World Usability Day 2009 is Thursday this week. The topic in 2009 is Designing for a Sustainable World. Hence check worldusabilityday.org for an event nearby – easy and CO₂-friendly to reach.

Editor's picks (that's me):

• WUD Prague with the Sun NetBeans UX team and the special guest Mr. Sun A11y Peter Korn.
• WUD Hamburg with a special session on sustainability.
  

Get ready for the World Usability Day 2009. Although there is some time left until Nov-12, the CfP for the event in Hamburg is out (submission deadline is July-31). What I really like this year is the attempt to have a variety of session formats and the common theme of sustainability. As Bill Buxton said in his wonderful closing keynote at CHI08, there is no contradiction between design and green. Now I should count the Watts that Sun VDI is saving with the current paradigm shift from PCs to desktop virtualization.

> Call for Participation

The webcasts from World Usability Day 2008 in Hamburg have been posted. [All presentations were held in German.]

enjoy
Matthias