World Usability Day Thursday, November 13!

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Diana Criser-Burns

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Check out this link...

http://www.worldusabilityday.org/

and search google to see what's going on today around the world!

This year's topic: Transportation


Last year, Microsoft had a day full of internet-accessible Usability/User-focused presentations - I've listed some more links below...

See what you can find this year, and report back to the group!

HAPPY WORLD USABILITY DAY!!!

Diana

2008 Webcasts

World Usability Day Online Events

Design competition

Stockholm
Sweden

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

 

 Local start: 19:03 Etc/GMT+1
(Sunday 12th of October 2008 02:03:00 PM)
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Brukervennlighetsdagen i Triangel Software!

Molde
Norway

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

 Local start: 16:57 Etc/GMT
(Thursday 30th of October 2008 12:57:00 PM)
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Image-Based Card Sorting of Pictographic Road Signs

Toronto
Canada

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)***

 Local start: 00:00 Etc/GMT-5
(Thursday 6th of November 2008 12:00:00 AM)
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Webinar: Designing Train Schedule Informational Kiosk

Moscow
Russia

Online-reviews kiosks at Moscow train stations. Discussing problems, and finding solutions. Weninar is on Russian. Please, regitre now https://www2.gotomeeting.com/register/437130460

 Local start: 11:00 Europe/Moscow
(Thursday 13th of November 2008 03:00:00 AM)
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Sustainable Travel

Southlake
TX
United States

Sustainable travel affects the usability and design of all modes of transportation.  This webcast will provide a review of three typical travel scenarios and how the travelers choices affect sustaniability.  In the process, you will learn about how companies and various organizations are building sustainable travel products and services.

 Local start: 04:00 US/Central
(Thursday 13th of November 2008 05:00:00 AM)
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Designing navigation with task management - Free WUD webinar

Ottawa
ON
Canada

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

 Local start: 15:00 Etc/GMT
(Thursday 13th of November 2008 10:00:00 AM)
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Create Great Usability Requirements - A WUD Webinar

Washington, D.C.
United States

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.

 Local start: 14:00 Etc/GMT-5
(Thursday 13th of November 2008 02:00:00 PM)
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Web Design Trends and Usability

McLean
VA
United States

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

 Local start: 14:00 US/Eastern
(Thursday 13th of November 2008 02:00:00 PM)
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Usabilidad Paraguay

Asuncion
Paraguay

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.

 Local start: 18:30 America/Asuncion
(Friday 14th of November 2008 04:30:00 PM)
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