Mark Vanderbeeken
Thursday, July 12th, 2007
Ginny Redish, member of the UXnet Advisory Board, has just published a book entitled “Letting Go of the Words: Writing Web Content that Works“.
Summary
On the web, whether on the job or at home, we usually want to grab information and use it quickly. We go to the web to get answers to questions or to complete tasks – to gather information, reading only what we need. We are all too busy to read much on the web.
Ginny Redish’s Letting Go of the Words helps you write successfully for web users. It offers strategy, process, and tactics for creating or revising content for the web. It helps you plan, organize, write, and design web content that will make web users come back again and again to your site.
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Thursday, July 12th, 2007
The Usability Professionals’ Association (UPA) has announced World Usability Day 2007 will take place on November 8, 2007. This year’s focus will be on healthcare.
World Usability Day was founded in 2005 with a mission to increase the public’s awareness of the need to make the services and products important to human life easier to access and simpler to use. Global issues such as healthcare, education and government are addressed through expert forums, exhibits, events and initiatives in numerous locations throughout the world.
“The importance of user-centered design in healthcare is truly about life and death” noted Elizabeth Rosenzweig, Founder and Director of World Usability Day. “Whether it’s new medical devices or technologies; drug research, approval or delivery; patient forms or medical record sharing; emergency disaster planning or increasing the functionality of hospitals and everyday healthcare delivery, everyone is effected in some way by the intersection of usability and healthcare. There are many commonalities, yet each region of the world faces its own set of unique challenges. We believe that focusing World Usability Day 2007 on healthcare will create a stronger awareness of these issues and lead to initiatives that have long term impact on the quality of everyone’s life.
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Monday, July 9th, 2007
Bob Goodman, user experience consultant, Peter Jones, managing principal of Redesign Research, and Eric Reiss, managing director of FatDUX (and IA Institute president), recently participated in an e-mail conversation/dialogue moderated by GK VanPatter. It just got published in NextD journal.
Goodman writes: “NextD decided to launch the conversation in the wake of GK’s hotly-contested “Unidentical Twins” essay. However, as it unfolded, the conversation evolved to look at different trends and modes of thought at the intersection of design and business.”
Both Bob Goodman and Peter Jones are local UXnet ambassadors and there are several references to the work of UXnet woven through their comments.
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Friday, July 6th, 2007
(Bloomingdale, IL: July 6, 2007) – The first European regional conference of the Usability Professionals’ Association (UPA) will take place in Torino, Italy, named the 2008 World Design Capital. Hundreds of designers and usability specialists are expected to attend.
“The UPA Europe 2008 conference provides a great opportunity to reinforce the importance of usability and user-centered design. These are essential design concepts that European UPA chapters promote in industry, education and government.” said Michele Visciola, UPA European regional conference co-chair and President of the UPA Italy Chapter.
Visciola will co-chair the conference along with Silvia Zimmermann, the International UPA Director of Organizational Outreach and UPA Switzerland board member.
The conference will be held in Torino, Italy, in 2008, when the city will host a large variety of activities as the first-ever World Design Capital – a title it was awarded by the International Council of Societies of Industrial Design (ICSID).
The UPA Europe 2008 conference will focus on usability and design and is expected to take place in October or December 2008. Designers, researchers and usability specialists from around the world will be invited to share and learn about innovative ways to design better products and experiences.
“This conference will demonstrate the design expertise and leadership within the various UPA chapters and usability practitioners throughout Europe,” said Zimmermann.
UPA chapter leaders will soon be invited to nominate UPA Europe 2008 conference committee members to help organize the conference.
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