I read Kevin Cheng blog about conferences he want to visit in 2006. So I thought it would be nice to create a list of interesting Design and Usability conferences in 2006. Here is a list of conferences that I know. If you know any missing conference then please let me know it.
Web Design World
San Francisco, USA
Jan 30-Feb 1
Technology Entertainment Design (TED)
Monterey, USA
Feb 22-Feb 25
EclipseCon 2006
Santa Clara, USA
Mar 20-23
Information Architecture Summit 2006 (IA Summit)
Vancouver, Canada
Mar 23-27
Computer Human Interaction 2006 (CHI2006)
Montreal, Canada
Apr 22-Apr 26
HOW Design Conference
Las Vegas, USA
June 12-15
Usability Professionals Association 2006 (UPA)
Broomfield, USA
Jun 12-16
Mensch und Computer 2006
Gelsenkirchen, Germany
Sep 3-6
HCI 2006 Engage!
London, UK
Sep 11-15
User Interface 11 (UI11)
Cambridge, USA
Oct 9-12
OOPSLA 2006
Portland, USA
Oct 22-26









January 4th, 2006 at 3:49 pm
UI11 will be October 9-12 in Cambridge, MA, USA.
January 5th, 2006 at 2:41 am
Vancouver and Montreal are in Canada (British Columbia and Quebec, respectively).
A couple of local ones I wasn’t aware of. thanks!
January 5th, 2006 at 7:32 am
Many thanks for the updates!
January 7th, 2006 at 2:14 pm
Take a look at this Eventful calendar of experience design conferences and events.
Mark Vanderbeeken
Putting People First
January 29th, 2006 at 8:36 pm
The SAP Design Guild website also contains an event calendar.