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Beside team communications, this blog features posts written by community members. If you have a Lift account you can also share your thoughts and ideas by clicking here. Here is a post about the World Usability Day, an event organized by Florian Egger in Geneva.

World Usability Day was founded by the Usability Professionals' Association to ensure that the services and products important to life are easier to access and simpler to use.

Join us on Thursday 12 November at Hotel Bristol, Geneva, to participate in World Usability Day 2009.

This year, the event will have two parts:
1. Usability training courses in the afternoon
* How to integrate User-Centered Design into your projects by Mary Mooney, MBA (Telono)
* How to set up and run your usability tests by Florian Egger, PhD (Telono)

2. Presentations by invited speakers and our traditional networking apéro.
* Achieving Usability with Interaction Design Patterns by Ahmed Seffah, PhD (EHL/UNIL)
* TRIL : Technology Research for Independent Living by Claire Somerville, PhD (TRIL Centre)
* Apéro sponsored by Telono

Cost
Training (course materials included):
* Regular price: CHF 240
* Student price: CHF 100
Guest Speaker Presentations & Apéro: FREE

More Information & Registration

Dear LIFTers,

World Usability Day will take place on Thursday 13 November this year and I'm happy to announce that Telono is, once again, organizing a networking event in Geneva!

This year, for the first time, we will have several guest speakers eager to tell you about their experience of user-centred design in practice, as well as a demo of eye-tracking, followed by our traditional apéro.

To see the full program and to register, please go to:
http://www.telono.com/wud2008.htm

I hope to see you there & wish you all the best!

Florian.-