Here are the official slides from the event!

Woo, finally back on. The show is on one of its intermission right now setting up for the next speaker... Ethan Marcotte. I'll be finishing up my blog at http://www.genelu.com/content/view/122/1/.

Here are the notes from day 1. btw, Boston sucks.

Interesting-

As we are drained of our "inner repertory of dense cultural inheritance," Foreman concluded, we risk turning into "'pancake people' - spread wide and thin as we connect with that vast network of information accessed by the mere touch of a button."

Article

This is a great article on UI design and how Pentagram reworked the ATM interface for Wells Fargo. I wish there was a Wells Fargo bank in NYC so I can check it out myself. My bank is Washington Mutual and they recently redesigned their ATM UI and the time that I've spent withdrawing $20 has doubled.

A great list of quotes on design
(scroll down a bit)


What is design?... It's where you stand with a foot in two worlds-the world of technology and the world of people and human purposes-and you try to bring the two together.
Mitchell Kapor, software designer


Great design isn't just what looks cool, it's a calculated and balanced blend of form and function that serves a specific purpose. Although, it's really satisfying when the end result looks cool.
William Justice, Web Designer

I came across this list recently and while it has more to do with development, there are more than a few examples that relate to or impact the design process.

"Some ineffective development practices have been chosen so often, by so many people, with such predictable, bad results that they deserve to be called "classic mistakes." Most of the mistakes have a seductive appeal. Do you need to rescue a project that's behind schedule? Add more people! Do you want to reduce your schedule? Schedule more aggressively! Is one of your key contributors aggravating the rest of the team? Wait until the end of the project to fire him! Do you have a rush project to complete? Take whatever developers are available right now and get started as soon as possible!"

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