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Presentation: "Segways, Pandas & Fitness Balls Part 1: You cannot change the End User's Behaviour!"

Track: UX - Visibility, Usability, Graphics / Time: Thursday 10:20 - 11:10 / Location: Hall 6

In this slot we will take a closer look at how we interpret and experience the world around us. What happens if our applications become over-engineered? Or over-designed? Based on certain gestalt psychological rules we will find our way towards an understandable user interface where the individual elements make sense and form a complete user experience. As a rule of thumb you cannot change user behaviour - it is far better to understand how the user thinks and reacts. The talk is a combination of theory and real life examples.

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Janne Jul Jensen, Senior Interaction Designer & Usability Specialist

Janne Jul Jensen

Biography: Janne Jul Jensen

Janne Jul Jensen is Senior Interaction Designer with Trifork A/S. She specialises in usability and interaction design, and applies her expertise primarily to the mobile app projects within Trifork, such as apps for Danske Bank, Radiometer A/S, Roskilde Festival, Lemvigh-Müller, KMD and DSB. She is a sought after speaker by educational institutions, conferences, the public sector and companies. She also gives courses internally and externally on her topics of expertise and is the founder of the user group on Design & Usability, where peers can meet and learn from each other.

Previously she was a researcher at Aalborg University for seven years, successfully collaborating nationally and internationally with academia and privately held companies on a number of projects, resulting in a number of publications. Furthermore, she has reviewed for conferences and journals and co-organized smaller conferences. Apart from her research, she has taught HCI to undergraduate and graduate students and supervised student projects on these topics. She earned her Ph.D. degree in 2009 and a M.Sc. in Software Engineering in 2003, both from Aalborg University.

Twitter: @jjjtrifork
Ph.D. thesis

Preben Thorø, Software Pilot at Trifork

Preben Thorø

Biography: Preben Thorø

Preben has been with Trifork since the early days, and over the past years, he has been part of establishing Trifork GmbH in Zurich. During his +15 years in the business he has taken various positions and roles like programmer/developer, consultant, project manager, team leader, coach and more. He has a strong focus on user experience and making people working efficiently together to meet the end user needs. Prebens main technical focus lies on the mobile platforms.