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November 12, 2009: World Usability Day – Designing for a Sustainable World

Thursday, September 24th, 2009

The 5th World Usability Day and the 7th Annual Usability and Accessibility Conference at Michigan State University, will be held on Thursday, November 12, 2009, at the Kellogg Hotel and Conference Center on the MSU campus.
Designing for a Sustainable World
Designing for a Sustainable World focuses on how our products and services impact our world. The [...]

Usability Tweetup in Ann Arbor, July 18

Friday, July 3rd, 2009

Two of the founders of the Refresh Detroit group will be hosting a “Usability Tweetup” in Ann Arbor at 7pm on Saturday, July 18th. I am an officer in the Refresh Detroit group and it is a great chance to meet other web workers in the Detroit area to talk about projects, skills and trends. [...]

“Schools & Colleges” vs “Academic Programs”

Monday, June 15th, 2009

We don’t usually tell the community when we are doing A/B testing so the results don’t get skewed. One recent one has been running for the past few weeks and it looks like its not going to end up with a conclusive result so we are stopping the test right now.
“Schools & Colleges” vs ”Academic Programs”
We [...]

Getting Around Campus On The Go

Monday, March 16th, 2009

We have begun adding functionality to our Campus Map, which is currently developed in Flash, to be accessible to the iPhone and iPod Touch.
The iPhone cannot view the Flash site so if you wanted to look at or follow the map you were out of luck. With a little iPhone detection we redirect users to: [...]

Michigan World Usability Day – Nov 13, 2008

Saturday, November 1st, 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 [...]