The video seems interesting. Great viewpoint for newcomers to web design. HFI courses did catch my eye when I first discovered usability can be practiced professionally.
However, PET sounds as though its yet another form of marketing implemented in web design. The PET technique seems well implemented in the video though. I am persuaded to study a course at HFI, I'm emotionally driven to learn from HFI and HFI seems worth trusting my education with. Fat chance that I would ever considering joining a course from HFI or even recommend them ever though. I got a huge chip on my shoulder from when I did try to join a course with them. A rather flimsy schedule meant I could not be certain I could attend a course until a few days before the course started. Anyways, when I was certain I could attend the course, I flew over to a branch city (Bangalore) since I wanted to do some sight seeing too. I applied for the course half expecting the answer to be 'your too late' but the reason for not being accepted for the course was that I wasn't sent by a 'company' even though I was able to foot the bill and had prior experience (a couple of months at the time) as a junior uxd/ia and the pre-requisites for the course I applied for stated 'None.' I'm fairly certain an organization trying to promote usability would want to educate everyone who was interested in learning more about usability and could foot the bill. Seems odd when organizations say that they want to increase the number of practitioners yet at the same time increase barriers of entry such as pricing introductory training courses high enough that corporate sponsorship is required implicitly. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Posted from the new ixda.org http://www.ixda.org/discuss?post=43652 ________________________________________________________________ Welcome to the Interaction Design Association (IxDA)! To post to this list ....... [email protected] Unsubscribe ................ http://www.ixda.org/unsubscribe List Guidelines ............ http://www.ixda.org/guidelines List Help .................. http://www.ixda.org/help
