On November 12, World Usability Day, the Design for Usability symposium on usability for professional and consumer electronics will take place in Delft. The event targets usability and design professionals as well as academics. The morning program features state of the art lectures on usability and design:

• Gerrit van der Veer (president of CHI): Designing for a moving target - from functionality to usability to experience
  
• Cees van Dok (creative director frog design Europe): The challenges in interaction design for consumer and professional electronics
  
• Abbie Vanhoutte and Robert Eijlander (Océ-Technologies): Usability in a productive print environment
  
• And, well ehh, me, with: No silver bullet - why making usable consumer electronics requires organizational change

The afternoon program consists of workshops for usability specialists, designers, and product developers, with subjects such as: managing design for usability in practice, advanced user research and evaluation, guiding and changing user behavior, and small usability techniques.

Participation in the symposium is free of charge, but tickets and especially workshop slots are limited, so registration is required. The event takes place at the Faculty of Industrial Design Engineering of TU Delft, in The Netherlands.