[Sigia-l] World Usability Day events Nov. 3

[Cindy McCracken]

Hi, everyone.

I'm forwarding this message for those of you interested in celebrating World 
Usability Day this Thursday in the Triangle area in North Carolina. These 
are great events! Hope some of you can participate.

Cindy McCracken

>   Date: Tue, 1 Nov 2005 16:01:22 -0500
>   From: Rick Cecil <rickcecil at gmail.com>
> Subject: Participate in World Usability Day for a chance to win one of two 
> $50 cash prizes
>
> Thursday, November 3rd, is World Usability Day -- an international event
> created to promote the benefits of developing products that have a great
> user experience. Events are being held in 100 locations throughout the
> world, including RTP. For more information about World Usability Day 
> events
> in the Triangle, please visit triux.org <http://triux.org> <> 
> http://www.triux.org/>.
>
> In honor of World Usability Day, we're sponsoring a "Usability Ticketing"
> contest. The winners (there will be 2) of the contest will receive $50 
> cash
> each. Find the ticket and the full instructions on how to enter the 
> contest
> here: http://www.triux.org/usability-ticket/
>
> What is usability, you ask? Think about products that never work the way 
> you
> expect. You press one button expecting the thing to start and instead it
> turns off. That's a usability issue. A product can also have good 
> usability;
> from something as simple as a door that opens how you expect it to open to 
> a
> cell phone that makes calling your friends super-easy.
>
> The deadline to be considered for the contest is Thursday at noon. We'll
> hold a drawing of all the entries Thursday afternoon and announce the
> winners during the usability ticket review at the event Thursday night. 
> The
> only catch is that you must attend the event in order to receive the cash.
> If you don't show, you don't get the dough. (Yeah, definitely not one of 
> my
> better attempts at a rhyme.)
>
> The event is this Thursday, November 3, from 6pm to 9pm @ MCNC. For
> directions, visit http://www.triux.org/mcnc/. More details about the event
> can be found here: http://www.triux.org/2005/10/its-almost-here/
>
> Email me, Rick Cecil @ rick at triux.org, if you have any questions. I'm on 
> the
> digest, so do email me directly so that I can answer your question as
> quickly as possible.'
>
> Thanks!
> Rick
>
> PS For those who have been reading the triux.org <http://triux.org> blog, 
> we
> have made a few changes to the contest: the deadline has been extended; 
> and
> we are now holding a random drawing of entries instead of looking for the
> most interesting ticket.
>
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