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Starting Up A Usability Program

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Hello everyone and welcome.  My name is Deb Biggar – and I plan to talk today about how I  got a usability program started from scratch at a large company.  I am an independent  consultant and this is just what I like.  I wanted to create something from scratch rather  than join a team where it had already been done.   BTW,  I am also an Alum of the Master of Science in Human Factors in Information Design  here at Bentley and its nice to be the one with a chance to be at the front of the room here.   So, for the next 40 minutes or so I plan to share my experience with getting a usability  program started.  To some, maybe this seems a bit daunting.  (especially if you work in a  large company where there are silos of disciplined groups who seem to all have well  defined roles – all of which do not include user centered design and usability research  methods.)  Personally, I believe the success of this has to do with being in the right place at  the right time and then “going with the flow” while encouraging change.  I have been very lucky in finding a group of folks to work with who were new to some of  the words we use in these rooms but, who were open to trying out some new ideas.  I was  able to get a usability program started at a large organization? Valassis.  Let me tell you a bit  about Valassis.  1Valassis is a company of about 7000 employees.  They’ve been around for about 40 years  and net about 3 billion a year in revenue.  They get most of their income from direct  mailing and selling FSI advertisements.  They have a B2B facing web site but, up until  January of this year, the didn’t have a consumer facing web site.  They had made an  attempt in the past to have a consumer facing web site but, it didn’t succeed as the  usability wasn’t good – it was basically, from what I hear, an electronic version of paper  inserts that users could click through – page by page.   In this picture, you see a laptop with an image of their first successful consumer facing web  site –…
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