WUDRome 2021

World Usability Day - Why?

The World Usability Day Rome, organized by NOIS3 – Experience Design Agency, is an event that every year brings together in Rome designers, researchers, developers and communication professionals from around the world with the mission of spreading Usability practices, Human-centered design principles and many other topics related to Service Design.

Due to the delicate situation surrounding the COVID-19 emergency, we decided to postpone the offline event to 2022 and make the 2021 edition online and in attendance from a number of company locations with access by reservation only.

Since 2005, on the second Thursday of November, there have been more than 200 events organized in over 43 countries all over the World celebrating the World Usability Day. It was born under the initiative of Usability Professionals ‘Association (UXPA) and brought to Rome for the first time in 2014 by NOIS3. In 2020 for the first time WUDRome was completely virtual due to the COVID-19 global emergency.

Our mission is to train professionals on tools and challenges that are crucial for Research, Development and Usability.

Our idea of event

Like last year we were busy planning a new edition for #WUDRome2020 until everything changed. Due to the delicate situation surrounding the COVID-19 emergency, we decided to postpone the offline event to 2022 and make the 2021 edition online and in attendance from a number of company locations with access by reservation only. We proposed to our community three different online formats to build the final one together.

The WUDRome Multi-Day learning & networking experience has proved to be the most popular format: three days with a time slot agenda with keynotes, talks, case studies and workshops, short breaks and Q&A sessions.

The World Usability Day Rome is also an opportunity to meet for the design community and beyond in person. We really miss this aspect so we thought of a new way to propose the event, the hybrid one.

The uncertain times have directed us towards this format that, with the purchase of the digital ticket, will also guarantee access to a physical hub for those who want to take advantage of it.

WUDRome has many friends! Some companies have opened their headquarters and the event will be in several Italian cities and not only, we will also stop in Switzerland!

Thanks to Microsoft, Caffeina and Sketchin we will reach, in addition to Rome, Bari, Parma, Milan and Manno (Lugano, CH).

Our idea of event

The uncertain times have directed us towards this format that, with the purchase of the digital ticket, will also guarantee access to a physical hub for those who want to take advantage of it.

WUDRome has many friends! Some companies have opened their headquarters and the event will be in several Italian cities and not only, we will also stop in Switzerland!

Thanks to Microsoft, Caffeina and Sketchin we will reach, in addition to Rome, Bari, Parma, Milan and Manno (Lugano, CH).

About the Organizers

Our Experience Design Agency NOIS3 is a key reference for User Experience and Human-Centered Design in Italy.

Our interdisciplinary team of researchers, designers, developers and strategists works with a co-design approach; every project starts with a research phase involving users and stakeholders to develop products and services that focus on the real needs of people. We believe that continuous research helps us understand customers’ needs, so we can build products people truly enjoy. We partner with our clients to design customer centric products and services, building unique and memorable brand identities.

We are training partners of different national and international organizations and businesses and we are organizers of WUDRome, one of the most important appointments in our country that gathers together international speakers, designers, researchers, managers, developers and digital communication professionals, with the mission to train professionals on tools and challenges that are crucial for research, development and good usability.

We strongly believe in the exchange of viewpoints and are organizers of the WIADRome – World Information Architecture Day Rome and meetups.

We love design and dissemination of best practices, we are creators of NOIS3 about Design Podcast.