New Jersey Innovations Make Life Easy

The theme of this celebration of World Usability Day is “New Jersey Innovations Make Life Easy.”Innovations and technologies can make people’s life easy and lead to market place success.  Usability specialists play many roles in these success stories.  By
applying user-centered design processes and understanding user needs
and business goals, usability specialists work with engineers and
development teams to realize practical solutions, ensure great user
experiences, and deliver the values of innovations.

On November 14, 2006, New Jersey will celebrate the second annual World Usability Day (http://www.worldusabilityday.org).  World Usability Day promotes the values and benefits of innovative technologies and usability engineering.  Princeton ACM / IEEE-CS and UsabilityNJ have prepared a special program to celebrate:

• Keynote speakers from local industries.  They will review how user-centered designs make innovations and technologies more usable and accessible.
• Showcases of usable products, processes and methods.  Organizations will tell success stories about how their work makes technologies useful and usable.
• Special “Idea Market” sessions.  Attendees will brainstorm hot topics in tools, techniques and processes that are used to develop successful products.

Come and learn how user-centered designs can make your products more successful.Speakers will include:·         Edmond Isralski, Human Factors Manager, Abbott Laboratories·         Mark Altom, Technical Manager in the Chief Technology Office, Avaya

• Todd Warfel, Partner, Design & Usability Specialist, Messagefirst

Schedule of Events:
6:30-9:30PM Table Exhibits; Idea Market; Food; Networking
7:30-9:00PM Keynote Speakers