Owner and Principal

Ron Perkins is the founding principal and owner of Design Perspectives, a firm specializing in usability testing and human-computer interaction design. He has created new methods for customer research including hybrid market research/usability testing, consumer product testing, and remote testing using the Internet for customer research on evolving Web sites.

Ron's resume shows 20 years of experience as a recognized expert in the field of human-computer interaction. He has spoken at national conferences, published papers and articles for the Association for Computing Machinery ACM SIGCHI, Interactions Magazine, Usability Professionals Association, and Human Factors and Ergonomics Society. He also contributed to the book "Usability in Practice", Academic Press, 1994.

As a researcher at AT&T New Media Services, he instituted a structured program to test prototype software under development as well as visit customers to determine their needs for interactive services.

He is skilled at moderating usability studies, expert reviews of interface designs, creating prototypes, and designing human interfaces to simplify complex interaction. In his spare time he enjoys sailboat racing, mountain biking, skiing, windsurfing, backpacking and playing with his various nieces and nephews.