World Usability Day unites individuals and communities across the globe to focus on our shared intent: usable products. The day is meant for celebration of our successes thus far in the creation of products and services that are easy to use, and to shine a light on the importance and impact of design and usability.  

and to shine a light on the importance and impact of designing for trust, ethics, and integrity.  

3rd Annual CCSQ World Usability Day 

The Information Systems Group within the Center for Clinical Standards and Quality (CCSQ) strives to design, build, and continuously improve human-centered and innovative products, services, and policies to advance quality initiatives. In keeping with this mission, CCSQ will celebrate its 2nd  3rd Annual World Usability Day on November 1210, 20202021. 

Design of Our Online World

This year’s theme is Human-Centered Artificial Intelligence (AI). Together we will explore designs and systems that are both highly automated and allow a great degree of user control. The goal is to expand human capabilities while maintaining our safety by designing and utilizing AI that we can trust and rely on. Human-centered AI is relevant today and will become even more relevant as we design and build human-centered and innovative IT solutions. From an online writing assistant to the way we regulate the temperature of our homes, AI is changing things all around us. 

Timely Topics and Engaging Speakers 

Design of Our Online World: Trust, Ethics, and Integrity. With this theme, we seek to examine online products and design systems that are helping us to stay connected, learn, and grow in these transformational times. We also aim to address critical issues such as dark patterns and ethical design, designing for trust, and diversity, equity, and inclusion.  

Timely Topics and Engaging Speakers 

CCSQ will welcome a diverse group of speakers to share their knowledge and insights during a virtual event with an open-house format. Highlights include: 

• Navigating the Complexity of Trust. Carol J. Smith from Carnegie Mellon University will explore trust and how UX practitioners can define and measure it. 
• In What We Trust? Cupid Chan with Pistevo Decision will explore trust, ethics, and integrity as he outlines complex considerations with AI and the latest in Federated Learning.  
• Losing Patients: Trust, Compliance, and the Patient Journey. Hunter Whitney with eSimplicity and Mehlika Toy, Ph.D. with Stanford University School of Medicine, will present a case study about Hepatitis B, patient-centered tools, and non-compliance from the patient perspective.  
• Customer Engagements with Human-Centered Design. Suzanne Martin-Devroye and Morgan Taylor with the Customer-Focused Research Group will share an overview of their work across CMS and how it informs policymaking. 

• Accessible Insights: Democratizing User Research with Jira and Confluence. Lesley Humphreys with Bellese Technologies and Fan Huang with Ad Hoc will present a case study about creating a research repository accessible to many CCSQ programs. 

Check out our speakers and session schedule to learn more. 

Earn Required Training Credits 

ISG Federal employees can use CCSQ World Usability Day as a direct contribution to spend 5% of their time, approximately 8 hours per month, on self-education. Management review and approval of training attendance must occur before registration. After attendance, ISG Employees can self-attest to their attendance and education hours and will record those hours on the ISG Education Connection Training Tracker. 

HCD Center of Excellence 

CCSQ’s World Usability Day is planned by the HCD Center of Excellence. The HCD CoE is an organization that impacts the way CCSQ delivers policy, products, and services to its customers. Through the provision of education, support, and resources, we promote the continued implementation and use of HCD best practicesIn celebration of World Usability Day 2020, we will welcome a diverse group of speakers to share their knowledge and insights during our virtual event with an open-house format. Check out our speakers and session schedule to learn more.