Cambridge USA 2006-10-13 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. - o - o - 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. - o - o - 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. - o - o - Rich Internet Applications and AJAX David (Heller) Malouf & Bill Scott, Yahoo! Learn to create your own Rich Internet Application solution using powerful technologies, such as AJAX or Flash. - o - o - Making Meaning: Creating an Engaging User Experience Nathan Shedroff Learn the most effective processes for establishing a deep and meaningful connection with your users. - o - o - 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. - o - o - 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. - o - o - 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. - o - o - Full-day seminars by Jared Spool, Christine Perfetti, and Josh Porter 22 MA 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. 2006-10-09 false http://www.uiconf.com http://events.boxesandarrows.com/events/22 http://events.boxesandarrows.com/event/logo/22/UI11-badge.jpg 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 Philadelphia USA 2008-07-17 The first and only web design conference for IT Professionals working in Higher Education. Join us and meet world renowned experts in the fields of usability, user centered design, CSS, AJAX and many others. Designers, Developers, and Project Managers will all be able to benefit from the content presented over the course of two days. In addition to the formal presentations, you will have the opportunity to meet and interact with people building and designing web applications in all the same areas you do: Student Affairs, Faculty Issues, Administrative Procedures, and others. Topics covered will include AJAX and Web 2.0 technologies, usability testing, CSS, Web form design, content management systems, developing secure applications, SEO, usability, and presentation skills for IT professionals. The conference is sponsored by the University of Pennsylvania and has a focus on Web practices in higher education, but the topics covered are not especially unique to higher ed. All practitioners will get a lot out of the material. Seats are limited, so sign up today. The first 200 people to sign up will get a get to win a MacBook Air! 442 PA A two day conference focused on the unique challenges of web design and development in academia featuring Jared Spool, Eric Meyer, Luke Wroblewski, and many others. 2008-07-15 false http://www.med.upenn.edu/uiconf/ http://events.boxesandarrows.com/events/442 ajax, css, eric meyer, higher ed, higher education, jard spool, luke wroblewski, phillychi, seo, university of pennsylvania, upenn, usability, web 20, web forms 2008-11-14 The Web has been transformed by the recent proliferation of rich interactions and social applications. But the workhorses of the online world, Web forms, have been slow to evolve with these changes. As brokers of crucial online interactions like e-commerce checkout and registration, forms bridge the gap between people, their information, and your product or service. As a result, Web form design matters. But web forms aren't keeping up. Building on topics in his top-selling book, Web Form Design: Filling in the Blanks, Luke Wroblewski (bio) will walk you through the latest applications of rich Web form interactions (made possible by dynamic technologies like Ajax) including: flexible inputs, dynamic help systems, inline validation, selection dependent inputs, and more. He'll also outline how gradual engagement approaches to form design can create compelling new user experiences for a wide variety of Web applications and services. Learn how these modern approaches to Web form design can enhance your sites! 568 The cutting edge of web form design, with Yahoo!'s Luke Wroblewski, author of "Web Form Design: Filling in the Blanks". 2008-11-13 true http://www.rosenfeldmedia.com/webinars/webforms/ http://events.boxesandarrows.com/events/568 http://events.boxesandarrows.com/event/logo/568/luke-wroblewski.jpg interaction design, luke wroblewski, user experience, web forms