The program for the Belgian Usability Day 2008 is finally announced:
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Taking social networks global: design patterns & tips (Peter Van Dijck)
Social networks are growing all over the world, but how are the IA’s of these networks managing this? What patterns and strategies do they use? What are the challenges? What works and doesn’t? (…)
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Digital identity and self-representation in social networks (Amandine Feix-Villain, Groupe Reflect)
When one speaks of social networks, we necessarily think about people who interact and try to find a meaning for themselves and the community in which they evolve and structure their digital identity. Having a digital identity means that you deliberately manage several facets that corresponds to specific objectives, needs and self-valorisation (…)
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Travel Experience: Brussels Airlines case study (Audrey benoit, Brussels Airlines & Raphaël de Robiano, Emakina)
This is the story of a total user experience mission for Brussels Airlines. The mission consisted to live the experience users make with the product of our client (…)
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Traffic congestion. What can the designer do but despair? (Joannes Vandermeulen, Namahn)
(…) A lot of congestion is wholly unnecessary and avoidable, if only the design of the interface was right. Aren’t traffic signs the user interface between the driver and the road infrastructure?
More information can be found at http://usabilityday.be.