User experience and usability is connected to important everyday things such as education, healthcare and safety. Tools and systems that are usable are more effective in teaching students. Healthcare professionals can be more confident with safer and understandable tools providing better quality healthcare to their patients. Government institutions can rely on easy to use and understandable voting machines to insure accurate and democratic elections. Usable technology makes a difference to everyone, everywhere around the world.
World Usability Day is an international event hosted by the Usability Professionals’ Association (UPA) which promotes the value of usability engineering, user-centered design, and every user's responsibility to ask for things that work better. The long-term goal is to reach every man and woman and to help them see how important people-centered design is to their everyday life.
Each year, the UPA, UPA chapters, and allied organizations host 36 hours of events across the globe, all revolving around a common theme. For more information, visit: http://www.worldusabilityday.org.
Suzanne EL-Moursi
Event Chair – Chicago 2007
Principal – Global Design
GE Healthcare
Sue.Elmoursi(at)gmail.com
312-714-6327
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