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UUX Website Rewrite Update

The Website Rewrite Team has been working on the results of the survey about how people use the STC website. You can view a summary of the results here: https://docs.google.com/Doc?docid=0AUhTYORaH-ynZGM4cndweHZfOGM3ZmNqcmZ3&hl=en&authkey=CKSpr4oL

After reviewing the results, Kristi Leach realized that we needed a little more detailed information to really nail down the roles that were developed from the first survey.

Please click on the following link to answer a very short, two question survey: http://www.surveymonkey.com/s/398QNLX

Thanks for your help. Your participation will help us to design a website that works for everyone!

The New Issue of Usability Interface

Usability Interface - April 2010

• Usability for Technical Writers
  By Arun Martin
• Review of "Strategies for Designing Good Usability Questionnaires"
  By David Dick
• Knowledge at Your Fingertips
  By Arun Martin

Columns and SIG News

• Editorial
  By David Dick, Newsletter Editor

Technical Communication Summit in Dallas

Our community will be a part of three networking events at this year's Technical Communication Summit in Dallas (May 3-5). All are on Monday, and we'll hope to see you there if at all possible:

• Monday at breakfast (7:30 am), the SIG networking breakfast will include tables for the UUX SIG
• Our business meeting will be Monday 12-1:30 pm, and will be a BYOF (bring-your-own-food) event. The hotel has several good choices for carry-out. Grab your sandwich and come contribute to the future of your SIG.
• The community reception will take place Monday after sessions end. We'll be sharing a table with the Information Design and Architecture SIG. Stop by and say hello even if you haven't been able to join us at the other events.
• Thanks to herculean effort and incredibly effective networking by track leader Caroline Jarrett, there are two impressive tracks with emphasis on Usability:
  • Usability and Accessibility
  • 0145 Essential UX Skills for Technical Communicators
  • 0181 Testing Content Strategy: What Works, What Doesn't
  • 0200 Web 2.0 and Accessibility
  • 0208 10 Most Common Misconceptions About User Experience Design
  • 0211 Eyetracking of Online reading behaviors
  • 0213 Writing and Testing for Universal Usability
  • 0214 Label Placement and Other Time-Consuming Forms Controversies
  • 0356 Using Stories for More Effective Usability
  • 365 Tech-Mediated Communication - Report of an STC Funded Project
  • Usability Institute
  • 0088 Sketching User Experiences with the Design Studio Method
  • 362 Discovering Usability Defects Through Expert Inspections
  • 363 Improving Product Design Through Usability Evaluation
  • 364 Understanding Users Through Ethnography and Modeling
• New Twitter to watch: @STCUUX -- please tweet items of interest to #UUX

We hope to see you at the conference! Stop by and say hello or follow us on Twitter. So you can see what's going on at the conference whether you're in Dallas or not!

Buy these books from Amazon - Click on the link and help your SIG!

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