Lisa Fast will present at UXcamp 2014

We’re excited to announce another local speaker for UXcamp Ottawa 2014

Seeing Outside the Box: Why Parts of Your Design Are Invisible
Sunday, Nov 9, 10:10am / 20 MINUTES

Designers love boxes! Menus, warnings, labels, decorations… all sorts of boxes that can either work well, or cause problems. Lisa will tell us a simple story, using real video clips from years of usability testing sessions to share observations and insights that will teach us about human perceptual principles and how these boxes are perceived (or not perceived) by users.

Speaker Bio: Lisa Fast

Lisa Fast is a Partner at NeoInsight, an Ottawa-based UX Research & Strategy agency. Lisa has worked in the User Experience field for 25 years, since completing her Master’s degree in Computer Science on the psychology of programming at Queens University. Lisa also held positions in usability testing, interface design, product design management, and marketing at Nortel, and while her children were young, she was research coordinator at Carleton’s Centre for Applied Cognitive Research.

Lisa holds two patents and her design publications are listed on interaction-design.org. As an active GitHub collaborator on the Government of Canada’s Web Experience Toolkit (WET), she joined the WET team on a panel at GTEC 2012. In March 2014, she spoke at the Information Architecture Summit in San Diego on innovative ways to use online research tools, and most recently spoke at Codefest 2014 on building usability into design.

Most recently, Lisa led the usability testing of 20 mobile smartphone and tablet participants in a large study for the Government of Canada. In her career, she has also tested and/or interviewed over 700 usability participants in her strategy and research work at Neo Insight. Those hours of watching people attempt to perform tasks on web sites have given her a powerful sense of what it takes to create successful user experiences.

You can follow Lisa on Twitter @neoinsight