Come visit me on World Usability Day
This year, WUD is on November 8th, and I’ll be manning the Step Two Designs booth at the Sydney event. If you have some time, drop in and say hello. There will be lots of interesting things going on, and at our booth we’ll have lots of information to give away, as well as a lucky dip prize. I hope my t-shirt fits this year :)
Here are all the details:
The Usability Professionals’ Association (UPA) has proclaimed that World Usability Day 2007 will take place on November 8, 2007. This year’s focus will be on healthcare. World Usability Day was founded in 2005 with a global mission to increase the public’s awareness of the need to make services and products easier to access and simpler to use. Universal issues such as healthcare, education and government will be addressed through expert forums, exhibits, events and initiatives in over 35 countries.
The UPA Sydney chapter is organising a local event, which will take place at Telstra on Level 4, 400 George Street, Sydney, from 9am – 5pm.
The November 8th event will feature an impressive lineup of speakers addressing the importance of usability across all aspects of healthcare. The program will include presentations on:
- The importance of customer experience to a large corporate (Holly Kramer, Group Managing Director, Telstra Product Management, Telstra)
- Advanced telemedicine – Accessing health services remotely (CSIRO)
- User experience design of a hospital-based managed healthcare service (Telstra)
- The risks of medical equipment failing and why usability is important (Moray & Agnew)
- The impact of poor usability on people’s lives (Objective Digital)
- Accessibility – opening a new world to disabled people (Scenario Seven)
- Usable website development process – NSW Guardianship Tribunal case study (Web Usability)
- Trustworthy technology – Privacy and identity in the healthcare industry (Edentiti)
- Design thinking and usability (Telstra)
The day will also include interactive sessions and demonstrations of techniques such as usability testing and eye tracking, and will provide ample time to chat with people in the field of usability to learn more about it.
You are invited to attend any part or all of the day, and no pre-registration is required. The event is free, and open to the public.
For details of the program, please visit the UPA Sydney website or the World Usability Day website and look for the Sydney event.
A special thanks to the sponsors for this year’s Sydney event:
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