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

Forthcoming events

• * March 6 Monthly meetup and guest lecture

  Registration : Leave your name, # & company name as a comment here or mail the same to Amit Pande at pande.amit@gmail.com

Event Archive

• World Usability Day, 2007 - World Usability Day, Bangalore, 2007

   

• World Usability Day, 2006 - http://www.wudbangalore2006.com

Ideas archive

- 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 CPDM (IISc), Srishti, RVCE, MS Ramaiah, 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

-- Conduct more such activities(not necessarily as huge as WUD :D) at colleges, where there is almost no stress anytime on the Designer point of view, they are trained to be coder like bread and butter for the industry(though acceptable to an extent). Somewhere on the lines of Param, the alternative career thought.

- Take up design excercise of process/product/any unusable element in the city with the twin aims of perpetuating usability to the larger audience(many things can get kick started from here...) and connecting to our Usability peers and working/interacting/learning from them.