Paul Hibbitts brings the benefits of User Centered Design to software teams and their products.

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• Background
• Working Style
• Partial Client List
• Professional Memberships
  

Making his home in Vancouver, Canada, Paul works with companies of all sizes, both locally and across the country. Through his 15-year career, Paul has shown his talent for improving the interaction between software design, business needs and human factors. His work has brought more productive and easy to use interfaces to desktop, mobile and web-based applications, websites, intranets and CD-ROM courseware.

Paul brings a vital blend of extensive design experience with clear communication of design issues, and can fit in quickly with a team up close or at a distance. He brings an equal passion for sharing his knowledge, and his usability and design links page is a trusted resource for hundreds of visitors every month.

His skill in communicating complex ideas in usability and design shows in Paul’s work as an academic and corporate instructor. In addition to teaching a 3rd-year credit course in interface design at Simon Fraser University, he has developed and taught courses at the Emily Carr Institute of Art + Design and University of British Columbia. In course evaluations, he is consistently rated very highly by students, and has been nominated for an Excellence in Teaching Award at Simon Fraser University.

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With a professional and personable approach, Paul excels at building bridges between stakeholders, developers and customers. His experience enables him to work flexibly and to easily choose the best methods for fitting into existing schedules and team capabilities.

Paul has been at the forefront of developing techniques to support conducting user studies and usability tests where face-to-face contact with participants is not possible. By combining his highly developed task and inspection-based analysis methods with such tools as screen sharing and group or individual interviews, he delivers significant usability gains for both local and remote clients.

Paul has also spoken about usability and interface design at various public events and workshops, including the British Columbia Library Association, IBM, New Media BC, the Nova Scotia College of Art and Design, and VanUE. His proactive approach to solving design problems combined with his dynamic and engaging communication style ensure that his presentations leave attendees not only well informed, but equipped with ideas and techniques they can use right away.

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• BC Securities Commissions
• Canadian Real Estate Association
• Tourism Kelowna
• Vancity Credit Union

• Business Objects, an SAP company
• Exponentia Communications
• FinancialCAD Corporation
• Infowave Wireless Messaging
• Karo Design
• Laplink Software
• Placer Dome (Barrick)
• Pivotal Corporation (CDC Software)
• Real Estate Board of Greater Vancouver
• The University of British Columbia
• WaterTrax
  

• Business Objects, an SAP company
• Blast Radius
• Columbus Group (TELUS)
• Cossette Interactive
• Global Technical Engineering Solutions Inc.
• Hewlett Packard (Agilent)
• MDSI Mobile Data Solutions Inc.
• Pivotal Corporation (CDC Software)
• Vigil Health Solutions

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• Association for Computing Machinery (ACM)
• Interaction Design Associations (IxDA)
• Usability Professionals Association (UPA)