SUX EP 08 - "World Usability Day and a Usability Revolution" with Elizabeth Rosenzweig

What has hiking in common with World Usability Day and Sustainability?

In this episode we were joined by Elizabeth Rosenzweig, the founder and director of the World Usability Day. We spoke about how World Usability Day started, why it has a strong relation with Sustainability from the very beginning and what its relation to World Earth Day is.

And why hiking? When you go hiking in the wilderness there is one important rule: leave no trace. The question is, how do we design to leave no trace, to cause no more harm?

We discussed how UX and design need to change and how some of our design paradigms need to change and how we can bring this topic to the UN. Further we spoke about why collaboration and cooperation is the topic for this years WUD and even more, why it is an important basis for sustainability.

We also discussed mental health as part of sustainability, the rough times for the design communities nowadays in terms of layoffs and how we can navigate through.

In the end we got down to the core: the problems of capitalism and narratives that are driven by business people only - but also what we could or should do to work towards more balance here.

And we came up with an idea for a global joint workshop of World Usability Day Initiative and the SUX Network we might do in the beginning of 2024. Stay tuned.

If you want to learn about how World Usability Day started and why it is strongly connected to Sustainability or how we could and should tackle the big challenges nowadays with and in design and why we need to get the UN involved, tune in to this episode of the SUX podcast.

Elizabeth’ Channels:

LinkedIn: ⁠https://www.linkedin.com/in/elizabethrosenzweig/⁠

Elizabeth’ Website: ⁠https://designresearchforgood.org/⁠ and ⁠http://www.bubblemtn.com/⁠

Elizabeth’ Book “Successful User Experience: Strategies and Roadmaps": ⁠https://shop.elsevier.com/books/successful-user-experience-strategies-and-roadmaps/rosenzweig/978-0-12-800985-7⁠

Website World Usability Day: ⁠https://www.worldusabilityday.org/⁠

Our Channels:

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Thorsten's⁠ LinkedIn⁠

Isabel's⁠ LinkedIn⁠

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Email us at ⁠podcast@sustainableuxnetwork.com⁠ to share your feedback or suggest future guests.