Prototyping Training
Use Prototyping for a Better User Experience and Better Business Requirements
Evantage Consulting offers training courses to help IT and User Experience Design organizations learn, integrate, and apply prototyping strategies for making better software applications and websites. These courses teach user experience designers how to use prototyping effectively to improve the user experience. They also teach business analysts, systems analysts, and product managers how to use prototyping to improve communication among project teams.
Evantage also offers customized training and integration consulting to help organizations integrate prototyping into their specific software development process. If you are interested in this, please Contact Us
Prototyping Methods for Business Analysts – Training from Evantage Consulting
Prototyping can help business analysts effectively and efficiently communicate and validate requirements with a diverse group of stakeholders ranging from executives to developers. Prototyping is even more effective when used along with user research, but it can also be used to get around situations where analysts might not have access to users. In this half-day seminar, Evantage Consulting instructors will introduce participants to prototyping methods for business analysts and will give them the opportunity to practice what they’ve learned. Our instructors will share with participants their real world, practical experience in using prototyping to generate and communicate accurate, effective requirements.
Rapid Prototyping in Axure - Training from Evantage Consulting
Evantage Consulting is the sole Axure RP Pro training partner in North America. Axure RP Pro is a rapid prototyping application that allows users to streamline the wireframing, prototyping, and documentation process into one single tool. This makes it easier for software development professionals to use prototyping to improve their products. Evantage instructors are working user experience and business analysis consultants who have been using Axure since 2005 to prototype, test, and document innovative interaction designs. Our instructors leverage their experience to help students learn not only how to use Axure but how to use it effectively and efficiently.
• Basic Prototyping in Axure RP Pro
• Advanced Prototyping in Axure RP Pro
• Half-Day Workshops
• Custom Training
About the Instructors
Fred Beecher is a Lead User Experience Consultant and Business Analyst at Evantage Consulting. Fred has been working in the user experience design field since 1998 doing research, information architecture, interaction design, and usability evaluation for a diverse array of clients.
A recognized expert in rapid prototyping, Fred speaks frequently on the topic at national professional conferences and local user experience group meetings. Most recently he’s spoken at SXSW 2010, interaction10, and he was invited to present a virtual seminar for Jared Spool’s User Interface Engineering. Fred has also written articles for two of the leading online user experience design magazines, Boxes & Arrows and Johnny Holland.
Lori Baker is a Senior User Experience Consultant at Evantage Consulting and has worked in the user experience design field since 2002. She is passionate about the benefits of prototyping and testing throughout the design phase. Lori has been using Axure avidly since 2006 to prototype a diverse array of systems, from simple content sites to complex embedded hardware interactions. Lori most recently presented two workshops on Axure at the 2009 Information Architecture Summit