Luis, Interesting. Has this been brought to anyone's attention that can make the necessary changes? I would have thought, though I could be mistaken, that each local UPA chapter had some control in how they publicize this, call it, or create a URL for it. I can check with the founder/organizer about it to see if we can work with each chapter around the world to fix this for next year. But, it sounds like there was at least public mention of the effort?
Susie -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Luis de la Orden Morais Sent: Wednesday, January 23, 2008 10:34 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [IxDA Discuss] Why do crappy interfaces sell? "This is why World Usability Day was started a few years ago." With all due respect Sue, I cannot see how WUD is trying to reach the public with the World Usability Day when from the start the name of the event is not consistently localised to a country's language. You know, the always Coca-Cola/Toujours Coca-Cola principle. In Brazil, UPA calls the event as World Usability Day and the newspapers call it "Dia Mundial da Usabilidade", and the same happens in every other country as well, a little bit of a wasted PR effort, in my opinion. Well, considering that the the Brasilian url for the event, wud.com.br, contains the "w", a letter which would, it weren't for the word "Watts", be completely unheard of by the great public, one can see that it is not just crappy interface design that makes its way into the world but also basic mistakes such as language, which I believe should be there even before one starts talking about accessibility. It is easy to make it difficult. Nevertheless, if by public (internationally speaking), they mean "people from a certain social status who understand English" I have no argument as to how wide the public UPA is trying to serve is. Regards, Luis ________________________________________________________________ *Come to IxDA Interaction08 | Savannah* February 8-10, 2008 in Savannah, GA, USA Register today: http://interaction08.ixda.org/ ________________________________________________________________ Welcome to the Interaction Design Association (IxDA)! To post to this list ....... [EMAIL PROTECTED] Unsubscribe ................ http://www.ixda.org/unsubscribe List Guidelines ............ http://www.ixda.org/guidelines List Help .................. http://www.ixda.org/help ________________________________________________________________ *Come to IxDA Interaction08 | Savannah* February 8-10, 2008 in Savannah, GA, USA Register today: http://interaction08.ixda.org/ ________________________________________________________________ Welcome to the Interaction Design Association (IxDA)! To post to this list ....... [EMAIL PROTECTED] Unsubscribe ................ http://www.ixda.org/unsubscribe List Guidelines ............ http://www.ixda.org/guidelines List Help .................. http://www.ixda.org/help
