Pat’s Point of View

Who said users don’t matter?

On November 14, 2006, in towns and cities around the world, life will be a little easier. That’s when the second annual World Usability Day takes place—a global event promoting the value of usability: designing things that simply work better.

As part of this event, Sydney will host a number of free activities at the State Library of NSW. The focus will be to communicate ways of improving the user experience of products and services.

The program includes:

• The benefits of including usability when designing products and services;
• Microsoft’s usability strategy for Office 2007;
• Mobile phone usability and the opportunities for the future; and
• A demonstration of how vision impaired users experience the web and how it can be improved.
• This event also provides an opportunity to talk to professionals and learn more about developments in usability.

For more information, please visit: www.worldusabilityday.org/event/show/163

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Patrick Kennedy is a user experience strategist and design researcher based in Sydney Australia. He leads research activities that improve the user experience of cross-channel products and services; helping both designers and business decision makers in bringing those products and services to fruition. Read more.