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Schedule
6:00 pm
Registration, tabletop vendors, networking.

6:505 pm
General announcements of jobs, and local activities

7:00 pm
General presenations

8:15 pm
Q&A and Drawing

8:30 pm
SIG Session

9:30 pm
Doors close

Creating a web site is easy. Creating a well-crafted web site that provides a winning experience for your audience and enhances your profitability is another matter. It takes research, skill, experience, and careful thought to build a site that maximizes retention and repeat visits. Design patterns are one tool that can be used to encapsulate successful design solutions for later reuse.

Patterns make it easy for designers to take advantage of proven solutions to common design problems while also giving designers room to creatively solve problems unique to their design. Patterns have a long history in architecture and software engineering, but have only recently been used in interface design. For our new book, "The Design of Sites" (ISBN 020172149X) we analyzed more than 100 of the highest- quality web sites to distill the principles and best practices! that make them enjoyable to visit and a huge asset to the organizations they serve. This comprehensive resource features 92 design patterns that offer proven solutions to common web design problems. These patterns are appropriate to a wide variety of sitegenres and address many aspects of web site design, from navigation andcontent management to e-commerce and site performance.In this talk, we will introduce the design pattern approach to web sitedesign and give you a sampling of the patterns found in our book.

Speakers
Doug K. van Duyne, NetRaker Corp.
James A. Landay, Group for User Interface Research, UC

Meeting flyer  (pdf format).