Jared Spool is an American writer,
researcher
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,
speaker
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Society and politics
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, educator, and an expert on the subjects of
usability, software, design, and research.
[Ward, Mark]
"The long and winding road of e-commerce"
''BBC News
BBC News is an operational business division of the British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC) responsible for the gathering and broadcasting of news and current affairs in the UK and around the world. The department is the world's largest broad ...
'', November 18, 2011. Retrieved December 7, 2011. He is the founding principal of User Interface Engineering (UIE), a research, training, and consulting firm that specializes in website and product usability.
[User Interface Engineering]
. Retrieved December 5, 2011. He is also an amateur
magician. Spool attended
Niskayuna High School
Niskayuna High School is a public high school in Niskayuna, New York, United States, and is the only high school operated by the Niskayuna Central School District.
History
Niskayuna High School opened in 1957 after the Board of Education recomme ...
in
Niskayuna, NY
Niskayuna is a town in Schenectady County, New York, United States. The population was 23,278 at the 2020 census. The town is located in the southeast part of the county, east of the city of Schenectady, and is the easternmost town in the county. ...
.
["From Our Mailbag"]
, "Niskayuna Warrior", June 1979. Retrieved July 12, 2011.
Spool has been working in the field of usability and design since 1978, before the term usability was ever associated with computers.
Achievements and awards
Under Spool's leadership, in 1996 UIE launched the ''User Interface Conference'', an annual
user experience research and design conference, which he chairs and delivers the keynotes for.
[UX London Speakers - Jared Spool]
Retrieved December 7, 2011
From 1998 until 2008, as an adjunct faculty member at
Tufts University
Tufts University is a private research university on the border of Medford and Somerville, Massachusetts. It was founded in 1852 as Tufts College by Christian universalists who sought to provide a nonsectarian institution of higher learning. ...
, Spool created and taught a unique curriculum for the Experience Design Management course at the
Tufts Gordon Institute.
Spool has delivered the keynote presentations for The National Association of Government Webmasters, The National Association of Online Librarians, Higher Ed Webmasters, Agile 2009,
South by Southwest Interactive, Web Advertising, Web Visions, the
Usability Professionals Association,
CHI (conference), the Information Architecture Summit, UX Australia, UX Lisbon, UX London,
Drupal Con 2011,
An Event Apart, Designing for People Amsterdam, UPA China, the Norwegian Computer Society, the
British Computer Society, the
Society for Technical Communication
The Society for Technical Communication (STC) is a professional association dedicated to the advancement of the theory and practice of technical communication with more than 4,500 members in the United States, Canada, and the world. The society pu ...
, and the Federal Webmasters Society.
In 2011, the
Stevens Award was given to Spool, "whose quiet evangelism of usability and the practical outcomes of methods and tools had a wide-ranging influence on how we think about making systems effective."
[Stevens Award Recipients]
. Retrieved December 7, 2011.
Current activities
Spool spends time working with research teams, consults with organizations so they can better understand how to solve their design problems, and works with reporters and industry analysts on the state of design. In addition to being a speaker at more than 20 conferences every year,
[UX London Speakers - Jared Spool]
Retrieved December 7, 2011. Spool presents almost weekly for various groups.
[Lanyrd Profile for Jared M. Spool]
Retrieved December 8, 2011.
Retrieved December 8, 2011.
Spool also sits on the editorial board for
Rosenfeld Media, a user experience publishing house.
[Editorial Board - Rosenfeld Media]
Retrieved December 6, 2011.
The Center Centre
With the help of a successful
Kickstarter campaign,
[Unicorn Institute: Courses to shape the future of UX design]
Retrieved June 9, 2014. in 2014, Jared co-founded the
Center Centre, "a new, bricks-and-mortar user experience design school for adults,"
[Center Centre]
Retrieved June 9, 2014. with
Dr. Leslie Jensen-Inman.
Bibliography
;Books
* Spool, Jared M. &
Robert Hoekman, Jr. ''Web Anatomy: Interaction Design Frameworks that Work'' ().
* Spool, Jared M., Rosalee J. Wolfe & Daniel M. McCracken. ''User-Centered Web Site Development: A Human-Computer Interaction Approach'' ().
* Spool, Jared M., Carolyn Snyder, Tara Scanlon & Terri DeAngelo. ''Web Site Usability: A Designer's Guide'' ().
* Jeffrey Rubin &
Dana Chisnell
Dana Chisnell is an American public interest technologist, civic designer, adjunct lecturer and Fellow at the Harvard Kennedy School of Government.
Career
Chisnell began her career in 1987, working with banks, insurance companies, and tech com ...
, Spool, Jared M. (Forward), ''Handbook of Usability Testing: How to Plan, Design, and Conduct Effective Tests'' ().
;Articles
*1993. "User involvement in the design process: why, when & how?" INTERCHI 1993: 251-254
*1994. "ProductUsability: survival techniques." CHI Conference Companion 1994: 365-366
*1994. "Using a game to teach a design process." CHI Conference Companion 1994: 117-118
*1995. "CHI 95 Conference Companion" 1995: 395-396
*1995. "User Interface Engineering: fostering creative product development." CHI 95 Conference Companion 1995: 166-167
*1997. "Product Usability: Survival Techniques." CHI Extended Abstracts 1997: 154-155
*1997. "Measuring Website Usability." CHI Extended Abstracts 1997: 125
*2002. "Usability in practice: alternatives to formative evaluations-evolution and revolution." CHI Extended Abstracts 2002: 891-897
*2002. "Usability in practice: formative usability evaluations - evolution and revolution." CHI Extended Abstracts 2002: 885-890
*2003. " Evaluating globally: how to conduct international or intercultural usability research." CHI Extended Abstracts 2003: 704-705
*2003. "The "magic number 5": is it enough for web testing?" CHI Extended Abstracts 2003: 698-699
*2005. "The great debate: can usability scale up?" CHI Extended Abstracts 2005: 1174-1175
*2007. "Get real!": what's wrong with hci prototyping and how can we fix it? CHI Extended Abstracts 2007: 1913-1916
References
External links
User Interface Engineering (UIE) official websiteJared Spool on SlideshareThe Magic of Jared SpoolThe Center Centre
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Living people
1960 births
Usability
Web design
Web developers
Computer programmers
Human–computer interaction researchers
American bloggers
American technology writers
American designers
American podcasters
21st-century American non-fiction writers