I didn't even know that today is World Usability Day

which is related to the idea of robust systems....

Sara Snyder, a webdesigner for a Smithsonian unit, writes:

Wishing you all a very happy World Usability Day today!

This year’s theme is transportation, which highlights the fact that usability is not just about the web. Usability is about making all sorts of everyday designs more user friendly, from trains and city signage to cellphones, cameras, voting machines, coffee pots, seatbelts, and yes, web sites.

In honor of World Usability Day, I’d like to share the “Top 5” on my own personal usability greatest hits reading list:

-- Don't Make Me Think: A Common Sense Approach to Web Usability, by Steve Krug (book)
-- The Design of Everyday Things, by Donald A. Norman (book)
-- Alertbox: Current Issues in Web Usability, by Jakob Nielsen (online newsletter)
-- Usability.gov, a primary government source for information on web usability and user-centered design (web site)
-- A tie between 2 online magazines: UX and A List Apart: User Science

Let me know if any of you have questions or thoughts about usability. It’s all about making people’s lives just a little bit easier…