Josh LaMar

Current

Part Time Faculty at South Seattle Community College
Programming Chair (Volunteer) at Puget Sound SIGCHI

Past

User Experience Researcher (Excell/Compucom) at Microsoft
User Experience Researcher at Excell Data
Information Director (Volunteer) at Puget Sound SIGCHI

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Education

University of Washington
Bellevue Community College
Westmont College

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Connections

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Industry

Online Media

Josh LaMar’s Summary

Passion: Charismatic and enjoy discovering innovative solutions to interesting research questions, thinking outside the box, staying current on new research, organized WaMu Usability Reading Group to promote usability understanding

Empathy: Advocate for users, inquisitive and truly believe that user research makes the world a better place

Experience: Academic background focused on web usability and computer-mediated communication, M.S. in Technical Communication from the University of WA, 3 years user research experience, 6 years web experience in development, content management, writing and editing

Josh LaMar’s Specialties:

User Research and Usability Testing: Conducting interviews, field studies, card sorts, usability studies (formal and guerilla), heuristic evaluations, personas, surveys, quantitative and qualitative data analysis, applied statistics

Program Management: Web site management, content management, localization program management

Technical Writing and Editing: MLA, MSTP, Global English, Web Accessibility Standards

Additional Information

Josh LaMar’s Interests:

The internet, computer-mediated communication, social media, qualitative research, reading poetry, playing piano, running, yoga, and going to concerts.