Improve Efficiency and Usability with Design Templates 

Course Description

Jeff Horvath, VP of User Experience Strategy at Human Factors International (HFI), will discuss the importance of User Interface Design Templates and how they can improve usability on your site. Design templates help user-centered design become a routine and valuable part of your software development process. Routine designs with consistent layout don't need to be reinvented with every website or application update. Using design templates results in more consistent and usable content. Bring efficiency and a better user experience to your agency with a template-based approach to your next website or application redesign project.

Carolyn Lawson, Director of eServices, California Office of the State CIO, will share her experiences in building consensus and bringing a template-based approach to the more than 130 California state agencies and 400 separate websites. She'll share her lessons learned about the process and talk about the benefits – tangible and intangible – that the State of California received by taking a template-based approach to their redesign efforts.

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