Pic of the day: World Usability day
Post categories: accessibility
| 15:26 UK time, Thursday, 12 November 2009
There are a placed around our floor at Internet blog towers today as part of . We probably would have missed it were it not for the internal email we received from the ³ÉÈË¿ìÊÖ FM&T Usability and Accessibility team (who also put up the posters):
...In companies all over the world usability professionals, designers and developers are today celebrating World Usability Day. Good usability and accessibility makes sense both from a commercial and ethical standpoint. Fantastic strides have been made over recent years in the development of user experiences which are easy, accessible and enjoyable...
Here's a list of that are taking place today on the . There's also a Usability day crossword puzzle the U & A team sent me that you can download and have a crack at. (NB: There are no prizes and I don't want you to send me your completed crosswords. If you get stuck let me know in the comments and I'll get the answers out of the Usability team here.)
Paul Murphy is the Editor of the Internet blog.
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At 1st Mar 2010, James Anderson wrote:I think the project of the world usability day is just awesome and should include some theme like recycling and waste management systems so that the already burdened ecosystem is taken less to task , leaving the carbon footprints [Unsuitable/Broken URL removed by Moderator] out of the ecosystem is a huge task, and just as the world usability day has been an eyeopener to the various ways one can implement the resources to find solutions without spending too much energy on less obvious resources, this maybe just a clue to how we can go about the environmental issues facing us, regards J.A.
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At 1st Mar 2010, James Anderson wrote:I'm kind of in agreement with the Martin above ). If you take a site like for example, they had originally built and maintained a site with tons of value to its visitors. But now, if you compare it to, say Bing, it offers pretty much the same amount of value. The difference is that it has built a phenomenal brand around itself and has become the 22% that is shown in the image above. Pretty much the same concept for Microsoft. Great value initially, then a huge brand.
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At 2nd Mar 2010, Nandish wrote:Usability is good for the masses but in today's world, to enhance usability in various fields, the corresponding expenses are much more. This applies mostly to hardware related products such as phones as every new or successor to the previous has a different menu. Instead of maintaining the same style of menu, users have to re-learn the whole system. This is very true across phone brands.
Commercial structures have employed different strategies to make their services more accessible. For example, various Apartments in Kampala [Unsuitable/Broken URL removed by Moderator] have ramps for the physically disabled and easy access to apartments. Many Hotels in the world as well, for example the new Hotels with Pods 1-2-3 solutions, check-in, pay, and sleep. All required information is gleaned off the credit cards including Address and Phone numbers hence reining in the need to ask guests to fill out detailed forms that are not only time consuming but sometimes invasive. Different Kampala Hotels [Unsuitable/Broken URL removed by Moderator] also have put into place easier and faster check-in processes including kiosk check-ins that are automated. For automation such as this, usability has to be the number 1 priority.
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At 16th Mar 2010, Sanjay Das wrote:I know for the first time about "World Usability Day" But I don't understand what this day is all about. There is "Usability Award" too : I will Google to know more.
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At 11th May 2010, Jeff Soto wrote:The World Usability Day is an excellent initiative. It highlights the fact that millions of people around the world encounter technology problems every day, and so promotes the work that user experience professionals do to make technology easier to use. I was however surprised to read in your article that usability was already an issue in 2005.
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At 10th Nov 2010, softdinamic wrote:you have above "Download the world usability day crossword" at the end of the article... I can not open that pdf.. can you please check it?
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At 10th Nov 2010, Nick Reynolds wrote:softdinamic - it worked when I just tried it.
However I'll be closing this post now as it is rather old.
Thanks
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