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Performance By Design

 

Usability Management is a joint venture by usability professionals with a strong track record of helping clients achieve results.  Over the years we have learnt a lot about what works -- and what doesn't --  across all kinds of development project and business sector.  

Miles Macleod

Miles Macleod

Miles has worked on the management of usability since the mid-1980s.  He has a strong business and research background, and takes a pragmatic, results-oriented view -- with a solid foundation in theory and practice.  Before setting up Performance By Design in 1998, he was at Andersen Consulting (Accenture) where he helped evolve the approach to interaction design, and provided consultancy for numerous clients.  Previously he was the founding head of NPL Usability Services, helping many organisations to establish and manage a capability for human-centred design and usability.  Miles has been involved widely in collaborative European research.  He has extensive experience of enabling projects to achieve successful outcomes. 

Rosemary Bowden

Rosemary Bowden

Rosemary has provided usability consultancy to organisations across industries and market sectors since 1990.  Her work centres around understanding the needs and attitudes of users, and helping ensure new products and systems are useful, usable and safe. She was previously at CMG Admiral (Logica CMG), helping clients balance user experience issues with business objectives and technical constraints.  Prior to that she was at the National Physical Laboratory, providing consultancy for clients in the private and public sectors and contributing to research on human-centred methods and usability measurement.  Her background includes a degree in Ergonomics (Loughborough University), and a range of business experience.