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This article includes nine questions that anyone interested in user experiences can ask themselves that will help them lessen a product’s impact on the Earth. From remote usability testing and communicating persuasive test results to green design strategies and ideas for making your workplace greener, this article offers usability professionals advice for creating green usability tests, advocating for a green product interface, and being a green heroine or hero locally and globally.
Mobile phones have been a boon to developing countries and to social development. Access to mobiles may indeed allow for better medical information, change the way farmers grow and sell crops, expand the way families interact, influence the way governments treat their citizens, and improve the way students learn in schools. But what is the real story behind these benefits? And who really gains from them? In our ongoing series on Mobile Myths and Realities: Deconstructing Mobile” we turn to how women are or are not benefitting from the ibiquity of mobile telephony. What did we find?