FAST Consulting
Staten Island, NY 10301
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Victor R. Stanwick's Bio
Graphic Artist
Web & GUI Designer
Technical
Communications Specialist
Other
Alice Preston's Bio
Alice Preston is a user experience specialist with extensive experience in large, small, and nonprofit companies. Alice is especially interested in how technology can provide good solutions for those with special needs, whether cultural and language differences, physical or mental access challenges, or access challenges stemming from equipment and bandwidth difficulties.
Until recently, Alice has been part of a project digitizing and presenting large amounts of research material about Africa, on a Web-based application suitable for low-bandwidth situations
Chris Koster's Bio
Chris Koster is a researcher, workshop facilitator, and writer. He is currently managing editor of User Experience magazine.
Chris has over 25 years of experience as a user-experience professional, most of it at Bell Laboratories creating the software used to route phone calls, monitor networks, create directories, and otherwise make the voice, data and wireless network services work reliably and efficiently.
Chris specializes in information architecture, user experience design and usability testing.
Jim Bradford's Bio
Dr. Bradford was the founding dean of the College of Information Technology at Georgia Southern University and, as of Fall 2008, a full professor of computer science. He teaches human factors and usability at both the graduate and undergraduate levels at Georgia Southern.
He has written user requirements specifications for the Canadian Post Office and user interface design for Bell-Northern Research.
Mary R. Smith 's Bio
Mary R. Smith is a researcher, workshop facilitator, and writer.
Mary provides consumer interface analyses of ‘black box’ products that are unsupported by documentation or staff. Mary has consulted on digital-rights management, teleconferencing, automatic speech recognition, interactive-voice-response systems, monitoring systems, inventory systems, and geographical information systems, among others.
Susan L. Fowler's Bio
From May 2006 to April 2007, Susan Fowler was an analyst for Keynote Systems, Inc., which offers remote unmoderated user-experience testing.
She is currently a consultant at FAST Consulting and the sole proprietor of Fast Smart Web Design.
With Victor Stanwick, she is an author of the Web Application Design Handbook (Morgan Kaufmann Publishers), and two other interface design books.
Skills & Expertise
In-lab Usability Testing
Remote Unmoderated Usability Testing
Non-profit Business & IT Analysis
MemberClicks Website Development
Accessibility Consulting
Teaching
Training
