World Usability Day Explained

Holiday Name:World Usability Day
Type:international
Nickname:Make Things Easier Day
Duration:1 day
Frequency:annual
Week Ordinal:second
Weekday:Thursday
Month:November

World Usability Day (WUD) or Make Things Easier Day,[1] Established in 2005 by the Usability Professionals Association (now the User Experience Professionals Association), occurs annually to promote the values of usability, usability engineering, user-centered design, universal usability, and every user's responsibility to ask for things that work better. The day adopts a different theme each year.

World Usability Day started as an idea springing from a discussion in the fall of 2004 between two UPA board member, Elizabeth Rosenzweig and Nigel Bevan. They worked together with the UPA board to start World Usability Day and over the years, Elizabeth Rosenzweig kept it running.[2]

"World Usability Day was established to focus people on the problems and subsequent solutions related to usability. We want to raise people’s awareness of how much these problems impact all of us. If we can get thousands of people on the planet to focus on one thing for one day, we can accomplish something big. It only takes one day to change someone’s point of view, or to light a fire that can burn for years." - Elizabeth Rosenzweig[3]
Across more than 140 countries, WUD has engaged over 250,000 individuals and had an impact on their local communities. WUD has opened up the field of UX and usability in places where it did not exist before the event, such as Eastern Europe (including Poland, Ukraine, Russia, and Turkey).[4]

World Usability Day is currently run by the World Usability Initiative[5] . The WUD organizers have collaborated with renowned professional associations like SIGCHI, HCII, PLAIN, and IFIP. Together, they established the World Usability Initiative (WUI), a focused global organization. Operating as a singular, dedicated entity, WUI works closely with the United Nations, particularly concerning the human factors integral to the 17 Sustainable Development Goals.

Each year, World Usability Day is built around a theme relevant to the state of design and technology.[6] Previous themes include:

World Usability Day has support from notable technology leaders including:

World Usability Day events have been run in over 140 countries, including:

World Usability Day events have been sponsored by numerous corporations and organizations, including:

Notes and References

  1. Web site: Tim Bedore . Tim Bedore . . 2006-11-14 . How about Make Things Easier Day? . 2006-12-27 . Today is World Usability Day, a day to promote intuitive engineering and user-friendly design. Commentator and humorist Tim Bedore is all for it, if only we could come up with a better name . . ..
  2. Web site: 2021-11-10 . World Usability Day . 2024-05-08 . World Celebration Days . en.
  3. Web site: 2006-08-07 . World Usability Day: A Challenge for Everyone - JUX . 2024-05-08 . JUX - The Journal of User Experience . en.
  4. Web site: Usability: The essential ingredient for sustainable world development ACM Interactions . 2024-05-08 . interactions.acm.org.
  5. Book: Rosenzweig . Elizabeth . Lazem . Shaima . Dray . Susan . The World Usability Initiative: Toward Inclusive and Usable Computing Technologies Worldwide . 2023-08-16 . Proceedings of the 6th ACM SIGCAS/SIGCHI Conference on Computing and Sustainable Societies . https://doi.org/10.1145/3588001.3609377 . COMPASS '23 . New York, NY, USA . Association for Computing Machinery . 142–144 . 10.1145/3588001.3609377 . 979-8-4007-0149-8.
  6. Web site: Themes – World Usability Day . 2024-05-08 . en-US.
  7. Web site: 2022-11-11 . World Usability Day 2022: What is Usability and Why Does it Matter? Theme, History and Significance . 2024-05-08 . News18 . en.
  8. Web site: 2022-11-10 . World Usability Day 2022: History, theme, significance and all you need to know . 2024-05-08 . News9live . en-US.
  9. Bill Gates at World Usability Day 2007 . en . 2024-05-08 . www.youtube.com.
  10. Web site: UX Roundup: IDEO Cut in Half Dall-E Characters AI New UI Paradigm World Usability Day OpenAI Keynote . 2024-05-08 . www.linkedin.com . en.
  11. World Usability Day with John Hockenberry . en . 2024-05-08 . www.youtube.com.
  12. Web site: Home . 2024-05-08 . World Usability Day . en.
  13. Web site: Events – World Usability Day . 2024-05-08 . en-US.
  14. Web site: Celebrate World Usability Day by Embracing Accessibility . 2024-05-08 . The American Foundation for the Blind . en-US.
  15. Web site: Human Centered Design & Engineering . 2024-05-08 . Human Centered Design & Engineering . en.
  16. Web site: BBVA . 2019-11-14 . World Usability Day: how design enhances our lives BBVA . 2024-05-08 . NEWS BBVA . en.
  17. Web site: World Usability Day 2018: Design for Good or Evil Bentley University . 2024-05-08 . www.bentley.edu . en.
  18. Web site: optimalworkshopadmin . 2018-11-08 . World Usability Day 2018: 6 examples of bad design and how to improve them . 2024-05-08 . Optimal Workshop . en-US.
  19. Web site: Team . Understood . World Usability Day . 2024-05-08 . www.understood.org . en.
  20. Web site: World Usability Day: Designing for the Future We Want . 2024-05-08 . generalassemb.ly.
  21. Web site: Human Factors International . 2024-05-08 . HFI.
  22. Web site: Roberts . Chris . 2023-11-09 . What is World Usability Day and Why Does it Matter? . 2024-05-08 . Priority Pixels . en-GB.
  23. Web site: Swan . Cheryl . 2023-11-08 . Why World Usability Day Matters . 2024-05-08 . HeX Productions . en.
  24. Web site: Woodbury . Leah . 2023-11-09 . Happy World Usability Day! Procare . 2024-05-08 . Procare Solutions . en-US.
  25. Web site: Cullen . Riley . 2023-11-09 . Celebrating Usability Day at WP Engine . 2024-05-08 . WP Engine . en-US.
  26. Web site: 2023-01-25 . World Usability Day: What is Usability and Why Does it Matter? . 2024-05-08 . GlobalLogic . en-us.
  27. Web site: Demystifying AI Usability on World Usability Day . 2024-05-08 . www.fabricgroup.com.au.
  28. Web site: Interactive . Key Lime . User-Centered Design: Celebrating World Usability Day 2022 . 2024-05-08 . info.keylimeinteractive.com . en-us.
  29. Web site: TPGi . 2020-11-10 . Celebrating World Usability Day . 2024-05-08 . TPGi . en-US.

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