Chris How
Chris joined the User Experience team at Cogapp in June 2009 to extend our capacity to help clients with this service, both as a unique offering and as a core part of our
larger projects.
Chris works on designing, developing and implementing user-centred navigational
approaches and information architecture. He conducts detailed information
architecture work such as content auditing and development of metadata frameworks. In support of this work he also runs user research and usability evaluations. He has recently worked on projects for The Metropolitan Museum of Art, and Social Care Institute for Excellence (SCIE) implementing user research, usability testing, wire framing and information architecture.
Chris came to Cogapp with over three years' experience as a User Experience Architect for First Choice Holidays. There his role included carrying out key user experience strategies such as user research, creation of paper prototypes and wireframes, data analysis and heuristic assessment. Chris also brings his skills and experience as a web designer to the role, and is well versed in accessibility and website compliance to WCAG and W3C guidelines.
Chris has also won awards at the US International Film Festival for multimedia
projects for British Gymnastics and Battersea Dogs’ Home, and has produced promos for the Guardian and BBC Worldwide.
He is a certified PRINCE2 project manager and a member of the Information Architecture Institute, the UPA (Usability Professionals' Association) and IA London. He was an invited speaker at the 2011 Usability Professionals' Association International Conference in Atlanta on 'Getting more effective answers from user research'.
