IxD11 r0xx0rz!

The IxDA's annual conference this year, Interaction 11, was awesome. I just got back yesterday, and I plan to write (let's hope I can be disciplined enough to do it). Gave me a lot to think about, connected with a lot of fun, interesting, and smart people, and had fun, except for the ridonkulously bitter cold & snow we had the first day.

Let me sum up. If you watch the soon-to-be-released recordings, be sure to catch the keynotes by Richard Buchanan & Bruce Sterling. Apparently, I also missed some awesome stuff (was in the wrong track it seems) about using stuff from film in design by Adam Connor and an apparently life-changing experience provided by Brenda Laurel. I appreciated Carl Alviani's realism and outsider's perspective (much like I did Bruce Sterling's), got some good ideas on the important subject of codifying aesthetics in IxD by Callie Neylan, and found out about some neat kids' apps (and touchscreen pitfalls) from Nina Walia. And there was more... I'm stewing, like I said, especially about Sterling vs. Khan...