The Washington, DC Chapter of the Usability Professionals' Association

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What I Learned at the Usability Conferences—2006

Date and time:
July 11, 2006 (Tuesday)
7:00-9:00 p.m. Program
Dinner: 6:00-7:00 p.m. at the Capital City Brewing Company for those who would like to join us (directions below)

Location:
Martin Luther King Library
901 G St., NW
Washington, DC 20001

Description:
There are several conferences each spring of interest to usability professionals, but deadlines and budgets may limit our ability to attend. Featured below are the panelists, comprising several local professionals, who will be sharing ideas and insights from the conferences that they attended in the first half of 2005. Join us for this interactive discussion!

Conference Panelist

Information Architecture (IA) Summit
March 23-27, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada

Cindy Blue

CHI 2006
April 22-27, Montreal, Quebec, Canada

Sean Fitzpatrick

Society for Technical Communication (STC) Annual Conference
May 7-10, Las Vegas, Nevada, USA

Mike Cleary

Usability Professionals Association (UPA) Annual Conference
June 12-15, Broomfield, Colorado, USA

Lisa Battle

Registration:
Not necessary for this free event.

Cost:
Free

Directions to the Program:
The Martin Luther King Jr. Memorial Library is a four-story glass and concrete building in the heart of Washington, D.C.
View the MapQuest Map

By Car:
Parking is available in the garage below the Library. To find the garage, drive to the intersection of 10th and H Streets, NW. Turn south onto 10th Street. Turn left into G Place, NW. The ramp down to the garage will be on your right.

By Metro or on Foot:
The Library is on the northwest corner of 9th and G Streets, NW, kitty-corner from the National Museum of American Art. The MCI Arena is two blocks to the east; the Washington Convention Center is one block north.

All Metro lines lead to the Library. The Gallery Place-Chinatown (serving the Red, Green and Yellow lines) and Metro Center (serving the Red, Blue, and Orange lines) stations are both a block from the Library. Exit Gallery Place by the 9th Street exit. Exit Metro Center by the 11th Street exit.

Directions to Dinner:
Capital City Brewing Company
1100 New York Ave., NW
Washington, DC
View the MapQuest Map

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