Boost your team’s design productivity with Usability Resources’ customized training.

We’ve got over ten years’ experience teaching people at all skill levels how to design more usable technology products. Our remote or on-site training classes can be integrated right into your project so that your design team can learn on the job. 

Choose the training approach that works best for you. 

Whether your team needs comprehensive training or just targeted coaching, you’ll find an array of skill-building options, including

•  The “A to Z’s” of user research, usability testing, and design give your team all the skills they need to increase boost usability.

• Specific courses, such as our one-day workshop in user interface design, strengthen your team’s skills in key areas. 

• Small group coaching provides valuable support and feedback to your team so they can build confidence and meet design challenges.

• One-on-one mentoring enhances individual skills and builds knowledge for key team members and leaders.  

Here’s some examples of how training was used to enhance team skills.

A young software company created an innovative and very successful product. They wanted to introduce usability into their software development process but were unsure of how to do this without impacting their delivery schedule. They hired Usability Resources to run a series of user interface design workshops with their product management and development teams. Using the feature redesign as our focus, the team learned how to produce wireframes for the new feature, gather end user feedback, and produce a polished version that could go directly to production.

A large non-profit organization was in the process of redesigning their Intranet which would be accessed by employees worldwide. They wanted to make sure the Intranet had all the information staff needed and that it was easy to access information. They hired Usability Resources to deliver a 3-day training to their IT staff that focused on the principles of Web design for different audiences.

Kay Aubrey has ten years of experience teaching user-centered design and research skills to software developers and business users in private industry throughout New England. She has also taught graduate and undergraduate courses in usability and user-centered design at Northeastern University, the New England Institute of Art, and the Interactive Factory.