The Design for Usability Symposium of November 12 was visited by more than 300 people! The lectures of the morning program as well as the 8 workshops in the afternoon were recieved with much enthousiasm by the audience. The lectures can still be viewed via this link.

In the media
VARA Radio: Kassa!
De Telegraaf

Conference proceedings
Abstracts of the lectures and workshops will be published in a conference proceeding that will be ready early 2010. All people that applied for the symposium will recieve a copy. If you did not subscribe for the symposium but you would like to get a copy, please send an email to info@designforusability.org.

Usability

Usability: The extent to which a product can be used by specified users to achieve specified goals with effectiveness, efficiency and satisfaction in a specified context of use [ISO 924-11]. Or in common language; is the user able to use the product.

Goal

The goal of this project is to reduce usability problems with electronic products by developing and offering companies a coherent design methodology to anticipate expectations and needs of users on the one hand, and product influences on use practices on the other.

Collaboration

The project Design for Usability is a collaboration of the three Technical Universities of The Netherlands together with the companies Philips, Océ, Thales and Indes. This large project is divided into five sub-projects. On each sub-project is one PhD working.