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Conference registration and pricing

Registration for UX Australia 2010 is now open.

Check out the program, and register now.

Early-bird pricing is available until 30 June 2010. Prices are:

• Main conference, full price: $700
• Main conference, full-time students: $300
• Hands-on workshops, full day: $550
• Hands-on workshops, half day: $300

If you sign up (and pay) before 30 June, you will:

• go into the draw for a return trip to Hong Kong for a cross-cultural (user) experience, courtesy of our sponsor Apogee Usability Asia
• have the opportunity to submit a 10-minute talk*

And the first 50 paid registrations will receive a copy of Remote Research, courtesy of our sponsor Rosenfeld Media.

Get in quick – we have a limited number of conference tickets, and do expect to sell out early!

(* 10-minute talks are held after lunch on both days of the main conference. We’ll call for submissions in early June – there will be 16 spots available. Only paid attendees can submit a 10-minute talk.)

Full conference program

The full conference program is now available.

Workshops

We have seven hands-on workshops on Wednesday 25 August:

Half day workshops:

• Jared Spool: Designing for content-rich sites
• Todd Zaki Warfel: Practical prototyping
• Rachel Hinman: Mobile UX essentials
• Lisa Herrod: Inclusive Design: Accessible user experiences on the web
• Dana Chisnell: Making sense of the data: Collaborative analysis techniques for user research
• MJ Broadbent: Visual skills for the ‘I Can’t Draw’ crowd

Full day workshop:

• Daniel Szuc & Gerry Gaffney: The usability kit workshop

Keynote speaker

We’re very excited that Jared Spool has agreed to do the keynote presentation at the conference. Jared is highly involved in the field of user experience, and is a very practiced and most excellent speaker. I’m pretty sure Jared is excited to be speaking at UX Australia too. Jared’s keynote will be called ”The dawning of the age of experience”. He is also teaching a half day workshop.

We will also have a very special day 2 keynote presenter – we’ll let you know who that is soon.

Main conference

And 23 main conference presentations from fantastic speakers on 26&27 August.

Social

We’ll be putting together the essential social program over the next few months.

Thanks to our sponsors

We’d like to say a huge thank you to our sponsors, who are invaluable in creating a great event.

Platinum sponsor

• Symplicit: Melbourne’s leading user experience design consultancy

Gold sponsors

• Apogee Usability Asia: Based in Hong Kong (China), Asia’s leading Usability Research provider
• Westpac Customer Experience (CX) Team: We make a key contribution to Westpac’s mission to be Australia’s leading financial services company by putting the customer at the centre of everything we do
• Different: The largest experience design firm in Australia. Better thinking. Better experiences. Better results.™

Supporters

• Five Senses Coffee: The finest coffee from around the world, delivered fresh to your door
• Campaign Monitor: Email marketing software for designers and their clients
• MOB: We make complex things easy

Media partner

• Johnny Holland: It’s all about the interaction

Silver sponsors

• Meld Studios: Creating meaningful interactions between people and products, systems, services, processes and spaces

Bronze sponsors

• LimeChile: Tasty web apps for UX pros: GuapoVideo, WebSort, and PlainFrame
• FatDUX: Designing valuable User eXperiences
• Rosenfeld Media: Short, practical, and useful books and webinars on user experience design
• Maadmob: User experience consulting and training