Hi,All,

The STC India User Research and Usability SIG is pleased to announce a session on ‘Introduction to Usability for Technical Writers’ on Saturday, March 20, 2010, at Huawei Technologies India Pvt. Ltd., Bangalore.

The speaker is Suman Kumar who has been involved with UX design since 2001. Suman currently works for CDC Software, Bangalore as a UX Specialist.

About the Presentation

Suman will be giving a talk about importance of usability principles, and how the usability principles can be applied to technical communication.

Agenda

9: 30 am – 10: 00 am – Registration

10:00 am – 10:45 am – Why should technical writers care about UX? [Talk]

10:45 am – 11:15 am – Tea Break

11:15 am – 12:00 pm – How to perform UX reviews? [Workshop]

Please be present at the venue by 9:45 am (latest) to avoid inconvenience to the speakers and the participants.

Registration

All participants (STC and non-STC members can attend the session for FREE). However, registration is MANDATORY. To confirm your registration, please email Rajdeep (rguptaz@gmail.com ) and mark a copy to Arun (arun.martin@gmail.com). Your participation is confirmed only if you receive a confirmation mail from Rajdeep. March 18 is the last date for registering to the workshop. No requests for participation will be entertained after Thursday.

More about the speaker: Suman has made presentations on design, usability, and allied subjects in various forums, including the World Usability Day meet at the Anna University and STC Conferences. In his free time Suman writes fiction and photographs birds in their natural habitat. Suman blogs at http://sumankumar.com and tweets at http://twitter.com/sumank.

Venue

Huawei Technologies India Pvt. Ltd.,

Level 3, 4, 5 &7, Leela Galleria, The Leela Palace,

23, Airport Road, Bangalore – 560 008

Contact Person: Swaminathan Moorthy (cell number – 9900108598)

IMPORTANT

To ensure higher security for all the delegates, Huawei mandates that you bring your identity card and the online confirmation letter.

You can attend the session only if you possess the above listed documents.

Please do attend this FREE session.

Thanks,

Arun