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    <city>Cambridge</city>
    <country>USA</country>
    <end-on type="date">2006-10-13</end-on>
    <full-description>Use BOXES promotion code and receive $50 off each day or $250 off a four-day registration.

Keynotes by Jared Spool and Barry Schwartz

Ground-breaking Full-Day Seminars:

Creating Persuasion Architecture Online 
Bryan and Jeffrey Eisenberg, Future Now 

Develop a strategy for persuading your users to take action.  You'll learn how to map your user goals with your site's business goals. 

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How to Design a Task-Based Information Architecture 
Gerry McGovern

Get a solid grounding in information architecture that will enable you to create designs that help users find what they want.

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Building and Managing a Successful User Experience Team 
Sarah Bloomer and Susan Wolfe

Learn proven processes for creating a successful usability team, including how the best teams work together and report success.

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Rich Internet Applications and AJAX
David (Heller) Malouf &amp; Bill Scott, Yahoo! 

Learn to create your own Rich Internet Application solution using powerful technologies, such as AJAX or Flash.

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Making Meaning: Creating an Engaging User Experience 
Nathan Shedroff

Learn the most effective processes for establishing a deep and meaningful connection with your users.

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Site Seeing: Communicating Successfully with Visual Design 
Luke Wroblewski, Yahoo! 

Get practical insights and strategies for boosting your site's visual appeal and delighting your users.

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Bringing User-Centered Design Practices into Agile Development Projects 
Jeff Patton, ThoughtWorks 

Utilize Agile Development processes to speed development, improve quality, reduce feature creep, and encourage team collaboration.

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Advanced Methods for Usability Testing 
Rolf Molich

Uncover the best practices for usability testing with rare insights pulled from research on more than a dozen usability teams.

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Full-day seminars by Jared Spool, Christine Perfetti, and Josh Porter</full-description>
    <id type="integer">22</id>
    <region>MA</region>
    <short-description>Our eleventh annual conference is being held October 9-12, 2006 in Cambridge, MA. We've lined up fantastic speakers giving full-day seminars on today's critically important design topics.</short-description>
    <start-on type="date">2006-10-09</start-on>
    <title>UI11 - User Interface 11 Conference</title>
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    <website>http://www.uiconf.com</website>
    <url>http://events.boxesandarrows.com/events/22</url>
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    <tag-string>agile developement, ajax, barry schwartz, bill scott, discount, gerry mcgovern, ia, information architecture, jared spool, luke wroblewski, managing teams, nathan shedroff, persuasion architecture, rias, teams, usability testing, user experience, visual design</tag-string>
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  <event>
    <city>Monterey</city>
    <country>USA</country>
    <end-on type="date">2007-01-24</end-on>
    <full-description>Web-based applications are quickly becoming critical components of the strategy of many organizations. However, the knowledge and skills to make a great application is still only available as scattered lore. Until now.

Jared Spool and UIE's researchers have reached out to those individuals who've spent the last few years pushing the envelope in web apps and put together the first comprehensive event to bring their knowledge and expertise to you. You'll meet the pioneers and world-class designers behind today's most successful web apps and come away inspired to create amazing applications that will delight your users.

We've carefully crafted this three-day event to give you what you need. You'll start your journey with our full-day tutorials, designed to dive right into the in-depth expertise behind creating successful applications. Then you'll explore our "Foundations" Day, with the essentials for great designs. And you'll wrap up in our "New Perspectives" Day, looking at where the world of web apps is going.

If you sign up using promotion code BOXES, you will receive $30 off each single day registration; if you sign up for all 3 days, you will also receive a free limited-edition Web App Summit iPod shuffle. (Note: This promotion cannot be combined with any other promotions we may offer.)

View the complete summit description, and register at http://www.webappsummit.com</full-description>
    <id type="integer">119</id>
    <region>CA</region>
    <short-description>UIE Web Summit is being held January  21-23, 2007 in Monterey, CA. We've lined up fantastic speakers giving full-day seminars and short talks on the most critical issues surrounding today's web apps.</short-description>
    <start-on type="date">2007-01-21</start-on>
    <title>UIE Web App Summit </title>
    <virtual type="boolean">false</virtual>
    <website>http://www.webappsummit.com</website>
    <url>http://events.boxesandarrows.com/events/119</url>
    <logo-url>http://events.boxesandarrows.com/event/logo/119/72dpiJPG.jpg</logo-url>
    <tag-string>adaptive path, ajax, blogs, california, conference, design, ebay, event, experts, flickr, folksonomies, hr block, jared spool, monterey, netflix, personas, rias, san francisco, speakers, tagging, tutorial, ui, usability, user experience, users, ux, web app, web application, web applications, web apps, webbased applications, webbased applications, wikis, yahoo</tag-string>
  </event>
  <event>
    <city>Boston</city>
    <country>USA</country>
    <end-on type="date">2007-11-09</end-on>
    <full-description>Register for all 4 days by October 23rd with the promotion code BOXES to receive $30 off each day and a limited-edition UI12 iPod video http://www.uiconf.com

BOXES promo code cannot be combined with any other special offer or promotional code, and is only valid for 4 day registrations. 

For the User Interface 12 Conference 
( http://www.uiconf.com ), Jared M. Spool and his team of usability researchers have asked the most forward thinking minds in the world of usability to present on today's most pressing design topics.  

For 4 full days, you'll learn in-depth techniques from these top experts, and come away with the knowledge and confidence necessary to tackle your biggest design challenges. 

Now in its twelfth year, the UI12 Conference examines the most critical web design and usability issues facing designers, information architects, and usability professionals. Topics include: Agile Development, Task-based Information Architecture, Usability Testing, Visual Design, Building Innovative Designs, Communicating with Comics, Interaction Design, and Designing with CSS. 

On Monday, November 5th, you'll have the chance to attend one of four full-day seminars from Larry Constantine, Gerry McGovern, Rolf Molich, or Luke Wroblewski. 

On Tuesday, November 6th, you'll have the chance to attend several of the informative and entertaining 90-minute Featured Talks from each of our conference speakers, as well as the UI12 Conference Keynote presentation from Jared M. Spool. 

On Wednesday, November 7th, you'll have the chance to attend one of four full-day seminars from Scott Berkun, Kevin Cheng, Kim Goodwin, or Cameron Moll. 

We'll cap off the week on Thursday, November 8th, with our Showcase Seminar Day, where you can choose between UIE's most popular seminars.</full-description>
    <id type="integer">196</id>
    <region>MA</region>
    <short-description>User Interface 12 is being held November 5-8, 2007 in Cambridge, MA. We've lined up fantastic 
speakers giving full-day seminars and short talks on today's most pressing usability and design issues.</short-description>
    <start-on type="date">2007-11-05</start-on>
    <title>UI12 - User Interface 12 Conference</title>
    <virtual type="boolean">false</virtual>
    <website>http://www.uiconf.com</website>
    <url>http://events.boxesandarrows.com/events/196</url>
    <logo-url>http://events.boxesandarrows.com/event/logo/196/ui12-badge.gif</logo-url>
    <tag-string>agile development, book, book seller, comics, content, content management, css, design, designer, developer, engineering, folksonomy, information architecture, innovation, interaction, interface, jared spool, management, personas, professional, seminar, social, social web design, taxonomy, testing, tutortial, ucd, uie, usability, user, ux, visual design, web application, web site, workshop</tag-string>
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  <event>
    <city>Coronado</city>
    <country>USA</country>
    <end-on type="date">2008-03-29</end-on>
    <full-description>Use the promo code "BOXES" to receive $30 off each day and a limited-edition Web App Summit 2008 iPod nano. Promotion ends on 2/26.

Over the three days of Web App Summit 2008, you'll meet the innovators and world-class designers behind today's most successful web apps, and come away inspired to create amazing applications that will delight your users.

We've carefully crafted this three-day event to give you what you need. 

We start with four full-day tutorials covering the most critical topics for your success. Between them, the world-renowned experts leading these seminars have more than 100 years of experience designing applications for practically every industry, from financial services to entertainment. They've created an information-packed day designed to get every question you have answered and deliver you the essential insights for creating great applications.

On the second day, we've chosen each session to give you the essentials for designing a successful web application. You'll come away with a full stock of tips and techniques you'll want to share with your entire team.

On the third day, we'll explore the best practices for implementing successful web applications. We've chosen the biggest experts in the world of web development to give you a full spectrum of techniques and insights. 

Days 2 and 3 feature a "peer-to-peer" luncheon, where you'll connect up with others who are tackling the same challenges you're facing and learn from their experiences. 

Speakers include: Luke Wroblewski, Kim Goodwin, Leisa Reichelt, Indi Young, Steve Mulder, Jeremy Keith, Bill Scott, Derek Featherstone, Keith Robinson, Sean Kane, and of course, Jared M. Spool. 

Use the promo code "BOXES" to receive $30 off each day and a limited-edition Web App Summit 2008 iPod nano. Promotion ends on 2/26.

View the complete summit description, and register at http://www.webappsummit.com</full-description>
    <id type="integer">358</id>
    <region>CA</region>
    <short-description>Web Summit 2008 is being held March 26-28, 2008 in Coronado, CA. We've lined up fantastic speakers giving full-day seminars and short talks on the most critical issues surrounding today's web apps.</short-description>
    <start-on type="date">2008-03-26</start-on>
    <title>Web App Summit 2008</title>
    <virtual type="boolean">false</virtual>
    <website>http://www.webappsummit.com</website>
    <url>http://events.boxesandarrows.com/events/358</url>
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    <tag-string>adactio, ajax, blogs, california, conference, coronado, design, ebay, event, experts, flickr, folksonomies, jared spool, netflix, personas, rias, san diego, speakers, tagging, tutorial, ui, usability, user experience, users, ux, web app, web application, web applications, web apps, webbased applications, webbased applications, wikis, yahoo</tag-string>
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    <city></city>
    <country></country>
    <end-on type="date">2008-10-23</end-on>
    <full-description>[The UIE Virtual Seminars, User Interface Engineering's monthly series of online seminars, gives you the chance to hear the latest perspectives in the world of design from the field's premier experts. Instead of traveling to a training course, you and your colleagues can hear the latest insights on the most important design topics right from your office. Once you purchase the seminar, you can watch the presentation right on your PC screen. ]

However, it doesn't have to be that way. Useful insights can come just by having the chance to talk with and observe participants in the most informal of settings, such as caf&#233;s, trade shows, and the company cafeteria. You can get value from a quick test, even if you only have 2 days to pull it off, or don&#8217;t have a working design yet. Traditional by-the-book testing has its merits, but you can still get valid, useful results by cutting out the time-consuming and budget-busting expenses.

Usability testing expert Dana Chisnell knows what it means to work by-the-book &#8211; she co-wrote &#8220;the book&#8221; (The Handbook of Usability Testing) with Jeff Rubin. In this seminar, Dana will break down the process of collecting user research data, exploring the must-haves, the nice-to-haves, and the certainly-can-do-withouts. You'll learn how you can answer your essential design questions using methods that would make MacGyver proud.

This presentation is perfect if you have yet to conduct your first usability test. If you&#8217;re experienced with testing, Dana will show you some new ways to inject user research into those tight-on-resources projects that keep cropping up.

Register today with the promotional code ARROW and receive our lowest price of just $99!</full-description>
    <id type="integer">541</id>
    <region></region>
    <short-description>It's not clear when "quick and dirty" became a dirty phrase in the usability world. Some believe that testing must be scientific, and that takes time and money &#8212; luxuries not often available.</short-description>
    <start-on type="date">2008-10-22</start-on>
    <title>UIE Virtual Seminar: Usability Testing in the Wild</title>
    <virtual type="boolean">true</virtual>
    <website>http://www.uie.com/events/virtual_seminars/wild/</website>
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    <tag-string>dana chisnell, jared spool, uie virtual seminar, usability testing</tag-string>
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  <event>
    <city></city>
    <country></country>
    <end-on type="date">2009-01-16</end-on>
    <full-description>Every design consists of thousands of decisions. Smart, well-informed decisions lead to a great design, while poor, uninformed decisions result in something users despise. Making the right decisions is critical to the design's success.

Solid user research methods, such as usability testing and field studies, help us learn about our users and their needs. However, collecting the data is just the first step. To succeed, we must assemble the seemingly random stuff we learned into a coherent and confident set of recommendations for the team to act on -- often with a tight schedule and a limited budget.

In this presentation, Jared M. Spool will share state-of-the-art techniques to get from observation data to informed decisions. He'll show you the best practices for teams to organize chaotic data, develop consensus, bring objectivity out of subjective observations, and produce clear design recommendations. You'll learn how to maximize your research investment with a concrete set of analysis techniques.

Register with the promotion code BOXES for our lowest rate of just $99!</full-description>
    <id type="integer">598</id>
    <region></region>
    <short-description>Smart, well-informed design decisions lead to a great design, while poor, uninformed decisions result in something users despise. Making the right decisions is critical to the design's success.</short-description>
    <start-on type="date">2009-01-15</start-on>
    <title>UIE Virtual Seminar - Road to Informed Decisions</title>
    <virtual type="boolean">true</virtual>
    <website>http://www.uie.com/events/virtual_seminars/The_Road/</website>
    <url>http://events.boxesandarrows.com/events/598</url>
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    <tag-string>design, jared spool, the road to informed decisions, uie, user interface engineering, virtual seminar</tag-string>
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