Ilona Posner
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- School: University of Toronto
- Campus: St. George Campus
- Department: Computer Science
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Toronto, ON - Dates at University of Toronto: April 2005 - November 2019
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Prof. Posner is one of the best profs I have met in the campus especially in the UX area. Her lectures were always interesting and fun. Best one was that we did group project instead of exam. Project was pretty easy and you could honestly get a good mark if you had little experience on designing.
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Professor Posner is a reasonable grader. He always care for every students. You can even ask for a bit higher mark if you did more work than others.
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Professor Posner is hands down one of the best UX professors you can have. She is very knowledgeable, has great experience in the industry, and an awesome network of UX/HF professionals. You should definitely take her course if you are interested in learning about design thinking or building a career in design. You will learn all the essentials. The course is a lot of work though.
Biography
University of Toronto St. George Campus - Computer Science
User Experience Consultant & Educator
Information Technology & Services
ILONA
POSNER
Toronto, Canada Area
GOAL: To improve people's lives by making technology easy to use.
Specialties: Consulting & training projects including: User Experience Design & Evaluation, Usability Consultations, User Strategy, Marketing Strategy, User Centered Design, Usability Testing, Expert Reviews, Heuristic Evaluations, Professional Development & Training.
Experience
Independent Consultant
User Experience & Usability Consultant
ILONA POSNER is a Usability Consultant working on improving Users Experiences for over 20 years and spanning different industries including telecom, health, finance, transportation, and entertainment. And including such clients as Apple, Microsoft, Yahoo!, Visa, Pitney Bowes, Bell Mobility, Autodesk, Centre for Global eHealth Innovation. Always aiming to balance the needs of real users, with business goals and technological constraints, to make systems beyond “user friendly.” Ideally systems should be “invisible!” The only way to achieve that goal is to focus on users throughout system design – using demographic information and user research towards the development of personas, detailed user needs and scenarios, into system’s usability requirements, and prototyping and testing the design early and often with real users. System design that revolves around user needs and iterates cycles of design, user testing, and development can result in successful adoption, reduced total costs and improving users lives.
CIBC
Sr. Consultant, UX Research, CIBC Digital Strategy & Innovation,
Ilona worked at CIBC as a Sr. Consultant, UX Research, CIBC Digital Strategy & Innovation,
Rogers Communications
Sr Manager, User Experience Research, User Experience & Design
Overseeing UX Research initiatives and projects across Rogers Communications.
University of Toronto, Computer Science
Lecturer
Teaching graduate and undergraduate students in Computer Science, Medicine, Mechanical Industrial Engineering, and iSchool that "they are not the user!" Changing the eyes of technology-focused individuals by discovering new points-of-view using Design Thinking, User-Centered Design, User Research, Prototyping, Usability Testing, and iterating their work.
RBC
Sr. Consultant, RBC Digital, Mobile Strategy Design Research
Ilona worked at RBC as a Sr. Consultant, RBC Digital, Mobile Strategy Design Research
Education
University of Toronto
B.Sc.
Computer Science
University of Toronto
M. Sc.
Computer Science - Human Computer Interaction
RBC
Sr. Consultant, RBC Digital, Mobile Strategy Design Research
