World Usability Day: A First for Pakistan By Imran Hussain
December 9, 2008 by graphics
Filed under December 2008, Trendlines
World Usability Day (worldusabilityday.org) was celebrated in Pakistan for the first time at an event organized by the Interaction Design Center (www.ixdc.org) at the University of Management and Technology in Lahore on November 13, 2008. The event was part of a globally-coordinated effort with simultaneous events taking place in 170 cities and 45 countries across the world.
The Lahore event attracted more than 200 participants for this year’s theme, ‘transportation’. The speakers spoke about the design of transport safety and security, modes of transportation, transportation infrastructure, information technology in travel and signage related to transportation in Pakistan. Speakers at the event included Imran Hussain, Director of IxDC and a User Experience Consultant; Google Map Maker creator Lalit Katragadda via a live video conference from the Google Campus in Bangalore, India; Badar Khushnood, Google Pakistan Country Consultant; Ehtisham Rao, Mobilink and Adjunct Faculty at LUMS, Ahmed Rafay Alam who linked usability with democracy.
The event, like others, pushed their presence and coverage through the online media, whereby streaming the event live through the ixdc.org website and having bloggers and writers engage in live blogging during the event.
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