World Usability Day

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World Usability Day
World Usability Day presentation at La Salle University, Columbia
Also calledMake Things Easier Day
DateSecond Thursday in November
2023 dateNovember 9  (2023-11-09)
2024 dateNovember 14  (2024-11-14)
2025 dateNovember 13  (2025-11-13)
2026 dateNovember 12  (2026-11-12)
Frequencyannual

World Usability Day (WUD) or Make Things Easier Day,[1] Established in 2005 by the Usability Professionals Association (now the User Experience Professionals Association), occurs annually to promote the values of usability, usability engineering, user-centered design, universal usability, and every user's responsibility to ask for things that work better. The day adopts a different theme each year.

References

  1. ^ Tim Bedore (2006-11-14). "How about Make Things Easier Day?". American Public Media's Marketplace (radio program). Retrieved 2006-12-27. Today is World Usability Day, a day to promote intuitive engineering and user-friendly design. Commentator and humorist Tim Bedore is all for it, if only we could come up with a better name . . .