World Usability Day
The Usability Professionals’ Association is organising the first annual World Usability Day on 3 November 2005. This worldwide series of events will promote awareness of the benefits of usability engineering and user-centred design. Activities will be held at the local level all over the world, beginning in Australasia, and then move westward to end with an event at the DUX 2005 (Designing for User Experiences) Conference in San Francisco.
The UK Chapter has been busy organising various activities:
The UKUPA 2005 Awards
As part of World Usability Day, we held an evening event in Central London to present the UK UPA 2005 Awards. Read all about the awards presentation on the UKUPA 2005 Awards page.
Date: Thursday, 3 November
Time: 7:00 pm
Venue: Prudential plc, Governor's House, Laurence Pountney Hill, London, EC4R 0HH (map)
Cost: £5 for UPA members, £10 for Non-UPA members (£5 for students)
Dress: Smart casual
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. Photos from the discussion are available on the UK UPA web site.
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
The Cope Auditorium is across the road from Epinal Way within the Technical College complex. Turn right out of the main University entrance and you will see it located about 100 metres up the road on the left (see map below).
If you have events happening that you would like to promote, please contact: events@ukupa.org.uk.
We look forward to seeing you on 3 November 2005!
