The 2024 World Usability Initiative (WUI) Design Challenge theme was "Designing for a Better World". Award winners were announced on World Usability Day, 14 November 2024:
- Gold: Mobu - Enhancing Financial Literacy and Management through Goal-Directed Design and Gamification in Personal Finance Application, by: Phuong Lien To
- Silver: “Recysack” Text-messaging System For Waste Pickers In Iran, by: Sahar Kourangbeheshti
- Bronze: NaviBus-Reimagining Bus Rapid Transport System for visually impaired in India, by: Conscious Collective (Amitha Mohandas, Vishwa Desai, and Rishika Sood)
HCI International 2025 congratulates the winners and sponsors the three awards (Gold $1,250; Silver $1,000; and Bronze $750) that will be conferred during the Opening Plenary Session in the evening of the 24th of June 2025.
The three award winners are also cordially invited, with complimentary registration, to present their work in a special hybrid session of the Conference on the 25th of June 2025.
World Usability Day is a single day of events occurring around the world that brings together communities of professional, industrial, educational, citizen, and government groups for our common objective: to ensure that the services and products important to life are easier to access and simpler to use.