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Frank Spillers

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Personal Homepage:
demystifyingusability.com

Current place of employment:
Experience Dynamics

Frank Spillers is a web and software usability expert and has been recognized by the U.S. Dept. of Labor as a subject matter expert. Frank holds a Masters of Science in Cognitive Science from Birmingham University (UK) and has ten years of practical experience with usability and user centered design techniques. He is a lead usability consultant (Principal and Co-CEO) and founder of Experience Dynamics, a user centered design and usability consultancy based in Portland, Oregon USA. Frank has worked internationally with clients including Hewlett-Packard, Key Bank, Daimler-Chrysler, Intel, BankOne, IBM, Microsoft, The Vanguard Group, Verizon, Four Seasons Hotels and others. Frank's consulting experience includes large scale website and web application usability. His contributions to design research include new research methods for assessing the influence of time, emotion and cognition on user perception.

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2008

Spillers, Frank (2008). Progressive Disclosure. Retrieved 19 June 2013 from http://www.interaction-design.org/encyclopedia/progressive_disclosure.html

2007
 
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Spillers, Frank (2007). AJAX Usability Checklist. Retrieved 7 March 2008 from http://experiencedynamics.blogs.com/site_search_usability/2007/12/ajax-usability.html

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Spillers, Frank (2004). Progressive Disclosure - the best interaction design technique?. Retrieved 4 March 2008 from http://experiencedynamics.blogs.com/site_search_usability/2004/03/progressive_dis.html

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» Progressive Disclosure: [/encyclopedia/progressive_disclosure.html]


 
 
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... there are no simple 'right' answers for most web design questions (at least not for the important ones). What works is good, integrated design that fills a need--carefully thought out, well executed, and tested.

-- Steve Krug, Don't Make Me Think, p. 136

 
 

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