| IDEA 2008 |
October 7-8, 2008. Chicago.
"A conference on designing complex information spaces of all kinds." Here's the program and speakers. Sponsored by the Information Architecture Institute. Via Communication Nation. (Posted 9/08) 
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| IEEE Viz08 |
October 19-24, 2008. Columbus, Ohio.
"The premier forum for visualization advances in science and engineering for academia, government, and industry." These are the topics addressed. (Posted 9/08) 
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| Interation 09 |
February 5-9, 2009. Vancouver.
"Join several hundred Interaction Designers from around the world as we address the design of interactive systems of all types: applications (web and desktop), mobile, consumer electronics, digitally enhanced environments, and more." (Posted 9/08) 
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| VizThink North America '09 |
February 22-25, 2009. San Jose.
"This year we’ll be emphasizing the roll of storytelling in visualization." These are the topics and sessions. (Posted 9/08)
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| SWSW Interactive |
March 13-19, 2009. Austin.
Panel topics cover everything from web design, usability, and blogging to wireless innovation and new technology business models. (Posted 9/08) 
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| From Business to Buttons |
June 12-13, 2008. Malmo, Sweden.
Conference focusing on experience design with an emphasis on how to bridge the gap between the business goals and the product in use. These are the presentations from the conference. (Posted 3/08, Updated 9/08)
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| How Design Conf |
June 24-27, 2009. Austin.
The creativity, business, and technology conference for graphic designers. Sponsored by How Magazine. (Posted 9/08)
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| Engaging Personas and Narrative Scenarios |
By Lene Nielsen. "A study on how a user-centered approach
influenced the perception of the design process in the
e-business group at AstraZeneca" 2004 Ph.D. dissertation, Department of Informatics, Copenhagen Business School.
Via InfoDesign.
(Posted 9/08)
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| Getting People to Talk: An Ethnography & Interviewing Primer |
By Gabriel Biller & Kristy Scovel.
"In the spring of 2008, we talked to professors, experts, and students about this philosophical orientation and how to actually get people to talk." A 33-minute video.
Via E-Learning Post.
(Posted 9/08)
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| Adaptive Path Explores the Future of the Browser |
"Aurora is a concept video presenting one possible future user experience for the Web, created by Adaptive Path as part of the Mozilla Labs concept browser series.
Aurora explores new ways people could interact with the Web in the future based on projected technological trends and real-world scenarios." Jesse James Garrett, the cofounder of Adaptive Path and the person who coined the term "Ajax," is the lead designer for Aurora.
Via InfoDesign.
(Posted 9/08)
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| ScrnShots.com |
"ScrnShots is the best way to take and share screenshots of web and screen based design. Upload as many screenshots as you want, embed them in your blog, discuss them with your contacts and become a better designer!"
Via Xblog.
(Posted 9/08)
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| Dashboard Insight |
"The latest in Business Performance Management tools, technologies and concepts." The site also hosts articles and podcasts.
(Posted 9/08)
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| Web Design Dashboard |
Huge list of web design, development, and maintenance resources.
Via Xblog.
(Posted 9/08)
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| lifehacker |
"Tech tricks, tips and downloads for getting things done."
(Posted 9/08)
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| 2008 Bloggies |
"The annual non-profit competition that determines which blogs are the best of the best."
(Posted 9/08)
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| UX Week 2008 |
August 12-15, 2008. San Francisco.
This is the schedule. These are the sessions from 2007. Many have slides and some have audio posted. Select "Read more..." after each session and look at the Session Materials in the upper right. (Posted 7/08)
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| Learning 2008 |
October 26-29, 2008. Orlando.
Learning 2008 is designed by and for learning implementers.
These are the mini-sessions,
and these are the keynote speakers.
(Posted 7/08)
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| jboye08 |
November 4-6, 2008. Aarhus, Denmark.
jboye08: professional knowledge-sharing in a social atmosphere. The 4th annual conference held in Aarhus, Denmark by J. Boye. The original focus was content management, but since then the focus has expanded. 
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| DevLearn08 |
November 11-14, 2008. San Jose, California.
"DevLearn 2008 Conference & Expo is where the most experienced and knowledgeable professionals in the e-Learning industry convene each year to explore, discuss, and learn about the best ideas and technologies for e-Learning." Sponsored by the <>eLearning Guild. (Posted 7/08)
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| World Usability Day |
November 13, 2008.
This year's theme is Transportation. The site lists events conducted all over the world. There's also a community page. (Posted 7/08) |
| 10th Annual Braintrust International Knowledge Sharing Summit |
November 18-20, 2008. Orlando.
"This 3-day event is a summit focusing on the people-side of knowledge management and how communities of practice, social network analysis, and specific technologies can be used to create a trusting knowledge management environment to increase product development, innovation, and measurable retention."(Posted 7/08)
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| Online Information 2008 |
December 2-4, 2008. London.
Offers experienced e-Learning design, development, and management professionals a comprehensive program packed with the best practices, the newest tools, the hottest technologies, and the most successful strategies for e-Learning. Sponsored by the eLearning Guild. (Posted 7/08)
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| CHI 2009 |
April 5-9, 2009. Boston.
"CHI 2009 will be the showcase for the technologies, designs and ideas that will form the new world of digital life." These are links to past CHI conferences. (Posted 7/08)
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| ASTD 2008 |
June 1-4, 2008. San Diego.
"The industry's most esteemed speakers and experts will be on-hand to share their latest ideas, theories, and solutions--all with a common goal of helping you achieve your strategic goals and attaining excellence promoting workplace learning and performance in your organization." Speaker handouts from the 2007 conference are available here. (Posted 7/08)
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| Current Web Style |
By Ben Hunt, Scratchmedia
"This is where I try to sum up the current state-of-the-art in graphic design for web pages, and identify the distinctive features that make a web page look fresh, appealing and easy to use."
See also Ben's Web 2.0 how-to design guide.
(Posted 7/08)
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| How to Design |
By Leah Buley, Adaptive Path. The presentation is actually titled "How to Be a UX Team of One," but it's really about how to do design.
Via E-Learning Post.
(Posted 7/08)
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| Capturing the Whole User Experience |
By Indi Young, Adaptive Path. "The key to creating a business that addresses the entire spectrum of user experience is to build empathy with your customers. An effective way to do this is to create a mental model, one that considers all the different ways an organization interacts with its users: stores, account statements, customer service calls, product ordering websites, packaging…everything."
Indi's slides and audio are both available. This presentation illustrates the approach Indi develops in her book Mental Models/.
(Posted 7/08)
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| Data Visualization Blogs You Might Not Know About |
20 of them. From Random Etc..
Via InfoDesign.
(Posted 7/08)
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| UX Zeitgeist |
"Important books and topics on user experience design, according to the UX community."
(Posted 7/08)
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| 2008 STC Conference Session Materials |
Downloadable handout materials from several previous sessions are also available:
the 2007 conference,
2006 conference, and the
2005 conference.
(Posted 8/00, Updated 7/08)
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| Information Design Patterns |
By Christian Behrens. Part of a Master's thesis for the Interface Design program at Potsdam Univesity of Applied Sciences. "It's goal is he development of a design pattern taxonomy for the fields of data visualization and information design."
(Posted 7/08)
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| Young, I. 2008
Mental Models: Aligning Design Strategy with Human Behavior. Rosenfeld Media. (Posted 7/08)
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| VizThink |
"VizThink is an organization dedicated to the promotion of visual thinking and the visual thinking community."
"Visual thinking is the use of visualization for learning and communication. This includes all forms of visualization such as sketching, painting, sculpture, design, illustration, photography, and videography. Visual thinking is used for a variety of applications such as brainstorming, idea generation, product design, user experience design, storytelling, documentation, organization, planning, and communication."
(Posted 5/08)
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| User Interface 13 |
October 13-16, 2008. Cambridge, MA.
"4 full days of in-depth techniques from the world's leading web design and usability experts." This is the program. (Posted 5/08)
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| ACM Multimedia 2008 |
October 27 - November 1, 2008. Vancouver.
"The premier annual multimedia conference, covering all aspects of multimedia computing: from underlying technologies to applications, theory to practice, and servers to networks to devices." (Posted 5/08)
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| Web 2.0 Summit |
November 5-7, 2008. San Francisco.
"It strikes us that the Web might teach us new ways to address these limits. From harnessing collective intelligence to a bias toward open systems, the Web's greatest inventions are, at their core, social movements. To that end, we're expanding our program this year to include leaders in the fields of healthcare, genetics, finance, global business, and yes, even politics." (Posted 5/08)
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| IA Summit 2008 |
April 10-14, 2008. Miami.
"The Information Architecture Summit is the premier gathering place for those interested in information architecture. The 2007 IA Summit attracted over 570 attendees. . . . The 2008 theme of "Experiencing Information" shifts the focus back to users." These are the slides and podcasts. (Posted 10/07, Updated 5/08)
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| Webstock 06 and 08 Session Recordings |
Webstock08 was held in Wellington, New Zealand, on February 11-15, 2008. It was attended by over 500 people and consisted of three days of workshops followed by two days of the conference proper.
These are videos of the presentations, plus those from 2006.
(Posted 5/08)
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| Baydon Solutions |
Providers of Assistware. Here's a demo.
(Posted 5/08)
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| The Best Tools for Visualization |
By Sarah Perez. "There are visualization tools for search, music, networks, online communities, and almost anything else you can think of. Whether you want a desktop application or a web-based tool, there are many specific tools are available on the web that let you visualize all kinds of data. Here are some of the best.
Via xblog.
(Posted 5/08)
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| Exploring the Intranet Hive |
By Cairo Walker. "The Intranet Hive is a complete model for managing intranets." This is part 2 of the article.
Via E-Learning Post.
(Posted 5/08)
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| Dave Gray's dot info | Dave's new site is divided into three sections: Ways of meaning, Ways of thinking, and Ways of Working. (Posted 5/08) |
| Search Patterns |
"A sandbox for collecting search examples, patterns, and anti-patterns. Please add tags, notes, and comments, and suggest new examples."
Via E-Learning Post.
(Posted 5/08)
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| CMS Conversion Tools |
"This page is an attempt to collect known tools for getting content out of and into various CMS."
Via
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| The Interaction Museum |
"The Interaction Museum is an on-line resource aimed at HCI practitioners, teachers and researchers that will collect a wide variety of interaction techniques and systems and make them available to the HCI community."
Via InfoDesign.
(Posted 5/08)
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| Bezanson, W., 2002.
Performance Support Solutions: Achieving Business Goals Through Enabling User Performance. Trafford Publishing. Available as an ebook. Much of the book can be viewed by selecting 'Preview This Book' and then 'Full Screen' on the Google Book Search site.
(Posted 5/08)
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| IA Summit 2008 |
April 10-14, 2008. Miami.
"The 2008 theme of “Experiencing Information” shifts the focus back to users. A user experience exists only to allow people to “do things” (in the broadest sense ... buying books, sharing photos with friends, looking something up on wikipedia, etc). What dimensions of information do users typically experience while “doing things”, and how can we design information environments that best support these users and activities?" These are links to previous confedrencs, where many presentations and audio is available. (Posted 10/07, Revised 3/08)
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| From Business to Buttons |
June 12-13, 2008. Malmo, Sweden.
Conference focusing on experience design with an emphasis on how to bridge the gap between the business goals and the product in use. These are PDFs of the presentations from the 2007 conference. (Posted 3/08)
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| User Experience Week 2008 |
August 12-15, 2008. San Francisco.
"The premier user experience conference" from Adaptive Path. (Posted 3/08)
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| Siggraph 2008 |
August 11-15, 2008. Los Angeles.
"The worldwide SIGGRAPH community gathers in Los Angeles to explore the products, systems, techniques, ideas, and inspiration that are creating the next three generations of computer graphics and interactive techniques." The 35th annual conference on computer graphics and interaction techniques. (I still like this web graphics expo from the 2003 conference.) (Posted 3/08)
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| pdc2008 |
Sept. 30-Oct. 4, 2008. Bloomington, Indiana.
Participatory Design (PD) is a collection of principles and practices aimed at making technologies, tools, environments, businesses, and social institutions more responsive to human needs.
The conference theme for this Participatory Design Conference, PDC 2008, is Experiences and Challenges.
(Posted 3/08)
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| 21st ACM UIST Symposium |
October 19-22, 2008. Monterey, California.
"UIST (ACM Symposium on User Interface Software and Technology) is the premier forum for innovations in the software and technology of human-computer interfaces."
(Posted 3/08)
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| Interactions |
A publication of ACM SIGCHI. PDF versions of articles are available online to SIGCHI members.
A digital edition is now available as well.
(Posted 5/97, Updated 3/08)
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| Smashing Magazine |
"Founded in August 2006, Smashing Magazine delivers useful and innovative information for web-designers and web-developers. Our aim is to inform our readers about the latest trends and techniques in web-development - clearly, precisely and regularly."
See especially their showcase section, which analyzes and presents examples of site features such as navigation menus, blog designs, and shopping baskets.
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(Posted 3/07, Updated 3/08)
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| eLearn Magazine |
ACM's eLearn Magazine offers sections on Design, Technology, Usability, Business, and Culture. Also Best Practices,
Case Studies,
Tutorials and more.
(Posted 3/08)
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| WritersUSA conference presentations |
Presentations and supporting materials from conferences from 2004 to the present.
(Posted 3/08)
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| Bob Boiko Presentations & White papers |
"Bob Boiko is founder and president of Metatorial Services Inc., and is a faculty member of the University of Washington Information School. In 2004, Bob sparked the creation of CM Professionals, the first and only content management organization for practitioners."
(Posted 3/08)
Via InfoDesign.
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| UI Patterns |
"While other pattern collections are useful, they are far from coherent and complete. The purpose of this site is over time to fill some of the gaps - especially by providing code examples as to how how the different patterns can be implemented: to join theory with practice."
Via InfoDesign.
(Posted 3/08)
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| Konigi |
"This site is also about demonstrating the idea that not only is it our job to give users what they expect and think they want, but more importantly it is to give them what they need and might not be able to express. I think some of the examples I showcase here do that exceptionally well."
Via InfoDesign.
(Posted 3/08)
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| Bad Usability Calendar |
"The past three calendars have all been successful in distributing examples of bad design around the world. Check out the fresh examples of exaggerated use fancy Web 2.0 design, cover flow, personalization, pull-down menus and more"
(Posted 3/08)
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| Instancy |
Offers a suite of integrated applications designed to deliver"the right knowledge to the right person at the right time - anytime, anywhere, on any device." No software or IT systems implementation is required.
(Posted 1/08)
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| infographics: being and doing |
By Venkatesh Rajamanickam. "Infographics reveal the hidden, explain the complex and illuminate the obscure. Constructing visual representation of information is not mere translation of what can be read to what can be seen. It entails filtering the information, establishing relationships, discerning patterns and representing them in a manner that enables a consumer of that information construct meaningful knowledge. Part 2 of the article is here.
(Posted 1/08)
Via E-Learning Post.
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| Magic Ink |
Information Software and the Graphical Interface.
By Bret Victor.
"The ubiquity of frustrating, unhelpful software interfaces has motivated decades of research into "Human-Computer Interaction." In this paper, I suggest that the long-standing focus on "interaction" may be misguided. For a majority subset of software, called "information software," I argue that interactivity is actually a curse for users and a crutch for designers, and users' goals can be better satisfied through other means. . . Information software design can be seen as the design of context-sensitive information graphics. . . I outline a tool which may allow designers to create data-dependent graphics with no engineering assistance, and also outline a platform which may allow an unprecedented level of implicit context-sharing between independent programs. I conclude by asserting that the principles of information software design will become critical as technology improves."
Via InfoDesign
(Posted 1/08)
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| Sketchboards: Discover Better + Faster UX Solutions |
By Brandon Schauer of Adaptive Path.
A bare bones rapid prototyping technique, complete with a brief video showing its implementation. The description contains links to models of deliverables.
Via E-Learning Post.
(Posted 1/08)
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| Choosing a Content Management System for your web project |
"Nearly all websites these days use some sort of Content Management System (CMS). A CMS is a tool (usually web-based) that helps facilitate the process of creating, posting, organizing, and managing the content of a site. . . . "what CMS is right for you? If you squint hard enough, you can begin to see three unique types of CMS products that are commonly used amongst leading-edge web designers and developers"
Via E-Learning Post.
(Posted 1/08)
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| STC Conference Session Materials |
Downloadable handout materials from the 2000-2007 conferences of the Society for Technical Communications.
(Posted 8/00, updated 1/08)
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| Web Guild Silicon Valley |
The home page is a blog for web designers. The site features
ratings and reviews by members.
(Posted 1/08)
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| KurzweiAI.net |
"The big thoughts of today's big thinkers examining the confluence of accelerating revolutions that are shaping our future world, and the inside story on new technological and social realities from the pioneers actively working in these arenas."
Via Jay Cross'sInternet Time Blog.
(Posted 1/08)
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| Knowledge Management Reference Sites |
Hundreds of links from CBEL organized by title and category.
(Posted 1/08)
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| ImageChef |
"Create your own custom image in moments and send it to friends."
Via Jay Cross'sInternet Time Blog.
(Posted 1/08)
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