Jared Spool (born December 8, 1960) is an American writer, researcher, speaker, educator, and an expert on the subjects of usability, software, design, and research.Ward, Mark. "The long and winding road of e-commerce", BBC News, November 18, 2011. Retrieved December 7, 2011. He is the founding principal of User Interface Engineering (UIE), a research, training, and consulting firm that specializes in website and product usability.User Interface Engineering . Retrieved December 5, 2011. He is also an amateur magician. Spool attended Niskayuna High School in Niskayuna, NY."From Our Mailbag" , "Niskayuna Warrior", June 1979. Retrieved July 12, 2011.

Spool has been working in the field of usability and design since 1978, before the term usability was ever associated with computers.

Achievements and awards Under Spool's leadership, in 1996 UIE launched the User Interface Conference, an annual user experience research and design conference, which he chairs and delivers the keynotes for.UX London Speakers - Jared Spool. Retrieved December 7, 2011

From 1998 until 2008, as an adjunct faculty member at Tufts University, Spool created and taught a unique curriculum for the Experience Design Management course at the Tufts Gordon Institute.

Spool has delivered the keynote presentations for The National Association of Government Webmasters, The National Association of Online Librarians, Higher Ed Webmasters, Agile 2009, South by Southwest Interactive, Web Advertising, Web Visions, the Usability Professionals Association, CHI (conference), the Information Architecture Summit, UX Australia, UX Lisbon, UX London, Drupal Con 2011, An Event Apart, Designing for People Amsterdam, UPA China, the Norwegian Computer Society, the British Computer Society, the Society for Technical Communication, and the Federal Webmasters Society.

In 2011, the Stevens Award was given to Spool, "whose quiet evangelism of usability and the practical outcomes of methods and tools had a wide-ranging influence on how we think about making systems effective."Stevens Award Recipients . Retrieved December 7, 2011.

Current activities Spool spends time working with research teams, consults with organizations so they can better understand how to solve their design problems, and works with reporters and industry analysts on the state of design. In addition to being a speaker at more than 20 conferences every year,UX London Speakers - Jared Spool. Retrieved December 7, 2011. Spool presents almost weekly for various groups.Lanyrd Profile for Jared M. Spool. Retrieved December 8, 2011.Speakers - UX Lisbon 2010. Retrieved December 8, 2011.

Jared teaches advanced UX courses and online programs at Center Centre, and hosts weekly live webinars in a free UX community called The Leaders of Awesomeness. You can also view his talks on YouTube.

Jared continues to advocate for UX as a practice and is quoted as saying, “The number one responsibility of UX leaders is to make their organization the world's foremost experts on their users and what their users need.”

Spool also sits on the editorial board for Rosenfeld Media, a user experience publishing house.Editorial Board - Rosenfeld Media. Retrieved December 6, 2011.

The Center Centre With the help of a successful Kickstarter campaign,Unicorn Institute: Courses to shape the future of UX design. Retrieved June 9, 2014. in 2014, Jared co-founded the Center Centre, "a new, bricks-and-mortar user experience design school for adults,"Center Centre. Retrieved June 9, 2014. with Dr. Leslie Jensen-Inman.

Bibliography Books Spool, Jared M. & Robert Hoekman, Jr. Web Anatomy: Interaction Design Frameworks that Work (). Spool, Jared M., Rosalee J. Wolfe & Daniel M. McCracken. User-Centered Web Site Development: A Human-Computer Interaction Approach (). Spool, Jared M., Carolyn Snyder, Tara Scanlon & Terri DeAngelo. Web Site Usability: A Designer's Guide (). Jeffrey Rubin & Dana Chisnell, Spool, Jared M. (Forward), Handbook of Usability Testing: How to Plan, Design, and Conduct Effective Tests ().

Articles 1993. "User involvement in the design process: why, when & how?" INTERCHI 1993: 251-254 1994. "ProductUsability: survival techniques." CHI Conference Companion 1994: 365-366 1994. "Using a game to teach a design process." CHI Conference Companion 1994: 117-118 1995. "CHI 95 Conference Companion" 1995: 395-396 1995. "User Interface Engineering: fostering creative product development." CHI 95 Conference Companion 1995: 166-167 1997. "Product Usability: Survival Techniques." CHI Extended Abstracts 1997: 154-155 1997. "Measuring Website Usability." CHI Extended Abstracts 1997: 125 2002. "Usability in practice: alternatives to formative evaluations-evolution and revolution." CHI Extended Abstracts 2002: 891-897 2002. "Usability in practice: formative usability evaluations - evolution and revolution." CHI Extended Abstracts 2002: 885-890 2003. " Evaluating globally: how to conduct international or intercultural usability research." CHI Extended Abstracts 2003: 704-705 2003. "The "magic number 5": is it enough for web testing?" CHI Extended Abstracts 2003: 698-699 2005. "The great debate: can usability scale up?" CHI Extended Abstracts 2005: 1174-1175 2007. "Get real!": what's wrong with hci prototyping and how can we fix it? CHI Extended Abstracts 2007: 1913-1916

References

External links User Interface Engineering (UIE) official website Jared Spool on Slideshare The Magic of Jared Spool The Center Centre The Leaders of Awesomeness YouTube