World Usability Day Presentation
Tuesday, November 17, 2009
Networking: 5:30pm to 6pm | Seminar: 6pm to 7:30pm
The doors will be locked after 6pm!
RSVP for this free event
Session abstract
November 12th will be the 5th anniversary of the phenomenon known as World Usability Day: an event founded to ensure that the services and products important to life are easier to access and simpler to use. Each year, on the second Thursday of the month of November, it has a specific focus and is participated in around the world. For World Usability Day 2008, more than 40,000 people in 180 cities in 43+ countries participated.
This year’s theme is Sustainability.
Please join us on November 17th, when we kick off our VanUE ‘09/’10 season, to hear the results of the WUD event.
For WUD, a group of VanUE volunteers spontaneously organized themselves to apply their professional expertise as user experience practitioners to improve the quality of human life (the fundamental goal of usability) within the capacity and constraints of our environmental, social, and economic systems.
These volunteers are working on an event with the Pine Street Community Garden in a 16 hour “design slam.” A team of UX folks are immersing themselves in the community garden experience and applying a variety of UX techniques to identify and prioritize problem areas and offer working solutions to help the Community Garden do more of what they do so well.
The UX group would like to share the results with you. They hope they have taken a first step in establishing a recurring venue and model for more volunteer UX work that more VanUE members can participate in. The ideal outcome would be a sort of “UX Practitioners Without Borders” — come learn about the first event and see if you’re interested in this type of volunteerism.
Then join us for networking after!
Our speakers
Members of the WUD team (more details to come shortly)
Location: VFS (Vancouver Film School)
The VFS Digital Design campus is located at 420 Homer Street between Pender and W. Hastings. Enter through the side door on the east side of Homer Street. The event will take place in Theatre 1 accessible from the main foyer.
Our Sponsors
Location Sponsor: VFS
VFS has been supporting VanUE since our inception and we would like to thank them for their continued generosity!!
Hearty thanks to The Network Hub for making space available to our WUD team for the design slam.