This Thursday, November 10, 2022 marks the 18th year of World Usability Day (WUD).
The annual worldwide event brings together people from all walks of life to focus on a single objective: make sure the services and products important to life are easier to access and simpler to use.
No one should struggle with products and services that don’t work well or technology that gets in the way of getting things done.
This year’s theme for World Usability Day: Our Health.
You don’t have to be working in the user experience or design field to attend World Usability Day events, events are open to the public.
And you have a wide range of events:
- In-person public events
- Online events
- Virtual networking events
will be held around the world as people discuss, celebrate, and learn about usability as it relates to our health.
You can find a list of all 2022 World Usability Day events on their website.
Given the pandemic, many events are virtual. Which means everyone can attend an event.
World Usability Day 2002 Events
I’ve researched the virtual events (some include an in-person format as well); here are some of my favorites.
World Usability Day Austria 2022
UX communities throughout Austria are celebrating their third collaborative World Usability Day Austria 2022, with a hybrid event: in person and remote.
The free event offers five 30-minute talks in English, presented on YouTube Livestream, Zoom, and onsite. Registration is required for Zoom.
Note the schedule: some talks are online while others are noted with a city location.
Talks include:
- Medical Devices & UX: Thomas Grill, CEO of UXfocus
- Design Interventions in Emergency Care: Katharina Payr, Interaction Designer & Business Administrator
- Digital accessibility and gamification as a method for creating awareness of one’s own health: Daniela Elisabeth Ströckl, Lecturer & Researcher – Carinthian University of Applied Sciences
- Ethical research practices in the digital health space: Mirjam De Klepper, UX Research Lead – Clue
- 5 Transdisciplinary Collaboration Case Studies of eHealth / UX / Design / Development: Master Students of FH Joanneum, Graz
The event closes with a panel discussion about this year’s theme, moderated by Johannes Lehner, UX Graz.
The Good, The Bad & The Ugly – Usability Lessons from National Healthcare Apps
Hosted by Cyber-Duck’s CEO and founder Danny Bluestone, the free webinar on how to design healthcare apps focuses on:
- Why health apps matter
- Putting the user at the heart of the experience
- Learning from the best (and worst) examples of national healthcare apps from across the world
- How the systems, processes and IT behind the scenes need to adapt to facilitate a modern user experience.
- Design lessons to transform your healthcare app and deliver a patient-centric experience
The free, virtual event will be held on Zoom, preregistration for the webinar is required.
World Usability Day 2022 Cleveland
Uxibility hosts a free, full-day (six and 1/2 hours) World Usability Day Cleveland 2022 virtual event for novice to intermediate user experience professionals.
Welcome and introductions kick off the day with sessions starting at the top of the hour and a one-hour break half-way through.
Sessions include:
- “Unusable”: Time Theft & Financial Peril from Ineffective Technology: Lisa D. Dance
- Doctors and UXers are People, Too: Krista Lipps
- Nudges, Sludges, and Other Notifications: Anna Abovyan
- Best Practices on A/B testing in Healthcare: Deb O’Malley
- Customer Service’s Role in UX: Andy Rusnak
The World Usability Cleveland 2022 event requires preregistration to reserve a spot.
Summary
Join people around the world on November 10, 2022 for World Usability Day to listen and discuss how we can make healthcare usable by everyone.
The three events I highlighted are only a few of the activities happening that day.
I plan to attend several of the World Usability Day Cleveland events that day, which event do you plan to participate in?
