Our March 31 webinar, A Practitioners Guide to Prototyping, is full of great stuff for you: a critical topic, a rock star presenter, loads of actionable takeaways, a free PDF copy of an acclaimed book, a bonus seminar. What more could you want for your team?
Prototyping is an iterative process. You discover what works, [...]

When our applications grow large and complex, how do we help users find the right commands and functions? If we were talking about large data sets, we’d build in a search capability. Would search also work for finding commands?
Our good friend, Hagan Rivers, explores that question in this issue of UIEtips. Inspired by our recent [...]

The topic of our next UIE Virtual Seminar is so important, and no one talks about it. On Thursday, January 28, Steve Portigal will deliver his talk: Deep Dive Interviewing Secrets: Making Sure You Don’t Leave Key Information Behind.
(Oh, and by the way, our last event sold out, so you’ll want to Register your [...]

This month, I’m making the rounds in New England, New York, and Old Washington DC.
Presentation: Revealing Design Treasures of The Amazon

STC NNE – Wednesday, January 13, 2010, 6pm
The Northern New England Society for Technical Communicators Chapter
Dion Center, Rivier College, Nashua, NH

NYC UPA – Tuesday, January 19, 2010, 6pm
New York City Usability Professionals Association Chapter
Bloomberg L.P., [...]

With today’s additions to the UIE Web App Masters Tour, we complete our line up for the first stop in San Diego. (When is that, you ask? Why it’s March 23-24. We can’t wait to be there.)
Joining the other seven presenters for our two-day deep dive into all things wonderful about Web Apps will be:

Hagan [...]

Good news, everyone.
We’ve lined up two more Masters for our UIE Web App Masters Tour. We’re thrilled to announce Bill Scott and Ken Kellogg will be joining us.

Bill Scott
First, let me say this: Bill is the nicest person on the entire planet. You’ll notice this the moment you talk to him. But that’s not [...]

Hot off the presses! We’ve just finalized two more Masters for the UIE Web App Masters Tour, Julie Zhuo and Christian Crumlish. We’re thrilled they can join us.

Julie Zhuo
The designers at Facebook try hard to make Facebook users happy. It’s a hard-to-please audience, and there’s 350 million of them. As Facebook’s Product Design Manager, [...]

This is exciting. We’re putting the finishing touches on our upcoming UIE Web App Masters Tour. An event this momentous takes months to make happen. And now, we’re just days away from having every detail lined up.
Here’s the facts:
We’re going to 4 cities between March and July, 2010: San Diego, Minneapolis, Philadelphia, and Seattle. We [...]

Join us January 12 for our next webinar: Leveraging Search & Discovery Patterns For Great Online Experiences, with Peter Morville and Mark Burrell.

Producing a brand new event is exciting. Lots to think about: the speakers, the topics, and the locations. Yet what immediately separates one conference from another is its name.
We’ve launched a ton of events in the 21 years we’ve been around. But this time, we were a little stuck for the name. So we put [...]