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Take the Global Transport Challenge Beginning November 13th

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World Usability Day and the Usability Professionals' Association will launch the Global Transport Challenge on November 13th.  It's an easy way for you to understand how you use transportation everyday and the impact it has on our environment.

You will be able to:

  • MEASURE your everyday transportation usage
  • MONITOR your  personal carbon travel footprint and compare yourself to othersaround the world
  • MINIMIZE your energy usage through alternative transportation choices, carbon offsets, and simple travel changes  thereby  maximizing the impact on our world.

Why Participate?

By taking the Global Transport Challenge you will be actively making a difference in your life and in the lives of others.

The information you will receive will help you make simple changes in the way you travel each day that will save energy, and have lasting impact on you, your community, and the world.  It's fun, It's easy, It's important!

Learn more and take the Global Transport Challenge
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Over 170 Events Held Worldwide on November 13, 2008!

The tremendous World Usability Day community held over 170 events in 43 countries for World Usability Day 2008.  Highlights will be available on the site over the next week.  Check out event  pictures at Flickr.

What is World Usability Day?

It's about making our world work better.
It's about "Making Life Easy" and user friendly. Technology today is too hard to use. A cell phone should be as easy to access as a doorknob. In order to humanize a world that uses technology as an infrastructure for education, healthcare, transportation, government, communication, entertainment, work and other areas, we must develop these technologies in a way that serves people first…

World Usability Day was founded in 2005 as an initiative of the Usability Professionals' Association to ensure that services and products important to human life are easier to access and simpler to use. Each year, on the second Thursday of November, over 225 events are organized in over 40 countries around the world to raise awareness for the general public, and train professionals in the tools and issues central to good usability research, development and practice.