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 35 years of experience in information systems, of which over 32 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 also co-chaired the User Experience and Usability track for the CHI 2009, CHI 2010, and CHI 2011 conferences and is co-chair of Case Studies for the CHI 2012 conference.

Elizabeth is the co-editor (with Dianne Murray) of the forthcoming book Usability in Government Systems: User Experience Design for Citizens and Public Servants, to be published by Morgan Kaufmann Press in May of 2012. You can read a description of the book in the Luminanze Blog, and you can preorder it from Amazon.com.

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: As-needed usability evaluation of web sites and web applications for the US Federal Aviation Administration (subcontract to Network Designs, Inc.)
• Ongoing: Various small projects for various clients
• Earlier: User-centered interaction design of the Patent File Wrapper application (subcontract to InfoReliance)
• Earlier: Information architecture and redesign of the web site of the American Library Association (subcontract to UserWorks)

See Elizabeth's detailed résumé