On the occasion of World Usability Day 2007

Organized by

Conference: 30th Nov.Workshops: 1st & 2nd DecVenue: Indian School of Business, Hyderabad, [email protected]

3rd Annual National Conference on Usability

This is an Earth-Day-style event, focused on easy-to-use technology, which last year involved 250 events in 45 countries. The Usability Professionals' Association is doing that by encouraging, organizing, and sponsoring 36 hours of activities around the globe

World Usability Day 2006 promotes the value of usability engineering and user-centered design and the belief that every user has the responsibility to ask for things that work better.http://www.worldusabilityday.org/

UMO-2007 is a unique opportunity to learn, exchange ideas, share resources, and network. This National event is an easily accessible, affordable way to acquire new techniques, view best practices, and understand issues facing our profession without a huge investment in time, expense, and travel.

Conference site: www.umo.in/umo2007

UsabilityMatters.Org (UMO)

UsabilityMatters.Org is a non-profit organization working towards design awareness and exchange of design sensibilities. It is a forum dedicated to discussing, improving and promoting the work of the Usability and Interaction design community in India.

It has got 550+ members from all around the world

UMO has successfully organized World Usability Day 2005 and World Usability Day 2006 at ISB

www.usabilitymatters.org

What do you gainLEARN about important trends, cutting edge methods, and

case studies in usability and user-centered design.NETWORK with folks who do what you do, and meet

employees.LEAVE motivated to create user experiences that drive results

with a toolkit of techniques and best practices.

Who attends the conference & Workshops

Usability and user experience professionals Interaction designers Information architects Executives, managers, team leaders and usability advocates Students and newcomers to the field of usability and user-centered design Project team members who want to improve the usability of their products UI Developers Software engineers Quality/testing engineers Documentation professionals Architects Design enthusiasts/design sensitive users

For the conference on 30th Nov. confirmed attendees are 250 For the Workshops on 1st and 2nd Dec- confirmed attendees are 100 For the exhibition (1st – 4th Dec), we are expecting around 20,000 people Online UMO site got 1,10,000 hits from all around the world

UMO2007 Event HighlightsUMO2007 &World Usability Day 2007 conference

Date : 30 November, 9am to 7pmVenue: ISB( Indian School of Business)

UMO2007 workshopsDate : 1st & 2nd December, 10am to 5pmVenue: to be announced

UMO 2007 Bad Design ExpoCartoon and Bad Design Contest entries would be put up for a public exhibition for one week

From 1st to 4th Dec. 2007, at State Art Gallery, Hyderabad

UMO2007 Event Highlights

UsabilityMatters.Org’s -Boycott Bad-Design Contest’07

UMO is holding this competition for identifying Bad-Designs as part of our activities towards the World Usability Day-2007. Participation is open to everybody from every country in the world, and from any background- designers and design sensitive consumers!

Theme for the Competition: Day-to-day nuisances with Technologyhttp://www.usabilitymatters.org/archive/2007-08-26/umo__boycott_bad_designs_conte&t=entrypage_template.html

Please have a look at Boycott Bad- Design Contest’06 & Boycott Bad-Design Contest’05 results

UMO2007 Event Highlights

UsabilityMatters.Org’s -International Cartoon Contest’07 7

The UMO-International Cartoon Contest'07 is organized by UMO towards the World Usability Day. Participation is open to all cartoonists from every country in the world.

Theme for the Competition: Health via Technologyhttp://www.usabilitymatters.org/archive/2007-08-26/umo__3rd_international_cartoon&t=entrypage_template.html

Please have a look at International Cartoon Contest ‘06 and International Cartoon Contest’05 results

Your Organization as the Lead Promoter Amount: INR 2,50,000

Benefits Exclusivity in presenting sponsor category 15 minutes of promotional slot in the conference Your Logo

Along with the title “UMO2007” promoted by ‘Your Company’ UMO2007 literature UMO(www.usabilitymatters.org) Website for EVER Press releases on T-shirts

Your banner At the Conference back stage At the Conference (30th Nov) At the workshops (1st & 2nd Dec) At the exhibition (1st to 4th Nov)

Corporate brochure in the event kit 20 free registration passes to the Conference (Worth Rs.60,000) 10 free registration passes to the Workshops (Worth Rs. 20,000)

Contact: [email protected] or 9849301500(Kaladhar Bapu) [email protected] or 9490925945 (Sourabh Sharma)

Your Organization as Platinum Sponsor Amount: INR 1,50,000

Benefits Your Logo

UMO2007 literature UMO(www.usabilitymatters.org) Website for EVER Press releases


Corporate brochure in the event kit 15 free registration passes to the event (worth Rs. 45,000) 6 free registration passes to the Workshops (Worth Rs. 12,000)


Your Organization as Gold Sponsor Amount: INR 75,000

Benefits Your Logo

UMO2007 literature UMO(www.usabilitymatters.org) Website for EVER


7 free registration passes to the event (worth Rs. 21,000) 4 free registration passes to the Workshops (Worth Rs. 8,000)


Your Organization as Silver Sponsor Amount: INR 50,000

Benefits Your Logo


Your banner At the Conference (30th Nov) At the exhibition (1st to 4th Nov)



Your Organization as Bronze Sponsor Amount: INR 25,000

Benefits Your Logo


Your banner At the Conference (30th Nov)

2 free registration passes to the event (worth Rs. 6,000) 1 free registration pass to the Workshops (Worth Rs. 2,000)


International Cartoon Contest Sponsor Amount: INR 1,00,000

Benefits Your Logo

UMO2007 literature UMO(www.usabilitymatters.org) Website for EVER Press releases




Bad Design Contest Sponsor Amount: INR 50,000

Benefits Your Logo


Your banner At the Conference (30th Nov) At the exhibition (1st to 4th Nov)



Value Proposition for sponsorship

Driving your commitment towards User experience and Making Life Easy Gaining credibility amongst the Usability Community Taking first step towards ‘User Experience Economy’ Connecting to the huge pool of India Usability Community Enhancing the prospects of recruiting Usability Design and Engineering talent Attending and Listening to UX experts is invaluable to your Usability Designers/PMs/Technical

writers/Developers

Thank you

Contact: [email protected] or 9490925945,9951443856 (Sourabh Sharma) Usability Matters Org.

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On the occasion of World Usability Day 2007