World Usability Day 2009: The Karlskrona Challenge
On Thursday, November 12, cities and towns around the world will be celebrating World Usability Day 2009. This year’s theme is ”Designing for a Sustainable World.” In Karlskrona, BTH is hosting a design contest that invites students and community members to design a product or service that promotes sustainability and makes life simpler for a person, a community, or a business.
Contestants in The Karlskrona Challenge should spend the next month developing and testing design concepts with relevant stakeholders. To assist in these efforts, BTH will host workshops to discuss participatory design (PD) and user-centered design (UCD), share user research methods and tactics, and discuss sustainability as defined by The Natural Step‘s four system conditions. Contestants may work alone or with teams. For more information and to register for the contest, visit karlskronachallenge.org.
Recognizing that we are all designers and that we each hold different pieces of the sustainable design equation, The Karlskrona Challenge provides an opportunity for urban planners to learn from mobile designers, for engineers to learn from business minds, for sustainability practitioners to learn from product designers.
Final contest entries will be presented as posters on November 12 at the Rotundan on the BTH Karlskrona campus. Entries will be judged by a panel of experts, and prizes will be awarded that evening. The event will be open to the public and to industry representatives between 16:00 and 20:00.
Interested participants should register online at karlskronachallenge.org by November 5.
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