The last day was good in the sense that we got to learn a few concepts about accessibility, internationalization (better known as ‘l18n’), localization and globalisation of websites. The idea of localization is quite exciting wherein one develops websites for an audience of a particular country or region. Coke for instance has developed local websites for India, Japan, Nigeria and UK and all the websites, despite maintaining the branding value of Coke looked different in their content and visuals. They were appealing more towards the local audience of that respective country.
Since today was the last day of the seminar, we had bought out cameras and were merrily clicking some of the final moments of the day and jotting down each others email IDs. Let’s hope we write to each other frequently and discuss the usability problems which we face in our everyday lives. Also it was time to revisit whatever we did in the past days and a short paper was given to us to solve. Aadesh and myself spent some time with Hemal discussing some websites and the future of usability engineering. This technology, as we all agreed has already found its roots in India and in the coming days more usability engineers would be required to support the IT industry. Meanwhile I had a wonderful at Pizza Hut where Aadesh and I have been going everyday after the seminar gets over. Later also went to Planet M to pick up some DVDs of my favorite Hindi movies – Dil Chahta Hai and Hum Tum.
As a parting gift we all decided to stay in touch by starting a group on YAHOO! Groups. I would be happy to moderate such a group which would look at usability objectively. At present though I am thinking about what to call it. Suggest something in the comments if you can :-)
