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About Us

Our History

The SPSU Usability Center was founded in 1994 with a goal to bring together industry and academia to benefit from the latest tools, research, and technology to support user-centered, task-oriented design.

For over a decade, the Usability Center has been helping clients learn about their users' experience, so that this knowledge becomes the basis for design.

The Center commits experienced professionals with the right mix of technical and subject matter expertise for each project.

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IBM Total Quality Management Grant

The Center is a state-of-the-art 3-room complex that was originally funded by an IBM million-dollar Total Quality Management grant. The lab, located in the Atrium Building on the SPSU campus, undergoes continuous upgrades to maintain cutting-edge capabilities.

University History

Southern Polytechnic State University has been in the business of educating students through application-oriented programs since 1948. Originally a college within Georgia Institute of Technology (Georgia Tech), Southern Polytechnic State University became an independent college in 1980.

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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.
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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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