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Lisa Herrod (Sydney, Australia)

Lisa is the Principal User Experience consultant at Scenario Seven with over ten years of hands-on experience on the web. With a background in standards focused design and development, the past 5 years of her work has centred on design research, usability, accessibility and user experience strategy. Lisa believes in an inclusive, holistic approach to user experience design that permeates every layer of a site and every role on a team.

Speaker Details

Her clients range from small, non-profit organisations through to large multinationals such as Macquarie Bank and Microsoft.

Lisa is a qualified trainer, experienced lecturer and conference presenter, having spoken at the best of Australia's web conferences. She has written on the user experience for Sitepoint, A List Apart and still writes for anyone who stumbles upon her at Scenariogirl.com.

Has previously done talks on...

Finding Usability in your Work Flow

Creating a great 'User Experience' is now expected not only of the Usability Specialist, but also of the entire project team. More than ever, web practitioners across all roles within a team are required to have knowledge of and even experience in conducting user research and usability testing. The current economic climate adds to this pressure as businesses strive to get the best from their online investments. More...

User Experience for Startups

All startups have challenges and obstacles they have to work around, not least funding constraints, but that doesn't mean a quality user experience strategy can't be implemented. In fact, with tight budgets and nervous investors, making sure you provide a great user experience is more important than ever.  More...

User Testing for the Rest of Us

Professional web services are continuing to mature but there are still a lot of cowboys out there. This presentation is directed at those of you who suddenly need to start including a bit of usability testing into your work and also for those of you who maybe managing web projects and want to know a little more about how and where usability testing fits in. By the end of the session you’ll know a lot more about conducting fundamental usability evaluations and how you can better understand the work that’s being done for you. More...