For the first time in UAE, a group of enthusiasts will meet to discuss Usability and Design topics over a BBQ;  UAE will take part in celebrating the 5th anniversary of World Usability Day on Thursday November 12, 2009

El próximo 18 de Noviembre, Buenos Aires será una de las ciudades que participará de los festejos por el Día Mundial de la Usabilidad.

Día de la Usabilidad en Buenos Aires, organizado por UPA Argentina.

Austrian World Usability Day

World Usability Day Vienna, Austria 2009

World Usability Day BBQ

UsabilityOne will be hosting a free World Usability Day BBQ on World Usability Day in the South Melbourne office starting at 4pm on November 12th 2009. We would love to see you there! UsabilityOne staff and other usability interested people will be there to mingle with. Please rsvp to email@UsabilityOne.com to attend the event.

www.usabilityone.com

Thursday 12th November from 3pm to 8pm

The Blacket Hotel, Level 3, 70 King St (corner of King & George St) in the Sydney CBD.

We have a range of speakers, interactive sessions and discussions (full details to be provided soon). Entry to the event is free.

Complimentary drinks and nibbles will be provided thanks to sponsorship from Westpac & CHISIG.

What would it take to get out of your car?

In honour of the theme of transportation, which brings focus to the design of user friendly forms of transport, transport systems, processes and infrastructure, the Usability Professionals Association (UPA) Sydney Chapter have asked the question “What would it take to get you out of your car?".

Brenda Kingston of Advanced Environmental and David Bird of Vision Design will be presenting their design approach of incorporating usable controls and interfaces in integrated sustainable design solutions.

Visit the Monash University Accident Research Centre (MUARC) in Clayton (Melbourne).

Simple Change Big Impact

UsabilityOne has set up a website competition titled Simple Change Big Impact.

http://www.simplechangebigimpact.com/

What simple change have you made (as an individual or organisation), that has had a big impact? Feel free to throw ideas at us, no matter how silly or small you may think they are.
 

We have a wonderfull facility for hundreds of person ready for an evening to celebrate this usability Day. We have already few nice conference and speaker ready to share experiences on experience design & Usability. Anyone wanting to make a keynote is more than welcome. More info on www.usabilityday.be

Human Interface Group makes Belgium more efficient

Employees lose as much as 17 hours a week due to unefficient technology!

On November 12^th, Human Interface Group wants to help Belgian companies making their technology more efficient and more profitable.

Win your Standby Guy through www.standbyguy.be

World Usability Day 13th of November.

u-sentric will bring some inspiration on a hot topic :

"The challenge of Happy Users"

 The world usability day in Bulgaria 2009 is a full-day seminar. The main theme is the challenges before IT professionals in providing solutions helping to maintain a sustainable world. Experts in usability and design share their experience and knowledge. 

O Curso de Pós-Graduação em Design de Interação do IEC / PUC Minas, em parceria com a Latitude14 organizam o evento em Belo Horizonte.

Com palestras e workshops, o evento - gratuito - visa divulgar a necessidade de trabalharmos a concepção de produtos e sistemas interativos de forma sustentável e eficiente.

O Dia Mundial da Usabilidade de Curitiba tem como objetivo discutir técnicas e metodologias de usabilidade e design de interação com pesquisadores, profissionais, estudantes e a comunidade. O evento criará uma rede com os outros locais do WUD no Brasil procurando desenvolver uma sinergia nos debates.

Segunda edição do evento em Manaus.

O evento local é promovido através do Instituto Nokia de Tecnologia (INdT – www.indt.org.br) e  da Associação de Designers de Interação (IxDA – www.ixda.org) Grupo Local Manaus, que será anunciado e iniciado no dia do evento e conta com apoio da Associação de Designers do Amazonas - ADAM.

Dia 13 de Novembro, a partir das 14 hs.

Acesse: www.wud-rs.com.br e faça sua inscrição!

Dia da Usabilidade - Recife 2008

O World Usability Day 2008 é comemorado no Centro Universitário da FEI com palestras e debate dos temas que relacionam transporte, automóveis e usabilidade. O objetivo do encontro é produzir um relatório com iniciativas que colaboram com o meio ambiente na diminuição da emissão de carbono. 

O IHCeará tem o prazer e a honra de anunciar o World Usability Day (WUD) em Fortaleza. Diversos profissionais, pesquisadores e demais interessados estarão reunidos e trocando experiências sobre o projeto de produtos e serviços focados no ser humano. Além de apresentações de casos, será abordada a usabilidade no cotidiano das pessoas e como o mercado e academia cearenses estão posicionados nesse contexto.

Para programação e demais informações, visite www.ihceara.org.

O Dia Mundial da Usabilidade de Belo Horizonte é um evento que tem como objetivo principal apresentar e discutir teorias, métodos e técnicas de usabilidade e design centrado no usuário com profissionais, pesquisadores e a comunidade.

O Dia Mundial da Usabilidade de Belo Horizonte é um evento da UPA e tem como objetivo principal apresentar e discutir teorias, métodos e técnicas de usabilidade e design centrado no usuário com profissionais, pesquisadores e a comunidade.

O Dia Mundial da Usabilidade de Curitiba, tem como objetivo discutir técnicas e metodologias de usabilidade e design de interação com pesquisadores, profissionais, estudantes e a comunidade em geral. O evento de Curitiba participará de uma rede com os outros locais do WUD no Brasil procurando desenvolver uma sinergia nos debates.
O WUD Curitiba 2009 conta com o apoio do Instituto Faber-Ludens, Universidade Positivo, IxDA Curitiba e UxNET Curitiba. 

Pelo terceiro ano consecutivo realizaremos no Rio de Janeiro o evento dedicado a usabilidade. O tema transporte será discutido com a presença de profissionais envolvidos com projetos de soluções para a cidade.

Sacola não pode ser um saco!

Estudo de usabilidade e pesquisa de campo sobre sacolas reutilizáveis

Estudo internacional sobre parquímetros realizado em 9 países

O tema do WUD deste ano é Design para um mundo Sustentável, e a UPA São Paulo está organizando a edição paulista.

The first WUD in Belarus.

First open World Usability Day will be held on November 14th in Minsk, Belarus. The event will highlight the topics of interface prototyping, usability and user-centered design methodology. We expect 300+ participants, most of them are designers, IAs, project managers, programmers and students.

http://wud.usability.by/

More to come soon. Visit www.utilisabilitequebec.org

CapCHI, Akendi and Macadamian Usability present an Ottawa World Usability event featuring local experts in the area of designing for a sustainable world. Keynote presentation by David Berman. Snacks and drinks will be provided. A trip to a local pub will follow the event.

Design@IBM:  Usability Challenges of Building Smarter Cities

Join us for a webcast, hosted by Karel Vredenburg (IBM User Experience Design Program Director), in celebration of World Usability Day's theme of "Designing for Sustainability".  John C. Thomas (IBM Research Scientist) will present "The Usability Challenges of Building Smarter Cities".  November 12th, 2009 from 12 - 1:30 p.m. ET

In keeping with the theme of transportation, the User Experience Practice at Bell | District will be conducting a large-scale online card sort of pictographic road signs used for the identification of tourism sites in Quebec.  ***Participate now at http://websort.net/s/78DFD1/ (English) or http://websort.net/s/C0DCB7/ (French)***

Sunup to sundown design slam where a group of Vancouver UX professionals will team up with an urban community garden to help them do more of the good work they do.

Is your website realizing its potential? How do you know? Enquiro is hosting a website usability clinic for local Kelowna businesses.

The WUD 2009 activity was a hands-on tactile design activity. We had 4 teams participating in the prototype design on the Wednesday, and then on Thursday we had 4 volunteer usability testers and 4 judges evaluate the "systems". The winner was announced on the Friday, and was selected based on judge ratings and test data outcomes.

It was fun for all involved... looking forward to next year!!

Sage's UCD team will host an extreme design showdown on the topic of “Transportation” . Using UCD processes, each team will race against the clock during the lunch hour to develop the most useful, usable and desirable design!  Winners will be announced on Nov 14^that noon.

UPDATE - This event will be webcast:

http://www.ustream.tv/channel/think-usability-webcasting

Presentations, from ~5:00 pm - 6:10 pm Atlantic!

Come discuss how to apply best-practices in contextual navigation strategies to increase productivity, conversions and engagement.

Producers of braille, large print, and audio accessible formats offering a World Usability Day quiz and draw for a free iPod throughout the month of November.

Free webinar on the design and use of context-sensitive navigation based on top task management techniques.

Neo Insight offer FREE, confidential 1-hour expert Customer Experience reviews on World Usability Day - Nov 12th

Three presentations: Human Factors issues in Driving; Transit Camp Experience, Designing for Seriors' Mobility details at www.torchi.org

Steve Easterbrook 

How do we make climate science usable? Unless we do this, journalists, politicians and the public will be unable to judge whether proposed policy solutions are viable, and unable to distinguish sound science from misinformation. I will illustrate the talk with some suggestions of how we might meet this goal.

Usable Climate Science

The Swiss UPA meets Transportation

SVOX, the leading provider of embedded speech solutions, will host the SVOX Forum 2008 in Zürich on November 12 to 14. The traditional annual event will again bring together key automotive and mobile experts active in the area of embedded speech and human-machine interfaces.

Zeix lädt ein, den Welt Usability Tag in Zürich am Stauffacher zu verbringen.

5. World Usability Day - Nachhaltigkeit nutzergerecht gestalten

Telono is happy to invite you to World Usability Day 2009 in Geneva!

 Join us on Thursday the 12th of November at Hotel Bristol to participate in World Usability Day 2009. This year, the event will have two parts:

1. Usability training courses in the afternoon, at a reasonable cost;
2. Presentations by invited speakers and our traditional apéro (FREE).

Telono welcomes you to World Usability Day 2008!

Join us at Swissôtel Métropole on November 13 from 5pm to attend inspiring talks by usability professionals and to network at our traditional apéro!

Software Usability: Points of View

Pontificia Universidad Catolica de Valparaiso (Escuela de Ingenieria Informatica, the UseCV Research Group) organizes the seminar “Software Usability: Research Field in Pontificia Universidad Catolica de Valparaiso”. It will present recent researches on applied software usability at Pontificia Universidad Catolica de Valparaiso.

WUD 2009 is only one day before the 6th annual conference of UPA China, User Friendly 2009-Design For Asia. Also the UPA President, Vice President and the founder of WUD will all attend the UPA China conference.With the expected 500 conference participants, we will make the kickoff event great success and fun! We look forward to your attention and participation!

Evento Teórico por el Día Mundial de la Usabilidad. La Habana. Cuba

Main theme for the Prague WUD are case studies.

Registration and details (in Czech) are here: http://praguewud2008.eventbrite.com/

see http://worldusabilityday.de/groups/aachen

 To follow soon

Designing for a Sustainable World

Planlos Verlagsgesellschaft, a German publishing house, has launched a display design challenge for Spiesser — Germany’s most circulated teen magazine for 14~25-year-olds:
http://www.wettbewerb.planlos-verlag.de/

The regional event of World Usability Day 2009 for the Rhine-Rhur area is hosted again at FH Düsseldorf, university of applied sciences, with talks and discussions

Die Veranstaltung findet am 13. November 2008, 16:00 - 20:00 am Fachbereich Medien der FH Düsseldorf statt. Mehr Informationen: http://www.worldusabilityday.de/rhein-ruhr/index.html

The World Usability Day in Hamburg in 2009 focusses on sustainability and user experience. We are particularly interested in broadening our horizon by looking beyond bits and bytes into the real world.

The detailed program can be found on the German UPA website für the Hamburg WUD:
http://worldusabilityday.de/hamburg

Das Programm ist noch in Planung und wird ab Anfang September auf http://www.worldusabilityday.de/hamburg/index.html veröffentlicht.

Auch in diesem Jahr finden in Hannover anlässlich des World Usability Day's spannende Vorträge, Aktionen und fachlicher Austausch statt. Referenten aus Wissenschaft und Praxis sorgen dabei für eine abwechslungsreiche Mischung.

The world usability day in Munich presents a lecture programme with a lot of sessions about the topic transportation and traffic. Speakers from leading companies of this business will refer about the actual state of usability in their business.

Details in German can be found on the local webite:

www.worldusabilityday.de/muenchen

The Stuttgart event "Tag der Benutzungsfreundlichkeit" will demonstrate that usability does pay off in design and development. Attractive exhibits, events, presentations, and discussions show the principles and products of usability and user centered design for the public as well as for potential customers and business partners. This year the experience parc offers hands-on experience and demos.

The Cooperative Media Lab will open its doors and invites everybody to come and see some interesting demos of cooperative and ubiquitous systems--based on human-centred computing principles.

The Cooperative Media Lab will open its doors and invites everybody to come and see some interesting demos of cooperative and ubiquitous systems--based on human-centred computing principles.

In Berlin dreht sich dieses Jahr alles um Usability im Web 2.0. Einen Tag lang werden in verschiedenen Sessions Vorträge, Workshops und andere Aktionen angeboten, um sich näher über Usability für das Web 2.0 zu informieren.

• WUD Berlin Startseite
• Community & Anmeldung

Programm siehe http://www.worldusabilityday.de/wiesbaden

The WUD in Aachen will be organized by P3-Solutiions in cooperation with the Media Computing Group of the RWTH Aachen (University). We will look into the theme "Transportation" as a wide field. Whether freight or person, on rails, roads or in the air. We have organized a day of dissertations and workshops featuring two major keynotes.

Our theme is "Transportation of Knowledge" which is an adoption of this years theme "Transportation". We will adress issues of usability in learning and teaching.

Auf dem Programm stehen wieder spannende Vorträge, Workshops sowie anknüpfend an die letzten Jahre, wieder eine "Usability-Lounge" in angenehmer Atmosphäre und mit interassenten Gesprächen.

TRANSPORTATION has a high impact for the entire population and the earth, itself. Various trends greatly influence how we personally get or transport things from one place to another. This influences the way we lead our lives and the environment in which we live.  

www.ecolibrium2009.com
A Holistic Approach to Sustainable Life through Social Engagement, Design, Business, Technology and Well Being.

In the Cultural Usability project we investigate methods for evaluation of systems usability for these new cultural dependent contexts. Focus of the project is on usability tests in China, India and Denmark. The project have been running for a couple of years now and we are ready to present the result of the scientific investigations and the experiences found in practice.

Sustainable Usability Design and Policy for Drug Users

DUGNAD gathers architects, craftsmen, chefs, social workers, locals, PR-workers, psychologists, designers, artists, sociologists, drug users, students, volunteers and politicians to participate in a 12 hours usability day concerning drug users' needs.

Ülemaailmne kasutatavuse päev Eestis juba teist aastat.

Astu läbi ja võta osa! Osavõtt on tasuta.

Trinidad Consulting , Tramm (Mihkel Uukkivi) and Altex Marketing are presenting you First World Usability Day in Estonia. Event is in Estonian.

ITWorx is Celebrating the World Usability Day!

World Usability Day at ITWorx will include a couple of presentations from our usability experts about this year theme "Designing for a Sustainable World".

This online event will show the typical transactions using the ticket machine interface.

A series of papers at the MAST conference

 The annual conference and trade-show for global maritime security and defence leaders.

The conferences of 5th Usability Day have one thing in common: the eyes. The inaugural conference, organized by Laura Ruel will present eyetracking technology. Day will continue with conferences about different aspects to aesthetics and web analytics

Cadius Pamplona, Club de Marketing and Students of the Web 2.0 Innovation Course has organiced this journey in which many people will talk about usability in the city, in our own lifes, or in our jobs. How a good user experience can chage our point of view of a product?

The WUD event in Jyvaskyla will be held in the spirit of global concern - local impact, dedicated to creating a forum where various stakeholders in the field meet and exchange experiences and ideas. The event particularly intends to attract representatives from industry, and the official language will be Finnish. It consits of short talks, a poster session, and a panel discussion.

 Savonia University of Applied Sciences organizes World Usability Day for the third time. R&D&I cluster for industrial design gives our students a usability training and a briefs them to visit local companies. The students will go through the Usability Day's agenda in the companies and perform usability testing in small scale.

Event will discuss the possibilities of design for all and usability in transportation.

The conference

Eyes on User Experience

is no ordinary conference, it's rather a hybrid between a creative brainstorm, intensive networking, entertainment, and a regular conference.

Eyes on UX

provides opportunities to exchange ideas, find exactly the people you will benefit from networking with, and at the same time give you a stimulating experience in terms of conference content, innovative features, and an entertaining environment.

Vous en avez assez des conférences monotones, des présentations traditionnelles distantes, et des sessions de questions / réponses inaudibles ou expédiées par manque de temps... ce nouveau format de conférence est fait pour vous ! Le programme c'est VOTRE programme et plus encore...

Nous organisons cette année, autour d'un ensemble de présentations, un tour d'horizon des différentes application d'une approche ergonomique dans les sytèmes embarqués.

 Quatrième édition de la Journée Mondiale de l'Utilisabilité : Interfaces riches et utilisabilité.

En partenariat avec Adobe, le groupe SQLI organise un Open Space Usability le 12 novembre. La thématique générale de cette année sera : les RIA, quels impacts en terme d'ergonomie, de méthodes et de ROI.

You can tell your website or your SaaS is not doing too well, but since it can't speak for itself, you need to see a web GP. On WUD 2009, I open my mailbox to you.

Vous avez l'impression que votre site ne va pas très bien, comme s'il couvait quelque chose... Envoyez-moi son URL et je ferai un diagnostic rapide, avec une petite ordonnance aussi.

LudoTIC and the association Use Age are glad to annonce the French World Usability Day! The event will be held in Sophia Antipolis, in the INRIA office. Oral presentations, workshops and a cocktail to discuss and exchange about human factors and Usability in Transportation.

LudoTIC is proud to invite you to join us for the World Usability Day in Sophia Antipolis

This year we organise a Round Table and a "Petit Déjeuner" to discuss about Usability and Design for a Sustainable World.

Hereafter you will find a more precise description in French

The University Research Institute of Applied Communication and the Laboratory of New Technologies in Communication, Education and the Mass Media of the University of Athens will organize for the third time in a row the Usability and Accessibility Days, which this year will be celebrated in a two-day event at the Apollo Multicentre of the Piraeus Prefecture on the 11th and 12th of November 2009.

Usability & Accessibility Days 2008

In support of World Usability Day on Transport, UPA HK has invited Octopus, Hong Kong’s pioneering transport and small payment card, to share how a focus on simple usability for both cardholders and the transport operators contributed to its success.

In support of World Usability Day on Transport, UPA HK has invited Octopus, Hong Kong’s pioneering transport and small payment card, to share how a focus on simple usability for both cardholders and the transport operators contributed to its success -- http://www.usability.com.hk/event3_2008.htm

Az Használhatósági Világnapot ünnepeld együtt olyan emberekkel, akik a szoftver vagy a webes ergonómia területén dolgoznak, vagy pusztán csak vonzalmat éreznek a működőképes dolgok iránt.

New User Testing Facility Opens in Dublin

iQ Content (http://www.iqcontent.com) are celebrating World Usability Day with the launch of our very own user testing facility - the iQ Studio.

On Thursday, November 13th, Dublin web consultancy iQ Content Ltd will send a message to the nation’s top transport websites with The Great iQ User Test.

Click H.I.T!  is a digital camera-phone web based team usability scavenger hunt, created for celebrating WUD 2008 in Israel by Dr. Hanan Gazit. The game will be played as part of the cademic course: “Virtual Worlds and Video Games for learning” at the  H.I.T- Holon Institute of Technology, Israel.

 This event is part of World Usability 2008, a worldwide day long event promoting awareness of the benefits of usability engineering and user-centered design. This year the focus is on transportation. There will be food, interesting presentations, and a chance to talk with professionals in Usability and the User Experience field.

Various events intended to raise awareness for Usability throughout Amdocs. This is led by the design and services team within Amdocs.

Planning to create Usability awareness within our organization.

Gurgaon World Usability Day 2009

Makemytrip Gurgaon will be hosting World usability Day event on Nov 27th, 2009 at the Gurgaon office(Haryana, India).

World Usability Day'08 in India

It gives us great pleasure to introduce UMO : : World Usability Day2008- a national conference on Desiging for User Experience, an event that makes a difference in so many peoples lives by changing the way they live, work and do business.

Date: 21Nov, Friday 4pm to 7pm
On the occasion of WUD we will be hosting a series of talks on Usability from 4pm to 8pm. Feel free to contact us if you are interested to volunteer or make a presentation.

World Usability Day 2009- India: Hyderabad

WUD – UMO2009
UsabilityMatters.Org, UMO herewith invites all those who are playing their part both actively and passively in 'Making it Easy'. UMO organized a string of activities along the timeline to 12th November 2009 to mark the World Usability Day'09.

• Venue: Yahoo! Campus, Embassy Golf Links, Inner Ring Road (http://bangalore.yahoo.com)
• Date: 29th November, 2008
• Time: 10:00 am to 4:00 pm

UPA Bangalore will be hosting the 4th World Usability day event in Bangalore on Nov 21, 2009 at the Yahoo Bangalore campus. This event has been postponed from Nov 14 because of the Yahoo CEO Carol Bartz's visit to Bangalore at the same time.

To register for WUD Bangalore 2009, please go to http://www.upabangalore.in/mwiki/mediawiki-1.15.1/index.php?title=WUD_Bangalore_2009

SVEF, Iceland's Organization of Web Professionals, is hosting Iceweb 2008, an international 2-day conference on Web & Online business, November 13-14 2008.

The conference heading is Change, chosen for its relevance to the web industry - websites are both an ever changing and constant project, and web professionals are themselves ever initiating and adapting to changes in the field.

LudoTIC and SRLabs are proud to invite you to join us for the celebration of World Usability Day in Milano!

During this day we'll propose conferences, a round table, stands and discussions about Usability and Sustainability.

Hereafter a larger description (in italian) 

World Usability Day Event will be held in Japan by the International Department of the HCD-Net.

Live Streaming:  http://www.ustream.tv/channel/wud2008japan

HCD-Net holds an WUD event in Tokyo. (World Usability Day 2009 Japan)

Place: TEPIA, 2-8-44 Kita Aoyama, Minato-ku, Tokyo 107-0061

Date: November 11th, 2009

Time: 14:00 - 18:00

Party: 18:30-20:30 @ Sign Gaienmae

Sponsored by DESIGN IT!

Usability experts at Idea Code dedicate November 11 to researching ease and convenience of using Tokyo public transportation. This event is carried out with the purpose of contributing useful examples of sustainable design in public transportation to the international community. 

Usability experts at Idea Code dedicate November 12 to researching ease and convenience of using Seoul public transportation. This event is carried out with the purpose of contributing useful examples of sustainable design in public transportation to the international community.

Por cuarto año consecutivo, el UsaLab presenta el Día Mundial de Usabilidad.  Para este año celebraremos desde la Cd de Mérida, Yucatán, sede del Congreso Latinoamericano de Interacción Humano-Computadora, así como eventos por confirmar en la universidad.

Además, se dará seguimiento a los equipos en formación hacia el Student Design Competition 2010.

La Universidad Tecnológica de la Mixteca, a través de su Laboratorio de Usabilidad, UsaLab, organiza su segundo día mundial de usabilidad.  

 Parking meters, need change?

an International Study by the UXalliance

See the video to follow their example!

User Intelligence will release a short video in which its employees compete to find the most practical and easiest ways to make their office more sustainable.

In their quest for ‘more green’, they will not fear to share their professional opinions about the usability and user experience of Sustainability Providers with an online offering! 

Come check it out!

Over de hele wereld wordt op 13 november a.s. aandacht besteed aan Usability. Ook TEMPEL organiseert in zijn prachtige pand in Haarlem een interessante lezing en netwerkborrel. De middag staat in het teken van de toegevoegde waarde van Interaction Design en User Interface Ontwerp in ICT-projecten.

 In the period from September 15 to November 1, students at Norwegian universities are challenged by an assignment where they should combine design for a sustainable world with usability. The assignment will be design oriented, addressing design students as well as computer science students.

Today we ask all the users of our systems to contribute to our work on improving usability.

Åpen konkurranse med flott premie. Konkurransen er knyttet opp mot årets tema: brukervennlighet og transport.

 In the period from September 15 to November 1, students at Norwegian universities have been challenged by an assignment where they should combine design for a sustainable world with usability (see separate WUD 2009 event). At this conference, the winner will be acclaimed after the theme for this year's WUD has been discussed in a number of short presentations.

Do you have a story to share? Check our website for more info:
http://www.dnd.no/-mwJHGXg.ips

Contact the organizers in Norway at:
wudnorge@gmail.com

What: World Usability Day Sustainable Design Presentation – combined UPA and Optimal Usability event

The Talk: "Sustainability starts with you & finishes with your customers"

Please note this event is invite only. You can contact the organiser to be included in any future UPA Auckland events.

World Usability Day breakfast - 13 November 2008

Many of our customers have asked about World Usability Day and the mysterious bundle that we casually mentioned in an email newsletter.  With the pressure on, we thought we better do something after all.

So we're having the first ever World Usability Day one day sale!

World Usability Day breakfast - 13 November 2008

Cocktail Party to Celebrate World Usability Day

El Día Mundial de la Usabilidad fue fundado el 2005 como una iniciativa de la Asociación de Profesionales de la Usabilidad para asegurar que los servicios y productos importantes para la vida del hombre sean fáciles de emplear. Cada año, en el segundo jueves de noviembre, más de 200 eventos son organizados a nivel mundial.

Charlas y talleres sobre usabilidad web en la Universidad Ricardo Palma, Lima - Perú

Conferences and workshops about Web Usability at Universidad Ricardo Palma, Lima - Peru

Design/Sustain is a half-day series of talks from experts from the academe and industry in the Philippines that focuses on initiatives on usability and sustainability. 

This event is organized by the Adobe User Group - Philippines and the UST Information Systems Society.

World Usability Day 2008 in Manila will feature talks on usability, with focus on more practical cases.

 This event is being held to commemorate World Usability Day 2009 (http://www.worldusabilityday.org). This year's theme for World Usability Day is "Designing for Sustainable World" where the focus is to look into how we can create products and services that are, not only useful and easy-to-use, but are also sustainable and have a socially responsible approach from a South Asian perspective.

The Interaction Design Center (IxDC) is organizing World Usability Day 2008 on Thursday, November 13, 2008, in Lahore at UMT. For more information and to register online, please visit  www.ixdc.org/events.htm (limited seats available). Entry is FREE and open to the public.

Basic principles of creating websites based on examples from airline industry. Navigation issues and usability testing will be discussed and examples of airline websites will be shown.

For the second time Making Waves Polska will be celebrating World Usability Day!

As a members of UPA, we would like to encourage polish business to obey usability principles on Internet platform. Not only will we introduce the basic usability terms but also answer frequently asked questions and display video films from usability tests.

Let's meet at Warsaw Usability Day!

We'll talk about usability and user experience of local transportation systems. Guests include designers, information architects, local communities representatives and more. Please visit WarsawUsabilityDay.pl and register today!

Usability Tour 2009 is a series of 4 consecutive events in 4 major polish cities starting 4 days before the World Usability Day. We'll be promoting the importance of designing usable products among students and industry.

Janmedia Interactive invites you to the World Usablility Day in Wrocław. Second time in Poland. Seminars & Workshops for everyone who wants to find out more about UX & get some practice! Want to register? - visit our site (available soon)!

"Usabilidade nos Transportes" (Usability in Transportation) is a website aimed at collecting feedback from the general public about which technologies are harming or helping their daily commute.

On 13th November the world celebrates the Usability Day!

The Usability Page Team believes this date should be celebrated, so in a co-iniciative with the Special Interest Group in Informatics of Engineering Faculty at University of Porto (NI AEFEUP), we will organize a conference about Usability.

Fórum sobre acessibilidade nos Transportes para pessoas com mobilidade condicionada

El Día de la Usabilidad, se celebrará el viernes 14 de noviembre a partir de la 18.30 Hs. en el Paseo Comuneros, calle peatonal que esta ubicada entre la Sede Central de la Universidad Católica y la Catedral de Asunción. El evento no es un seminario ni charla magistral, el evento es una celebración (música electrónica y citruska) también se expondrán fotografías y audiovisuales.

La journée mondiale de l’Utilisabilité va trouver un écho à Saint Joseph de l’Ile de la Réunion. La Mairie de Saint Joseph et tous ses partenaires proposeront une journée de conférences qui mettront en évidence les enjeux que représentent l’accessibilité pour les populations ainsi que pour les acteurs économiques régionaux.

Russian WUD will include numerous reports, interactions, exhibitions.

This event is organized by the ACM RusCHI (http://sigchi.ru )

Official page of this event: http://wud.ru

One day conference with online-broadcast (webinars) conducting by Russian usability communities: UPA Russia, RusCHI, ErgoPro, UX Russia.

UsabilityLab conducts Open Day. We will demostrate whole usability testing cycle, discuss the results and issues of UT.

Online webinar on World Usability Day - 2009 conducting by Russian usability communities: UPA Russia, RusCHI, ErgoPro, UX Russia. First part will be presented by Aaron Marcus, President, Aaron Marcus and Associates, Inc., Berkeley, California, USA. He reports on the Green Machine, a prototype iPhone application that is designed to persuade users to save home energy use. Second part will be announce of WUD conference on November, 14.

Online-reviews kiosks at Moscow train stations. Discussing problems, and finding solutions. Weninar is on Russian. See webinar home page

User Experience Russia 2008 is the 2nd international professional usability conference which will take place from October 29 to November 1, 2008, Moscow

Official website: www.userexp.ru

Exhibition and web cast presentation of "unusable" products. Design students present findings and solutions.

Design for a sustainable world. Design students and designers in Sweden are invited to find an example of a product or service with bad usability and bad sustainability. Analyze why and redesign it for better usability and sustainability.

We are holding a design contest to investigate human centered design within the context of the The Natural Step's four system conditions for sustainability.

Learn more at http://karlskronachallenge.org/

An exciting WUD-event is planned in Karlstad, Sweden. Five speakers will lead presentations on the theme "Usability" and "Design for a sustainable world". The event starts in the afternoon and ends later in the evening at a local pub in central Karlstad. The event will be a good opportunity to establish new contacts and get a chance to talk with professionals in the field of usability. The event is free!

A full day on usability and sustainable design. We have a close look at what we can learn from previous success cases/projects/products. The afternoon is centred round the main theme, designing for a sustainable world, with 3 parallel tracks.

Breakfast meeting at Kulturhuset, Stockholm. A selected panel of experts will debate about the future of the Internet and how this affects usability.

An afternoon filled with seminars on usability. Three main topics: UX, Web and Agile. The event is free!

Note: This is an Ericsson Internal Event.

World Usability Day at Ericsson will include a variety of presentations from people working hands on with User Experience within different parts of Ericsson.

Design competition: create a new transport solution to an existing usability problem!

The Centre for Sustainable Communications contributes to World Usability Day with a seminar presenting current research. Jorge Zapico and Åsa Moberg  discuss different examples of how ICT can be used to save the environment and combat climate change.

The seminar is open to everyone but due to limited space registration is required.

A breakfast seminar on the topic design for sustainability.

Wellcome to a relaxed discussion around usability in the everyday life. Please feel free to bring your own examples. It can be a picture, a thing or a story that you think is a good or bad example of usability. Or maybe a problem or a clever solution.

Welcome to a short inspirational seminar about how usability may help to form a sustainable society. One example might be how usability finally will bring the paperless office.

Coffee will be served.

The ASUS Design Singapore User Experience team will visit the Singapore Polytechnic School of Design to celebrate the World Usability Day.

Our objective is to introduce the students to the basic concepts of Usability and discuss the importance of "making things easier".

During the second part of the day, the students will get a chance to build and apply quick evaluation techniques for product design.

World Usability Day: Designing for a Sustainable World

It's about making our world work better. It's about "Making Life Easy" and user friendly. Each year, over 200 events are organized in over 43 countries to celebrate WUD.

This two-hour seminar will introduce Thai audiences to usability practices. Guest speakers who are usability experts will discuss the general overview of user-centered system development. This event is organized by UsableLabs, Prince of Songkla University, Thailand.

In the first part of the event, after basic information about usability and user-centered design, a discussion on the relationship between sustainability and usability will be held.  In the second part of the event, one of the most famous usability techniques, namely heuristic evaluation, will be discussed and web page samples will be systematically scanned for usability problems ...

"Seminar: A half-day course on usability" organized by NANObiz

• What is usability? A brief overview;
• Who may benefit from usability studies?
• Ways to transform a development process into a successful user-centered design project;
• Applications in various industries;
• How to promote usability in an organization...
  
   

 First WUD Event in Istanbul

Sticker Action in Taiwan - "Earth-Centered Design"
"用設計撐起地球"大串聯 - 宣揚以地球為中心的永續設計

Come to User-lab at Birmingham Institute of Art and Design to discuss your web site with usability researchers and professionals. We're offering a free consultation of up to 1/2 an hour over a cup of tea and biscuits - just drop in any time between 12 and 9pm and we'll discuss any usability issues relating to your site, hopefully leaving you itching to try out some different ideas.

Cogapp competition for UK charities and environmental organisations launches on World Usability Day.

An informal session offering free advice, help and support for websites or any project that could be more user-focused.

We're offering free advice, help and support for websites or indeed any project that could be more user-focused.

If you have a website that you think could be more user-friendly, want a job in user experience or just want to chat about the latest thinking in usability come along and talk to some of the leading usability consultants in the South West.

User Vision are delighted to announce that we will once again be celebrating World Usability Day and invite you to join us. Our unique event is called A trip through the user experience and has been specifically designed to highlight usability and accessibility across a variety of platforms.

Foviance is hosting an engaging User Experience day which will show how specific methods and techniques can be used to enhance your client’s business objectives.

With a wealth of knowledge into human-computer interaction, psychology, technology and usability, Foviance will show you how these tools can be applied to your real-world solutions and how they can best serve you and your clients.

The UK UPA is proud to be hosting an event at LBi. We will be holding a poster competition well as having a series of talks.

Visit the System Concepts website on World Usability Day.  Watch our interviews with Ben Shneiderman, John Thackara and other key figures in the world of design and usability, and take part in our worldwide sustainable design survey.

Displays, interactive fun and sandwiches.

World Usability Day Webinar

Come and join the UK UPA to celebrate this year's World Usability Day.

Join fhios lead research consultants Dr Martin Hicks and Erdeniz Hassan for this exclusive webinar on agile usability.

In support of World Usability Day on 12 November 2009, Cogapp, the user experience and digital media company, is launching a competition for UK charities and environmental organisations. The competition opens on 12 November and closes 26 November – entrants must write a brief summary of how their organisation could benefit from this website usability MOT and send it to UXcomp@cogapp.com. The winner will be notified by 10 December.

Cimex is sharing their experience in the field of Usability and Accessibility at this year's World Usability Day.

This is an opportunity to share knowldege  - case studies - our services, our labs and usability devices.

System Concepts, supported by the Department for Transport and the Ergonomics Society, is hosting Open House Accessibility Testing followed by a seminar - Navigating the Future with Geographic Information Systems to celebrate World Usability Day 2008.

After three successful World Usability Day events in recent years, User Vision are delighted to announce that on Thursday 12th November 2009, we will be hosting another great event at our Edinburgh office.

Bunnyfoot are providing their services free for charities in the sustainability arena in conjunction with World Usability Day.

Ascendant will promote World Usability Day by engaging their customers and employees in a remote usability testing activity.

Mary Theofanis and Brian Stanton of NIST discuss the new usability requirements toolkit called CISUR ("Scissor") - the Common Industry Specification for Usability Requirements.  Check out World Usability Day on GovGab.gov, the USA.gov blog.

Go to Webcontent.gov for information on how to get free training in Plain Language and use our Usbility+Plain Language Resources.

The UXalliance will celebrate World Usability Day 2009 by unveiling the results of the first Global-Local Monitor for Airlines.

Arizona UPA (AZUPA) - Phoenix World Usability Day Event

A joint UPA-World Usability Day event is planned for the Phoenix area. The event will take place at the Art Institute of Phoenix from 6-9 p.m. Refreshments and Hors D'Oeurves will be served.

The event will feature presentations on transportation usability and local community usability efforts.

Tucson World Usability Day at IBM on November 12th will include a variety of hands-on activities, highlighting both the successes and challenges of usability in hardware, software, and everyday items.

Green User Experience meets UX Book Club on World Usability Day! This event is a kick off meeting of these two collaborating associations dedicated to fostering an environment to discuss sustainable design and society.

We will assist Los Angeles consumers with an evaluation and recomendations on dysfunction issues, such as cialis online

 Watch live usability tests or participate in the challenge of the Alarm Clock Rally.

We will assist San Diego city officials with an evaluation and recomendations for greywater recycling. We will also produce an informational kit for homeowners.

UEVision has announced their upcoming "Design Matters" themed Open House in celebration of World Usability Day. The event will be held at UEVision's offices from 6-8 pm in the penthouse suite of the old Hamm's Brewery, which is now an office building at 1550 Bryant Street in San Francisco's Mission neighborhood.

To celebrate World Usability Day this year, we ask each guest to bring an example of an EVERYDAY ITEM that you find either WELL DESIGNED or POORLY DESIGNED.

(You'll get bonus points if it's a recycled item.)

All guests who bring design examples will be entered into a PRIZE drawing.

www.uevision.com

Tobii EyeTrackUX West
Eye Tracking Conference for Usability
San Jose, CA November 12 2009

November 12th - Join local snowsports manufacturers and software professionals to talk about ergonomics, usability, and sustainability.  We'll hear from a 25 year snowboard industry veteran, as well as folks at Donek Snowboards, IBM, Fortitude Skis, Rally Software, and Foraker.  We'll begin on the CU campus with discussions and demonstrations, and then adjourn to Foraker's Boulder offices for appetizers, drinks, and a "snowboard down the stairs" contest (not really).

Join us for our 2008 World Usability Day celebration:  UX Conferences Redux hosted by Industrial Wisdom

EffectiveUI, a user-centered design and development agency in Denver, is jumping on the celebratory-usability bandwagon by hosting a wine and cheese event at 5 p.m. Thursday, Nov. 12

Presentation on the user-centered redesign of a tablet PC solution for emergency medical responders.

5:00-6:00 p.m. Posters and networking with a light dinner
6:00-9:00 p.m. Speakers and panel discussion

The County web portal miamidade.gov is an award-winning collection of self-service tools for the residents, visitors and businesses of Miami-Dade County. Every 2-3 years the portal is re-architected based on user feedback. It is time for our next version...

Release of Screen Space 11: Usability & Usability Testing 101

Screen Space is a podcast about creating usable, accessible, effective, and efficient web, blog, and new media design for the everyday (and non-expert) designer. This episode is a short introduction to Usability Testing. I explain what usability testing is, where it came from, and why you may want to consider integrating it into your design process.

This is a special “World Usability Day” episode.

Celebrate World Usability Day with professionals and students focused on User Experience in an informal setting at User Insight on Thursday, November 12th.

Where: User Insight
50 Glenlake Parkway, Suite 150, Atlanta, GA, 30328

When: Thursday, November 12 from 5:30-7:30 pm

RSVP: rsvp@userinsight.com

Take the opportunity to get together and catch up on the latest news and views and have a great time.

Delta Air Lines will promote World Usability Day with demos, the opportunity to nominate a Delta Usability Champ and a trivia activity about usability in hardware, software and everyday items.

HFI World Usability Day Essay Contest

How can the User Experience Community support the future of sustainability?

Submit an essay offering your best ideas – The top two essays will win a Kindle, the sustainable, wireless reading device.

Professor Ulrike Passe, Principal Investigator and Faculty Advisor Iowa State 2009 Solar Decathlon Team, will present Iowa State's entry, Interlock House, a wonderful example of sustainable design with thoughtful and clever user interfaces.

 

What: World Usability Day 2008
When: Nov.13th 1:00–5:00, cocktails to follow
Where: Institute of Design, 350 North LaSalle Street, 2^nd Floor
How much:  Free!

The User Experience Services team within Caterpillar Inc. is hosting a gallery walk event to showcase Caterpillar projects that have incorporated usability activities. 

To celebrate World Usability Day we are holding a "Design Jam" to re-invent the current Therkildsen Field Station at Emiquon web site. The goal of the Jam is to generate ideas and designs that further leverage the Web site to facilitate engagement in and interaction around the wonderful sustainability work already taking place at the Therkildsen Field Station at Emiquon.

What are the true benefits of technology during the tasks of Transportation, and when does assistance become interference?

Projected presentations will review:

Aviation

Intelligent Transportation Systems

The future of transportation and technology

Wichita State University Event

World Usability Day Boston

This annual event held with the Museum of Science, Boston, offers members the opportunity to design activities and educational experiences that introduce usability, accessibility, and design tenets and techniques to museum visitors.

UPA Boston is what you make of it! We invite you to join today to learn from others and to share your vision!

Activities @ South Station, Boston

Conversations @ MIT's Stata Center

On November 12th, Boston will connect the dots between usability and sustainability by engaging the public with activities. Our activities are organized around Food, Waste Management, Healthcare, Transportation and Accessibility. We will then bring those findings to MIT to continue the conversations with students and experts alike who are interested in designing for a more sustainable culture.

 We are just targeting SSA folks this year. We are thinking about opening it up to a wider audience next year and maybe joining with other Federal agencies. 

We will host an open house/info fair where there will be games, demonstrations, videos, camaraderie, balloons, music, laughter, education, entertainment, food and fun for all of SSA.

There will also be a Usability Panel Discussion, open to all, from 2 - 3pm that day.

Lecture on "Application of Physiological Data in the Study of Information Seeking" by Dr. Karoly Hercegfi and Dr. Anita Komlodi

Tyler Technologies will be celebrating World Usability Day by having two presentations and an activity.  (This is an Internal Event.)

This evening session, open to the general public, will explain this thing called, "Usability" and how it applies to many different products that we use today. 

The MSU Usability & Accessibility Center is joining over 180 locations in 41 countries to promote the 4th annual World Usability Day. This is also MSU's 6th annual Usability and Accessibility event.

The MSU Usability & Accessibility Center is joining over 200 locations in 43 countries to promote the 5th annual World Usability Day. This is also MSU's 7th annual Usability and Accessibility event.

Michigan Tech Union--Alumni Lounge 4-6 p.m.

• 3-4: Poster session
• 4-5:15: Panel discussion
• Reception to follow, light refreshments

The second World Usability Day in the Upper Peninsula (WUD-UP) was held at Michigan Technological University in Houghton, Michigan.

Three rooms, combinations of 20 minute talks, posters, and design activities will be featured at this Traject event.

The Office of Information Technology and the Digital Technology Center are sponsoring World Usability Day 2008 at the University of Minnesota to promote the benefits of usability engineering and user-centered design.  

The Minnesota chapter of the UPA will hold an evening event titled Design and Go on November 13 from 6-9 pm at the St. Paul Union Depot in St. Paul, Minnesota.

RSVP for the event.  Register and pay for the event using PayPal at: http://www.upamn.org/minutes/2008/event20081113.shtml.

The Information Experience Laboratory of the University of Missouri will host a day of events on usability and transportation.

Join us on Saturday, November 7th, 2009 for a day of fun at the St. Louis Science Center!

We will be hosting a World Usability Day event at the St. Louis Science Center. There will be booths for kids and parents of all ages. Have fun at the Science Center and learn about usability and its impact on sustainability.

World Usability Day in Montana, hosted by the Western Transportation Institute.

Speaker and design challenge planned as part of Triangle (NC) World Usability Day celebration!

Charlotte North Carolina World Usability Day Lunch Meeting & Transportation Field Study

Our event includes:

• social hour, with food and drink provided
• UX trading card game, with prizes for those who build a complete set of cards
• presentations of our design challenge (already underway), in which teams apply user-centered design to transportation challenges
• presentations by experts addressing the intersection of transportation and user experience

Human Factors and Ergonomics Society - South Jersey Chapter  Design Slam Contest

The Human Factors and Ergonomics Society - South Jersey Chapter is sponsoring a "design slam" contest. Local high school students will be asked to compete with each other to develop solutions for transportation human factors design challenges in their community.

Free event from 4:00 PM to 9:00 PM includes:
Demonstrations, Keynote speakers, Expert panel, and Photo contest of most "unusable" signage, open to all, evaluated by usability "luminaries"

What can taxis teach user experience professionals? Design strategist Rachel Abrams spent 2 years researching New York City's cab industry. She'll share design lessons learned, how those who usually design for the digital world can approach designing for objects and experiences in the real world, how storytelling can elucidate the value of and patterns in data, and where opportunities lie for service designers working in the public space.

NYC UPA is pleased to partner with IxDA and School of Visual Arts to present a half-day program for WUD 2009. We will explore the challenge of sustainable design with leaders in social entrepreneurship, product design and interaction design. Our speakers will share their stories and their successes, and discuss how they have overcome obstacles to create provocative and engaging new products.

The New York and Philly office’s goal is create awareness of WUD and allow a forum for learning and sharing on usability as a whole.

 Join NEOUPA's World Usability Day Celebration in Cleveland

11/13/08, 6:00pm -8:30pm

*New room this year: Room 060, Science & Engineering Library at Ohio State.
http://www.osu.edu/map/building.php?building=005

World usability day at AEP

World Usability Day @ AEP

Usability related activities for kids and parents will be taking place in the museum lobby.  This event happens on Nov. 7 which is the Saturday before World Usability Day.

Usability related activities for kids and parents will be taking place in the museum lobby.  This event happens on Nov. 8 which is the Saturday before World Usability Day.

World Usability Day Celebrations from the Information Architecture and Knowledge Management Program at Kent State University

 A panel of experts from the Kent State University Department of Information Services discusses how they help sustain student and faculty sanity through user-centered design.  

LexisNexis, Elsevier, and the Tri-State and Southern Ohio Chapters of HFES are pleased host the Tri-state World Usability Day (WUD) event in our Miamisburg building on November 12^th. We have a full program of talks, posters, demonstrations, networking, and a panel discussion.  We hope to see you attend.

LexisNexis and Elsevier Science again will host the World Usability Day event welcoming participation from the tri-state Ohio, Indiana, and Kentucky area.

Join us Thursday, November 12, from 5:30pm - 8:30pm at Corporate College East to celebrate the 5th year anniversary of World Usability Day! NEOUPA is planning an exciting event filled with information on the basics of usability, more advanced topics for the seasoned professional, and also on design and sustainability.

World Usability Day at the SAP Knowledge Management Competency Center. 

Please join UPA Delaware Valley and PhillyCHI in celebrating the 4TH ANNUAL WORLD USABILITY DAY

Speakers include Kenneth Allendoerfer from the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) William J. Hughes Technical Center in Atlantic City, NJ, and Scott Page with Interface Studio LLC, an urban design and planning firm based in Philadelphia.

 Join us for World Usability Day 2009. The theme is Designing for a Sustainable World.

The New York and Philly office’s goal is create awareness of WUD and allow a forum for learning and sharing on usability as a whole.

What is this year's topic?
This year, LSCUPA President, Shannon Graf and Vice President, Harsha Vemulapalli will present Usability Practice for the Greater Good.  

The digital User Experience
Marketing team at FedEx is holding its own World Usability Day in Memphis, TN.
Speakers from Forrester, Answerlab, Tank Design, Lokion Interactive, eVOC Insights,
TandemSeven, Dig Smarter, Quarry, iRise and Human Factors Intl are presenting to
more than 150 attendees to share best practices and industry insights specific to
driving a superior user experience.
 

Sustaining the Future:  Incubators, Applied Research, and Think-Tank Event

The University XXI applied research program is hosting neighboring technology incubators, UT-Austin research organizations, and think tanks to expand their understanding of usability through a hands-on fun and get-acquaint event.

Join us for a presentation and discussion about public transit in Austin.  Usability reports from Austin UPA on current transportation, presentation from Capital Metro on future transportation and a Q&A/Round-table discussion with Capital Metro. To RSVP and for full event details go to our website http://austinupa.ning.com.

Austin UPA and AustinUX are hosting a discussion on techniques and products that make sustainable living happen - in the office, in education, and in the home followed by an idea round-up where attendees can share tips and tricks on making sustainable living a reality.

TBD

imc2 World Usability Day Dallas, TX

imc² invites you to its second annual World Usability Day. The evening’s keynote speaker, Andy Bell - VP of Planning at DFW Airport, will discuss The Future of Aviation/Airport Usability: Advances, Success Stories and Challenges. The event is open to the public so we encourage you to bring guests.

There will be an open house at the Usability Research Laboratory. This will be followed by a series of mini lectures provided by faculty members from the Departments of Computer Science, English, Industrial Engineering, and Psychology.

Sustainable travel affects the usability and design of all modes of transportation.  This webcast was recorded, so you can playback at your convenience (see http://partners.adobe.acrobat.com/p59228474/).

Sabre and Travelocity will be presenting a usable travel products showcase, where designers and developers will show various products to the public in our corporate office in Southlake, Texas.

Sabre, Travelocity, and DFW-UPA open their event at 9AM with a speaker.  From 10AM-3PM, there will be an interative trade show, where companies will be showing off sustainable designs and best practices.  External companies will be present.

Join NavigationArts' Director of User Research as she explores the latest web design trends and how they impact usability. A website that was considered highly usable in 1995 would probably not appear so today. What about a site from 2005? How do user expectations for the Web effect a site's usability, and how can you factor that into your plans for your website?  To register: http://www.navigationarts.com/webinar

Dartmouth College and Landmark College join together again to host this conference featuring presentations, workshops, and demonstrations focusing on how universal usability can enhance teaching, training, learning, and understanding across people of all abilities. Featuring keynote speaker Peter Morville.

Come to Microsoft to join Puget Sound UX practitioners for a day of sharing best practices for sustainable User Experience. The in-person event is held at Microsoft campus in Redmond, with most sessions available for live viewing online.

Call for proposals is opend until EOD October 15. If you would like to submit a proposal for a 20-min talk or a 30-min panel session, contact Lada Gorlenko at ladag@microsoft.com

Attend this event at Microsoft or by Webcast.

World Usability Day 2009 at Microsoft was held on November 12 on the Microsoft campus in Redmond, WA.

Shopbop.com company wide UX and Usability awareness day, first of its kind, will be held on Nov 12th. Making fashion fun and easy to shop for is what we are excited about.

The American Academy of Cosmetic Dentistry is moving its headquarters office in an effort to "go green". This day will be devoted to staff plans and discussions for the new office. The office isn't just going paperless..... the entire design for the new office location will be more sustainable.

tbd

World Usability Day at Marshfield Clinic Research Foundation
 

El próximo 13 de noviembre es el día Mundial de la Usabilidad. Por este motivo Concreta y Universidad ORT han organizado una mesa redonda que se titula "Usabilidad en el diseño de software en Uruguay".

Por tercer año consecutivo, Concreta y la Cátedra de Nuevas Tecnologías de la Universidad ORT ,organizan una mesa redonda para celebrar el día Mundial de la Usabilidad.

Breakfast seminar with keynote speaker Arthur Goldstuck.