Jim Hobart

President & User Interface Design Consultant, Classic System Solutions

Biography

Jim Hobart

Jim Hobart is an internationally recognized User Interface design consultant and president of Classic System Solutions. He specializes in the design and development of large-scale, high-volume client/server applications. He is an expert in GUI design for transaction processing systems and strategies for migration from character-based systems to GUI and Web-based technologies.

Jim has over twenty five years of software development experience and over twenty years of user interface design experience. He has successfully managed and participated in numerous software projects, as well as advised a number of Fortune 1000 firms on their technology direction. He has helped a large number of firms develop in-house GUI standards and software user interface designs. He has assisted in the design and implementation of systems for the Finance, Transportation, Retail, Insurance, Public Utilities, Government, Distribution, Medical, Manufacturing and Software development tool sectors.

Additionally, he has successfully utilized Agile techniques with clients and has assisted with their adoption of user centered design techniques. He has worked with a wide array of development tools using distributed object and web-based technology.

Jim served on the advisory board for the International Windows Summit, and has served as GUI Track Chairman for Window World/Comdex and Software Development conferences. He also speaks on the public seminar track for Digital Consulting (DCI). He speaks regularly about user interface design topics and topics at national and international conferences. His industry insights are frequently sought by leading publications including PC Week, Information Week,InfoWorld and UNIX Review.

Classic System Solutions

Classic System Solutions is an internationally recognized consultancy based in California, US. Focused in the field of GUI design and client/server architecture, the company has led numerous design efforts for large-scale, high-volume transactional systems.

Tutorial

Rapid Prototyping to Drive Requirements

Tutorial Day, Tuesday May 4th, 9.00 am - 12.00 am

Rapid Prototyping can dramatically shorten the time required to capture and agree upon the requirements for a project.  Discover how kicking off your requirements sessions with facilitated Rapid Prototyping will get you to the goal faster and more successfully.  Learn and from the experts who have been helping companies develop world-class solutions for over a decade.   We’ll demonstrate how you can use Whiteboards and Rapid Prototyping tools to allow visualization of the requirements and add certainty to your project.

Presentation

Designing Usable Online Forms

User experience, Conference Day #1, Wednesday May 5th, 4.00 pm - 5.00 pm

With the convergence of Windows and the Web is upon us we have the opportunity to dramatically improve Web Form Usability and make significant gains in user efficiency and lower training and support costs.

Learn how to deliver the best of the web and the best of the desktop experience when it comes to interactive web-based forms. Jim will show how some key techniques that are changing the way designers think about their application user interface designs. Today's customers are more demanding and have high expectations from your applications. Implementing effective user interfaces can mean the difference between success and failure in your software development strategy.

This session will focus on how Ajax changes the game, findings from Jim's usability lab and proposed UI solutions for form entry and validation.

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