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To mark the celebrations of World Usability Day, UsabilityMatters.Org (UMO) and allied organizations are organizing UMO’2011 with the goal to promote the fields of User Experience and User-Centered Design.

We have series of events lined up to celebrate UMO’2011

• TechEase’2011 (www.techease.in)
• UMO: 6th Boycott Bad Design Contest2011
• UMO: 6th International Cartoon Contest2011
• UMO: Design Challenge2011
• UMO: World Usability Day'2011
• UMO2011: UsabilityMatters - Conference
• UMO: 6th Bad Design Expo’2011
• UMO: 6th International Cartoon Expo'2011

Will be Announced...

UMO Organizes Exhibition of Boycott Bad Design Contest entries in several metros of India. We put up a public exhibition for a minimum time period of one week, allowing the public to visit the gallery. This Expo helps to create awareness on day to day living bad designs good designs. Also helps us to understand the concepts of Usability and Design. This exhibition is mainly aimed at design sensitive consumers, designers and general public.

UMO Organizes Exhibition of International Cartoon Contest entries in several metros of India. We put up a public exhibition for a minimum time period of one week, allowing the public to visit the gallery. This Expo helps to create awareness on  Usability and Design with a touch of humor. This exhibition is mainly aimed at general public.

Announcing the UMO 7^th Bad Design Contest'11, here is a summary:

• Open to everybody from any country
• No Limit on number of entries
• No entry fee
• Six winners get Rs.5000/- each
• Awards worth Rs 30,000/-
• Deadline: September 11^th, 2011

The details follow.....

Announcing the UMO – 7^th International Cartoon Contest’11, here is the summary: 

• Open to everybody
• 5 entries per participant
• No entry fee
• Awards worth Rs 60,000/-
• Deadline: September 11^th, 2011

The details follow.....

Education plays a vital role in the development of an active citizenry of a nation. A well educated population is able to take charge of the many issues facing society, including social problems and political decisions, rather than sitting by the sidelines and allowing someone else to do deciding for them.

UMO 2010 International Cartoon Contest and Boycott Bad Design Contest winners comments.

UMO 2010 International Cartoon Contest Winners

UMO 2010 Boycott Bad Designs Contest Winners

Team-UMO duly acknowledges it's gratitude towards all the participants.

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See our past volunteers at Team UMO : 2010, 2009, 2008, 2007, 2006, 2005.

Here is the summary:

• Open to everybody
• No limit of entries per participant
• No entry fee
• Deadline: April 12^th, 2011

The details follow..... |

View the entries so far received.

See our past volunteers at Team UMO : 2009, 2008, 2007, 2006, 2005.

Announcing the UMO – 6^th Bad Design Contest'10, here is a summary:

• Open to everybody
• No Limit on number of entries
• No entry fee
• Awards worth Rs 30,000/-
• Deadline: September 10^th, 2010

The details follow.....

Announcing the UMO – 6^th International Cartoon Contest’10, here is the summary: 

• Open to everybody
• 5 entries per participant
• No entry fee
• Awards worth Rs 60,000/-
• Deadline: September 10^th, 2010

The details follow.....

Thanks to all the participants and wonderful speakers for the sucess of TechEase'09.

The photographs and videos of the event are publised here.

Thank you for the tremendous response for the UMO'09 initiatives.

You can see the comments from select Winners of Boycott Bad Designs and International Cartoon Contest.

We thank the winners for sharing their thoughts, see you next year!

UMO-2009 Working Team*
	Name	Organization
	Ashish Tiwari	Cordys
	Dr.Akhtar	SureCare Homoepathy
	Dr.Rajashekar	SureCare Homoepathy
	Jagadish	uiser
	Kaladhar Bapu	Microsoft
	Komal Mangu	Architect
	Ramprasad	Xactec
	Shyam Sundar Duriseti	Reed Business Information
	Silpa Prasad	Civil Engineer
	Vamsi Krishna Tummala	Uiser

*Volunteer who spends substantial amount of productive time will be considered
to be part of UMO2009 working team

The list of volunteers based in hyderabad, arranged alphabetically.

Onsite Volunteers

The list of Volunteers based in other cities than Hyderabad.

Remote Volunteers

Keep visiting this post for the updates in the list.

We all share equal responsibility in leading the charge for a common cause on the occasion of World Usability Day, to be held at Hyderabad by UsabilityMatters.Org(UMO).

Let's get to know each other much better as we march ahead and also get better understanding of the responsibilities and challenges ahead.

Looking forward to set the example for The World Usability Day initiatives from Hyderabad.

Most of us used to take delight in watching birds paying us a visit in our very own habitats during our childhood, when today's cities were still attractive enough for nature to cast its beautiful spell with changing seasons, colors, flowers and more. However, all such pleasures of nature are strangers to our cities now. It's something that we have done ourselves, still doing, depriving our younger generations of all such pleasure.

The greater irony is, we seek solace in the virtual worlds. Our bird song comes from MP3s, our greenery in screensavers. And tweet on the web mimicking nature. As we use these products, as we live a synthetic life, we need to think, rethink how our life is affecting our world, our Nature. As creative people, it's time we thought about how our creations, the products and services we create and we use impact our world.

Time we thought about how our design can be sustainable, something that matches the needs to the resources in the most effective way possible.

Announcement for the Bad Design Contest, here is a summary, and the details follow....

• Open to everybody
• No Limit on number of entries
• No entry fee
• Awards worth Rs 30,000/-
• Deadline: September 7th, 2009

Announcement for the International Cartoon Contest, here is a summary, and the details follow....

• Open to everybody
• 5 entries per participant
• No entry fee
• Awards worth Rs 60,000/-
• Deadline: September 7th, 2009

It's about making our world work better.

It's about "Making Life Easy" and user friendly.

Technology today is too hard to use. A cell phone should be as easy to access as a doorknob.
In order to humanize a world that uses technology as an infrastructure for education, healthcare, transportation,government, communication, entertainment, work and other areas, we must develop these technologies in a way that serves people first…

UMO requests you all who are willing to volunteer, to send across the following details to volunteer-at-usabilitymatters-dot-org:

Name:
Designation:
Working Org.:
Personal Website/ Portfolio link:
Contact No.:
Place:

In the mail Subject pl mention either "WUD08 Remote Volunteer" - for people outside Hyderabad or " WUD08 Onsite Volunteer"-for people in Hyderabad.

Please send your details, and other queries to volunteer-at-usabilitymatters-dot-org

Announcement for the Bad Design Contest, here is a summary, and the details follow....

• Open to everybody
• No Limit on number of entries
• No entry fee
• Awards worth Rs 30,000/-
• Deadline: November 10th, 2008

Announcement for the UMO – 4th International Cartoon contest, here is the summary, the details follow...

• Open to everybody
• 5 entries per participant
• No entry fee
• Awards worth Rs 60,000/-
• Deadline: November 10th, 2008

The Chief Guest, Mr. Suresh (Secretary-hysea), lighting the traditional lamp.

"Vandanam" by Shusmita and team to make an auspicious start to UMO 2007

Announcement for the UMO – 3nd International Cartoon contest, here is the summary, the details follow...

• Open to everybody
• 5 entries per participant
• No entry fee
• Awards worth Rs 60,000/-
• Deadline: October 31st, 2007

Announcement for the Bad Design Contest, here is a summary, and the details follow....

• Open to everybody
• No Limit on number of entries
• No entry fee
• Awards worth Rs 30,000/-
• Deadline: October 31st, 2007

All UX and design professionals of hyderabad are cordially invited for the High-Tea held on May 16th at 5.00pm to 6.30pm at Microsoft Campus Hyd Building 1.

The guest for the High-tea meet is Jakob Nielsen, Principal User Experience Manager, Microsoft Business Solutions.

For directions to the Microsoft campus, look up the wikimapia road-map [Microsoft Campus is next to ISB] or call Kaladhar Bapu : 9849301500

World Usability Day for Hyderabad was hosted by UMO 14^rd November 2006.

This was among the series of events organized across the globe at over 100 locations with the theme of "Make it Easy". the aim for organizing this event is to raise awareness about usability and the issues related to its implementation and enrichment towards making the world around us a better place to live.

The Hyderabad World Usability Day'06 event was attended by distinguished professionals from the usability community in the city, the students from IT courses as well as many representatives from design related domains.

An event is as successful as the enthusiasm of the Team behind it. We thank all the volunteers for their suggestions and expressing their interest to be part of the World Usability Day 2006 event organized by UMO.

We will soon have a gathering to further consolidate the activities, responsibilities and to align our efforts towards a successful World Usability Day 2006 at hyderabad.

Keep checking this list for updates.

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CSIM-Hyderabad is organizing a full day Creativity Workshop for Project leaders, Project managers, Account managers servicing the clients and other corporate personnel.

The workshop will be conducted by Hari Parameswaran of Dynam Designs, on August 18, 2006 at Tureeya Grand, Hyderabad.

Dr. Dinesh Katre was in Hyderabad and discussed on "Experience of Ph.D. Research in HCI and the Issues Involved" on a high-tea meeting with the local HCI community.

The meeting was hosted by Cordys and was attended by HCI professionals from companies like CA, Convergys, Cordys, Cognizant, Glansa, Hitha, Kanbay, Microsoft, Oracle, Progress, Satyam, SIT, TCS, and Trina.

Continuing the efforts to bring all the UX groups operating at Hyderabad together, Convergys organized the second Hyderabad UX meet on May 22nd, 2006.

Its time to meet again as a continuation of monthly UX meets. Convergys is hosting this UX meet on 22nd May. All are invited to share their experiences and learn from each other.

• Event Sponsor: Convergys
• Date: 22nd May 2006
• Venue: #543 HiTec City, Madhapur, Hyderabad - 500 081
• Route map

World usability Day was celebrated on 3^rd November at ISB auditorium, Hyderabad, India. November 3^rd has been declared as the World usability day where organizations and practitioners all over the world engage in a campaign to create awareness of usability of products and services that we consume on a day-to-day basis.

Results for Bad Design Contest have been published!!

Thanks for the tremendous response we received from all over the World. The winning entries have been selected by a panel of Judges. UMO Team congratulates all the participants and the winners.

On November 3, 2005 UsabilityMatters.Org along with Cordys India (R&D) will join communities across the world to mark the celebrations of World Usability Day 2005 in Hyderabad. World Usability Day is a world wide self-organized event with the goal to promote the fields of Usability Engineering and User-Centered Design. The theme for this year is "Making it Easy".

The event is designed to raise awareness about the importance of ‘Good Design for Better Living’. Here with we invite all those who are playing their part both actively and passively in 'Making it Easy'. That design is not a domain limited to few disciplines, but indeed design is there in every discipline that makes it easy for consumers of technology. We are not just talking about internet and cell phones, but technology is everything we use, i.e., cars, microwave ovens, door knobs, etc., and yes computers too.

Eminent people from the academia, industry, business and governance will be sharing their views and insights on this day. Entries received from worldwide for the 'Bad Design Competition' and for the 'International Cartoon Contest' will be on display during this event. Also, this event will see paper presentations by students and professionals on various topics involving design.

We invite you to join us in our celebrations. Please find the event details enclosed below.

Kindly get registered and honor the event to make the World Usability Day 2005 at Hyderabad an awareness generating and difference making success.