Happy World Usability Day!

Happy World Usability Day everyone! This year's theme is "Transportation." There are tons of webcasts on the World Usability Day website and a message from Bill Gates. We have the following WUD events in Canada. Listen to a webcast or attending an event near you. Let's celebrate!!

• Conférence Journée mondiale de l'utilisabilité «Transport» / Montréal-Québec (UPA), Montréal & Québec

• Image-Based Card Sorting of Pictographic Road Signs, Toronto

  In keeping with the theme of transportation, the User Experience Practice at Bell | District will be conducting a large-scale online card sort of pictographic road signs used for the identification of tourism sites in Quebec.  ***Participate now at https://websort.net/s/78DFD1/ (English) or https://websort.net/s/C0DCB7/ (French)***Local start: 00:00 Etc/GMT-5 (Thursday 6th of November 2008 12:00:00 AM)

• Draw! Sage's first annual design showdown, Richmond, BC

  Sage's UCD team will host an extreme design showdown on the topic of “Transportation” . Using UCD processes, each team will race against the clock during the lunch hour to develop the most useful, usable and desirable design!  Winners will be announced on Nov 14^that noon. Local start: 12:00 Canada/Pacific (Wednesday 12th of November 2008 03:00:00 PM)

• Designing website nevigation based on top task management, Ottawa

  Come discuss how to apply best-practices in contextual navigation strategies to increase productivity, conversions and engagement. Local start: 19:00 Canada/Eastern (Thursday 13th of November 2008 07:00:00 PM)

• Designing navigation with task management - Free WUD webinar, Ottawa

  Free webinar on the design and use of context-sensitive navigation based on top task management techniques. Local start: 15:00 Etc/GMT (Thursday 13th of November 2008 10:00:00 AM)

• Toronto CHI World Usability Day Evening 2008, Toronto

  Three presentations: Human Factors issues in Driving; Transit Camp Experience, Designing for Seriors' Mobility details at www.torchi.org. Local start: 19:00 Etc/GMT-5 (Thursday 13th of November 2008 07:00:00 PM)

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