Designing for a Sustainable World

November 16th, 2009

For those with an interest in design, user experience and sustainability, we are hosting World Usability Day Bangalore this Saturday, Nov 21 at the Yahoo! Embassy Golf Links campus. This is the 4th World Usability Day in Bangalore and this year’s theme is “Designing for a Sustainable World”.

Speakers at this year’s event will cover various design & sustainability perspectives including on green buildings, sustainability in the digital world, usability and sustainability in product design. The afternoon session will involve design activities and discussions facilitiated by speakers.

- Chitra Vishwanath, Architect, http://www.inika.com/chitra/

- Deepak Menon, India Water Resources Portal, http://www.indiawaterportal.org

- Eric Schaffer, CEO, Human Factors International, http://connect.humanfactors.com/profile/EricSchaffer

- Rakesh Ambati, Artist, Hacktivist and Founder, Braille Without Borders, http://braillewithoutborders.org

- Prof. Amaresh Chakrabarti, Head, Innovation, Design Study and Sustainability Laboratory (IdeasLab) Indian Institute of Science, http://cpdm.iisc.ernet.in/ideaslab/introduction.html

For more information on WUD, please refer to http://www.worldusabilityday.org/

. The event is hosted in hundreds of cities worldwide.

To register for the Saturday event, please add your name to: http://www.upabangalore.in/mwiki/mediawiki-1.15.1/index.php?title=WUD_Bangalore_2009

or email me.

The event is FREE and open to ALL. Please share the event with friends and colleagues who you think might be interested.

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