We've had some time now to look over the wonderful sessions on the Drupalcon schedule. One thing that I noticed was that there were many more proposed Design and Usability sessions than could fit on the schedule. But there's good news!

With Drupalcon's BOF Sessions (Birds of a Feather), we can have more!

The scheduled Design+Usability sessions will run exclusively on Wednesday all day and Thursday afternoon, so I'm organizing a BoF track of D+U sessions that will run in the time gaps in between (Thursday morning and Friday all day).

These sessions will include great Design and Usability mavens from the Drupal Community, including:

• Jason Chinn of Magicspark (magicspark) and John Wilkins of Palantir (JohnAlbin) will be merging their two separate session proposals into a Zen Super-Session covering "Getting Started" to "Advanced Layout" ideas.
• Nyk Cowham of Forum One Communications (ncowham) will be presenting Beautifying Your Drupal Forms so that your designer and usability guru will both be pleased.
• Preston So of Monarch Digital (prestonso) and Matt Tucker of pingVision (ultimateboy) will be presenting their Theming Out of the Box: Designing in Drupal where they will be stretching the limits of how Drupal looks and feels.
• Colleen Carroll of Palantir (caroltron) and John Wilkins of Palantir (JohnAlbin) will be presenting Sustainable Markup: How to be a themer in Drupal and be Zen and talking about creating themes that are easier to maintain, extend, and upgrade.
• Jeff Noyes of Acquia (noyz) will be helping Mark Boulton and Leisa Reichelt with their Blue Sky Design Workshops. And tentatively (if Jeff's got time) will be presenting Low-fidelity usability testing using ConnectPro and Skype which could put a mini-Usability Lab in everyone's house.

The sessions above will be more than just your average BOF meetups - they will be full-blown presentations. And they will be just as awesome as the scheduled Design + Usability sessions. Since this is a BOF track, the final schedule will be available on the BOF board next to the on-site registration. So don't plan your full schedule until you arrive at Drupalcon DC; because there's more to come!

I will be posting session updates and interesting Design and Usability info on Twitter @moreDCDC.