Dave, Is there anything you can share from the IxDA event? For those of us who are contract, and can't afford to get away to great events like these, we'd love something to gleam on to to be inspired too. :-)
David On 10/18/07, David Malouf <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I'm in SF this week at the IDSA/ICSID world design congress called > "Connecting 07". It's the premiere conference that happens every 2 years for > the industrial design community. It's big and its lavish with 150 speakers > from around the world. > > Before going party hoppin' tonight on the studio tour, I went to the SF IxDA > event called INTERSECTION: where interaction design and industrial design > meet. > 4 leaders of interaction design at 3 agencies and 1 internal group made 4 > amazing and very different presentations (20min. each). Each one expressed > different processes, different solution sets, different relationships with > industrial designers, etc. Each though expressed to the audience what it > takes to not only work with industrial designers across these very different > projects, but also what is really the new role for interaction designers who > are working on products and in one case eco-systems. > > Dani Malik and the rest of the organizing team for the SF Local chapter with > the support of the UX team at C|Net had them pouring out of the doors, and > sitting on the floors, totally engaged in these presentations. > > With support like this from corporate sponsors like C|Net (what an amazing > spread of food and drink) and with available content providers from our > guests representing IDEO, Frog, Cooper and Motorola it is clear that the SF > UX community has a new and vibrant community which will bring tremendous > value to all who decide to participate, engage, and contribute. > > It was my pleasure to visit with you all while I was in town and I'm very > grateful that you were able to make this event coincide with the IDSA > conference. > > -- dave > > -- > David Malouf > http://synapticburn.com/ > http://ixda.org/ > http://motorola.com/ > ________________________________________________________________ > Welcome to the Interaction Design Association (IxDA)! > To post to this list ....... [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Unsubscribe ................ http://gamma.ixda.org/unsubscribe > List Guidelines ............ http://gamma.ixda.org/guidelines > List Help .................. http://gamma.ixda.org/help > -- w: http://www.davidshaw.info ________________________________________________________________ Welcome to the Interaction Design Association (IxDA)! To post to this list ....... [EMAIL PROTECTED] Unsubscribe ................ http://gamma.ixda.org/unsubscribe List Guidelines ............ http://gamma.ixda.org/guidelines List Help .................. http://gamma.ixda.org/help
