On Mar 27, 2009, at 2:08 PM, J. Ambrose Little wrote:
On Fri, Mar 27, 2009 at 9:07 AM, Richard Dalton <[email protected]
>wrote:
I personally would much prefer to go to a 5 day, 1500 person UX
conference
jointly sponsored
by ASIS, IAI and IxDA than 3, 500 person conferences.
You can go to it: it's called UX Week, and Adaptive Path holds it
every year: http://www.uxweek.com/
But there are benefits to targeted conferences. Consider that
Interaction08 and 09 often had 3-4 tracks of *interaction design*
content going at a time. At a general conference, you're likely to get
one track. Out of necessity at a general conference, that track will
have to appeal to a wide audience (the 500 people who came for IxD
content), and you won't get some of the deeper (and frankly, more
niche) topics you'll get at a targeted conference that only have to
appeal to a 100 or so people in a single session.
Just to pick a random example from I09:
Sketching haptic and multimodal interaction, Camille Moussette
Design for Life by Identifying the Lifecycle of an Experience, German
Leon Osorio
Surviving a Design Review, Charles Kreitzberg
Tailored Interactions, Simon King
Same deal with the workshops. Same deal with the keynotes.
Dan
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