Partners & Networks
We are better together!
Working closely together with our partners, enables us to discuss our focus subjects with each other. We have – since many years – an international network, which helps us executing complex User & Customer Experience projects. In doing so, we work very closely with the leading companies in technology and science.
We are always interested in a partnership. Should you also be interested in a co-operation, please contact Valerie Schlagenhaufen
Our partners
Center for Usability Research & Engineering
CURE is our closest partner. We work with the institute for research on a daily basis, thus we established a continous exchange of knowledge. Hence at USECON we already know today about the trends of tomorrow in our focus fields Usability, User Experience, User Interface Design and Strategich Experience Management and are able to transfer this knowledge to your projects.
CURE is an independent research organisation, located in Vienna and leader in Usability Engineering, Humcan Computer Interaction, User Interface Design, User Experience Reserach and User Centred Design in Europe. An essential concern of CURE is to establish ties between research and practice. The focus of CURE’s research lies on the development and use of User Experience Engineering methods, investigating usage factors and the methodological transfer to optimisation of design.
Questback GmbH
USECON is glad to present Questback GmbH, European market leader in the field of survey- and feedback software for online market research & Customer Experience Management, as partner.
Together we rely on innovative and professional technologies & solutions in the fields of User Research and Customer Experience. Questback supports us in the development of methodes and technology. We support our partner with services in User Interface Design for customer-communities and panel-systems in return. Centrical in our relationship is also the transfer of future trends and development in the field of research.
We rely on the technical solution of Questback in our USECON user panel ask:us.
More than Metrics
More than Metrics develops software solutions for enterprises to improve the customer’s experience with their product, service or brand.
Smaply is a web-based software which visualises customer experiences through journey maps, personas and stakeholder maps.
ExperienceFellow allows to document realt-time customer experiences through a combination of a mobile app for data collection and a web-based software for data analysis.
Founded by the service design experts Marc Stickdorn, Jakob Schneider and Klaus Schwarzenberger, the company has evolved itself as one of the leading international market leaders in customer experience management software. With its headquarters in Innsbruck (Austria) More than Metrics serves customers in more than 56 countries from all over the world. Among them large corporations like the Deutsche Telekom, PWC or Genesys, but also governments, UX agencies and business consultants use the tools.
Sino-European Usability Center (SEUC)
SEUC is our partner for international Usability and User Experience studies in Asia.
Sino-European Usability Center (SEUC) is located in Dalian and leader in China in the fields of Usability Research and Consulting. SEUC has been founded in 2000 as the first company in China with the support of the EU projects EU FP5, EU Asia-IT&C and China-EU S&T. Together with its research partner NCR-DMU Human Computer Interaction Research Centre of the Dalian Maritime University, SEUC has specialised in the development of user centred design. Their activities comprise of Usability and User Experience Research, studies of user behaviour, development of prototypes and improvements of interactive systems.
TecEd
TecEd and USECON support each other in international Usability and User Experience studies by recruiting testpersons and in the organisation of rooms and lab facilities.
TecEd is one of the leading User Experience Consulting companies in the US. Stephanie Rosenbaum founded it in 1967 as a one-woman business for data processing services. She concentrated on HCI (Human-Computer-Interaction) and managed to follow the development from the mainframe computer to the tablet PC. Today, TecEd is an established company with 13 employees and three offices in the US: Ann Arbor (Michigan), Palo Alto (California) and Rochester (New York). TecEd specialises on research and design of user centred interfaces and information architecture of technical devices as well as web, software and e-commerce applications.
Hilfsgemeinschaft der Blinden und Sehschwachen Österreichs
The Austrian Association of the blind and visually impaired is committed to improve the living conditions of blind and visually impaired people since more than 75 years. Reducing barriers in accessing information- and communication technologies, products and services and raising awareness for accessibility is a focus of their work.
The requirements of blind and visually impaired people need to be considered in the development of products and services, from the beginning to the realisation. The Hilfsgemeinschaft campaigns for awareness of researchers, developers and sponsors and offers consulting for the implementation of accessibility.
We work together with the Hilfsgemeinschaft in our accessibility projects and are glad for the help they offer, in recruiting testpersons/experts and in supply of appropriate technologies.
Karriere.at
Since the founding of the company in 2004, karriere.at focusses on information and service.
karriere.at is an owner-managed company and the only independent portal for jobs in Austria. This independency enables them to focus on the national job market, efficiently implement the company’s strategy, hence be very successful.
USECON is glad to work together with karriere.at when looking for new employees and on projects about the online job market.
Our professional associations
USECON or employees of USECON are among others members of the following organisations:
 | ACMAssociation for Computing Machinery |
 | HFESHuman Factors and Ergonomics Society |
 | IEEEInstitute of Electronical and Electronics Engineers |
 | SIGCHIThe Association for Computing Machinery Special Interest Group on Comuter Human Interaction |
 | UXPAUsability Professionals’ Association |
 | German UPAGerman Usability Professionals’ Association |
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