Texas Tech University :: College of Outreach & Distance Education
Certified User Experience Professional (CUEP)

Description:
More and more organizations - from private business, to education, healthcare, government, and nonprofit - are relying on computer technology to inform the public about their products and services. Poorly designed websites or software, however, can create significant barriers to keeping existing customers and attracting new ones, regardless of the economic sector an organization is in. User-centered design is key to preventing customer frustrations and lost productivity and revenues. Texas Tech University now offers an intensive, hands-on User Experience Professional Certificate designed for professionals wishing to evaluate and improve the user-centered design of electronic websites, software and other related products.

For more information about the certificate program, please visit the main website.

Program: PDCP 160-00
Instructor/Presenter: Brian Still, PhD, has nearly two decades of experience in user-centered design, evaluation, and training. Before becoming an assistant professor in technical communication at Texas Tech, Brian worked as a web developer, corporate trainer, and technology project manager. As the current Director of the Texas Tech Usability Research Lab, he is responsible for managing all usability testing projects and teaching undergraduate and graduate usability testing courses. An active researcher, Brian's scholarly interests focus, among other things, on paper prototyping, cultural factors influencing test facilitation, and software development. In fact, in 2007 Brian co-edited (IGI Press) a handbook on the technical, social, and economic implications of Open Source Software (OSS).
Location: TTU Usability Research Lab
Dates: Dec. 9 - 11, 2009 (Wed. - Fri., 9 a.m. - 5 p.m.)
Lubbock, Texas
Units: 2.1 CEUs
Notes: Registration deadline is November 25.
Registration Fees:
       Registration $1,300.00

Program: PDCP 160-00
Instructor/Presenter: Brian Still, PhD, has nearly two decades of experience in user-centered design, evaluation, and training. Before becoming an assistant professor in technical communication at Texas Tech, Brian worked as a web developer, corporate trainer, and technology project manager. As the current Director of the Texas Tech Usability Research Lab, he is responsible for managing all usability testing projects and teaching undergraduate and graduate usability testing courses. An active researcher, Brian's scholarly interests focus, among other things, on paper prototyping, cultural factors influencing test facilitation, and software development. In fact, in 2007 Brian co-edited (IGI Press) a handbook on the technical, social, and economic implications of Open Source Software (OSS).
Location: TTU Usability Research Lab
Dates: Jan. 13 - 15, 2010 (Wed. - Fri., 8 a.m. - 5 p.m.)
Lubbock, Texas
Units: 2.1 CEUs
Notes: Registration deadline is December 30.
Registration Fees:
       Registration $1,300.00

Program: PDCP 160-00
Instructor/Presenter: Brian Still, PhD, has nearly two decades of experience in user-centered design, evaluation, and training. Before becoming an assistant professor in technical communication at Texas Tech, Brian worked as a web developer, corporate trainer, and technology project manager. As the current Director of the Texas Tech Usability Research Lab, he is responsible for managing all usability testing projects and teaching undergraduate and graduate usability testing courses. An active researcher, Brian's scholarly interests focus, among other things, on paper prototyping, cultural factors influencing test facilitation, and software development. In fact, in 2007 Brian co-edited (IGI Press) a handbook on the technical, social, and economic implications of Open Source Software (OSS).
Location: TTU Usability Research Lab
Dates: Feb. 24 - 26, 2010 (Wed. - Fri., 8 a.m. - 5 p.m.)
Lubbock, Texas
Units: 2.1 CEUs
Notes: Registration deadline is February 10.
Registration Fees:
       Registration $1,300.00