Greetings

Hello from the University of Texas at Austin School of Information. In January, 2003, I "came in from the cold," returning to academia after half a lifetime in industry as a usability practitioner and manager. I attend my "new" post enthusiastically, eager to explore the theoretical underpinnings of usability, help develop a new generation of usability experts, and further promote the design and development of technology that takes into account the capabilities of human users. Instead of, say, what we now have. (For instance, recently I tried to buy four gifts at an online store, only to find that I could not specify multiple mailing addresses for the various gifts. Duh.)

I welcome your call, or email, if you want to talk about usability practice, usability education, HCI design, cognitive psychology, baseball statistics, or bonefishing on the flats of Biscayne Bay.

On this site:

Professional history: 25 years as a usability practitioner/manager; Ph.D. in Cognitive Psychology; Resume (pdf)...

Research Projects: Microsoft ClearType’s affect on productivity; fMRI research on reading processes, Fitts' Law…

Teaching Projects: Advanced Usability, Seeking Funding for Information Studies, Research Methods...

Service Projects: Editorial board, International Journal of Human-Computer Studies, UT Faculty Fellow...

My Philosophy: Usability, User-centered design, Accessibility...

Consulting: Independent consulting in usability engineering and HCI design...

Other Stuff: My Family, Baseball, Fishing...

Recent and Upcoming Events

This past year I won the student-elected Texas Exes Teaching Award for the School of Information, of which I am most proud.
In June, 2008, I will participate in a panel discussion with Steve (Don’t Make Me Think) Krug and Carol (Usability Testing and Research) Barnum at the Usability Professionals’ Association annual meeting in Baltimore. Topic: Discount Testing by Amateurs: Threat or Menace?.
In recent years we’ve been proud to have hosted campus-wide presentations by Jack Carroll, Mary Beth Rosson, Bryan and Jeffrey Eisenberg, and Aaron Marcus.
Do you have your copy of the second edition of Bias and Mayhew, Cost-justifying usability: An update for the Internet age?
In the unlikely event that you should want to know even more about me, see Cliff Anderson’s profile of me in the UPA Voice, December, 2007 or the UT-Austin Graduate School interview with me in their December, 2007, “Spotlight on the Faculty.”