In July, the Nielsen Norman Group is visiting Melbourne for an intensive, one week usability conference. Usability Week 2008 takes you beyond the typical conference experience, offering a 3-day usability camp, a 3-day intensive session on interaction design, and several specialized, day-long tutorials that get both broad and deep on core usability topics.

3-Day Intensive Camp:

* Usability in Practice
In this fun, intense, and challenging camp, you’ll get four-days’ worth of tutorial knowledge in a three-day session. Experts with over half a century of combined usability experience take you through fundamental principles and methods, help you create a sound usability plan, and teach you the skills you need to successfully execute that plan.

3-Day Immersion:

* Interaction Design 101 with Bruce “Tog” Tognazzini
Go from zero to Interaction Designer in three days, with a solid grounding in the theory and practice of design, along with practical experience through workshops from initial field studies through design and testing.

Specialized Full-Day Tutorials:

* Fundamental Guidelines for Web Usability
Gain insight into essential user behaviors, explore pivotal guidelines, and discover how understanding information foraging, navigation and search options, and content usability can help you build a website that’s easier and more enjoyable to use.

* Application Usability 1: Page-Level Building Blocks for Feature Design
Learn the user experience implications of the basic design components — buttons, scrolling, notification dialogs, windows, and more — used to build any application. This knowledge will help you build full-fledged applications that optimally support user tasks.

* Application Usability 2: Dialogue and Workflow Design
Day two moves beyond the UI components themselves. Learn to better apply and combine such components to create more effective flows for different tasks. Numerous examples provide templates and techniques for everyday use.

* Intranet Usability 1
Learn the essential features of well-designed intranets, along with key usability guidelines and testing tips. You’ll also get a rare peek at corporate intranets and discuss how to deal with organizational issues that impact intranet design.

* Intranet Usability 2
Day two covers intranet branding and promotion, as well as detailed issues in intranet design, such as search, navigation, personalization, employee directories, HR information, and forms.

* Websites That Sell: The Role of Motivational Psychology in Website Design
Field-tested motivation psychology techniques will increase sales, help avoid key website mistakes that drive customers away, and improve the user-experience of ecommerce, non-profit & intranet sites alike.

* Email Newsletter Usability
Studies of more than 100 email newsletters show how spam, subscription maintenance, content selection, subject lines, and other key issues impact an email newsletter’s success.

* Writing for the Web: Content Usability
Rewriting and reorganizing text according to our “Writing for the Web” guidelines often doubles the usability of a website or intranet, and drastically increases the success rate for effectively communicating key messages.

The event will be held in Melbourne on July 21-26, 2008, at the Park Hyatt.

Pay only for the days you need. The more days you attend, the deeper the discount. Early bird rates save even more, so sign up early!For more information visit http://www.nngroup.com/events/melbourne/agenda.html.