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<div>Please join us next week, on November 12, for a talk by <a href="http://www.iq.harvard.edu/people/elizabeth-quigley">Elizabeth Quigley</a>, a Usability Specialist working at Harvard’s <a href="http://www.iq.harvard.edu"></a><a href="http://www.iq.harvard.edu/">Institute
for Quantitative Social Science</a>. </div>
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<div>In her talk, Elizabeth will:</div>
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<div><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"></span>- Show you how to start a user experience program for your products and/or website</div>
<div><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"></span>- Share her experiences of practicing UX methods within an academic institution (Harvard)</div>
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<div>Full details appear below.</div>
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<p><strong>Description</strong>: Over the past year and a half, the <a href="http://www.iq.harvard.edu/">Institute for Quantitative Social Science</a> (IQSS) has integrated multiple user experience methods into their product development cycle to enhance the
user experience for multiple products and websites developed at IQSS.</p>
<p>Elizabeth Quigley, Usability Specialist at IQSS, will outline how to start a user experience program for your products and/or websites, demonstrate the UX methods she uses, and show examples of how the UX of IQSS products and websites has been enhanced through
these methods. If you have ever wondered how to start a user experience program, this is the talk for you.</p>
<div><strong>Bio</strong>: Elizabeth has an M.S. in Library and Information Science from the School of Library and Information Science at Simmons College. She has conducted user research on the collaborative processes and profiles of undergraduates interacting
with a Microsoft surface table, academic portals, the use of a library website by faculty members as well as the products and websites developed at the Institute for Quantitative Social Science. </div>
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<p><strong>When</strong>: November 12th @ 3:30-5:00pm<br>
<strong>Who</strong>: <a href="http://www.iq.harvard.edu/people/elizabeth-quigley">Elizabeth Quigley</a>, Usability Specialist, <a href="http://datascience.iq.harvard.edu">Data Science Team, Institute of Quantitative Social Science</a><br>
<strong>Where</strong>: Lamont Library, Forum Room</p>
<p>NOTE: Attendees without a Harvard ID card need to <a href="mailto:dtremont@oeb.harvard.edu">RSVP</a> for building access.</p>
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<div style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 14px;">Donna, Eric and Raman</div>
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<div style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 14px;">(* UX = User Experience. If this acronym is new, this presentation will be especially eye opening. Many projects have already benefitted by bringing the “user" back into web/product development.
More than an abstract concept or simply following the instincts or developers or administrators, UX methodology provides a framework for gathering data that may be used to make your sites usable, memorable, and impactful while avoiding common pitfalls.)</div>
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