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Entries Tagged as 'Conferences'

UI13: Peter Merholz and Andrew Crow’s “Design Strategy and Planning”

November 3rd, 2008 · Comments

This year Jared Spool’s UIE put on its 13th User Interface conference. That is an incredible accomplishment for a practice that still feels so new. But Jared is a pioneer in the field; he’s been focused on product usability since 1988 (I was in the 1st grade!). Given UIE’s immense experience in the space, [...]

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Twitter Praise for IDEA 2008

November 2nd, 2008 · Comments

Here are all the comments I could find about IDEA 2008 on Twitter. Great job, team! I’m so thrilled that the conference was this well received.
Be sure to read my Day 1 and Day 2 roundups!

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IDEA Conference 2008: Day 2

November 2nd, 2008 · Comments

This is a continuation of my coverage from the IDEA Conference in Chicago from October 7-8, 2008. My Day 1 roundup can be found here.
The speakers from Day 2 were Chris Crawford, Alberto CaƱas, Jason Fried, Aradhana Goel, Bill DeRouchey and Andrew Hinton.
Let’s get right to it…
Chris Crawford: “Linguistic User Interfaces”

Chris Crawford, game [...]

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IDEA Conference 2008: Day 1

November 2nd, 2008 · Comments

I’m finally getting a chance to post the roundups of my tweets at the IDEA conference in Chicago, October 7-8, 2008. It was an incredible two days of high-level thinking and insights. Not necessarily material that you can apply to your every day work — not suggestions on how to create better looking documentation or [...]

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Conference Twittering

September 22nd, 2008 · Comments

I wanna get something off my chest. Some people don’t like that I use Twitter to take notes at conferences. Several people stopped following me this week while I was at Web 2.0 Expo. I’m sad to see them go, but I don’t apologize. I get an enormous amount of support for my live-tweeting (see [...]

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