User:Nefuchs

Evamaria Fuchs

• User Experience Specialist

• Name: Dipl. Psych. Evamaria Fuchs
• Address: SUSE LINUX Products GmbH, Maxfeldstrasse 5, 90409 Nuermberg
• Email: evamaria.fuchs@novell.com
• Phone: +49(0)911-740-53-284
  

• Past: For 10 years Assembler programmer and system administrator in R&D Department of an international corporation for business machines in Nürnberg and Ivrea/Italy.
• 2001: Trainee in Usability Team @ SUSE
• 2003: Diploma in Psychology (Univ. Erlangen-Nürnberg) - with a Computer Science minor.
  Thesis: “Novices and experts – usability of a software system for different target groups. A comparative usability study based on the example of SUSE Linux Installation program YaST2 V. 7.3“
• 2003/05: Independent usability consultant for software R&D departments
• 2005: SUSE employee as a member of the Interfaces and Applications Team
  Focus: user-centered software design and development, usability engineering, structures and processes.

• 2006: http://en.opensuse.org/Kickoff KickOff, the new SUSE KDE start menu

• Association of Computing Machineries (ACM)
• German Chapter Usability Professionals Association (GC-UPA)

• openSUSE in cooperation with the Departments of Computer Science and Psychology of the University of Erlangen-Nuermberg: Usability resources of the advanced hands-on seminar, winter 2006/2007 (English and German texts)

• OpenUsability.org "... brings Open Source Developers and Usability Experts together".

• BetterDesktop.org "... is dedicated to the analysis and discussion of our data in relation to Linux Desktop Usability".

• Only Novell employees have access to our Novell Innerweb Usability Portal