Welcome & Reception

Sign in at the conference and join speakers and conference staff for light food and drinks.

Full-Day Seminars:

• Usability Testing Techniques—Dana Chisnell
• Bulletproof Ajax: Designing Interactive and Usable Ajax Solutions—Jeremy Keith
• Subject to Change: Product Strategy and Planning Tools for Great User Experiences—Peter Merholz and Andrew Crow
• Visual Design for the Web: Communicating with Customers—Luke Wroblewski

Featured Talks:

Tuesday, October 14th is our Featured Talks Day. This is our “sampler” day where all of the conference speakers give informative and entertaining 90-minute presentations.

• The Quick, the Cheap, and the Insightful: Conducting Usability Tests in the Wild—Dana Chisnell
• 16 Challenging Steps to Becoming an Experience-Driven Organization—Peter Merholz
• Serious Design Considerations When Using AJAX—Jeremy Keith
• Content Page Design Best Practices—Luke Wroblewski
• UI13 Keynote: Jared M. Spool
• The Essentials of Agile Development—Jeff Patton
• Where Usability Meets Desirability: Visual Design with Personas and Goals—Kim Goodwin
• Why Designers Fail and What to Do About It—Scott Berkun
• Design Games for Gathering Customer Insights—Donna (Maurer) Spencer

Join speakers and conference staff at the UI13 Conference Reception from 5:30 p.m. — 7:30 p.m.

Full-Day Seminars:

• The Myths of Innovation: How to Lead Breakthrough Projects—Scott Berkun
• The Essentials of Interaction Design—Kim Goodwin
• Information Architecture: Best Practices for Organizing Your Site's Content—Donna (Maurer) Spencer
• Bringing User-Centered Design Practices Into Agile Development Projects—Jeff Patton

UIE Showcase Seminar Day

We've invited world-renowned psychologist, Bill Verplank, to start the day with the Spotlight Plenary on Sketching Metaphors.

Then, you have your choice between two seminars:

• New Perspectives in User Experience Design—UIE's Jared M. Spool
• Product Usability: Survival Techniques—UIE's Christine Perfetti