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MicroUsability is an organization that provides user-centered market research and testing that feeds directly into the creation of user-centric products. We have help government bodies, companies and other organizations formulate a user experience strategy that aligns with their business or performance goals. The end goal that we seek is to create products that users will love to use.

MicroUsability was founded in 2001 by Tahira Sultan and Gul Khan. Now, a private organization with 8 shareholders, MicroUsability is growing into becoming major player in the Usability Engineering market in the Asia Pacific region and eventually globally. The Company's vision is to be a premier usability engineering services provider with the best of breed methodologies and practices, and eventually to build a global network of Usability Associates across the world.

MicroUsability has trained over 500 government officers on the benefits and the methodologies of usability through its training partnerships with the PR Academy, an initiative of the Ministry of Information, Communication & the Arts as well as the National University of Singapore.

Through its long term partnership with iDA, MicroUsability helped the Singapore Government kickstart the Web Interface Standards (WIS) used by all government websites and in October 2005, the Singapore Government (on consultation by MicroUsability released the e-Service Design Checklist which will be used by all ministries as a design guideline for all future e-Service development (it contains over 50 design guidelines).