可用性協會是提供一個國際交流網路平台的協會。
基本介紹
- 中文名：可用性協會
- 外文名：Usabilty Professional's Association
- 別名：可用性專業協會
- 目標：提供一個國際交流網路平台
協會簡介,協會制度,
協會簡介
可用性協會（可用性專業協會），Usabilty Professional's Association，簡稱UPA。
該組織致力於扶持、幫助、組織各領域的可用性專家們進行合作與交流，並推動人中心設計以及提升設計體驗，推動工業產品的可用性發展。
協會制度
組織目標是：
1，提供一個國際交流網路平台，方便從業專家們分享個方面專業信息，例如測試技術，方法等；
2，為專業以及非專業（僅僅是與之相關）的人士，提供一個綜合交流平台；
3，Change new product development processes to include a concern for the people who use them by presenting the business case for usability in product development to colleagues, customers, the public and governmental agencies.
4，通過展業培訓、會議、論壇以及其他專業交流方式，增加、積累可用性以及用戶中心設計方面的專業技能和知識。
誰是UPA的成員？
UPA members come from many different backgrounds, meeting in the common ground of a shared interest in creating products that meet the needs of the people who work or play with them.
成員中既有全職的可用性專家，也包括其他組織的成員，例如互動設計師，信息構架師，民族學專家，網頁設計人員，程式開發人員等。
How does usability relate to other user experience disciplines?
Usability professionals are part of the user experience community. This community is broad and diverse, and is still in the process of forming. We came from many different places, but share a common vision. Because we started from different places, there are many different names for the path – vector – that we are on.
Some people started in computer science and called it human-computer interaction (HCI)
Others who started in ergonomics called it human factors
Or in training, and called it electronic performance support systems
Or in library science, and called it information architecture
Or in technical writing and started with audience analysis
Or in branding and marketing and called it experience design
Or in user interface design and called it usability
In the UPA, we call that goal usability and many of our members identify the process as user centered design, but we recognize other disciplines and other terminology.
