I hate 1500 or 3000 person conferences. I find they devoid of depth, usually with bad infrastructure and you always feel overwhelmed.
Don't go to 3. Pick one! make it your own and stick w/ it. Then if/when you have resources to move from your base, move on. All the conferences have breadth to them to some extent, anyway. Its not like IA Summit never mentions other UX disciplines, right? What I get from the IxDA community to me is breadth of medium that I don't feel in any other UX community. I can talk to Dan about Gestural design, Gabe about mobile products, and Will about great social web experiences. The point is that the focus is on the people, and not on the content, AND there is a deeper understanding of the design for, by and with those people that to be quite honest I don't see in the IA community (though I know others do). These different perspectives are important to me. They inspire me and I love it. I don't devalue other communities, but they aren't for me. We have always been a grassroots community of people who define the community for themselves and then in so doing create the content (if you will) that solidifies that meaning. Maybe all the people out there who want this big UX thing just haven't found the right community for you. Communities don't have to fit everyone and that doesn't mean they are divisive or devaluing of other communities, it means they are identifying themselves differently and THAT IS OK!!! As my piece said about the Kumbaya feeling of UX is that, just b/c you ain't singing doesn't mean you are a bad person, or divisive. It just means you just don't like the song! -- dave . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Posted from the new ixda.org http://www.ixda.org/discuss?post=40553 ________________________________________________________________ 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
