One Focus: Your Customers

Great experiences increases …

+ Ease of use and customer satisfaction
+ Conversion and sales
+ The competitive edge, a pleasure to use

Poor experiences leads to …

- Higher training costs
- Larger support costs
- Re-designs

Better Customer Experiences = More Profits

Awards

  • Cisco Innovation Award for excellence in user interface design, Brenton Elmore, 2002.
  • Cisco Partnership Award for cross-functional teamwork, Brenton Elmore, 2002.

Publications and Presentations

  • Elmore, B., Ivaturi, S., and Hamilton, S. Designing Software for Consumers to Easily Set Up a Secure Home Network. In Proceedings of CHI 2007, ACM Press, 2007.
  • Elmore, B. A Human Factors Process for Understanding Users, Defining Their Roles, and Generating System Requirements. Presented at, MIS 2003: Managing IT in Networked Organizations. October 24-25, 2003, Tucson, AZ.

Patents

  • Patent #6,205,453 B1. “Selectively Index able Multi-Column List” Principal Inventors: David Abkowitz & Eric Tucker - Oracle.
  • Patent #6,772,173. “Method for dynamically representing a list of items” Principal Inventors: Michael McGee & David Abkowitz - Oracle.

Affiliations

  • ACM SIGCHI (Special Interest Group in Computer-Human Interaction)
  • IDSA- Industrial Design Society of America