usability

For the digital sector, usability and user experience are more than new fads. There's plenty of talk about these topics and their perceived value to businesses, but how important is usability really? What impact does it have on software and web designers looking to improve their performance, ROI and staff efficiency?

UX London is three days of education, inspiration and skills development in the heart of the city. Bringing together some of the leading practitioners in usability, information architecture and user experience design, this conference will be a mix of inspirational talks and practical half day workshops. UX London will equip attendees with the practical skills needed to do their jobs better, be they budding IAs, experienced practitioners or UX managers.

The UK UPA is proud to be hosting an event to mark World Usability Day this year at LBi. The theme this year is Transportation and we will be having a series of talks on Transportation and interesting perspectives on wider Usability.

Trinidad Consulting (http://www.trinidad.ee), Tramm (Mihkel Uukkivi, http://www.tramm.ee) and Altex Marketing (http://www.altex.ee) are presenting you First World Usability Day in Estonia on 13.11.2008. There will be a workshop about usability and usability of transportation.Meet people and talk about these subjects. Event is free, please register by e-mail: [email protected] (places are limited)

Open Source for Game Developers will discuss the relative merits of their particular approaches in the context of the corporate games industry’s most recent successes to save a traditional business model by enforcing copyright law the hard way and potentially alienating future customers.

Are you planning to redevelop, refresh or amend your website in the next 12 months? If so, you’ll find this Web Content Strategy seminar a great place to learn more! Featuring talks on 4 areas you should be considering before investing.

User Experience 2008 is a six day long conference in Amsterdam aimed at both web usability beginners and veterans. The event offers 31 full-day tutorials where attendees will have the opportunity to hear from industry leaders on subjects ranging from information architecture to specialised topics such as designing complex applications.

This official Adobe User Group holds its second meeting at OFVM in September. Topic yet to be announced, but this is a free, friendly and informal group exploring Dreamweaver, web development in general, Fireworks, Photoshop and Illustrator.

After a hugely successful, highly praised, sell-out event last year, @media Ajax returns for more presentations and panels from some of the leading figures in modern web application development.

A gathering for people working in and around UK government who have a particular interest in UK government online.  It happens twice a month, on the first and third Thursdays.

This one-day workshop is designed to provide an insightful, practical, hands-on overview of the User-Centred Design (UCD) process and the range of different methods that can be used to enhance the user experience of websites and web applications.