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Our last email featured two of the fantastic speakers you'll hear at the EdUI Conference Sept. 21-22 in Charlottesville VA. Well, we're really excited about our entire program (find it at http://eduiconf.org/program ), so we thought it worthwhile to continue filling you in on even more speakers. Read on below to learn about headliners Dan Rubin and Dana Chisnell. If this is the first you've heard of EdUI, be sure to check out http://eduiconf.org . In short, EdUI (the name is a marriage of "Edu" and "UI") is a conference for web professionals, particularly those in higher ed, that offers full-day workshops and peer presentations on user experience and user interface issues like usability, accessibility, design, coding, rich media, and social media. We know training and travel budgets are tight right now, but we guarantee this is one of the best values you'll find for professional development! Other events featuring similar speaker line-ups often cost $1000+ and require travel to expensive cities. EdUI is held in beautiful, historic, and affordable Charlottesville VA, home of Thomas Jefferson and a popular tourist destination http://tinyurl.com/lfmpn3 . === REGISTER NOW === If EdUI sounds right for you, register now at http://edui.eventbrite.com . === REFER A FRIEND, WIN A DELL LAPTOP! === We know you're already planning to come to EdUI 2009 (aren't you) to see some of the biggest names in web design and development. But what about your friends and colleagues? Well, now they can help you win a Dell Latitude 2100 Netbook when you refer them to us! See http://tinyurl.com/mr6koq to find out more. === DAN RUBIN === Presents "Visual Design Essentials for Non-Artists" http://www.eduiconf.org/session/design-essentials-rubin/ Dan Rubin is a highly accomplished user interface designer and usability consultant, with over ten years of experience as a leader in the fields of web standards and usability, specifically focusing on the use of (X)HTML and CSS to streamline development and improve accessibility. In addition to his contributions to sites including Blogger, the CSS Zen Garden, Yahoo! Small Business and Microsoft’s ASP.net portal, Dan is is a contributing author of Cascading Style Sheets: Separating Content from Presentation (2nd Edition, friends of ED, 2003), technical reviewer for Beginning CSS Web Development (Apress, 2006), The Art & Science of CSS (SitePoint, 2007) and Sexy Web Design (SitePoint, 2009), coauthor of Pro CSS Techniques (Apress, 2006), and Web Standards Creativity (friends of ED, 2007) Join Dan for an all day, six hour session, Visual Design Essentials for Non-Artists, where you'll learn the essentials of visual design, solid tricks and techniques to get the color, typography, and layout you want, and have a ton of fun in the process. === DANA CHISNELL === Presents "Usability Testing Without the Scary" http://www.eduiconf.org/session/usability-chisnell/ Dana Chisnell is an independent usability consultant and user researcher who founded UsabilityWorks in San Francisco, CA. She has been doing usability research, user interface design, and technical communications consulting and development since 1982. Dana’s colleagues consider her an expert in usability issues for older adults and plain language. (She says she’s still learning.) Lately, she has been working on issues related to ballot design and usability and accessibility in voting. Dana's all day workshop, Usability Testing Without the Scary, will teach you how to put quick-and-dirty usability sessions together, involve the entire team, and keep everything on schedule and work within a shoestring budget. You’ll leave the seminar, ready and anxious to run your own usability tests. === BUT WAIT THERE'S MORE! === Of course these are just two of the fabulous sessions you can attend at EdUI 2009. Also in store are "Beyond Blah Blah, Creating Great Content for the Web", and "Progressive Mobile Website Enhancement", and "The MIT World Story: The Vision Behind MIT's High-Impact Video Portal". View the full program at http://www.eduiconf.org/program/ . ------ EdUI is made possible by The Virginia Foundation for the Humanities <http://www.VirginiaFoundation.org>, in partnership with the University of Virginia <http://www.Virginia.edu> and an array of corporate sponsors. ----- Best wishes, EdUI Conference Organizers