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A Snapshot of the World Usability Day in the UK
Source: UN, 3 November 2005
Submitted by
Ann Light
As part of the Usability Professionals’ Association's (UPA) first annual World Usability Day today (3rd November 2005), there is a rolling series of events for the 36 hours as it stretches from Australasia, China and the Philippines to a session at the DUX 2005 (Designing for User Experiences) conference in San Francisco.
As an example, here is what the UK chapter of the UPA has been organising:
The UKUPA 2005 Awards
As part of World Usability Day, we'll be holding an evening event in Central London at which we will present the UK UPA 2005 Awards. Full details will be available shortly.
Date: Thursday, 3 November
Venue: Central London
Time: 6.30pm onwards
Cost: To be confirmed
Usability Round Table
Featuring usability leaders from the UK discussing key topics. A summary will be published as a report by E-consultancy, and the event will be covered in the press and on the UK UPA web site. (I shall be participating in this event - ed.)
The 2005 User Experience Directory
We will be publishing a 12-page usability supplement in New Media Age magazine on 4th November sponsored by RecruitMedia and Conchango.
Experience the Test and Test the Experience
System Concepts usability team are inviting you to visit them at 2, Savoy Court, London WC2R 0EZ, to ‘Experience the Test and Test the Experience’. For more information please visit www.system-concepts.com or email leslie@system-concepts.com.
Free Usability Testing
Foviance (formerly The Usability Company & WebAbacus) will be opening their lab up for free Usability Testing on 3rd November from 9.30-17.00. For more information, please email toni.mccloggan@foviance.com or call 020 7843 6727
Web Design for Usability Tutorial/Workshop
Syntagm will be running a training course on 3rd November to celebrate World Usability Day. Full details at www.syntagm.co.uk/design/webdesign.shtml.
Loughborough University Events
To mark World Usability Day, there will be two presentations covering topics of usability and ergonomics, Introduction to User Centred Design presented by Lada Gorlenko, IBM, Warwick and Ergonomics and the design of products presented by Meg Galley, President of the Ergonomics Society. The event is open to University students, staff and members of the public.
Location: The Cope Auditorium
Time: 1.15 till 3.30pm
You are welcome to turn up for this event. For further information contact:
Martin Maguire, Loughborough University, m.c.maguire@lboro.ac.uk or Lada Gorlenko, IBM, lada@acm.org
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Details of UK activities
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