InfoCamp is an unconference about user experience, information architecture, user-centered design, librarianship, information management & related fields.

It features an egalitarian, community-driven format in which most presentations are designed and delivered by attendees. And it’s a lot of fun!

Speakers: Axel Roesler, Vanessa Fox, and you!

See infocamp.info for more info (pun intended).

The focus of the Conference for Software User Assistance is on developing the best possible user experience for all types of software applications through well-designed interfaces and helpful and accessible support information. The theme is “Better UX thru Better UA”.

The conference features over seventy cutting-edge topics from fifty experts, project demonstrations from other user assistance developers, plus an exhibition of products and services, certificate programs, and networking events. The goal is always to provide the most comprehensive and timely information specifically designed for user assistance professionals.

See writersua.com for more information.

UIST (ACM Symposium on User Interface Software and Technology) is the premier forum for innovations in the software and technology of human-computer interfaces. Sponsored by ACM’s special interest groups on computer-human interaction (SIGCHI) and computer graphics (SIGGRAPH), UIST brings together researchers and practitioners from diverse areas that include traditional graphical & web user interfaces, tangible & ubiquitous computing, virtual & augmented reality, multimedia, new input & output devices, and CSCW. The intimate size, the single track, and comfortable surroundings make this symposium an ideal opportunity to exchange research results and implementation experiences.

See acm.org for more information.

COMPSAC is one of the major international forums for academia, industry, and government to discuss research results, advances and future trends in computer and software technologies and applications.

The creation of trustworthy, dependable and distributed computer services satisfying the needs of today’s pervasive and ubiquitous computing environments spans all aspects of software systems engineering. COMPSAC is a unique forum bringing together these facets and their major stakeholders. The technical theme for the 33rd conference is

HARMONIZING HUMANS, COMPUTERS AND SOFTWARE IN SERVICE ENVIRONMENT

Topics include:

• social and collaborative networks
• services computing

Multidisciplinary work, research and development of software prototypes, industry-university collaborations, all based on new emerging and critical technologies will be of particular interest to this conference.

See COMPSAC 2009 site for more information.

The WritersUA Conference for Software User Assistance is returning to the city of Seattle for the first time since 2003. The opening session of the conference features Scott McCloud, creator of the Google Chrome Comic.

The conference goal is to continue to provide an event with the most comprehensive and timely information specifically designed for user assistance professionals. The event covers all aspects of information and training as a means of support for software users and toward a better user experience.

See the conferences site for more information.

Web Design World Seattle is more than just an incredible opportunity to gain insight and interact with some of the hottest designers / developers in the web industry — it’s a new Web Design World. Every session has been updated for 2008, and most sessions are brand new. Learn about the topics you need to know about today. Ajax, CSS, JavaScript, and rich interface design. Usability, e-commerce design, and search engine optimization. Mashups, blogs, and social networking. And a full-day workshop on Adobe Photoshop, Flash, and Dreamweaver.

Web Standards advocates often talk about the three “layers” of web development: Structure (markup), Presentation (CSS), and Behavior (JavaScript). This view, however, cuts out the backend of things, and may be a bit shortsighted. Is your markup really where your content’s structure comes from? Can markup really be completely separate from presentation? Is CSS really the only method for presentation? And how does context play into all of this?Jeff Croft will discuss what happens to the academic three layers when web development happens in the real world.

See more details at RefreshSeattle.org

I’m going to try this format and see how it goes. A weekly meeting at Louisa’s on Eastlake, Tuesdays at 8:30 AM starting on April 17 2007.

Speakers: None

December 11, 2007 in Seattle, WA @ Louisa's