As Janna mentioned in the IXDA update for Chicago, we had great attendance and spirited conversations. What is clear on this list, as well as at the Chicago meet-up, we have some growing pains facing us as a profession. The shift from client-server to html based applications was disruptive... in a great way for us. It created the opening we needed to become a critical team member of the software development process. The shift to stateful "pageless" applications (e.g. the capabilities that RIA, AJAX, or Flash give us.) is just as disruptive. New holes are forming, we need to figure out a way to fill it. As Janna's summarized so nicely from the Chicago event: How do I communicate RIA during the design process (the $10,000 question, and the one most people struggle with day-to-day). How do I stay current with the technology, so that I know what's possible when I'm designing? Am I at a disadvantage if I don't understand the technology? Are we too attached to our historical deliverables, trying to make them work as design documents for RIAs? How have desktop app designers, or flash designers, historically approached these issues? I am organizing an Unconference here in Chicago, during the spring of 08, to address these issues and others. As the name suggests, an unconference is the opposite or a conference. At an unconference, we do not go to listen to a talking head. We go to discuss issues and create some content. A software developer might call this a BarCamp. The goal of the Unconference will be to discuss these issues, develop a point of view on then, and then to disseminate to the wider IxDA community (e.g. at the 09 national conference, or a series of blogs, or a book) What are we looking for now? We are looking for volunteers that will help coordinate the event. Since the attendees drive the content of the Unconference, the volunteers role is to make sure we have the environment, process, and tools the attendees will need to be successful. e.g. find a facility, spread the word, run logistics during the event, be a facilitator for the discussions, etc. If you are interested, send a reply to me. ________________________________________________________________ Welcome to the Interaction Design Association (IxDA)! To post to this list ....... [EMAIL PROTECTED] Unsubscribe ................ http://www.ixda.org/unsubscribe List Guidelines ............ http://www.ixda.org/guidelines List Help .................. http://www.ixda.org/help
