About Luminanze

Luminanze Consulting is a woman-owned small consultancy practice based in suburban Maryland, just outside Washington DC.

Elizabeth Buie, Principal Consultant

Elizabeth Buie has 33 years of experience in information systems, of which over 30 have involved user interfaces, usability, and the user experience. She has performed research, analysis, specification, design, development, and evaluation of user experience (UX) and human-computer interaction (HCI) for Web sites, Web applications, desktop and mainframe applications, and complex systems such as spacecraft control centers. Her experience has also included several years in system engineering, which includes the specification and analysis of system and software requirements and the integration of the HCI process into the system life cycle.

Elizabeth has master's degrees in mathematics and human development, extensive technical and nontechnical writing experience, and proficiency in the Italian language. She serves on the editorial board of the UPA's online Journal of Usability Studies. She is also co-chair (with Susan Dray, Chauncey Wilson, and Arnie Lund) of the User Experience and Usability track for the CHI2009 conference.

Experience

• Luminanze Consulting, an independent consultancy, opened June 2007
• UserWorks, supporting a wide variety of clients, from nonprofit to commercial to government
• Computer Sciences Corporation (CSC), Federal Sector, Civil Group, supporting various clients, mostly civilian agencies of the US Government

Current and most recent work projects

• Ongoing: User-centered interaction design of the Patent File Wrapper application (subcontract to Info|Reliance)
• Ongoing: Information architecture and redesign of the web site of the American Library Association (subcontract to UserWorks)
• Recent: Usability assessment of a web-based enterprise application for Plateau Systems, Inc.

See Elizabeth's résumé: web version or PDF version