Quesenbery will be the head of the Board Outreach Committee, focusing on usability advocacy, and the usability of voting systems. In another move, Charles B. Kreitzberg, Ph.D., Cognetics Corporation's CEO was named Executive Editor of User Experience, the Association's new journal to be launched this year. Dr. Kreitzberg served as a UPA Board Member from 1998-2000. The Usability Professionals' Association is an international, non-profit, professional association with more than 1500 members in the United States and 35 other countries.
Members are specialists in evaluating and designing products that are easy to learn and use.
Many usability professionals hold advanced degrees or training in psychology and related fields. The UPA communicates and shares information about skills and skill development, methodologies used or proposed, tools, technology, and organizational issues. It educates the general public about the profession and presents the profession's viewpoints. In 1999, Dr. Kreitzberg and Ms. Quesenbery led a UPA workshop on the role of methodology in introducing usability and user-centered design into the application development process. Charles B. Kreitzberg is a cognitive psychologist and computer scientist with degrees from City College of New York, Rutgers University, and the City University of New York.