In the midst of everything last week, I attended Dan Saffer‘s presentation Wednesday night at the IxDA NYC monthly meet-up, hosted at the beautiful R/GA offices (I particularly like the gated courtyard/parking lot in front of the building). Dan gave the same talk at Web 2.0 Expo NY earlier in the day, but I had [Keep Reading…]
Archives for September 2008
Conference Twittering
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 [Keep Reading…]
Email: “Legibility — Grading, Testing, and Standards”
I received the most curious email this morning. At first I thought it was spam, but after reading through it I think it’s a legitimate question for me and may be based on my previous post on Helvetica. I’m not sure what to make of it so I’m posting it here. Leave your thoughts in [Keep Reading…]
Helvetica & Lessons for Experience Designers
I just finished watching Helvetica, a documentary film by Gary Hustwit. I’ve been dying to see it since it was released, and finally got around to it this afternoon (I had convinced myself it was a daytime movie and not meant to be watched at night). Less than two minutes into the film I realized [Keep Reading…]
Web 2.0 Expo NY: “Content Matters” panel moderated by Liz Danzico
The last session that I attended at Web 2.0 Expo NY was a star-studded panel moderated by Liz Danzico featuring Jeffrey Zeldman, Alex Wright, Kristina Halvorson, Paul Ford, and Bre Pettis. My Twitter notes on the session: Types of content: navigation & orientation content, labels & action content, help content, non-textual content, content content! Navigation [Keep Reading…]
Web 2.0 Expo NY: Friday keynotes
The wi-fi was down at the Javits Center during the Web 2.0 Expo NY keynotes on Friday. And the cell service was spotty. I did my best to capture some golden nuggets. Unfortunately I wasn’t able to go at my normal speed so I didn’t get as much down as I’d have liked. Hopefully video [Keep Reading…]
Web 2.0 Expo NY: “10 Tips for Creative Environments” with Adaptive Path’s Bryan Mason and Sarah Nelson
The last session I attended on Thursday at Web 2.0 Expo NY was a talk by two members of Adaptive Path. Sarah Nelson is a design strategist and Bryan Mason is the former COO and currently a board member. My Twitter notes from the session: The Neo-Futurists: 30 plays in 60 minutes. 2-12 new plays [Keep Reading…]
Web 2.0 Expo NY: Chris Fahey’s “The Seduction of the Interface”
I was particularly excited to see my friend Chris Fahey from Behavior Design speak at Web 2.0 Expo NY this week. When I saw him speak for the first time at the IA Summit in Miami, I was really impressed with his delivery. This was his first time giving this talk, but you wouldn’t have [Keep Reading…]
Web 2.0 Expo NY: Genevieve Bell’s “Designing for the Internet(s) of the Future”
I had to miss the Thursday morning sessions at Web 2.0 Expo NY in order to get some work done. The first session I attended in the afternoon was by Genevieve Bell of Intel. As a former anthropologist and academic, the talk was much more research-focused than others, which was actually really refreshing — real [Keep Reading…]
Web 2.0 Expo NY: Wednesday Keynotes
Wednesday afternoon at Web 2.0 Expo NY was a series of short keynotes. Most of them were very inspiring, in particular Fred Wilson of Union Square Ventures and Gary Vaynerchuk of WineLibrary TV. Here are my Twitter notes from the keynotes: “New York’s Web Industry From 1995 to 2008: From Nascent to Ascendent” by @fredwilson [Keep Reading…]