I was fortunate to be in one of the early public workshops where Scott Hirsch and Janice Fraser shared their Leveraging Business Value: How ROI Changes User Experience report. At $395, the report wasn’t cheap, but it was worth it. Four years later, it’s still one of the best pieces on the business value of design, and now Adaptive Path is sharing it for free. If you haven’t looked at it already, grab the PDF today.

Thanks to Peterme for sharing this more widely…designers are better off for it.

In two months we’ll be hosting the fourth annual Canadian User Experience Workshop—CanUX—at the lovely Banff Centre. The event runs from November 16 to 18, with an optional pre-conference UX Bootcamp.

We’ve got an excellent line-up of speakers—Dave Gray (XPLANE), Brandon Schauer (Adaptive Path) and Luke Wroblewski (Yahoo!)–with a couple of slots yet to be filled.

The great thing about CanUX is that it’s more like a retreat than a conference. The people who come to participate in all the activities (like the artist-led workshops, the design slam, the show-and-tell reception and, of course, the drinking) have a great time.

As always, we’ve worked to keep the price low and all-inclusive. A mere $899 gets you into the event, plus two nights accommodation and meals. The price goes up next week, but it’s still cheaper than a lot of other events.

The full program, speaker bios and other details are available on the CanUX website.

From Bruce Sterling’s 2008 Austin Game Developers Conference keynote.