November 13th 2008 - World Usability Day
“Making life easy!”

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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Highlights from World Usability Day 2007

Watch Bill Gates' address from World Usability Day 2007


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World Usability Day Updates
Live Webcast Will Close World Usability Day 2007 – Download Required in Advance
Posted: 08 November 2007 at 17:19

Please note: you must download the Microsoft Office Live Meeting Software prior to the webcast. We recommend that you download the software well in advance of the webcast. These instructions (.doc) will guide you through the process.

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!)  

To read and post more event highlights, go to the World Usability Day Community site

Opening Plenary is a Huge Success! Watch a Recording of the Session
Posted: 08 November 2007 at 16:49

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

At the login screen, enter your name. “Recording key” should be left blank.

For more highlights from World Usability Day 2007, check out the World Usability Day Community site

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Posted: 18 October 2007 at 16:57
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What is World Usability Day?

With over 210 events in 39 countries, this earth day style event promotes the value of user-centered design and every user's right to ask for things that work better. Find out more...

World Usability Day 2007 is sponsored by:

Adobe Apogee Avenue A | Razorfish Axure - Software Solutions

Constant Contact CWD Dell Different Solutions E Software - Partner With Confidence

Event Brite Exclusive Concepts FatDux - Designing Valuable User Experiences Human Factors International

Google Imc2 Intuit Microsoft User Research

Mitsue-Links Noldus OneSpring Ovo Studios - Usability Labs, Software & Services

PayPal Robert Wood Johnson Foundation SirValUse

Servigraphics TechSmith Texas Tech University - Distance Learning & Off-Campus Instruction

UC Berkeley - School of Information Usability Sciences Usability.ch - The Swiss Usability Center

VKI Studios - Web Usability & Internet Marketing Weber Shandwick Worldwide - Advocacy Starts Here