World Usability Day
by Rob Mason ~ October 16th, 2008 Filed under: Usability.
It’s not all about the web you know, but World Usability Day is still a good thing. Basically it’s all about making life easy for people and this year’s focus is transport.
The Wikipedia definition of usability is:
Usability is a term used to denote the ease with which people can employ a particular tool or other human-made object in order to achieve a particular goal. Usability can also refer to the methods of measuring usability and the study of the principles behind an object’s perceived efficiency or elegance.
Notice how the definition is broad enough to encompass all things we interact with, not just websites, but telephones, doors, signs or books. The topic of transport usability is an interesting one, because most of us use some form of transport every single day. Most of the stuff we use we take for granted, but when you stop and think about it sometimes they’re so intuitive we just use it. That is the secret to usability.
Sadly only UK based event so far is in Edinburgh. Let’s hope more will come.
