Tools

The World Usability Day Tools section helps volunteers and leaders develop and implement their events. To help you get going, click the links below to download the latest documents and information.

If you are in need of additional resources or have any questions, email: caryn@worldusabilityday.org.

Local Event Leader Event Planning Tips and Timeline

Communication is the key to a successful event. Checklists with event details for each committee and event timeline can be developed as well as an overall checklist and event timeline for the event organizer. The best rule of thumb is: TRIPLE CHECK all the details and communicate any issues upfront, when solutions can easily be found!

Helpful Tips for Getting Local Media Coverage

Our goal is to have media coverage of each of these events. UPA and the WUD Planning Committee in collaboration with PR firms worldwide will be working on achieving this goal. As part of our team, we need your help on the ground to ensure strong coverage of World Usability Day and create awareness of the importance of user-centered design and engineering and our right to have things that works better!

Press Release for World Usability Day 2007

You can distribute this press release as is, or modify it to include your local event information.

World Usability Day 2007 Logos

World Usability Day 2007 logos in various formats for promotional use. Please feel free to download the version that will work best for you!

Volunteer Opportunities

Our success relies on professionals like you, getting involved and volunteering your time and talent. There are many opportunities for you to get involved before event day, and during the events.

Webcast your WUD event!

Interested in webcasting your event? Here is what you need to know about how to do it and what you and your audience will need.

Web Accessibility Guidelines and Tools

The purpose of this material is to introduce all World Usability Day participants to the Web design guidelines included in the W3C’s Web Accessibility Initiative (WAI) and in subsection 1194.22 of Section 508 concerning Web-based intranet and Internet information and applications as well as to some of the most popular assistive and adaptive technologies.

Accessibility Guide for World Usability Day Local Events

Considering the theme of our events, it's important to emphasize the close relationship between usability and accessibility. One important way to do this is by making our events as accessible as possible to seniors and people with disabilities. It's easy, and most of it is common sense.

A Day in the Life of Usability

A 3 minutes (approx.) video from Neo Insight giving an insight into the sheer number of interactions we have with technology every minute of every day. This is great for introductions to meetings, brainstorming or to leave running in background at your event.

World Usability Day 2006 Posters

The idea behind the 2006 campaign was to build an appreciation for usability by showing what life might be like without it. This was demonstated by visually removing or changing elements of everyday objects and consequently rendering them unusable.

Boston 2005 - Example of a succesful event

For World Usability Day 2005 the Boston UPA Chapter ran a highly successful event at the Museum of Science in Boston. Find out what they did and why it was so successful.