RE: UI Design/UCD at Software Conferences?

Whitney -

> I wonder exactly what you mean by "nitty-gritty of actual UI 
> design". You could mean detailed page or screen layout and 
> interaction, but you could also mean defining requirements 
> and features.

In this particular case I meant the actual process of doing UI
design/development. Many (most?) developers are given a set of features
to implement (a user story in a process like XP) and off they go to
implement it, UI and all. This is probably how 90% of products get their
user interfaces, but it seems to me to be the area that is least well
addressed if you look at HCI/UCD training overall. You're not going to
find many actual software developers at CHI and UPA conferences, while
at the same time UI design is not considered to be part of "hard-core"
software engineering.

(I'm still interested to know if anyone has seen much UI design
education at software development conferences.)

Regards,

William

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