Schedule
Tuesday, June 10: Pre-Conference Workshops
Time
Session
Speaker
8:00AM - 9:00AM
Continental Breakfast and Conference Registration
9:00AM - 12:30PM
Stylin' and Codin' the User Experience
Charles Wyke-Smith
Adobe AIR for Designers
Larry Ullman
1:30PM - 5:30PM
Bulletproof Ajax
Jeremy Keith
Communicating Design: Improving Your User Experience Documentation
Dan Brown
Wednesday, June 11
Time
Session
Speaker
8:00AM - 9:00AM
Continental Breakfast and Conference Registration
9:00AM - 9:15AM
Welcome
Nancy Aldrich-Ruenzel
9:15AM - 10:00AM
Conversation with Steve Krug
Steve Krug
10:15AM - 11:15AM
Microformats: What Are They and Why Do I Care
Jeremy Keith
Concept Models: A New Design Tool
Dan Brown
11:30AM - 12:30PM
Yes, Virginia, There is a Perfect Web Page
Steve Krug
Seven Core Principles of Social Design
Joshua Porter
12:30PM - 2:00PM
Lunch
2:00PM - 3:00PM
Color for the Global Web
Molly Holzschlag
Building a Compliant CSS Layout from a PSD
Christopher Schmitt
3:15PM - 4:15PM
Style Sheet Strategies
Charles Wyke-Smith
Make It So: Interface Design Lessons from Science Fiction
Nathan Shedroff
4:30PM - 5:30PM
Designing CSS Layouts for the Flexible Web
Zoe Gillenwater
Findability: Design Comp to Code
Aarron Walter
5:30PM - 7:30PM
New Riders' Welcome Reception in the Product Showcase
Thursday, June 12
Time
Session
Speaker
7:30AM - 8:30AM
Continental Breakfast
8:30AM - 9:15AM
Sponsor Presentation:
From Prototype to Web Page
Lynn Grillo
9:30AM - 10:15AM
Conversation with a Special Guest
10:30AM - 11:30AM
Web Design for ROI: Turning Browsers into Buyers and Prospects into Leads
Sandra Niehaus
How to Improve Each and Every Page on Your Site
Robert Hoekman Jr.
11:45AM - 12:45PM
Ten Tips and Techniques for Web Design Alchemy
Penny McIntire
Designing for Today’s Browsers
Molly Holzschlag
12:45PM - 2:45PM
Lunch Served in the Product Showcase
2:45PM - 3:45PM
Typography on the Web: Beyond Times and Arial (and Georgia)
Jason Cranford Teague
Open Up: Brand Relevance in a Web-Made World
Nita Rollins
4:00PM - 5:00PM
Tagging: What's Next?
Gene Smith
Fresher Styles for Web Designers: More Eye Candy from the Underground
Curt Cloninger
5:00PM - 7:00 PM
Nashville Nights Reception in the Product Showcase
Friday, June 13
Time
Session
Speaker
8:15AM - 9:15AM
Breakfast with the Speakers
9:15AM - 10:00AM
Conversation with Garr Reynolds
Garr Reynolds
10:15AM - 11:15AM
Easy Usability Tests for Designers
Sandra Niehaus
Beyond Web Standards: Crafting Design and Development Standards
Kimberly Blessing
11:30AM - 12:30PM
Design Zen: Bringing Simplicity, Clarity, and Beauty to Web Design
Garr Reynolds
Redefining Search Engine Friendly Design
Shari Thurow
12:30PM - 1:00PM
Conference Wrap Up: Last Chance Panel