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…
World Usability Day (WUD) was founded in 2005 as an initiative of the UPA to ensure that services and products important to human life are easier to access and simpler to use. Usability Matters Organisation has been the local coordinator to celebrate World Usability Day in India, Hyderabad. UMO had celebrated WUD 2005, 2006, 2007 successfully. This year UMO is gearing up to celebrate WUD 2008.
Every year, on the second Thursday of November, over 225 events are organized in over 40 countries around the world to raise awareness for the general public, and train professionals in the tools and issues central to good usability research, development and practice.
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