World Usability Day was founded to ensure that the services and products
important to life are easier to access and simpler to use.
This year's theme: Transportation.
Together let's explore how our health is impacted by design.
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Watch Bill Gates' address from World Usability Day 2007
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Our closing session, which will be webcast live on November 8th at 6:00 pm United States Eastern Standard Time (11:0 pm GMT!), will feature an address from Redmond, WA, entitled “Learnings from the Healthcare Industry: Trends, challenges and directions for best principles”. Microsoft’s Andrew Kirby and Linda Walmer talk about challenges and progress in this area, including what we can all do in the effort to create and apply best practices in this domain. Andrew Kirby is Director of the National Health Service Common User Interface project in Microsoft’s Solutions Development team in the UK. Linda Walmer is User Experience Director in the Health Solutions Group at Microsoft, located in Redmond, WA. (And Bill Gates even chimes in with a taped closing statement!)
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A live webcast plenary session to open World Usability Day 2007 in Boston has just wrapped up. You can watch a recording here: http://tinyurl.com/37p5zv
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