I don't know how it works in the US but to certify something in Europe you need to have a ISO standard behind you. So what we give is "Accreditation". We are going to start doing this before the end of the year since we're still ironing out the last details.
APPU does its fair share of free public events and we appear frequently in the media so the IT community is already fairly aware that we exist and what we stand for. That's very important before pushing this kind of accreditation system. For now we are going to evaluate companies based on their compliance of a set of general UX guidelines. For small companies, if the head of UX is also the director or partner of the company and at the same time they are full fledged members of APPU, then they can bypass Accreditation. For larger companies it's harder to bypass it, but still possible. Jorge: we have about 40 members right now. About half of them are full members, 5 are students and the rest are what we call "Correspondent" members. Only full members can be elected but everyone can vote. We also have close to 300 subscribers of our mailing list. Given the current UX scene in Portugal we really can't complain. Chauncey: I can give you more details about this in about a month. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Posted from the new ixda.org http://gamma.ixda.org/discuss?post=21962 ________________________________________________________________ *Come to IxDA Interaction08 | Savannah* February 8-10, 2008 in Savannah, GA, USA Register today: http://interaction08.ixda.org/ ________________________________________________________________ Welcome to the Interaction Design Association (IxDA)! To post to this list ....... [EMAIL PROTECTED] Unsubscribe ................ http://gamma.ixda.org/unsubscribe List Guidelines ............ http://gamma.ixda.org/guidelines List Help .................. http://gamma.ixda.org/help
