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Autodesk, Inc.
610 Lincoln Street 1st floor, Waltham, Massachusetts 02451

I recently joined the Boston Chapter of the Usability Professionals’ Association, “a highly active community for persons with individual and professional interests in usability, user experience design, and their many related fields.” This Thursday’s monthly meeting, presented by the good folks and excellent user experts at AutoDesk, will be my first interaction with the group in person:

The Autodesk Revit Product Design team will present a series of short talks, interactive exercise, and case studies on design and usability as practiced at Autodesk. The Product Design team at Autodesk is an eclectic group of user researchers, architects, engineers, designers, and human factors professionals who are merging and morphing techniques from multiple disciplines to develop world class design software. During this presentation, members of the team will present talks ranging from 5 to 15 minutes.

I’m excited by this opportunity to reconnect with my past life, as well as bring some new knowledge to my current field as a librarian. If you are genuinely interested in really understanding what “user-centered design” and “usability” are outside of the buzzword hype, I would recommend that you find your local chapter of Usability Professionals’ Association and go to a meeting or two, ask questions, listen hard, and meet people. Or, at least look over the information on their site.

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