David Stubbs

...David Stubbs provides consultation, training, and collaborative work in three areas:
...• Gathering detailed end-user product requirements,
...• Transforming requirements into designs, with primary focus on feature
...set details and user interface, and
...• Evaluating product usability and impact on the workplace.

...David was with Tektronix, Inc., for 21 years where he was a co-founder of the Customer-Centered Design group within Tek's Measurement Business Division (precision instrumentation) Central Engineering organization. As the group's first manager, David developed and refined many of the end-user interview methods the group uses to elicit deep work background, detailed product requirements, design and usability issues, and product impact on the workplace. While a principal engineer in the Tektronix Laboratories, TekLabs, he secured five patents for visual instrumentation programming techniques.
...Since then, David has worked on diverse projects ranging from commercial irrigation control software design to Internet E-commerce site evaluation to printer user interface simulation and testing. David is currently Senior Usability Architect and Vice-president of Oregon Operations for Usability Architects.
...David has been a member of ACM and its special interest group on computer-human interaction (SIGCHI) since 1986. He was audio-visual chair for the SIG's major conference, CHI'90, and co-chair for CHI'91 and INTERCHI'93 in Amsterdam, The Netherlands. He is currently program co-chair for CHIFOO, the Computer-Human Interaction Forum Of Oregon. David is also a member of the Usability Professionals Society (UPA). David holds a BS in History from Portland State University (1974).

dstubbs@gqg-mr.com