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.
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. He has presented at the Information Architecture Summit, Interaction, SXSW, and the Web 2.0 Expo. He also presented a virtual seminar about integrating prototyping into an existing design process for Jared Spool’s User Interface Engineering. In addition to speaking, Fred also writes about iterative design and prototyping, design for gestural interfaces, and user experience as a career. He has been published several times in two of the leading online user experience design magazines, Boxes & Arrows and Johnny Holland.
Jeff Harrison is currently a Senior User Experience Consultant at Evantage Consulting. He has been using Axure on his design projects since 2008, when he was with the user experience team at U.S. Bank. There, he defined a rapid prototyping approach, designed and ran highly rated Axure training sessions, and mentored teammates on specific prototyping projects. He can often be found offering guidance to new users on the Axure forum. In 2009, he participated in a panel discussion of advanced tips and tricks at AxureWorld, an online user conference. Jeff’s areas of interest include interaction design, information architecture, mobile application design, and rapid prototyping. He joined Evantage’s Axure training team in 2010.