Last week I attended the Usability Professionals’ Association (UPA) conference in Colorado; I would have blogged then, but half the laptop keyboard went flakey (wrong characters)! So, I'll blog soon on the critical sessions I attended (AJAX usability, wiki-based use cases / func specs, remote usability on the cheap).
The conference -- which focuses far more on practice than theory -- was hugely attended (over 200 more than they expected: 600+) representing 18 countries, with rapid chapter growth in China and India. Good news! The 2007 Conference is here in Austin, June 11-15.