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Quoted: World Usability Day promotes the value of usability engineering, user-centered design, and every user's responsibility to ask for things that work better.

Gleemax Alpha design Preview

Wizards is trying to use WOTC and Hasbro's audience and assets in a 'social networking' site for gamers of any kind. They claim to offer something for RPG, TCG, strategy, even board and casual gamers, but the design and marketing is aimed more towards a geekier crowd. The name "Gleemax" says it all.

Quoted: At Gen Con we are previewing the new Gleemax.com. We're aiming to create a gamer's social networking site.

BarCamp for UX

Quoted: InfoCamp Seattle 2007 will be a BarCamp-style un-conference, which will feature a flexible format with no pre-set session schedule, except for the keynote and plenary ...

The idea of combining data from different places online and offline in a meaningful and efficient way is exciting, but the technicalities are not.

Quoted: Exploring the New Web of Connected Data

Who wants to go to Italy? For work!

Quoted: CHI 2008 will be held in Florence, Italy, birthplace of the Renaissance, and home to great artists and scientists. This is the city of Leonardo ...

12 Top notch artists, designers and technologists converge for an inspirational talk in LA. 9/7/2007

Quoted: 12 extraordinarily influential young creative talents
will be speaking in a relaxed and intimate atmosphere.

The opening reception for the current show "Amazing Visions" (of sci-fi futures) is tonight in Belltown. Give me a shout if anyone's going!

Artists like Brom(!) will be there.

13th Barcelona International Festival of Advanced Music and Multimedia Art

The @media conference returns to London on 15th-16th June. It's the event of the year for anyone interested in learning about and discussing the latest approaches to web design with some of the world's most highly respected experts.