Trip Report UPA93 Usability ProfessionalsAssociationAnnual Meeting 21-23 July 1993, Redmond,WA, USA Jakeb Nielsen The second annual UPA conference sponsored by the Usability Professionals Association was hosted by Microsoft on their well-groomed corporate campus outside of Seattle. Having the conference at an actual member company site continued the tradition started by the first conference which was hosted by WordPerfect in Utah. I highly appreciated the opportunity to see the environment in which so much software is produced and where the everyday activities of the usability professionals take place. Most conferences are in big hotels or convention centers, but one Hyatt is much like the next Hilton or Sheraton at least compared to the differences between the environments at Microsoft, WordPerfect, and here at home at Bellcore. The UPA conference had grown to 374 participants this year from about 140 last year, so if the growth rate keeps up even one or two more years, it will soon become impossible for the conference to be hosted at a single company. Anyway, those of us who have had the experience these last two years have benefited tremendously from the hospitality of the host organizations. In addition to taking in the general
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