World Usability Day at UID
Some 60 people participated in the half day (9:00-12:00) Workshop at Umeå Institute of Design devoted to the World Usability Day on Thursday November 8. Local IT industry representatives, design students and design researchers worked with concrete usability problems in the daily IT-life and how these problems could be solved in a smart way.
The purpose for the day was to promote usability and user centered
research and development. World Usability Day is a way to increase the awareness of the importance of designing products and services with a high degree of usability.
Particpating companies and organizations were:
Pado Metaware
Plakat
Apptoo
Teknikhuset
Umea University
Umea Institute of Design (UID)
Umea kommun
Check out more pictures from the event at UID (and other venues around the world) at
http://www.flickr.com/groups/worldusabilityday2007/
