Deborah J. Mayhew is an American educator and consultant in the field of software usability, usability engineering, and human–computer interaction.
She participated in the founding of SIGCHI and was a volunteer organizer at the first CHI conference in 1983.
[6] In 1994, Mayhew co-edited Cost-justifying Usability with Randolph Bias,[7][8] which was included on professor Gerald J. Alred's list of "essential works" on documentation and usability and described as "famous" by SIGCHI.
[9][3] In 2023, Mayhew received SIGCHI's Lifetime Practice Award.
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