Annette Priest

Annette Priest

UX Architect

Austin, Texas Area

Current
Past
  • User Experience Research Manager at Dell
  • Advisory Engineer - Human Factors at IBM
  • Usability Architect at Schlumberger

3 more...

Education
  • George Mason University
  • Flagler College
Connections
337 connections
Industry
Internet

Annette Priest’s Summary

MANAGEMENT AND COMMUNICATION:
• Management of global projects, programs, resources and teams

• Management of client and vendor relationships; communication of project needs and results

• C level executive presentations and summaries

• Public speaking – conferences, conventions, sales presentations


RESEARCH AND DESIGN:
• Drive product development and strategic direction through analysis of user needs and usability data

• Contextual inquiry, task analysis, ethnographic and anthropological field studies

• Consumer interviews, focus groups, card-sorting activities

• Elicit information on buying decisions, usage patterns and product preferences

• Usability test: comparative, competitive, iterative, paper prototype, formative, summative, remote, NIST Common Industry Format, “Out of Box Experience”, international

• Eye tracking studies and heat maps

• Heuristic evaluation, cognitive walkthrough, expert review

• Iterative prototyping, wireframes, low and medium fidelity prototypes

• Information architecture: taxonomy creation and validation

• Surveys: survey design, implementation, statistical analysis, interpretation of results

Annette Priest’s Specialties:

User research, human factors engineering, UI design, usability testing, information architecture, user centered design, presentations and public speaking


Annette Priest’s Education

  • George Mason University

    M.A., Human Factors & Applied Cognitive Science, June 1998

    Emphasis on software user interfaces and usability.

  • Flagler College

    BA, Psychology, 19931995


Additional Information

Annette Priest’s Groups:

Usability Professionals Association, ACM SigCHI, Refresh Austin

  •    Usability Professionals' Association International (UPA-I)
  •    Catalyze Community
  •    Interaction Design Association
  •    ACM SIGCHI
  •    Know Satisfaction - Voice of Customer Analytics

Annette Priest’s Honors:

Speaker - 2008 Refresh Austin

Speaker - 2008 Linkage Strategies conference, Miami

Keynote Speaker - 2007 eMetrics Marketing Optimization Summit

Presentation - 2007 Excellence in Market Research: Best Practices for Execution

Panel Moderator - 2007 SXSW Interactive Media Conference

Article included in The 2000/2001 ASTD Distance Learning Yearbook: The Newest Trends and Technologies.
ISBN13: 9780071380904


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