Founder of UI Group in BCS

By testing alternative button labels, menu titles, and other screen text, as I was creating doc, I  discovered that I could reduce the complexity of user-facing doc if I could persuade devs to make small changes. 

To explore these topics more, and to encourage developers to think about design,  I founded the User Interface Design group in the BCS. The group produced a quarterly journal, and met monthly, lasting from inception until  years after the BCS was disbanded. Others ran the group after I relocated to San Francisco.  I was the founder and the initial leader of the group.  This was the first BCS group founded 100% by women, and the 51st group. Our initial meeting was a standing room only crowd of 250, held on Lotus' campus in Cambridge. We hosted Margaret Menzies, of MIT Lab and Eric Holder of Leep Systems.