{"id":743,"date":"2009-01-16T14:57:33","date_gmt":"2009-01-16T13:57:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.jurecuhalev.com\/blog\/?p=743"},"modified":"2009-01-20T10:36:37","modified_gmt":"2009-01-20T09:36:37","slug":"top-3-usability-ux-conferences-in-2009","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.jurecuhalev.com\/blog\/top-3-usability-ux-conferences-in-2009\/","title":{"rendered":"Top 3 Usability (UX) Conferences in 2009"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A few people asked what would be my Top 3 recommendations for Usability and Human-Computer Interaction Design conferences to plan for in 2009. I&#8217;m looking at this from very Central European centric point of view of course.<\/p>\n<div class=\"zemanta-img zemanta-action-dragged\">\n<div>\n<dl class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"margin: 1em; float: right; display: block;\">\n<dt class=\"wp-caption-dt\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/75565788@N00\/3201227884\/\"><img decoding=\"async\" title=\"Star burst\" src=\"http:\/\/farm4.static.flickr.com\/3106\/3201227884_233a2dc615_m.jpg\" alt=\"Star burst\"\/><\/a><\/dt>\n<dd class=\"wp-caption-dd zemanta-img-attribution\" style=\"font-size: 0.8em;\">Image by <a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/75565788@N00\/3201227884\/\">Kounelli<\/a> via Flickr<\/dd>\n<\/dl>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>In no specific order:<\/p>\n<ol>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/uxlondon.com\/\">UX London<\/a>, 15th \u2013 17th June 2009, London &#8211; Early bird: \u00a3895 (~900 EUR)<\/li>\n<li><a class=\"zem_slink\" title=\"UX Week\" rel=\"homepage\" href=\"http:\/\/www.uxweek.com\/\">UX Week<\/a>, 15-18 September 2009, San Francisco, CA &#8211; $1795 (~1 356 EUR)<br \/>\nor alternative <a href=\"http:\/\/www.adaptivepath.com\/events\/2009\/uxi\/\">UX Intensive Berlin<\/a>, 12-15 May &#8211; Early bird: $1795(~1 356 EUR)<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/uxcamp.mixxt.de\/\">UX Camp Berlin<\/a>, 23 &#8211; 24 May 2009, <a class=\"zem_slink\" title=\"BarCamp\" rel=\"wikipedia\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/BarCamp\">BarCamp<\/a> style event.\u00a0 Most useful if you speak German or are pushy enough about people speaking English around you.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p>There&#8217;s also a <a href=\"http:\/\/upcoming.yahoo.com\/group\/2733\/\">Upcoming group Interaction Design<\/a> that lists most of these events.<\/p>\n<p>I would advise against going to general Web conferences to learn more about UX as their are too general in their nature and you&#8217;ll unlikely learn anything new.<\/p>\n<p><em>Is there an UX conference that I missed and is a must go in your opinion?<\/em><\/p>\n<div class=\"zemanta-pixie\" style=\"margin-top:10px;height:15px\"><a class=\"zemanta-pixie-a\" href=\"http:\/\/reblog.zemanta.com\/zemified\/aad9a855-bb98-4f28-82d2-a6a9fd22fe31\/\" title=\"Zemified by Zemanta\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"zemanta-pixie-img\" src=\"http:\/\/img.zemanta.com\/reblog_e.png?x-id=aad9a855-bb98-4f28-82d2-a6a9fd22fe31\" alt=\"Reblog this post [with Zemanta]\" style=\"border:none;float:right\"\/><\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A few people asked what would be my Top 3 recommendations for Usability and Human-Computer Interaction Design conferences to plan for in 2009. I&#8217;m looking at this from very Central European centric point of view of course. 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