for this project, your patience with all of the technology, and your unflagging determination to make sure the whole thing would happen.

The New Issue of Usability Interface

Usability Interface - May 2009

• Usability Professionals Urged to Embrace the Value of Crafted Words
  By Patrick Lufkin
• Lively Controversies over Usability Design.
  By Ben Shneiderman
• Evaluation and Usability Testing
  By Dr. David K. Farkas
• Evaluating an Existing Web Site or Web Application
  By Eric Hughes
• Book Review of Web Application Design Patterns
  By David Dick, UUX Assistant Manager
• Editorial
  By Sherri Martin-Hutchins, Newsletter Editor
• Community News
  By Mary Deaton, UUX Manager

New Podcast Added to our Website

We are starting a pilot program for adding podcasts to the UUX website. Our first Podcast is a recordling of the Trends in User Research Panel which took place at last year's conference in Philadelphia. Go to Usability at the Annual Conference page to listen to it.

New STC Associate Fellows Named

We are pleased to announce that two of our members have been recognized by the Society for their outstanding achievements by being named STC Associate Fellows. STC Fellow is the highest honor that the Society bestows and recognizes the most outstanding members of our profession.

Congratulations to Caroline Jarrett and Karen Bachmann on their well-deserved recognition. They will accept their awards at the STC conference in Atlanta in May.

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Jarrett, Caroline and Gaffney, Gerry Forms that Work: Designing Web Forms for Usability. Oxford, UK: Elsevier; 1 edition, 2009 ISBN: 978-1-55860-710-1 Amazon

Redish, Janice (Jinny) Letting Go of the Words: Writing Web Content that Works. Morgan Kaufmann; 1 edition, June 11, 2007 ISBN:0123694868 Amazon