Welcome to this wiki created to catalyze the Bangalore Design and User Experience community!

• This Wiki is a follow up from the Nov 14 World Usability Day Bangalore community event hosted by Oracle. (http://www.wudbangalore2006.com). It attempts to create a space for the audience of that event and other interested parties to share their ideas.

• During World Usability Day and subsequent to the event, several of the audience members had asked critical questions: How can we sustain the community momentum from events such as WUD? What are other modes for the Bangalore UX community to connect? How can we drive a broader social imperative to have more usable products, services, and experiences?

• Here are a couple of ideas we brainstormed - we look forward to hearing yours as well!

- Talk with peers face to face in a focus group about what you’ve been doing in your organization

- Start a usability newsletter in your organization

- Host an open public forum in local languages (Tamil, Kannada, Hindi, others) to define 'usability'

- Invite local academics from Srishti, RVCE, Ramaiyya, NID Outreach campus, and IISc to a round table

- Invite school and college students to our labs over pizza/conversation

- Identify a few easy targets - technology services and products people face usability problems with

- Create a simple sustained online community

- Start an informal lecture series within our community, one every month such as http://www.pecha-kucha.org/

- Put together a 'crappy unusable stuff' museum

- Learn about the Indian government's National Design Policy

- Debate on the limitations of the 'jugaad' approach