{"id":2223,"date":"2005-11-01T14:34:00","date_gmt":"2005-11-01T14:34:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/test.simple-talk.com\/uncategorized\/world-usability-day\/"},"modified":"2016-07-28T10:48:40","modified_gmt":"2016-07-28T10:48:40","slug":"world-usability-day","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.red-gate.com\/simple-talk\/blogs\/world-usability-day\/","title":{"rendered":"World Usability Day"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Thursday 3rd November is <a href=\"http:\/\/worldusabilityday.org\/\">World Usability Day<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>A day that is hugely anticipated.&#160; Millions will take to the streets, trying to catch a glimpse of their favourite usability guru, sagely administering sermons on the woes of unusable products.&#160; I can see it now &#8211; it&#8217;ll generate almost as much fervour as the results for the Estonian Eurovision Song Contest entry in 1961.&#160; You can just smell the excitement.<\/p>\n<p>Don&#8217;t get me wrong, I&#8217;d love this to be a success, but I just can&#8217;t help but feel that we&#8217;ve got a long way to go until it&#8217;s ranked above other prestigious events, like for example, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.badgers.org.uk\/brocks-world\/11save01.html\">World Badger Day<\/a>.&#160; <\/p>\n<p>If this day does help to raise the awareness of this mismatch between rubbish products and user needs, then that&#8217;s all well and good, but how long before it&#8217;s actually taken seriously?&#160; When can we expect to see the public rise up and demand better?&#160; When will we be able to use technology and not be made to feel stupid?&#160; <\/p>\n<p>My guess is that this is a very long way away.&#160; Why?&#160; I actually don&#8217;t think a user often recognises the fact that something is unusable.&#160; I think they struggle along with the tools that they have, seemingly oblivious that they could actually be far better.&#160; So that seems to place the emphasis on the designers to come up with usable designs.&#160; Will that happen?&#160; Maybe eventually, but marketeers seem to be in love with additional functionality and merging companies limit the choice we have and prevent smaller companies from gaining market share.<\/p>\n<p>So maybe World Usability Day is the way forward.&#160; Raise awareness of the everyday rubbish designs that we have to endure so that the mindset may change to demand it elsewhere.<\/p>\n<p>I live in hope.<\/p>\n<p>Auntie Mavis<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Thursday 3rd November is World Usability Day. A day that is hugely anticipated.&#160; Millions will take to the streets, trying to catch a glimpse of their favourite usability guru, sagely administering sermons on the woes of unusable products.&#160; I can see it now &#8211; it&#8217;ll generate almost as much fervour as the results for the&#8230;&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":54375,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"coauthors":[],"class_list":["post-2223","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blogs"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.red-gate.com\/simple-talk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2223","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.red-gate.com\/simple-talk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.red-gate.com\/simple-talk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.red-gate.com\/simple-talk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/54375"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.red-gate.com\/simple-talk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2223"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.red-gate.com\/simple-talk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2223\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":41325,"href":"https:\/\/www.red-gate.com\/simple-talk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2223\/revisions\/41325"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.red-gate.com\/simple-talk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2223"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.red-gate.com\/simple-talk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2223"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.red-gate.com\/simple-talk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2223"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.red-gate.com\/simple-talk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=2223"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}