The Ovo Studios Staff
 The
staff at Ovo Studios are usability practitioners with a wide array of lab
management, user-centered design, and product design experience. We look
forward to applying our real-world experience to designing your lab to
meet the needs of your usability team.
Additionally, recognizing the fact that we benefit from the usability
community as both practitioners and vendors, we strive to give back to
the usability profession. Since our inception, Ovo Studios has:
- Sponsored the Usability Professional's Association
conference for five years
- Provided internet site hosting for UPA chapters
- Sponsored graduate students to attend the annual UPA
conference
- Conceived and led research projects for the UPA.
Many people say they have a "passion" for usability: the staff
at Ovo Studios have a demonstrable commitment to and involvement in the
usability profession which results in continual improvement of our
hardware and software solutions. The Ovo Studios staff consists of:
Scott Butler
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Rich Gunther
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Scott Butler has been in the usability field since 1990 and has a
Master's Degree in Cognitive Psychology from the University of
Maryland at College Park.
Scott was a founding member and Secretary (2004) for the Northeast
Ohio Chapter of the UPA (neoupa.org) and continues to serve as
their webmaster. |
Rich Gunther holds a Master's Degree in Human-Computer Interaction from
the Carnegie Mellon University and has been in the usability field
since 1998.
Rich chairs the UPA "Usability in the Enterprise"
project, which aims to develop a standardized set of metrics for
measuring the ROI of user-centered design processes. |
Scott
has applied user-centered methods to a wide variety of products,
including:
• Client-server applications
• Thin-client applications
• Business-to-business extranets
• Transactional intranet sites
• Intranet self-service applications, e.g.,
PeopleSoft implementations
• Web-based training courses
• Online and hardcopy documentation, including
performance support systems
• Industrial automation hardware
• Call center applications
• Voice response menu systems |
Rich
has done human factors and usability research in the following
areas:
• Industrial automation hardware and software
• ERP / MRP integration
• Network monitoring and configuration applications
• Banking and financial services software
• Robotic control and data collection
• Medical devices
• Decision theory
• Display and control design
• Queuing theory and operations management |
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