Website Development

I can’t tell you how excited I am that we are only a week away from the start of the User Interface 11 Conference. There’ll be more than 400 attendees from all over the world. There are folks coming from Africa, Europe, Asia, and North America.

Strangely enough, I failed to mention this before now – maybe it’s because I don’t have enough work to do.

That aside, I thought I’d fill you in on where I’ll be when I get there.

Conference Session Choices: (Complete Adgenda)

• Monday, October 9, Full-day Seminar:
  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.
• Tuesday, October 10, Featured Talks:
  Attending
• Wednesday, October 11, Full-day Seminar:
  Bringing User-Centered Design Practices into Agile Development Projects
  Jeff Patton, ThoughtWorksUtilize Agile Development processes to implement a shorter development lifecycle, improve quality, reduce feature creep, and encourage team collaboration.
• Thursday, October 12, UIE Showcase Seminar:
  Spool – New Perspectives in User Experience Design

One session I will sadly miss is:

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.

I would love to go to this, but instead I’m planning on reading his book and have been keeping up on his usability blog – Functioning Form. Hopefully I’ll be fortunate enough to share a few ideas with him if I can catch him.

This will be the first time attending this conference and I have huge aspirations to network and absorb as much as possible during the short stay. Then the fun begins when I get to apply all the knowledge into development.

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