Press Releases

November 11, 2008	Usability in Transportation ... User Experience Magazine 7.4
October 28, 2008	4th Annual World Usability Day Launches The Global Transport Challenge
January 28, 2008	UPA Supports Easier Access to Government for all Citizens
January 24, 2008	The Power of Goals: From Governments to Geeks ... User Experience Magazine 7.1
November 8, 2008	Usability in Healthcare...User Experience Magazine 6.4
September 25, 2007	Big Brother is Watching...User Experience Magazine 6.3
August 28, 2007	Usability Conference Focuses on Diversity of Roles Involved in User Experience
July 6, 2007	European designers to meet in World Design Capital to promote usability and design
May 28, 2007	All about the Business of Usability in User Experience Magazine 6.2
February 15, 2007	40 countries and 40,000 people participate in World Usability Day: User Experience magazine reports
January 10, 2007	UPA Appointed to US Access Board Federal Advisory Committee for Section 508 Standards
January 3, 2007	UPA Announces Board of Directors for 2007
October 18, 2006	Usability And Accessibility Key To Democracy: User Experience Magazine
September 6, 2006	Ignoring Alarms : Turning Off Technology with Deadly Results - User Experience Magazine
June 14, 2006	UPA Recognizes Volunteer Leaders: Richard Bellaver, Keith Instone, UPA China Chapter
June 12, 2006	WORLD USABILITY DAY NOVEMBER 14, 2006: Second Annual Global Event Launches Website and Event Registration at International Conference
May 5, 2006	Usability Professionals' Association Urges Consideration of Plain Language
September 30, 2005	World Usability Day- November 3, 2005: Events in 35 Countries Promote “Making It Easy”
June 16, 2005	Journal of Usability Studies to Start in Fourth Quarter of 2005
June 15, 2005	Recognizing Extraordinary Service: UPA Announces New Awards
May 16, 2005	UPA Joins in Urging the Carter-Baker Commission on Federal Election Reform  to Consider Design and Usability as Critical Factors in Elections
March 4, 2005	World Usability Day - November 3, 2005: Events Planned Around the World Will Showcase “Making It Easy”
March 4, 2005	UPA Issues Comment on Proposed Department of Transportation Rule on Non-Discrimination in Air Travel
July 6, 2004	UPA President Joins Election Assistance Commission's Technical Guidelines Development Committee
March 4, 2004	Justin Hamilton - Friend of Usability at Peace Software
September 16, 2003	UPA Supports Federal Court Decision in California Recall
July 23, 2003	Usability Has Ten Friends at Trane Global Controls and Contracting
March 31, 2003	UPA German Chapter Organizes Usability Professionals Track at Mensch & Computer 2003
February 17, 2003	UPA Members Advise Air Travelers About Usability
July 7, 2002	UPA Board of Directors' Position Statement on Certification for Usability Professionals
November 14, 2000	Palm Beach Ballot Design Problems Could Have Been Avoided, Say Usability Professionals
June 23, 1998	Improving Product Usability Would Strengthen Economy, U.S. Department of Commerce Official Says
June 17, 1998	Usable Technology Products Critical to Corporate and Government Productivity, Competitiveness, Efficiency

UPA in the News

• Technology's Untanglers: They Make It Really Work - Barbara Whitaker
  An article about the emerging usability profession, featuring quotes by Ginny Redish.
  (New York Times) July 8, 2007.
• Le succès de l'Internet
  A view of what makes Internet sites successful in a Montreal webzine.   (LeStudio1 - July 4, 2005)
• Les stylistes d'Internet: De nouveaux scientifiques s'appliquent à rendre les sites Web moins rébarbatifs (Internet Designers: New Scientists Work to Make Web Sites Less Unpleasant) - Pauline Gravel
  The UPA Conference was heralded in the Montreal newspaper Le Devoir, with quotes from French Track organizer, Alain Robillard-Bastien. (Le Devoir, Montreal, June 28, 2005)
• Large users hope for broader adoption of usability standard - Patrick Thibodeau
  The ISO's technology standards committee voted late last month to accept the standard, known as the Common Industry Format for Usability Test Reports, or CIF. (ComputerWorld) June 20, 2005.
• Usability experts ease tech anxiety- Victor Godinez
  An article on usability as a profession in the featured quotes from UPA board members. (Dallas Morning News, Sunday, August 1, 2004)
• Usability features in bedside computer development
  UPA VP Richard Bellaver was interviewed by Inside Indiana Business about usablity testing of a bedside computer for Ball Memorial Hospital. The article includes a video of the interview. (July 2004)
• Double-check, click once to pay city tickets - Christine Tatum
  UPA Board members Larry Wood and Whitney Quesenbery are quoted in this article about a new online service in Chicago to pay traffic and parking tickets. (Chicago Tribune, Oct. 29, 2001)
• From Ballots to Cockpits, Questions of Design
  UPA President, Elizabeth Rosenzweig, is quoted in this article on usability and design. (NY Times. Jan. 23, 2001)

 

Press Contact

Please direct all press inquiries to the Executive Director:

John E. Kasper, PhD
executive-director@upassoc.org
140 N. Bloomingdale Road
Bloomingdale, IL  60108-1017
Phone: 1-630-980-4997
Fax: 1-630-351-8490