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Entries Tagged as 'Conferences'

An Event Apart Boston was wicked good

June 25th, 2009 · Comments · User Experience

I had the immense pleasure of presenting at An Event Apart in Boston on Monday. My talk titled DIY UX: Give Your Users an Upgrade (without calling in a pro) got a lot of great responses.
Here are just a few:

And I really loved this one:

It’s so amazing when you can have an impact on people’s [...]

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Here at An Event Apart Boston

June 22nd, 2009 · Comments · Conferences, User Experience

After a lovely Father’s Day brunch, I hopped the train up to Boston for An Event Apart. I’ll be presenting a brand new talk tomorrow titled DIY UX: Give Your Users an Upgrade (without calling in a pro). You can read more about it in my previous blog post.
I gotta admit I’m pretty damn nervous, [...]

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Rejected by EuroIA

May 26th, 2009 · Comments · Conferences

The blog posts that I tag with Props are not-so-subtle pats on the back for all my hard work and determination to make a difference. Since I spend enough time tooting my own horn, I thought it only fair to share some disappointment with you as well.
Today I received an email from Eric Reiss, chair [...]

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What REALLY happened during the IA Summit (#IAS09)

May 18th, 2009 · Comments · Conferences

To discover what we were really talking about during IA Summit 2009, Damon Herren used Wordle to create a word cloud visualization from all of the tweets containing the hashtag #IAS09.

And what’s smack dab in the middle? Me! I know I tweet up a storm when I’m at conferences, but the @ prefacing my name [...]

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My Interaction 09 recap on Boxes and Arrows

May 4th, 2009 · Comments · Articles, Career, Conferences, Design

Interaction 09, IxDA’s 2nd annual conference, took place in Vancouver this year in early February. As usual, I live-Twittered most of the sessions and posted the tweets here on the blog: Day 1 | Day 2 | Day 3. The NY chapter of IxDA hosted an Interaction 09 recap event for those who were unable [...]

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