Rosemary Bowden

Rosemary Bowden

Rosemary Bowden has specialised in usability since 1990. Her background includes a degree in Ergonomics (Loughborough University) and a range of business and computing experience.

Rosemary's work has generally involved defining a strategy for providing usability input to IT development and implementing the strategy by providing management and usability skills to support the client. Often this has included producing and delivering HCI education programmes to the project team.

Her areas of work have included both in-house and public facing systems, for traditional applications and e-commerce - B2B and B2C. She has experience of usability reviews and user testing of prototypes, products and applications running on a wide variety of platforms.

She has worked for clients including all the major UK banks, Standard Chartered Bank - Hong Kong, Reuters - London, Frankfurt, and Zurich, Thomson Financial Services, The Employment Service, Daewoo, Ladbroke Racing Ltd, London Underground Ltd and The British Library.

Rosemary worked for CMG Admiral (1995-2001) as a Senior Usability Consultant. Previously, she was a consultant at the National Physical Laboratory (1990-95), initially focusing on research into methods for measuring usability, and later applying those methods in commercial product development throughout Europe.

Rosemary can be contacted via Performance By Design.