Welcome to a New Year of Success with the STC
Usability and User Experience SIG!
We come to you as your new Manager and Assistant Manager. The UUX SIG has a long and important
history of assisting Technical Communicators in learning about Usability, what it is, how to apply it,
and for many, how to make it part of your work life.
In the past couple of years, thanks to the enthusiastic leadership of Mary Deaton and her team,
the SIG made strides in education, starting to offer Web Seminars in Usability topics as well as a
fledgling and growing virtual Book Club under the determined stewardship of Kathleen MacDowell. We have
a longstanding and much-quoted Website, which we plan to review, usability test, and improve over the course
of the year. We also have seen excellent forays into the worlds of blogging and twittering, and plan to take
those farther, with your encouragement and participation. Our award-winning newsletter is poised to make use
of your expertise and writing skills. If you have article ideas or requests, or if you'd like to study online
newsletter production under a pro, please get in touch with returning editor David Dick at ddick@infopro.net.
We know personally how hard it may be for some of us to get to the STC Summit meeting in Dallas this year.
But if you'll be there, we want to see you. Thanks to the hard work and careful planning of Caroline Jarrett,
there will be several terrific presentations in the UUX track, as well as a SIG breakfast meeting and other
activities. If you'll be there, please get in touch so we can plan to spend some time together.
This is your SIG. Please let us know what you need, what you'd like, and how you'd like to help us make it
happen. In these times of fewer jobs, former full-timers turned contract workers, and many additional
kinds of challenges, communities like this one can help you hone the skills you need to stay in your job or get
back on track. Looking forward to a successful year with the UUX SIG -- Meenakshi Khanna (Assistant Manager) and
Alice Preston (Manager) Get in touch: meenu7goel@gmail.com and
alicepreston2010@gmail.com
2010 UUX Officers Elected
The UUX nominations team is pleased to introduce the officers for 2010:
- Manager: Alice Preston
- Assistant Manager for Development and Finance (Treasurer): Meenakshi
Khanna
Please join us in congratulating Alice and Meenakshi and in thanking them for volunteering to lead
our community this year.
If you would like to get involved with supporting UUX activities in 2010, please send an email to
Alice at alicepreston2010@gmail.com.
Book Club for December 2009
The mp3 recording of the December Usability Book Club discussion is now available. Click here to listen to the discussion
of Mental Models by Indi Young.
The New Issue of Usability Interface
Usability Interface - December 2009
Buy these books from Amazon - Click on the link
and help your SIG!
Jarrett, Caroline and Gaffney, Gerry Forms
that Work: Designing Web Forms for Usability. Oxford, UK:
Elsevier; 1 edition, 2009 ISBN: 978-1-55860-710-1 Amazon
Redish, Janice (Jinny) Letting Go of the Words:
Writing Web Content that Works. Morgan Kaufmann; 1 edition,
June 11, 2007 ISBN:0123694868 Amazon
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