Design pattern usability study and CSUN 2016 UXathon
Design pattern usability study and CSUN 2016 UXathon Posted on Monday, 14 March 2016 by David Sloan Category: Conferences Category: Development Category: UX Here’s your chance to help define what is meant by an accessible web experience! We’re interested in finding out more about how some common user interface design patterns can be made as useful as possible to use by people with disabilities. We’ll be doing this through two activities: An online Design Pattern Usability Study The CSUN 2016 UXathon Design Pattern Usability Study We’re looking for people who use a range of assistive technologies and input devices, such as keyboards and voice input, to take part in a study evaluating some examples of different types of interactive web content. Each example is designed with accessibility in mind, but takes a different approach to the same problem. The study involves taking an online survey, which will ask you questions about your assistive technology use, and then invite you to use some user interface component examples, and report on your experience of using these examples. Design Pattern Usability Survey CSUN’s First UXathon In addition to gathering information from the online survey, we will also be running a UXathon event at this year’s CSUN conference in San Diego. We’re very grateful to the CSUN conference organising team for their support in enabling this event to happen. The UXathon will take place in two stages, and we are looking for participants to be involved in each stage. Stage 1: Follow-up evaluation In the first stage of the UXathon, we’ll invite people who took part in the online survey to test the same examples as featured in the study, but this time in person, so that we can ask follow-up questions and invite participants to express their opinions in more detail. With participants’ permission, we will record these sessions, allowing designers and developers more insight, as they will also be able to see and hear how people interact with each example. If you’ll be at CSUN and would like to take part in this first stage of the UXathon, we strongly encourage you to complete the online survey first. Stage 2: Hacking solutions For the second stage of the UXathon, we are looking for developers and designers to join us the morning of Saturday, March 26 from 9:00 – 12:00. The purpose will be to take the feedback we’ve gathered from the online study and follow-up evaluations, and hack solutions. The results will be shared widely, and will be available for comment by those who cannot attend the CSUN Conference. Are you interested? If you’d like to take part, you can go directly to the online survey, or contact us directly by emailing [email protected] with the subject CSUN UXathon. Let us know in which stage you would like to participate (you can participate in both if you like!), so we can send you the right information. We expect lots of interest in the first CSUN UXathon and can’t guarantee space for everyone who signs up. We thank you in advance for your understanding. The Deque aXe Hackathon You may also be interested in another exciting event taking place on the final Saturday of CSUN. Our colleagues at Deque are organising an aXe accessibility hackathon, exploring solutions using their aXe technology. For more information, see the Deque web site. About David Sloan David Sloan is an Accessible User Experience Engineer with The Paciello Group. He joined TPG in May 2013, after nearly 14 years researching, teaching and providing consultancy on accessibility and inclusive design at the University of Dundee in Scotland. He is a member of the W3C WAI Research and Development Working Group (RDWG) and a Steering Committee member of the annual W4A Cross-Disciplinary Conference on Web Accessibility. https://www.paciellogroup.com/blog/2016/03/design-pattern-usability-study-and-csun-2016-uxathon/ https://www.paciellogroup.com/blog/2016/03/design-pattern-usability-study-and-csun-2016-uxathon/
