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Expect the unexpected. Usability testing will challenge those things that you take for granted, and give you the tools to improve your products - sometimes by changing the most simple elements.

–Mary Beth Westmoreland, VP for Research and Development, Ipswitch

The Usability Center at Southern Polytechnic partners with you to unlock your user's experience. Together, we identify the best solution tailored to meet the needs of your development process, your goals, your budget, and your timeline.

Our user-centered design toolkit includes:

Our Atlanta-based Usability Center offers a 3-room state-of-the art complex for testing. Our portable lab and remote testing options give us the flexibility to come to you or go to your users in their work or home environments.

Usability Center News

Barnum and Li present Holiday Inn China website study (read more)

Carol Barnum and her former colleague David Dayton publish study results on the impact of agile on user-centered design.
(read more)

Barnum speaks twice at the Usability Professionals Association Conference, Baltimore, June 18-20, 2008 (read more)

Read two articles Carol Barnum wrote for eLearn Magazine about usability testing and e-learning (read more)

What is Usability?

"Usability is the art and science of making documents and products usable, useful, and most of all, satisfying.”
– Dr. Carol Barnum

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