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Can We Use Consumer Power to Make Good Design Count?


How do we make Good Design so important to companies that they ensure that it is a component part of the product or service they are taking to market?
Part of the fallout from World Usability Day was a question raised by Jared Spool - Is World Usability Day Harmful for Practitioners? Part of this question [...]

Usability Man - The Video



Fun & Games (and a new superhero!) for World Usability Day!


There’s some cool stuff going on now for World Usability Day 2006 (14 November). In London today we’re particularly honoured to have Usability Man (pictured in action above) helping us out with our mission to identify good and bad usability throughout London. Read more about him on the MakingLifeEasy website, and check out the [...]

Making Life Easy for World Usability Day!


World Usability Day is 20 days out. Are you doing anything to celebrate?
If your work involves usability or user experience, you should be!
This is a great chance for us to make some noise and help spread the word that usability matters and that there are people like us who spend our time trying to make [...]

links for 18 October 2006


Sign the World Usability Day 2006 Charter
Technology today is too hard to use. A cell phone should be as easy-to-use as a doorknob. In order to humanize a world that uses technology as an infrastructure for education, healthcare, government, communication, entertainment, work, and other areas, ..
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World Usability Day - Planning Day in Sydney


World Usability Day fun continues. Here’s some more information about World Usability Day activities via an email from Clarissa Mattingly:
World Usability Day promotes the value of usability, user-centred design, and everyone’s desire for things that work better. This year, it will take place on Tuesday 14 November.
Over the course of 36 hours, [...]

alrighty! let’s start organising some usability shindigs!


OK. So right now you think that 14 November seems like ages away, but *really* you know it will be here before you know it. And you know what happens in November?! Yes, of course. World Usability Day. Hooray!
Now, we all love World Usability Day in the past, but this time I have a special [...]