New York City User Experience Professionals Association Inc

We seek to bring together professionals from the marketing, design, technology and research communitiesso that we mayshare our collective experiences and create a forum for learning and professional growth. A rough definition of a usability professional is someone who samples the interaction between a user and an application or product, measures the results, and presents findings to a team, or management. This is usually done to set a baseline, discover areas for improvement, validate changes, or some combination of all of these. Usability testing can be iterative, depending upon the size of a project, and it can be as formal or informal as the project environment allows. A core concept of usability involves testing with prototypes before any live code is deployed.