Happy World Usability Day!
November 11, 2010
[MK] Melissa
Happy World Usability Day!
Not sure what WUD is? Here’s a great description from their website at http://www.worldusabilityday.org/
It’s about making our world work better.
It’s about “Making Life Easy” and user friendly. Technology today is too hard to use. A cell phone should be as easy to access as a doorknob. In order to humanize a world that uses technology as an infrastructure for education, healthcare, transportation, government, communication, entertainment, work and other areas, we must develop these technologies in a way that serves people first…
World Usability Day was founded in 2005 as an initiative of the Usability Professionals’ Association to ensure that services and products important to human life are easier to access and simpler to use. Each year, on the second Thursday of November, over 200 events are organized in over 43 countries around the world to raise awareness for the general public, and train professionals in the tools and issues central to good usability research, development and practice.
There are 5 partner events this year located in Dallas/Ft. Worth Texas; Tokyo, Japan; Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia; Independence, Ohio; and Edinburgh, Scotland. But there are many more events around the world!
Are you involved in any events for World Usability Day this year?
