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World Usability Day (WUD) was founded to ensure the services and products important to life are easier to access and simpler to use. Our focus this year is sustainability. The seventh annual World Usability Day is off to an exciting start. The Usability Professionals’ Association (UPA) is coordinating more than 36 hours of activities in over 40 countries around the world on November 11, 2010. Your involvement is integral to the success of this global initiative. 

How your efforts with World Usability Day made an impact in 2010: 

• A record 153 events in 44 countries
• 40,000 people at events worldwide
• Thousands of online participants
• Extensive worldwide media coverage

This year’s events and forums will focus on how Design Education will help develop products and services that will impact social change. Programs will examine all products and services used for teaching how usable design impacts the world, whether it’s close at hand (organizations), surrounding us (particular cultures/communities) or from a global view: How does something designed in China, Scotland, India or the United States, for example, have impact on other nations around the world?  

WUD will explore and celebrate: Education: Designing for Social Change – designing with an intentional outcome of sparking change in how people behave, communicate, and do things in the world; and examining the concept of cultures and how culture impacts usability.  

For project ideas for children that foster social change, we encourage you to check out the program initiatives presented by Sesame Workshop: http://www.sesameworkshop.org/initiatives. Not only are programs described, teachers’ guides, facilitators’ guides and brochures and posters are all available online . . . free! What other types of Education: Designing for Social Change can you think of? email wud@usabilityprofessionals.org today and let us know!

How can you get involved in World Usability Day 2010? 

• Register a local event– it’s free! Create an account on www.worldusabiltyday.org. Energize your company, community, university or collaborate with your local UPA Chapter and business associations
• Volunteer - be part of our team locally or globally
• Be a Sponsor – get recognized as a leader
• Submit a story for our website – share your experiences
• Sign our Charter – show your support now!
• Sign up for our email newsletters – keep informed about the latest news and information

If you have questions, please contact:
Elizabeth Rosenzweig – Founder/Director, eliz@bubblemtn.com, +1-617-244-6905
Judith Eckles – Project Manager, Sponsorship, wud@usabilityprofessionals.org, +1-484-684-67173

http://www.worldusabilityday.org
 
The seventh annual World Usability Day is off to an exciting start. The Usability Professionals’ Association (UPA) is coordinating more than 36 hours of activities in over 40 countries around the world on November 10, 2011. Your involvement is integral to the success of this global initiative.   

We look forward to working closely with you over the next several months as we organize and promote this important initiative. We hope you will give us your input, share your experiences and encourage your colleagues and friends to be part of our team.  

We are organizing our WUD global team and sponsors now. Please email Judith Eckles, Project Manager, Sponsorship, wud@usabilityprofessionals.org to GET INVOLVED or for more information or call + 1.608.291.2388.