Accidental sustainability is creating useful, satisfying, meaningful products and services people don’t need to replace and help conserve our resources.
The conundrums of living sustainably will only be resolved when wiser professionals step back and look at the big picture.
This year’s World Usability Day emphasizes usability in healthcare. In matters of our health, having products and services work better is essential.
The second World Usability Day, focusing on “Making Life Easy”, built on the success of its inaugural year.
For international organizations, feedback from users at the local level is essential to product success. Organizing multinational events and sharing the results can help achieve business goals.
Cookbook author Margaret Dickenson has made her cookbooks more usable—without using industry jargon such as “usability” and “user-centered design.”.
In many countries, newspapers and popular magazines report on the latest products and services to reach the marketplace. In these publications, reporters and reviewers comment on whatever they believe promotes sales, marketplace success, and consumer preference. More so than in years past, however, they talk about user-centered design.
This media focus mirrors corporate interest. Recently, a…
On November 14, 2006, at least 40,000 people were thinking about usability. Clearly World Usability Day was touching something important in many people’s lives. World Usability Day created an opportunity for people to come together and connect with people in other countries with a shared focus—of making things that work better.
Ten thousand volunteers knew that…