Picture of Jim HobartJim Hobart

User Interface Design Consultant, Classic System Solutions

Jim is an internationally recognized user interface design consultant. He specializes in the design and development of large-scale, high-volume user interface design. He is an expert in GUI design for transaction processing systems and web and portal application strategies.

Jim has over twenty years of software development experience and over sixteen 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. Also, Jim has helped a large number of firms develop in-house GUI standards and software user interface designs. Furthermore, 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 centred 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 he has also served as GUI Track Chairman for Window World/Comdex and Software Development conferences. He speaks regularly about user interface design topics at national conferences. His industry insights are frequently sought by leading publications including PC Week, InformationWeek, 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

Tuesday, November 6th: 09.00 - 12.00

Presentation

Thursday, November 8th: 14.30 - 16.00

Track: User-centred Design

Design Patterns for navigating complex taxonomies

Content is expanding at a dramatic rate. Traditional navigations models like inverted “L” portal menus or Cascading menus quickly become difficult to navigate and provide little support for site scalability. We will explore new navigation design patterns that use non-linear techniques to address the usability and design issues associated with today’s more complex information taxonomies.

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