Making Life Easy
August 17th, 2009 - As Elizabeth Rosenzweig, the founder of World Usability Day says, "A cell phone should be as easy to use as a doorknob." Focused this year on “Designing for a Sustainable World,” Nathan Shedroff and Brian Sullivan have been named the 2009 co-chairs of World Usability Day.
World Usability Day is a set of global events and educational forums emphasizing the increasing importance of simplicity of use in all of the products we use.
Technology today is too hard to use. 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.
Shedroff and Sullivan have helped shape the theme this year, adding sustainability and bringing into this design discussion a framework of Cradle to Cradle thinking that is also truly human-centric.
World Usability Day is an annual event held on the second Thursday in November (November 12, 2009), founded in 2005 as an initiative of the Usability Professionals' Association.
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