Michigan World Usability Day – Nov 13, 2008
It is all day dedicated to usability, two usability events happening on the same day. The first costs just $25 and includes lunch. The other is free and happens right after the MSU event, both of their details are below,
Getting to the Point: Improving Transportation through Better Design
The focus for World Usability Day 2008 is Transportation. Transportation in its broadest sense means moving products and people. Usability in transportation speaks to the interaction of people and vehicles, the challenges and issues of infrastructure and modes for moving around in our environment.
- Date: Thursday, November 13, 2008
- Time: 9:00 a.m. – 5:00 p.m.
- Cost: $25.00 – lunch included
- Location: MSU Union Building
Website: Michigan World Usability Day
Registration: Register by Nov 6, 2008
Usability in Your Life and in the Products You Use
How well does your product or website meet your customers’ needs and expectations? Does your product simplify or complicate your client’s workday?
This evening session, open to the general public, will explain this thing called “Usability”. Using a combination of presentations and demonstrations with products ranging from alarm clocks to speeding cars to the high tech hands free voice activated SYNCH that was jointly developed by Ford and Microsoft, attendees will walk away with a clear understanding of the value of designing an excellent, compelling, and safe user experience into products. It will also drive home the point that usability is a rigorous design practice that is applied to much more than just web sites.
Usability in Your Life and in the Products You Use is one of many events around the world on World Usability Day, November 13, features speakers from the worlds of software development and technology integration. This event will equip you with an overview of how to listen to your users and find out what they need. It is perfect for people and companies interested in making products that really work for users.
Speakers come from Ford, Ansys, Menlo Innovations, Tec-Ed, and the UM Transportation Research Institute.
- Date: Thursday, November 13, 2008
- Time: 6:00 p.m. – 9:30 p.m.
- Cost: FREE – refreshments included
- Location: Soar Technologies, 3600 Green Ct # 600, Ann Arbor, MI 48105
Website: Usability in Your Life and in the Products You Use
Registration: Although this event is free, please RSVP to events@miupa.org to ensure that there are enough food and beverages for everyone.
Map to Soar Technologies
The Michigan UPA is still seeking sponsors for this event.
November 12th, 2008 at 10:34 am
One of the presenters, Tom Hodges from Ford Motor Company, who is talking about the development of Ford SYNC, plans to bring one of the SYNC cars to the event.
SYNC technology, an in-car communications and entertainment system, allows drivers to bring nearly any mobile phone or digital media player into their vehicle and operate them using voice commands, the vehicle’s steering wheel, or radio controls.