Goals
According to the UPA official web site the UPA's goals are to:
- provide an international network through which usability professionals can share information about the techniques and methodologies in the profession,
- create an inclusive community for those interested in usability, whether it is their primary focus or a related discipline,
- change new product development processes to include a concern for the people who use them by presenting the business case for usability in product development to colleagues, customers, the public and governmental agencies,
- increase the body of knowledge about usability and user-centered design through professional education, meetings and conventions and other professional interchanges.
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Famous quotes containing the word goals:
“Let us beware of saying there are laws in nature. There are only necessities: there is no one to command, no one to obey, no one to transgress. When you realize there are no goals or objectives, then you realize, too, that there is no chance: for only in a world of objectives does the word “chance” have any meaning.”
—Friedrich Nietzsche (1844–1900)
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—Nadine Gordimer (b. 1923)
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—Judith Viorst (20th century)