ShermanUX
ShermanUX is a user experience consultancy that excels in the design and evaluation of desktop and web-based applications for:
- Business management, finance and accounting
- Data, voice and video communications and networking
- Information systems and enterprise resource management
- Content and asset management
- B-to-C and B-to-B e-commerce
We also have significant expertise in designing web sites, corporate Internet and intranet sites, and community/user-generated content-driven sites.
ShermanUX partners with the best individual practitioners and small companies in the user experience field to deliver design, evaluation, strategy and training services on-time and with high quality. We are always looking for quality partners in the areas of user research, interaction design, and visual design. Contact us if you're interested in partnering.
Sherman Group User Experience Design & Strategy LLC was formed in 2008. Paul Sherman is the founder and principal owner of ShermanUX. ShermanUX is based in Austin, Texas.
Paul Sherman - Founder & Principal Consultant
Paul Sherman is founder and principal consultant at ShermanUX. He has worked in the field of usability and user-centered design for the past 12 years. He was most recently Senior Director of User-Centered Design at Sage Software in Atlanta, Georgia, where he led efforts to redesign the UI and improve the overall customer experience of the Peachtree Accounting desktop application and ePeachtree web-based app.
While at Sage he also designed and implemented a customer-centric contextual innovation program that sought to identify new product and service opportunities by observing small businesses "in the wild". He also led efforts to modernize and make consistent Sage North America's product user interfaces.
In the 1990's he was a Member of Technical Staff at Lucent Technologies in New Jersey, where he led efforts to develop cross-product user interface standards for several telecommunications management applications. As a consultant he has conducted usability testing and interface design for banking, accounting and tax preparation applications, Web-based financial planning and portfolio management applications, and ecommerce Web sites.
Paul received his Ph.D. in 1997 from the University of Texas at Austin. His research focused on how pilots' use of computers and automated systems on the flight deck affects their individual and team performance. Paul is Past President of the Usability Professionals' Association, was the founding President of the UPA Dallas/Fort Worth chapter, and serves on the UPA's Board of Directors and Executive Committe. He is also contributor and editor of the Gower book Usability Success Stories: How Organizations Improve by Making Easier-to-Use Software and Web Sites, published in October 2006. He writes a regular column for the online user experience magazine UXmatters and has presented at conferences around North America as well as Asia, Europe, and South America. Email Paul at paul@shermanux.com.
Download Paul's resume here.
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