The deadline to submit a proposal for the May 8-11, 2005 STC Conference in Seattle is Friday, July 30. The theme of this year's conference is "Experiencing Technical Communication" We welcome proposals that share your ideas, research, or practice in an interdisciplinary field such as usability, information design, or information architecture or in a traditional STC fields such as writing and editing, education and research, consulting, or management. The submission process and information is online at http://www.stc.org/52ndConf/Proposal. For a brief description of the usability sessions this past and previous years see http://www.stcsig.org/usability/activities/conference.html. Presentation formats: http://www.stc.org/52ndConf/Proposal/formatRequirements.asp. Description of the Usability & Information Design (and other stems): http://www.stc.org/52ndConf/Proposal/stemInformation.asp. Whitney Quesenbery Usability and Information Design Stem Manager Whitney Whitney Quesenbery Whitney Interactive Design, LLC w. www.WQusability.com e. whitneyq at wqusability.com p. 908-638-5467 UPA - www.usabilityprofessionals.org STC Usability SIG: www.stcsig.org/usability