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UI10: Celebrating 10 Years

We're sorry you missed User Interface 10 this past October, 2005. We had more than 350 designers, information architects, and usability professionals from all over the world join us. We hope to see you next year for User Interface 11 in Cambridge, MA, October 9-12, 2006. If you would like to be updated when we announce the new program, you can sign up for our email newsletter, UIEtips.

We invite you to come Celebrate 10 Years of the User Interface Conference. This year's conference is all about the incredible hurdles design teams have faced and how advancements over the past decade will impact our future work.

Full Day Seminars

October 10, 2005

Creating Persuasion Architecture Online

Bryan Eisenberg and Jeffrey Eisenberg, Future Now

Develop a strategy for persuading your users to take action.  Based on user needs and motivations, you'll learn how to map your user goals with your business goals.

Creating Personas to Guide Design

Kim Goodwin, Cooper

See how to build effective Personas, translate user observations into Personas, and leverage Personas to persuade and educate stakeholders.

Deconstructing Web Applications: Learning from the Best Designs

Hagan Rivers, Two Rivers Consulting

Learn from the successes of dozens of web applications. See the best banking applications, human resources systems, and system administrator tools.

Getting the Most Out of Prototypes   Sold Out

Marc Rettig, Fit Associates

Explore how to create and use prototypes as tools for identifying problems, evolving a design, and improving team collaboration.

October 12, 2005

Web ReDesign Redefined: Strategies for Success   Sold Out

Kelly Goto, gotomedia

Leverage the 5 key stages for a successful Web site Redesign, including how to define the project, develop site structure, and design the visual interface.

How to Design a Task-Based Information Architecture

Gerry McGovern, Gerrymcgovern.com

Get a solid grounding in information architecture that will enable you to create designs that help users find what they want.

Roadmap to Markup Success: Understanding Structure and Style

Molly E. Holzschlag, Molly.com and Eric A. Meyer, Complex Spiral Consulting

Utilize XML, CSS, and XHTML to reduce your implementation workload while making your site accessible and browser independent.

Advanced Methods for Usability Testing

Rolf Molich, Dialog Design

Uncover the best practices for usability testing with rare insights pulled from research on more than a dozen usability teams.

Expert Speakers

Our world renowned UI10 speakers are the most-respected experts in the world of design.

Read all of the Speaker Biographies.

UI10 Highlights

UIE Showcase Seminar Day

Thursday, October 13th

Last year's UI conference attendees told us the UIE Showcase Seminar Day was the highlight of their conference experience.

Web Site Usability 2005: The Latest Research
UIE’s Jared M. Spool and Joshua Porter will share their outlook on the state of the web usability field today.

Product Usability Survival Techniques
UIE's Christine Perfetti will discuss the most successful techniques for incorporating usability practices into your development process.

UI10 Usability Practicum

Friday, October 14th    Session closed

Immediately following the conference, Rolf Molich, a leading expert in usability practices, will conduct the first-ever Usability Practicum.  This advanced full-day seminar for experienced usability practitioners will enable you to compare your skills to the field's best practices.

You will start by evaluating a web application with several usability techniques. You'll then compare your methods and findings to those of your classmates, dissecting and inspecting every step along the way.

Read the full Usability Practicum description. (Additional fee. Space is limited.)