Baltimore, USA. 2009.10.29 - With the theme of Designing for a Sustainable World, this year's 5th Anniversary World Usability Day is on Thursday November 12, 2009.
 

 
What is World Usability Day?
 
World Usability Day was founded to ensure that the services and products important to life, are easier to access and simpler to use. It's about making our world work better.
 
Technology today is too hard to use. A cell phone should be as easy to access as a doorknob. 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 serve people first.
 
On World Usability Day 2008, more than 40,000 people participated in 200 events in 180 cities across 43 countries. Extensive worldwide media coverage was generated and many thousands participated online. View photos on Flickr.
 
Thw WUD2009 offers suggestions for organizing an event. It does not need to cost any money . It may consist of simply gathering your co-workers on this day to talk about how your company can contribute to a more sustainable world. Use November 12, 2009 as the "official day" to talk about future plans. The intent is to make technological advancements more easy and user friendly around the world.
 
To share your experiences you can:

• register your event for FREE on the World Usability Day website
• follow announcements on Twitter
• tweet on Twitter and add hashtag #WUD2009, #WUD or #WorldUsabilityDay
• tweet / SMS activities on the day of the event
• report about your events on your / our blogs
• email us with your contribution or event details
• upload photos to FLICKR and tag them with WUD2009
• upload videos to Youtube and tag them with WUD2009
• submit interesting newspaper and journal articles about Designing for a Sustainable World

Communications solutions provider, Digital Tsunami developed the website for the Sydney chapter of the Usability Professionals' Association (UPA Sydney) providing web development, the DeployControl&trad; CMS, webhosting, email hosting, eNewsletter distribution and exhibition banner design and production.
 
Digital Tsunami founder Andrew W Morse states "In the early days of the web, (last century!), we used to speak of sites being 'user-friendly'. Given the massive reliance on online solutions, functionality is now a science. We integrate Information Architecture, Usability, SEO and a CMS into all our projects for corporate clients. These contribute to the increased efficiency and success of any online interface.".
 
Digital Tsunami has always focused on the efficiency of communications solutions provided across the disciplines of film, e.strategy, identity, interactive, photography and print.
 
About the UPA
The Usability Professionals' Association is an organisation with chapters around the globe. Usability is the formal analysis and testing of a product / web presence to ensure that the user experience is as simple and logical as possible. This includes Accessibility for the vision impaired and people with other disabilities and the adherence to web standards.
 
About UPA Sydney
UPA Sydney is the first chapter to be established in Australia. The objectives of UPA Sydney are to raise the profile of usability, providing and supporting professional recognition, creating networking opportunities, providing professional development, and providing a forum for the sharing of experiences.
 
About Digital Tsunami
Digital Tsunamihas delivered customised, highly efficient and powerful solutions for global brands including Citizen, Daimler Benz, Heineken, and Merck Sharp Dohme through its offices in Australia and Hong Kong, where it was founded in 1996.