Jared Spool

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Jared M. Spool
Born (1960-12-08) December 8, 1960
Residence Andover, MA
Nationality USA
Occupation Writer, researcher, speaker, founder
Years active 1978-
Employer User Interface Engineering
Known for User Interface Engineering, User Interface Conference, Brainsparks, Spoolcast

Jared Spool is an American writer, researcher, speaker, educator, and an expert on the subjects of usability, software, design, and research.[1] He is the founding principal of User Interface Engineering, a research, training, and consulting firm specializing in website and product usability, and the largest usability research organization of its kind in the world.[2] He is also an amateur magician. Spool attended Niskayuna High School in Niskayuna, NY. [3]

Career

Spool has been working in the field of usability and design since 1978, before the term "usability" was ever associated with computers.

Achievements and awards

Under Spool's leadership, in 1996, UIE launched the User Interface Conference, an annual user experience and design conference, which he both chairs and keynotes.[4]

In 1998, as an adjunct faculty member at Tufts University, Spool created and taught a unique curriculum for the Experience Design Management course at the Tufts Gordon Institute.

Spool has delivered the keynote presentations for The National Association of Government Webmasters, The National Association of Online Librarians, Higher Ed Webmasters, Agile 2009, South by Southwest Interactive, Web Advertising, Web Visions, the Usability Professionals Association, CHI (conference), the Information Architecture Summit, UX Australia, UX Lisbon, UX London, Drupal Con 2011, An Event Apart, Designing for People Amsterdam, UPA China, the Norwegian Computer Society, the British Computer Society, the Society for Technical Communication, and the Federal Webmasters Society.

In 2011, the Stevens Award was given to Spool, "whose quiet evangelism of usability and the practical outcomes of methods and tools [that have] had a wide-ranging influence on how we think about making systems effective."[5]

Current activities

Spool spends his time working with the research teams at the company, helps clients understand how to solve their design problems, and explains to reporters and industry analysts what the current state of design is all about. In addition to being a top-rated speaker at more than 20 conferences every year,[6] Spool presents almost weekly for groups of any size.[7][8] He is also on the editorial board for Rosenfeld Media, a user experience publishing house.[9]

Bibliography

Books
  • Spool, Jared M. & Robert Hoekman, Jr. Web Anatomy: Interaction Design Frameworks that Work (ISBN 0-3216-3502-7).
  • Spool, Jared M., Rosalee J. Wolfe & Daniel M. McCracken. User-Centered Web Site Development: A Human-Computer Interaction Approach (ISBN 0-1304-1161-2).
  • Spool, Jared M., Carolyn Snyder, Tara Scanlon & Terri DeAngelo. Web Site Usability: A Designer's Guide (ISBN 0-6139-1572-0).
  • Jeffrey Rubin & Dana Chiswell, Spool, Jared M. (Forward), Handbook of Usability Testing: How to Plan, Design, and Conduct Effective Tests (ISBN 0470185481).
Articles[10]
  • 1993. "User involvement in the design process: why, when & how?" INTERCHI 1993: 251-254
  • 1994. "ProductUsability: survival techniques." CHI Conference Companion 1994: 365-366
  • 1994. "Using a game to teach a design process." CHI Conference Companion 1994: 117-118
  • 1995. "CHI 95 Conference Companion" 1995: 395-396
  • 1995. "User Interface Engineering: fostering creative product development." CHI 95 Conference Companion 1995: 166-167
  • 1997. "Product Usability: Survival Techniques." CHI Extended Abstracts 1997: 154-155
  • 1997. "Measuring Website Usability." CHI Extended Abstracts 1997: 125
  • 2002. "Usability in practice: alternatives to formative evaluations-evolution and revolution." CHI Extended Abstracts 2002: 891-897
  • 2002. "Usability in practice: formative usability evaluations - evolution and revolution." CHI Extended Abstracts 2002: 885-890
  • 2003. " Evaluating globally: how to conduct international or intercultural usability research." CHI Extended Abstracts 2003: 704-705
  • 2003. "The "magic number 5": is it enough for web testing?" CHI Extended Abstracts 2003: 698-699
  • 2005. "The great debate: can usability scale up?" CHI Extended Abstracts 2005: 1174-1175
  • 2007. "Get real!": what's wrong with hci prototyping and how can we fix it? CHI Extended Abstracts 2007: 1913-1916

References

  1. ↑ Ward, Mark. "The long and winding road of e-commerce", BBC News, November 18, 2011. Retrieved December 7, 2011.
  2. ↑ User Interface Engineering. Retrieved December 5, 2011.
  3. ↑ "From Our Mailbag", "Niskayuna Warrier", June 1979. Retrieved July 12, 2011.
  4. ↑ UX London Speakers - Jared Spool. Retrieved December 7, 2011
  5. ↑ Stevens Award Recipients. Retrieved December 7, 2011.
  6. ↑ UX London Speakers - Jared Spool. Retrieved December 7, 2011.
  7. ↑ Lanyrd Profile for Jared M. Spool. Retrieved December 8, 2011.
  8. ↑ Speakers - UX Lisbon 2010. Retrieved December 8, 2011.
  9. ↑ Editorial Board - Rosenfeld Media. Retrieved December 6, 2011.
  10. ↑ http://dblp.uni-trier.de/db/indices/a-tree/s/Spool:Jared_M=.html

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