Introduction

I travelled to Cambridge, Mass., recently for four days of intensive sessions with leading experts in the field of user interface design gathered for the User Interface 7 East Conference (UI7). I was joined by more than 300 interactive designers, content creators and programmers who all shared the same goal: to learn the latest about developing better Web sites and interactive applications.

As a developer, I found the conference time well spent. UI7 East was sponsored by User Interface Engineering (UIE), a company Jared Spool founded in 1988. UIE conducts extensive research through user testing on various types of Web sites and shares their findings through books, papers, conferences and seminars.

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